*** The Official MAGAposting thread ***

[Jack Sawyer]

I'm shocked to hear that a politician has personal goals and will say whatever their constituency wants to hear to achieve the power of office to pursue those goals.
Shocked, I say! (lol. As if dems are any different/better when it comes to ignoring half the country to cater to the other half's whims.)

Sounds like Trump is a politician after all. Wow. How could we have possibly known that a person running for political office would behave like a politician?

***
@wuf: How do you disregard all the wealth of evidence that without regulation, there are many, many ways for a company to be a bad actor without being noticed by their customers until well after the damage is done?

The copper mining example is apt, and fits metaphorically as an archtype of that kind of problem. Even if you want to ignore that, look at the FDA and why it was founded. People were being openly defrauded on a mass scale. They were being lied to, and being sold something that was not what they were told it is. It was not localized to one company, but widespread across the entire industry.

On that regard, look at mob mentality or let's go full Hitler and look at Naziism. 90+% of the Nazi's were just normal folks who didn't really believe in the rhetoric, but also just wanted to get on with their lives. Still, they participated in the most iconic evil known to recent history. My point is that we can wax poetic about the goodness of people in the long run all day long, but it ignores just how much harm can be done in the short run.

Oh, and this

https://www.wikiwand.com/en/2008_Chinese_milk_scandal

Here in video form for those with short attention spans or reading problems



Companies don't give a fuck about your wellbeing, only about their bottom line. If it makes an extra cent on a million dollar profit, they will do it.

[Jack Sawyer]

Companies don't give a fuck about your wellbeing, only about their bottom line. If it makes an extra cent on a million dollar profit, they will do it.

I should add, no matter if it actually kills you, the consumer. In this case, it actually literally could. There will always be other/more consumers for them to dupe

[Jack Sawyer]

I should add, no matter if it actually kills you, the consumer. In this case, it actually literally could. There will always be other/more consumers for them to dupe

I'm Nostradamus motherfucker

https://arstechnica.com/science/2018...hemical-again/

The Montreal Protocol—a 1987 international agreement to end production of ozone-destroying chemicals like freon—seems miraculous compared to the long struggle to achieve meaningful action on climate change. Even more astonishing is that the agreement has worked. Those chemicals (known as CFCs) take a long time to flush out of the atmosphere, but monitoring has shown that the flushing is proceeding largely according to plan.

That keeps the hole in the ozone layer on track to shrink over the coming decades. However, a new study shows that someone has been cheating in the last few years.

A group of researchers led by Stephen Montzka of the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration had been tracking the progress of CFCs and noticed something off with CFC-11. This chemical has been used as a refrigerant, solvent, and propellant for aerosol spray cans, as well as in the production of styrofoam. As with the other CFCs, nations agreed to end production of CFC-11 entirely. While there may still be some older machines leaking CFC-11, these sources should gradually disappear over time, allowing the decline of its atmospheric concentration to accelerate.

So you know full well that what you do DESTROYS THE THING THAT KEEPS THE SUN FROM KILLING YOU AND US ALL, and yet you do it anyway to make a buck.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2018...tion-in-china/

The EIA started with a simple Internet search, which turned up a few companies that were apparently advertising sales of the banned chemical, known as CFC-11. Like other CFCs, 11 can be used as a refrigerant or a propellant in aerosol spray cans. But it was also widely use to “inflate” foam insulation, and that seems to be the market where at least some of its illicit use has continued.

The EIA team contacted 25 companies that manufacture foam insulation or the chemical mixtures used in the process. Of those, 21 responded, and 18 said they use CFC-11. (It’s not clear how the EIA team represented its inquiries.) In fact, the companies indicated that they thought just about everyone in their industry was using it except for the largest and most accountable companies that might handle about 10 percent of total production.

These chemicals were banned on an international scale because they are bad for that spaceship we are on going through space, as in it would leave us without a hull and in a VERY BAD SITUATION, LIKE, YOU KNOW, MARS, and yet a ton of companies simply chose to use it anyway because of making a buck.

Yeah, I can trust these fuckers to do the right thing on their own. Invisible motherfucking hand.