• limelight79@lemm.ee
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    21 hours ago

    I’m a little surprised Trump hasn’t signed the “Asbestos Fibers Are Our Friends” Executive Order.

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    My country banned smoking in all public indoor spaces almost 20 years ago. As a smoker at the time I thought it was ridiculous, felt that my rights were being violated and thought it would never last. The quality of life improvement it made is massive. Today I vape rather than smoke but wouldn’t dream of doing either indoors or being where someone else is. It was 100% the right move. Not quite the same thing but you sometimes can’t really understand the benefits of an alternative to the status quo, even if you understand it logically.

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    Implication is that there are things about as bad as asbestos that should be banned, but aren’t.

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    The Dipshit tried to bring it back his last term. Guess which country is the top producer of asbestos?

  • TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.zip
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    If CFCs were banned today you would see people spraying them in the air to own the libs, also spraying their children with DDTs because RFK Jr told them to

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    Back when asbestos was banned, everyone trusted the government. Nobody trusts the government anymore because of its constant foreign wars, corrupt candidates, and human rights abuses. We cannot do things like mandate vaccines and ban cars if the very government that would enforce that ban is this tyrannical and shitty.