Maybe I should just be less cynical, but this headline doesn’t make me think “this is satire.” It makes me think “yep, par for the course for republicans.” This is basically what they’ve been promising to do for decades. It’s one step away from a headline like “Republicans cut taxes for the wealthy.”
Except, it’s not misleading… the Trump administration has explicitly said they are rolling back regulations that limit the amounts of heavy metals and chemicals that factories are allowed to pump into the atmosphere - the headline is about as accurate and straight to the point as it could be.
Maybe I should just be less cynical, but this headline doesn’t make me think “this is satire.” It makes me think “yep, par for the course for republicans.” This is basically what they’ve been promising to do for decades. It’s one step away from a headline like “Republicans cut taxes for the wealthy.”
This headline is misleading. But it supports our side, so we’ll let it stand. It’s OK when we do it.
Except, it’s not misleading… the Trump administration has explicitly said they are rolling back regulations that limit the amounts of heavy metals and chemicals that factories are allowed to pump into the atmosphere - the headline is about as accurate and straight to the point as it could be.
Rolling back restrictions is not the same thing as putting the pollutants in the air. Come on, you guys are more mature than this. I know you are.
If you hand a gun to a known mass murderer, you have no culpability, makes sense.
Did I imply Trump has no culpability for increased pollution by relaxing standards? The link is obvious. The headline is still misleading.
When California released inmates early due to overcrowding in jails, should the headline have read “Newsom Admin rapes, shoots innocent citizens?”
Nobody reads this headline and thinks Trump is personally going to wheel out his mercury machine and start cranking it.
The headline could definitely read “Newsom admin to put more rapists and murderers on our streets”, which I think would be equivalent.
If we made killing legal, don’t you think people would do more killing?
If not, why have laws at all?
This is not a savvy or mature take, it’s a pedantic take. And I am no stranger to pedantry.
Nobody looks at this headline and thinks the Trump admin is directly putting pollutants in the air.