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minus-squareAmidFuror@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up0·28 days agoRolling 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.
minus-squaresurewhynotlem@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·27 days agoIf we made killing legal, don’t you think people would do more killing? If not, why have laws at all?
minus-squareaberrate_junior_beatnik (he/him)@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·27 days agoThis 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.
minus-squareOwlHamster@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·27 days agoIf you hand a gun to a known mass murderer, you have no culpability, makes sense.
minus-squareAmidFuror@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up0·27 days agoDid 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?”
minus-squareOwlHamster@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-227 days agoNobody 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.
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 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.
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.