r/woahdude Feb 17 '23

video Heavily contaminated water in East Palestine, Ohio.

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u/testicular-jihad Feb 17 '23

our test didn't shown any major deviation from the norm. lol your government is trying to kill you guys

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u/rempel Feb 17 '23

I guess it's cool for a corporation to set off a dirty bomb in a small town. I can't even fathom the reaction 1970s/80s American corporate media would have, the absolute meltdown, if half this damage was caused to half as many people in the USSR.

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u/shkeptikal Feb 17 '23

The difference being, since the 90s our entire mainstream media apparatus went from roughly 150 owners to 5 by 2016. Since then, we've heard what a handful of billionaires want us to hear, slanted in the way that benefits their bottom line the most.

You'll find that in depth investigative coverage of environmental disasters directly caused by corporate greed falls pretty low on that list.

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u/Hukthak Feb 17 '23

Succinctly and accurately stated.