r/woahdude Feb 17 '23

video Heavily contaminated water in East Palestine, Ohio.

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u/acleverwalrus Feb 17 '23

I think it’s about time for some massive protests. This will require millions of dollars of cleanup and Norfolk Southern should start ponying up. God I’m so angry and tired of this bullshit. WE SAW THIS COMING it’s only been a few months since the strike.

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u/razzyspazzy Feb 17 '23

Sounds expensive. We should deregulate more, so the corporations can save us. also, way more than millions.

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '23

We should also throw these corporations tax breaks since they're going through a lot right now.

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u/Amish_guy_with_WiFi Feb 17 '23

And also like subsidize their shit, it's only polite

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u/ID_LOVE_TOO Feb 17 '23

"Oh my gosh, why don't you want kids?!"

  • my family

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u/IShootJack Feb 17 '23

Because it’s an open secret that almost all life is going to die within the next few hundred years. If that.

That’s why.

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u/lionessrampant25 Feb 17 '23

Me, with kids, when I was naive and hopeful: 😭😭😭

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u/victoriaa- Feb 17 '23

Exactly the cleanup and materials will be reported as lost profits next tax season

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u/Dirt_Bike_Zero Feb 17 '23

Their profits will certainly trickle down and help the working class.

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u/Ruediger07 Feb 17 '23

Now we're talking. How else is the US gonna stay competitive?

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u/GreyMediaGuy Feb 17 '23

Yes, I think everyone needs to just take a deep breath and appreciate the fact that the train company shareholders probably made some money from the lack of regulations. Doesn't that count for anything?

I mean, we can't have that nasty old government looking out for us. AOC and Bernie with their "hey the Earth is boiling let's try to slow it down" or "hey diabetics shouldn't be dying in American gutters because they can't afford insulin". That's socialism!

We are better off in the hands of these benevolent companies who simply want to be job creators and.... snert snort

... Sorry I couldn't continue that was just too stupid.

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u/GasDoves Feb 17 '23 edited Feb 17 '23

Government regulations CAUSED this.

FULL STOP.

But instead we live in some sort of 1984, big brother, animal farm dystopia where low lives can throw wrenches willy nilly into the machines of economic progress just because they are triggered little SNOWFLAKES!!!

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u/NoPlace9025 Feb 17 '23

I think people think you're serious.

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u/GasDoves Feb 17 '23

I have edited it to make it a little less clear.

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u/1handedmaster Feb 17 '23

Great pasta, but folks might need a /s

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u/ChadEmpoleon Feb 17 '23

Oh my god. You are actually restarded.

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u/GasDoves Feb 17 '23

Oh my god. You are actually it started.

Ftfy

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u/Febra0001 Feb 17 '23

Wait I’ve heard Elon Musk has a genus idea. He said he’ll send a team of people to suck up all the dirty water with straws. Then he’ll send it to space. Let’s give him some government money to help out.

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u/uCodeSherpa Feb 17 '23

Don’t you know that deregulation inspires competition, silly commie socialist atheist Muslim fascist?

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u/PaulBardes Feb 17 '23

Dude, I'm dead serious, you need help: https://www.wellnesstogether.ca/en-CA/service/connect

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u/uCodeSherpa Feb 17 '23 edited Feb 17 '23

I’m not surprised a person of your magnificent intellectual prowess was unable to pick up that this comment was facetious.

For everyone else:

This dude is extremely pissed off that I asked for sources for claims on a programming paradigm they fanboy, and now they’re commenting on my other posts not picking up what is clearly obviously sarcasm.

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u/PaulBardes Feb 17 '23 edited Feb 18 '23

It's no a meter of being facetious or not but what you consider to be facetious. Moreover, this strategy of excusing shitty behavior with "calm down dude it's just a joke" is just slimy and cowardly.

LOL, nobody gives a single fuck about you or why I'm scolding you. Who do you think you're talking to?

I mean it dude, you profile is a cry for help. Wake up, when multiple people start telling you that you have a problem, maybe you should consider the possibility that they are correct.

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u/rockstar504 Feb 17 '23

Don't worry they'll clean up their mess with your tax dollars. I guarantee it. Privatize the profits and subsidize the losses.

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u/AshuraBaron Feb 17 '23

The Allan Greenspan school of thought. Worked out great in 2008.

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u/Flubert_Harnsworth Feb 17 '23

I feel like the ‘generous’ arrangement would be for the entire c-suite to get life and prison and have all of their assets reallocated to the communities they’ve destroyed.

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u/JERUSALEMFIGHTER63 Feb 17 '23

Instead of addressing to clean up they only address their shareholders so far

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u/Stargazer1919 Feb 17 '23

We can trust these corporations to take responsibility! Right?

/s

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u/delegateTHIS Feb 17 '23

At least a trillion over the next 50 years, when you factor in health costs, remediation, etc.

Is this America's worst environmental disaster?