• BertramDitore@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    I used to live downwind of an oil refinery, and at least once a year (sometimes 5 or 10 times in a year) there was an illegal emission that blanketed the entire town with particulate matter. The air quality would go from perfectly safe to barely breathable in minutes. As someone with asthma, I felt it immediately, and would have to lock myself indoors with an air purifier.

    We’re going to be dealing with significantly more wildfires and increasingly poor air quality thanks to climate change, so the least we could do is ensure that businesses don’t fuck up the air more than it already is.

    Fuck the supreme court for doing everything it can to make our lives worse.

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      6 months ago

      trump is illegitimate because he coordinated with russia to tip the election in his favor. That’s illegal. His SCOTUS picks are illegitimate as a result of that (not to mention the perjury, cover up of rape and so on, but for this argument that’s not necessary).

      Failure to impeach and a failure to rectify both the illegal campaign AND the attempted coup (who the fuck does anyone think planned and approved that shitshow anyway) means we’re in fucking la la land as it is, so if we can’t vote them out because 18th century slaveholders befucked a system that crooked pols refuse to fix . . . Well, then ya got problems.

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      6 months ago

      God I’m so glad I live in California. We’re not perfect by any means but:

      I used to live about 2 BLOCKS from a refinery and never had that experience. The one time there was even a vague issue that “might” have impacted health the FD came by and were like “GTFO were evacuating the area” and I went home that night to a safe and mot-covered-in-bullshit home.

      And the supreme Court thinks making that normal everywhere is bad.