• archomrade [he/him]
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    3 months ago

    Better to tell potential voters “so, yea, I’m just going to pretend your drinking water isn’t being poisoned by industrial fossil fuel extraction because that would hurt a private industry that’s important for this other constituency. LOL drink bottled water or something”

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      3 months ago

      The constituents have priorities, and for some of them, livelihood comes before long-term health complications. At the end of the day, votes tell us which of those they value more.

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        3 months ago

        If only those long term health impacts were limited to the people who were deciding their livelihood was more important.