• archomrade [he/him]English
    52·
    2 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”

    • Bananigans@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      31·
      2 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.

      • archomrade [he/him]English
        11·
        2 months ago

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