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That's a giant cloud of [vinyl chloride] and a ton of other bad chemicals. The local police blew it up like a beached whale, now megatoxins are Chernobyling Ohio and there's a news blackout and the police are beating reporters and camera people and dragging em. This environmental devastation will be visible from space for decades. The water is safe to drink but everything in it is suddenly dead. The next town over, the release instantly killed everyone's chickens. This stuff is catnip for human cancer. This will cast a massive acid rain shadow and destroy swaths of vegetation, leaving a path of ruin that will appear as if God himself took his thumb and smudged it over Ohio, Pennsylvania, and beyond.
wild we literally just had a rail strike about this exact issue get shut down by congress
if any of you are secretly rich go buy some social media bots and blast that shit from the mountaintops. massive opportunity for radicalization
The Lever reproting on the incident properly, including:
Norfolk Southern is part of a lobby group that successfully pressed President Donald Trump to repeal a 2015 rule requiring newer, safer electronic braking systems in some trains transporting hazardous materials.
In the aftermath of a fiery Ohio train derailment, Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg’s department has no plans to reinstate an Obama-era rail safety rule aimed at expanding the use of better braking technology.
free market extremists gonna gas light everyone and claim this L belongs to """Big""" government as usual
In other bourgeois democracies, this would be the time for blind actionism where the political class scrambles to pass a symbolic law carefully tailored to look as if it would prevent this exact scenario while actually not impairing capital in the slightest. In the US, the government can simply count on people being too apathetic, disillusioned and distracted.
It's so depressing to watch this shit happen and just have nobody held to account. Like they're insulted that people actually care that they poisoned a small town and killed the animals for miles around. Just "Shut up, it's fine. We'll pay you each $5 to fuck off."
"Biden regime silent as toxic fumes continue to poison residents of Ohio province, Local governor oversees crackdown on press"
this comes after fucking rail union strike was crushed. people on the rails are overworked. 90-100 hour weeks, on call nonstop, no fucking sleep, biden admin crushed their fucking strike, and look at what fucking happened as a result
This event is horrible, although a silver lining is the timing, so soon after the Democrat president outlawed a train strike.
My internet is currently messed outside of VPNs, but if someone could emphasize this on the Wikipedia page for the train crash by citing news articles, it would be much appreciated.
If it makes you feel better our super progressive Sec of Transport won't bring back regulations that could have prevented this, in fact he will deregulate further.
I don't know what to feel anymore, Covid threw me for a loop on how horrid this country is and how it is no longer a functional state. Now MSM is ignoring a fucking mass cancer causing event in Ohio that's leading to mass animal death all the while the state gov and EPA remains silent. This is utter horror and nothing short of those responsible being tried for murder via deliberate negligence could even begin to solve this issue. Fucking :joker-amerikkklap: hours
On the positive side it is making rounds through social media, and the public is taking notice of the contradictions.
Its hard to hide a black cloud of Sauron & mass death.
Truth, especially with it trending so hard now on TikTok, FaceBook, and even :reddit-logo:
Holy fuck it’s still up there? Has the thing just been continuously burning?
Burning is an improvement. The heat should break down the toxic chemicals into hazardous chemicals. :doomer:
Americans liked to give their towns biblical names back then. The town was named after Palestine in 1875, back when the Ottoman empire was still around and Palestine was actually called Palestine, and there was a thriving multireligious community of Muslims, Jews, and Christians cohabitating fairly peacefully in Jerusalem
I wonder if the main websites automatically hide some of the news stuff from there just cause of the name
Wonder how many Reddit and Twitter bots fired up and wrote articles blaming Hamas for the chemicals and saying that Isn'trael had no choice but to blow up the train in self-defense.
Not everyone 11 News feels that way. William Hugar was happy to head home to see his two cats he left behind.
“A lot of people are...they get scared too easy. I don’t think there’s going to be any problems,” Hugar said.
Hugar, i've got some bad news :sadness:
All these questions about the water being poisoned have already been answered by my “the water is not poisoned” t-shirt
It’s a poorer area with an average house price under 100,000. Of course it’s “okay” to go back because no one in charge cares.
A tale of two headlines:
WKYC 3News wkyc The Portable Well Task Group will be knocking on doors today of the homes that have been identified as having "at risk" drinking water wells in East Palestine www.wkyc.com/article/news/local/ohio/east-palestine-police-department/95-b307ed9d-1235-48bf-9bf6-3b454585606c
WKBN 27 First News @WKBN Police warn of person going door to door in East Palestine
Hey at least we're shooting down dangerous weather balloons from China.
What if the people in charge are really really stupid and they genuinely fell into the balloon hysteria and we are approaching a Dr. Strangelove situation?
I scrolled all the way, top to bottom, on CNN's mobile website just now and couldn't find even one story about this.
I got curious and checked the front page of pretty much all major US news sites and not a single one of them have anything about this story on their front pages. But tons of 'Chinese spy balloon' and Trump stories.
