My own quibble is that the word “capitalist” doesn’t mean anything. “Marginalist” maybe or semi-hereditary-aristocrat.
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One trash pile to rule them all, and bind it … somewhere else nice and quiet-like.
"The plastics industry’s proposals could also make it tougher for to regulate plastics in the United States, since a trade deal would apply to both sides.
The Office of the United States Trade Representative didn’t respond to interview requests or to detailed lists of written questions, nor did officials at Kenya’s Trade Ministry."
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Gag me with a spoon!
“The American Chemistry Council’s (ACC’s) mission is to deliver business value through exceptional advocacy using best-in-class member performance, political engagement, communications and scientific research.”
from here https://www.americanchemistry.com
Are they trying to steal mindshare from the American Chemical Society?
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I’m sure the ACC has its own (pseudo) scientific journal and everything.
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They’ve been around for a while, but changed to their newer name in 2000. The UCS has got the goods.
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Here’s all the product families the ACC cares more about than people’s lives is interested in:
BPA. Polyurethanes (which are made with isocyanates – remember Bhopal?). Formaldehyde. Yummy. Boy, I hate industry groups whose only purpose is to lobby against the good of the people.
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As long as that’s a plastic spoon, we at the ACC have you covered!
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to deliver business value through exceptional advocacy using best-in-class member performance, political engagement, communications and scientific research.
Are you sure their mission isn’t actually just to pack as many buzzwords into their mission statement as possible?
And would anybody even care or even notice if it was “to deliver narcoleptic penguins through insecured apartment walls using best-in-class tap-dance, drunken faux pas, texting random numbers, and the opinions of some old guy who lives in a shed.”
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“Better things through unintended mutagenic side reactions.”
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It would turn up in unrelated web searches that way.
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Or a Heavy Metal Mad-Lib.
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Preeminence over academia in all colleges for the purpose of control.
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What you will not find in this world, and maybe not even in the next one, is a market-directed enterprise that is free of class conflict. What workers can’t avoid doing is reducing the income of the owners, i.e. profits. This is their crime: they do not work for nothing. Layoffs are permitted in our society because those in power have legally coded this crime of crimes as undeserving of any meaningful rights and protections. The absoluten recht is unimpeded capital accumulation. As a consequence, scrying is not in any way needed to see how Seattle’s mainstream press will soon fix blame for this tight situation on the excesses and unreasonableness of progressive politics.
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Why we have to, as a rising near majority of all the people who are tired of rich assholes (low bar I know) immediately pivot on the Biden Administration and then the Harris… but what systemic change do we need so we don’t have to eat more anti-technological tom-fuckery from the fossil and fissile fuels industries?
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Maybe because of less uncertainty? Wall Street really hates chaos.
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I think this is at least tangentially related to the notion of privilege.
It’s a review of
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A thread:
But I guarantee you, government at all levels will find ways to avoid implementing these sorts of solutions. “NWMTD!¹” The middle class shall cry.
¹Not With My Tax Dollars.
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