• Sidhean@lemmy.world
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    12 days ago

    PRISTINE Asbestos will BRING BACK JOBS to the US and KEEP its citizens WARM. So much for global WARMING if we need to return to GOOD OLD ASBESTOS

    -BigMacHole

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    13 days ago

    I cannot think of any reason they would do this unless they were just actively trying to kill people. We’ve known that asbestos is bad for 100 years and they finally banned the last kind of it very recently. This doesn’t even make sense economically as it’s not even in high demand. It would be cheaper and more economically viable to leave it exactly where it is. Next thing you know they are gonna start putting lead back into gasoline for literally no reason besides “fuck you.”

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    12 days ago

    We tried microplastics and PFAS for a few decades, clearly they aren’t killing us fast enough. Bring back the GOAT

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    13 days ago

    Installation of blowers around the white house and sprinkling with asbestos dust around the clock.

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    13 days ago

    I didn’t realise it wasn’t already banned. It’s been banned in the UK since 1999.

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        13 days ago

        It should be mentioned that it was only banned in the US in 2024 under Biden, so obviously yet another reason why he would want to overturn the ban (on top him being paid to overturn it of course).

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              12 days ago

              I think my favourite part is that it was banned in the us in 1989 but then unbanned in 1991 after a fight in the court of appeals.

              Oh and there are still some asbestos uses allowed (cement sheets, industrial diaphragms, etc.) but the us is not unique in this.

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          13 days ago

          Restarting production. Trump has been praising asbestos for years, so the people eager to restart that production has obviously been paying him for some time.