BONUS: Ohio Toxic Train Disaster feat. David Sirota

Bernie Madoff and Sam Bankman Fried were prosecuted because they fucked over ruling class investors. Anyone responsible at Norfork Southern or BP/Exxon/Shell or corrupt regulators like Pete the Rat will never see consequences because their primary victims are the poor and working class in America, and developing countries.

Person

Us Chapo pigs are honored to have you, lis smith, in the comments

Christopher Price

so your comment is really particularly brain dead but Sirota's original comment was also pretty brain dead too because we historically know what it looks like when railroads compete with each other and it generally results in a cycle of price wars, corporate collapses and takeover. He has antimonopolist brain poisoining.

etienne

Buy your vinyl chloride (and everything else) locally or not at all. It is possible to boycott monopolies, you just stop consuming the product. The notion that you can't is just weak-willed fake liberal justification for personal and societal addictions to consumption of bullshit.

latifoljic

:/ tfw no #stopcopcity ep

Daniel Epstein

Ok lib.

Cory

Y’all should hit up the Well There’s Your Problem Podcast if you wanna do a deeper dive on the railroad industry and how shit it is.

Cthulhusbedandbreakfast

you still kicking about huh zach?

SF

I am certainly still very petty over the fact that Buttigieg won that primary by negative 6,000 votes.

Elliot Matheny

solid try 7/10

etienne

All the Bernie Sanders “supporters” going after Buttigeig with such venom and vigor just looks petty because he won a primary over Sanders.

Zach Pierce

Yes I would know exactly where to start and that by giving myself all of the money

Biffy Caltrops

https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/railroad-hunger-for-profits-blasts-ohio-community-with-massive-dose-of-poisons/

Michelle Hill

Sirota is such a real one

ex-cantaloupe

Appreciate David’s use of “crick” right off the top.

Micheline

Although the point about Enron is valid I wouldn’t use that since the accountants are still racking in millions through their consulting.

Lol Brownie babee… dude was the ultimate patsy given the fact that FEMA was gutted right before he took office…

Scot Forsythe

fucking Amtrak is winning legal battles against Norfolk Southern and Mayo Pete is like "uhhh let me be clear; I hear you; and I see you"

etienne

Right. These bureaucrats hands are just absolutely tied when it comes to unilaterally fixing problems, but when it comes to unilaterally repealing laws, no problem.

Beej

He's wrong. We pay taxes for Pete to live. Anyone remember the days of Tar and Feathering these fucks, in Minecraft?

Gumbo Pie

The right kind of News is what will fix things, sure. There is no threshold that when crossed will cause spontaneous mass action by the American public. Regulation isn’t the only thing that has been captured. As has been said ad nauseum on this pod no one has the imagination or capacity to even take the first step towards any future except by making meaningless and unorganized personal choices. Ask yourself, if you were empowered tomorrow to remake the entire political economy in any way you saw fit would you even know where to start? Or would you only be able to vaguely point towards the forces we’ve all become too familiar with?

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