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All deaths can be traced back to some kind of profit motive, but I don't see you protesting every hospital/doctor on the planet. It's incredibly dangerous to p
by diminoten 8y ago
All deaths can be traced back to some kind of profit motive, but I don't see you protesting every hospital/doctor on the planet.
It's incredibly dangerous to propose changes to the FAA, given how much of an unqualified success they've had over the years at keeping flight safe. Don't let y our populist rage kill probably one of the best/most successful government institutions the US has ever created.
- lisper 8y ago> It's incredibly dangerous to propose changes to the FAA That is an incredibly ironic thing to say, because these deaths are a result of changes to the FAA, specifically, the delegation of the FAA's regulatory authority to the company being regulated. That this would not end well was easily foreseeable because it's such a blatant conflict of interest.
- diminoten 8y agoLiterally not true, but okay...
- cdmckay 8y agoWhich part isn’t true?
- diminoten 8y agoThe fact that my comment is ironic...
- lisper 8y agoThen you don't understand irony. Which is itself ironic. I was using the word in this sense: "Irony: a literary technique, originally used in Greek tragedy, by which the full significance of a character's words or actions are clear to the audience or reader although unknown to the character."
- diminoten 8y agoThis isn't a story, and I am not a character. If that's what you were using it like, you are wrong. It'd make at least some sense if you incorrectly meant "irony" in the sense that fucking with the FAA, which I said was bad, is how the MAX was made so poorly. Your fake choice of definition is even worse than what you actually meant.
- lisper 8y agoWow. Not only do you not understand irony, you apparently don't understand literature either. All the world’s indeed a stage And we are merely players Performers and portrayers Each another’s audience Outside the gilded cage
- diminoten 8y agoSounds like I do understand irony, and you don't like being called out for not understanding it yourself.
- kazinator 8y agoIt is possible to see irony in real world statements, actions and situations; "irony" is not strictly the name of several literary or dramatic devices.
- diminoten 8y agoOf course it's possible, it's just not present here. I never said irony was exclusive to narratives, I said the irony he's failing to accurately point out is.