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People are a lot more likely to pay attention to you talking about rail safety and labor policies when there’s a giant cloud of toxic black smoke belching out o
by zztop44 4y ago
People are a lot more likely to pay attention to you talking about rail safety and labor policies when there’s a giant cloud of toxic black smoke belching out of a derailed train.
Next month, probably not so much.
- leereeves 4y ago"Never let a crisis go to waste", eh? Personally I'd prefer to learn the facts about what happened rather than hear from people promoting their own agendas. In that light, I hoped this article might have some first-hand testimony from the workers. If the author thinks the workers are being ignored, why didn't they talk to the workers?
- orwin 4y agoWhile it should work like this, do you think people will care enough in two weeks to push the regulator to change anything to US railroad incentives? => Why didn't the authors talk to the workers? Because, as they explain in the article, the workers don't say anything as they fear retaliation.
- pydry 4y agoAfter every shooting Fox News says that "it's not the right time to discuss gun control". At which point it would be echoed by thousands of followers. It's a tactic worn so well even Martin Luther King moaned about it. It's not just the "not the right time" narrative though, they're pulling out all the stops on this catastrophe including UFOs.