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The FDA (potential future home of RFK) does not have oversight on pesticides. This is an EPA issue.
by anticorporate 2y ago
The FDA (potential future home of RFK) does not have oversight on pesticides. This is an EPA issue.
- quotemstr 2y agoYou're overindexing on formal authority and prematurely discounting informal influence. RFK will be a prominent member of the administration. He'll have the ears of powerful people. He'll get some wins at the FDA (because it's blindingly obvious we're poisoning ourselves), and he'll be able to use these wins to drive changes at other agencies. The org chart is always just a suggestion.
- stfp 2y agoIs the next administration really likely to do, on purpose, anything that would affect earnings for large corps? It would absolutely blow my mind. I think RFK will do zilch unless it aligns with more profits for the right folks.
- quotemstr 2y agoYou might want to update your model of the political metagame. "Big Corp versus the people" is something like three Hegelian dialectics ago.
- voltaireodactyl 2y agoInteresting, the UHC stuff would have led me to believe otherwise. What is the current Hegelian dialectic?
- staunton 2y agoYou're assuming he'd make a serious attempt to ban it