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TIL Chernobyl has been re categorised as an oopsie
more of an oopsie than a murder squad murdering people ig
I learned about that on the Discovery Channel… but okay.
Union Carbide Productions
Awesome 90s underground rock
We remember
Yeah I like the sentiment, but no Chernobyl absolutely did not have such a small effect. Minimizing these things, especially when so well known, just fucks up our position. Reality denial isn’t an effective way to advocate or to make people aware of the horrors of capitalism. All it does is train the average person to assume left wing points are childishly exaggerated. This is, in part, why capitalist propaganda is so easy.
Here we just accept the official number and ignore all other effects. If we took the same path with the Bhopaal disaster, we’d have to ignore all the non-fatal poisonings and believe uncritically the official instant death count of just over 2,200 ignoring any deaths to come afterwards. That would be stupid
Chernobyl was a terrible disaster that harmed an absurd amount of people, de-homed thousands, and damaged the ecosystem of the wider area. Its effects and danger are still present to this day and could have been much, much worse if not for the work of those who fixed the massive fuck up.
Both the Bhopal disaster and the Chernobyl disaster were bred by incompetence, corruption, and a general failure to care for the worker and the general population.
Now, if we were to keep a leaderboard, capitalism wins by many miles in the awfulness department. That’s the note we should take, that’s the drum we should beat.
It wasn’t socialism that caused Chernobyl. If the workers, those who built and conceived of the soviet nuclear reactors, were in charge they would have put in the safe guards they advocated for well before this disaster. They were not allowed to and the consequence was a meltdown. That’s why we should give the power to the worker. The Bhopal disaster? Capital was the determiner for who had power, and those in power caused the disaster. It was the fault of capitalism as capitalism was allowed to build Union Carbide with little in its way.
Edit: Changed Russian to soviet, re-aranged paragraphs, added clarity
My dad had just gotten me a hamster and we fed it lettuce that was affected. Fuckers killed my hamster. I’m just glad I didn’t eat it I guess. Poor little guy, I was heartbroken.
If the workers, those who built and conceived of the soviet nuclear reactors, were in charge they would have put in the safe guards they advocated for well before this disaster. They were not allowed to and the consequence was a meltdown. That’s why we should give the power to the worker.
if this can’t happen in a communist nation, what hope is there for any other worker?
Board representation for workers needs to be a universal rallying cry
EVERY WORKER A MEMBER OF THE BOARD!
You said the truth! Truth is not allowed.
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Tesseract vibes
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Im afraid of people i disagree with
Yet here you are. Rent free lad
Yet here you are
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UCC had participated in decades of previous instances of “environmental negligence in every part of the world”, directing its “responsibility… to its shareholders”, and numerous dealings with local and international political and economic powers.
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When the corporate world is essentially the prisoners dilemma run by autocrats, what do you expect?
It’s also posted in the !workingclasscalendar@lemmy.world: https://lemmy.world/post/39614927
I missed this, thank you for sharing.
Murder is only illegal if you’re not a corporation or government. If you are its cool. Have fun, don’t die…!
I learned about the Bhopal disaster from The Yes Men Fix the World
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I guess I’m one of the few.
where did that guy go after his failed run for governor?
Those are very conservative numbers for Union Carbide.
