• protist@mander.xyz
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    5 months ago

    He was (famously) a fairly high-ranking McKinsey consultant

    Lmao this was his first job after he graduated from Oxford, when he was 25. “Fairly high-ranking” my ass.

    He got a cabinet position because he was a popular candidate for the Democratic nomination in 2020 and he’s smart as a whip with a tongue to match. There are few people who are more competent the role, and whatever nefarious thing you think is happening is based entirely on your feelings.

    Also the US DOT doesn’t have the authority to issue health warnings, so your anger there is misplaced.

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      5 months ago

      Where are you getting the DOT thing from? DOT incident response is the group responsible for urgent public health announcements from transit related accidents. They may have been coordinating with the EPA, but even from the article the other user cited talks about what I’m saying happened here:

      The head of the National Transportation Safety Board said recently that her agency’s investigation showed that the vent and burn of the vinyl chloride was unnecessary because the company that produced that chemical was sure no dangerous chemical reaction was happening inside the tank cars. But the officials who made the decision have said they were never told that.

      I’m just so lost about where this is coming from.