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@[email protected] to [email protected]English • 3 months ago

I feel like if asbestos was banned today there'd be a huge pro-asbestos movement

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I feel like if asbestos was banned today there'd be a huge pro-asbestos movement

@[email protected] to [email protected]English • 3 months ago
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    I’m in a comment war with a nicotine denialist on here now!

    In the 90s, there were still tons of people angry about seat belt laws. It’s every American’s God Given Right to fly out of the windshield and probably kill someone else.

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      There is this meme about:

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        “There are 30,000 people that have been killed with seat belts, where they’ve gotten into accidents, the cars were on fire, they’ve been knocked out, they haven’t been able to get out of the vehicle,” he said. “My point is, even if the majority of people are saved, why do we keep forcing people to do things that they feel it’s their own individual right to make a decision?”

        Rhode Island state rep, 2011.

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      Even better, people in the 80s when drinking and driving was made illegal: https://youtu.be/2xcQIoh3FQQ

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      Real men aren’t held back by anything! The belt restricts blood flow through the body! It’s a globalist conspiracy to turn our men into women!

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        Imagine having a heart so weak that a little piece of fabric over your chest restricts your blood flow.

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      My father was an anti-seatbelter up until 2010-ish, when he got a newer car with a better seatbelt system.

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