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Re:How the oil industry made us doubt climate change by ncmncm on Monday September 21, 2020 @11:05AM (#24544281)
That is avoiding the issue. Avoiding is exactly how we got here.
Re:How the oil industry made us doubt climate change by danans on Monday September 21, 2020 @03:26PM (#24547399)
Are you advocating that we treat bigotry-motivated mass murder as occurred at the El Paso Walmart more leniently (as a society and in the justice system), just because we are failing to hold the even greater crimes accountable? That is the implied subtext of your original comment, at least as I read it.

If that's not what you are advocating, then I'd argue the Walmart shooter is a poorly chosen example, and that we are in agreement about the overall issue (lack of accountability for very wealthy executives whose businesses have caused the death of tons of people).

Re:How the oil industry made us doubt climate change by ncmncm on Monday September 21, 2020 @04:14PM (#24547915)
I said not one word about El Paso. Inventing leniency advocacy is not honest.

Still, the whole scene was entirely within the capabilities of the El Paso PD. You know about it only because it was lurid, not because it had any effect on you at all (presuming you don't shop at that Walmart).

A million cancer cases for corporate profit are not lurid enough, evidently.

A national response to cases like El Paso would crack down on right-wing nutjobs, but that (too) is absolutely not happening. That is a problem with the FBI, not the DoJ, and is another worthy topic, but not this one.

The DoJ already have all they need to empanel grand juries and issue indictments.

Re:How the oil industry made us doubt climate change by danans on Tuesday September 22, 2020 @07:06PM (#24561064)
> You know about it only because it was lurid, not because it had any effect on you at all (presuming you don't shop at that Walmart).

As someone who has on many occasions been the recipient of physical intimidation and harassment by white supremacists, I assure you it affects me when it happens to others, in whatever degree.

> A national response to cases like El Paso would crack down on right-wing nutjobs, but that (too) is absolutely not happening. That is a problem with the FBI

The FBI are getting a little bit of pushback on that from DoJ's boss:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/17/us/politics/fbi-russia.ht...

There is an active whistleblower complaint from within DHS that the administration-appointed heads of that department are trying to suppress release of assessments of the white supremacist threat:

https://int.nyt.com/data/documenttools/homeland-security-whi...