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[–] [email protected] 57 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

Did chatgpt not include this or...?

https://bpb-us-w2.wpmucdn.com/sites.gatech.edu/dist/a/1473/files/2020/09/sovenv.pdf

Nevertheless, the Soviet Union took effective action to protect the population from lead exposure; it banned lead-based (white lead) paint and it banned the sale of leaded gasoline in some cities and regions. While leaded gasoline was introduced in the 1920s in the United States, it was not until the 1940s that leaded gasoline was introduced in the Soviet Union (5). In the 1950s, the Soviet Un- ion became the first country to restrict the sale of leaded gaso- line; in 1956, its sale was banned in Moscow, Leningrad, Kiev, Baku, Odessa, and tourist areas in the Caucasus and Crimea, as well as in at least one of the “closed cities” of the nuclear weap- ons complex (6, 7). The motivation for the bans on leaded gaso- line is not entirely clear, but factors may have included Soviet research on the effects of low-level lead exposure (8), or sup- port from Stalin himself (5). In any event, the bans on leaded gasoline in some areas prevented what could have been signifi- cant population lead exposure. In the United States and other OECD countries, leaded gasoline has been identified as one of the largest sources of lead exposure (9, 10). Lead-based paint is another potentially significant source of population lead exposure.

Bonus: a great example of capital at work,

Along with a number of other coun- tries, in the 1920s the Soviet Union adopted the White Lead Convention, banning the manufacture and sale of lead-based (white lead) paint (11). In the United States, however, the National Paint, Oil and Varnish Association successfully opposed the ban, and lead-based paint was not banned in the United States until 1971 (12).

Two generations of Americans.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 9 months ago (9 children)

My point is that capital has successfully fought to put lead into American's blood and lungs for over 100 years.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (8 children)

When a liberal loses an argument they yell "whataboutism" it's their little white flag

[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago (6 children)

Calling something "Whataboutism" infers a belief in American exceptionalism. You should question that belief.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

Did you just watch a Brad Bird movie

[–] [email protected] 141 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (67 children)

Capital successfully fought to put lead into American's blood and lungs for a century after it was known to be poison. To this day they're still fighting to keep it there.

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/04/why-it-took-decades-of-blaming-parents-before-we-banned-lead-paint/275169/

https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/2016/09/14/report-lead-paint-makers-helped-gov-walker/90349256/

[–] [email protected] 135 points 9 months ago (84 children)

When you own the means of production it's literally yours. I don't understand the issue.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

If you have a strong opinion either way that's fine with me, I don't want to argue it with you.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

yup, no need to pay for a password manager. and far more secure.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

muddies the waters of public discussion

Isn't that The Atlantic's MO?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (3 children)

What things did he do?

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