always crazy to me when conservatives talk about regulations being so restrictive because i can’t remember a single time in my entire life a regulation has made my life harder but i can name dozens of times a conservative has made my life tougher
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Also crazy how they bitch about regulations when they're the party constantly trying to ban shit. When's the last time Republicans voted to LEGALIZE something?
regulations have made housing expensive in every major us city, and generally have made our cities less dynamic and interesting than they could be. while this is rarely what conservatives talk about, it's far more substantive than what they do talk about, and very real.
Yeah because regulations say “you can’t make the walls out of mud” or other shit like that. Regulations make it required for the living space to be actually, Yk, liveable
No, regulations say “you can’t build anything but a single family home” or “you must have two staircases on buildings over 3 stories.” Or “you must have parking spots proportional to the occupancy x 2” or “you must set back your home from the sidewalk - shall I go on?
Jack what you are describing are almost all zoning issues very very often dictated solely by the municipality they effect and are often designed to make or preserve a certain “vibe” or uniformity.
They are bad, but you are far off from these being the regulation talked about here I think
All three things you said here are excellent and I agree! But the original post is talking about federal regulations on industry (which is what conservatives are REALLY talking about) and what liberals are terrified of speaking against.
Everything before sh8key’s reply is sticking to the topic 1/2
i instinctively went to defend regulations before rereading both the original tweet and this to actually comprehend what you meant. yeah zoning laws are dogshit
No but waiting in line when you already feel like shit to get drugs you could previously get off the shelf kinda sucks. Especially since nobody even makes meth with Sudafed anymore
Oh no, see, they don't actually care about any regulations that harm people with a net worth lower than ten million dollars. Those aren't really people to them, you see. Regulations get in the way of the obscenely wealthy making All of the Money, so they've gotta go.
If you want to see the argument for this, watch Ghostbusters. (Walter Peck is an EPA regulator and thinks the Ghostbusters are storing hazardous waste [technically they are] but he’s depicted as a pest getting in the way of small business)
(This is not an evaluation of morality)
The conservatives are simplistic, but tbf housing regulation definitely has an impact if you’re in a city, especially in a blue state. Rent and housing costs are very high because developers can’t build!
It's Austin. The only reason prices are going down is because they're normalizing from COVID extortion, it has nothing to do with construction. It's the same in the Bay Area, but it's all that construction, right??
The lack of regulations, or lack of enforcement, has made the lives of people like me infinitely harder & more unstable. Nowhere was this more apparent than when I moved to GOP-controlled Georgia. A captured government, unwilling & unable to provide the conditions for a good life, must be destroyed.
its not a regulation but the closest example i can think of is how California raises their gas tax really high. Surprisingly though, people seen to bring up Louisiana, which has the highest sales tax in the nation at nearly 10%
don't worry; they'll fix that! by the time they're done, ups will get 7 times the budget usps ever did, be the ones contracted to so everything the usps did, and have no responsibility to deliver anything
The regulations they're talking about only affect them and their donor's profits. Things like "you have to be responsible about your toxic waste and can't just dump it into small town drinking water supplies"
Ask an average Republican what regulations they're talking about and they'll bluescreen.
But I am a huge superfan of train crashes that spill toxic chemicals into the groundwater and leave entire towns uninhabitable for the next 200 years and thanks to those woke regulators I can’t crash the trains and destroy people’s lives anymore
the fda and dea regularly makes accessing care harder than it needs to be at great disadvantage to people.
especially if something's part of the war on drugs but even other than that.
want paxlovid? ok. you probably are as sick as you've ever been and have to navigate convincing a medical person to give you it because fda doesn't let people sell you it and then ship it next day without involving a doctor.
want adderall for your adhd? lol gl you need all the exec function to handle making sure you have it available because we made automating refills illegal.
@erikmcclure.com this thing you reposted is way too strong compared to reality, regulations are sometimes bad sometimes good.
current reg environment for healthcare means something being determined to be safe and then approved locks it behind an rx by default while homeopathy can be sold to anyone for profit while being proved useless.
this is bad. we should not make it harder to access things that work.
Most of the time, regulations are good. Drugs are, in general, the part where the regulations are bad, and I think most people would probably agree. I wouldn't take the post quite so literally.
"i can’t remember a single time in my entire life a regulation has made my life harder but i can name dozens of times a conservative has made my life tougher"
OFTEN the way a conservative has made your life tougher *is regulation*
acting like "regulation" = progressive by default is silly
trans bathroom/hrt ban? regulation. obviously bad.
bad regulations are bad, "regulation is good" should not be part of progressive movement. "good regulation is good" is much easier to get behind because it's not absurd.
When they talk about regulations they don’t seem to u understand that the reason your toilet doesn’t backup shit into your whole house (as often)is because of plumbing regulations, and inspections of installations, which does slow building down, but I’d rather not have sewer backups
And when they say “the plumber wants to do a good job for repeat business”, true to some extent, but I’d rather best practices and install requirements are documented and standardized then just trusting good ole Joe plumber (who I’m sure knows his stuff)
Hell, I went to school for 4 years and I wouldn’t have a clue on proper installation of sewer plumbing without some regulations. Regulations can be a valuable source for how things should be built for safety, plus I think it’s good people who pay me aren’t allowed to spew acid it my water table
Now you mention it, I don't know why conservatives want to restrict marriage to only straight people. Or why they want to keep trans women out of sports. Why are they okay with that sort of regulation?
Unfortunately, since I've only got 15 years of service, the elder regulators tend to leave me out in the cold and only allow me to work on 10 CFR 430 subpart B App B.
They said this with brexit and that the EU had too much red tape but now it’s happened the regulations we lost have made things worse and everything is more expensive.
I spent a decade working in the medical device industry - VERY regulated. And as a consumer I'm grateful for every single rule we had to follow. Those rules were paid for in blood.
There are certainly industries where the regulations are gatekeeping to keep competition out, but most are necessary.
meanwhile, a lack of and violations of regulations has made my life measurably worse at every turn, at every stage of my entire life, and this is only gonna get worse as billionaires buy up more shit
I mean, there are a few that affect my work life that I'd argue are poorly designed, even counterproductive, but I'd never advocate for eliminating them entirely because the intent is good. My personal life, on the other hand, is immensely worse off because of those magat assholes.
I wanted to replace our wooden pergola with an aluminum one - maybe a $10k project. But doing it with a permit easily doubles the cost (architect drawings, disposal permits, plans).
Which is insurance itself and prior authorizations... that need better regulating. Or rather a standardized medical record software to expedite things. (Good Regulations can also boost efficiency.)
I can think of dozens of times and literally all of them involve construction work. So if you would like lower housing costs, that's a good place to reduce regulation.
A lot of the "corners" are for the sake of features that the building doesn't have, will never have, and doesn't need. Not yo mention waiting a week on inspections just for someone from the state to come say "yep you did it right" but for every little thing
Both of those exist but if there's gotta be a reasonable middle ground and it's not where we're at now. And if I'm building something for my own use which I won't be selling maybe the state can chill out.
Not to mention that it's usually the conservatives adding regulations, making it harder to get health care, education, and so on, making transit worse, and underfunding services so the queue gets longer.
The DMV isn't even that long of a line if you know how to use the internet
Which is a very like, privileged thing to say but like, those with internet access are able to basically skip lines at the DMV. It's like a Disneyland FastPass
where i live, if you book an online appointment about a couple days in advance, when you show up to the DMV you get put in a second line that has NO ONE in it and its very painless
but that's not a reality for most people who need to use the DMV :(
My dmv and ss offices quit doing online appointments after covid mandates were gone lmfao, when I had to change my name they “ Forgot “ and had to wait several hours each time for them to review my paperwork :’)
In MA, we fund our government, and the RMV (“registry”) is pretty much painless. I’d rather deal with government any day of the week over corporate customer service!
Also I can name plenty of times regulations have improved life, actually. For one, your local river isn't bursting into flames. Another, you aren't getting cancer from asbestos right now
So this isn't cool to point out, but it is legitimately hard for businesses to comply with regulations. Takes lawyers and/or government inspectors to sell anything to the public on the up and up. We need strong regulations but it costs too much to know you have adhered to the regulations properly
But you are totally right! Conservatives are not really talking about compliance costs, for billionaires like Musk it is just about removing regulations they know they want to avoid, and are using independent farmers and the like as smoke screens, so they can poison us/the environment. Total ghouls
There are bad regulations, like the regulations the people at Aetna AND Blue Cross Blue Shield followed to refuse to pay for an ambulance ride for a member of my family from one hospital to another.
Corporate regulations are terrible. Government ones are less bad.
What you are talking about is not a “regulation”, which is a rule implemented by the government usually to make something safer (like speed limits on roads). The decision your insurance company made to not pay for your ambulance is guided by costs and profit.
"Look we're obviously NEVER going to violate the Don't Put Asbestos In The Baby Food Act, we just think it doesn't need to be codified into LAW, is all..."
I remember in sophomore year during trump's first run this guy who was "fiscally republican" kept yapping about how "the general wealth tax needs to go" and idk why I didn't bully him more. Our school was underfunded.
I've had to redo a few things during renovations because of building code, but also, those were mostly keeping me from burning my house down accidently so while it was harder, it's better.
Also note that the United States has less regulations than any other country in the industrialized world...our country pretty much allows corporations & rich scum to do whatever they please
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Even in my business. If I wanted to, I couldn't legally mistreat and harm test subjects in experiments, just because of those pesky regulations.
naturally we do not have a god given right to avoid being murdered by listeria, that's not a profit margin
They are bad, but you are far off from these being the regulation talked about here I think
The left reflexively defending regulation as a matter of rhetorical battle is dumb
many regulations are extremely bad even federally
Everything before sh8key’s reply is sticking to the topic 1/2
(This is not an evaluation of morality)
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Ask an average Republican what regulations they're talking about and they'll bluescreen.
especially if something's part of the war on drugs but even other than that.
@erikmcclure.com this thing you reposted is way too strong compared to reality, regulations are sometimes bad sometimes good.
this is bad. we should not make it harder to access things that work.
OFTEN the way a conservative has made your life tougher *is regulation*
acting like "regulation" = progressive by default is silly
bad regulations are bad, "regulation is good" should not be part of progressive movement. "good regulation is good" is much easier to get behind because it's not absurd.
There are certainly industries where the regulations are gatekeeping to keep competition out, but most are necessary.
Don't get me wrong, when I think of a good time, it isn't the DMV.
Also Conservatives: "Here's a bunch of red tape to prevent anyone using government services."
Which is a very like, privileged thing to say but like, those with internet access are able to basically skip lines at the DMV. It's like a Disneyland FastPass
lol
but that's not a reality for most people who need to use the DMV :(
But that's kinda it.
Corporate regulations are terrible. Government ones are less bad.
Bob REALLY won't have to worry about that Harvard tuition for his son Jeremy now.