Massive Explosion in China

[piasabird]

Thousands of cars went up in smoke. What an explosion.

 

[Murloc]

apparently the chinese gov is allowing a spontaneous protest to happen, probably in preparation of some heads rolling....

 

[Fanatical Meat]

I'm going to guess the explosion had something to do with improper storage or inspection or bribes.

 

[Nebor]

I'm going to guess the explosion had something to do with improper storage or inspection or bribes.

Read this as "improper storage or inspection of babies" at first. Just thought about a bunch of diaper gas building up until BOOM.

 

[Ajay]

apparently the chinese gov is allowing a spontaneous protest to happen, probably in preparation of some heads rolling....

It's a bingo!

Plus, with the Chinese economy slowing down, any event can be useful to the government in order to allow its people to vent some of their frustrations.

 

[Pulsar]

I'm goin to go the debbie downer route here.
Stuff like this can happen in China because they have little if any regulations.
We've seen the people walking around with white masks covering their mouth and I always thought it was some paranoid germ thing over there. Then I realized their air is to bad, people over in China have no choice but to wear a mask for protection and just breathing.
After the blast, the Chinese government would not even say if the fumes were toxic, or if the air was safe to breathe. Chinese officials had no moral or legal obligation to actually tell their own people what was in all that smoke and crud flying in the air from the blast(s).

Then it occurs to me, this is exactly the same policy the republican politicians would love to mirror over here in America.
Toss the clean air act along with the big bad governmental agency The EPA, out the window.
Rick Perry said exactly that in one debate. And not one republican challenged Rick on that.
And to take this even further, republicans want to pass laws banning our government from any moral or legal obligations to tell people what manufactures are putting in our air, our water, and our food.
In their opinion we the people have no right to know. Just as it is over in China.

So just imagine sending your kids off to school and telling them DON'T FORGET YOU FACE MASK.
And just imagine like explosions over here, with no government agency to tell people what happened, what is in the air, or if the air is breathable?
Or... if this might happen again? And where?

With the republicans fighting against the EPA and allowing companies to pollute to their hearts content with no accountability, well just imagine if they got their way?
Even worse, imagine feeding this anti EPA ideology to the masses, and the masses sucking it up?

If republicans controlling the government had their way, we would be exactly like China.
And if people can't see the down side to their personal life or to their families, then maybe living in China is right up your alley.

I have to commend you, the way you can take a tragedy of this magnitude and use it as political fodder to support your views. Big 'ole golf clap for you.