The foundational 1984 decision required courts to defer to agencies’ reasonable interpretations of ambiguous statutes, underpinning regulations on health care, safety and the environment.

This is what the decision by the Republican justices to allow “gratuities” for public officials creates an incentive for.

  • @[email protected]
    56•4 months ago

    This fucking sucks. Why is it that the right thinks science and expertise is an opinion? I’m so fucking sick of these fascist cunts.

    This right wing bullshit is starting to happen all over the western world. Seriously, what can we do about this? What can we realistically do to stop the right? Because everything is being completely fucked.

    • BlackbeardEnglish
      18•4 months ago

      We’re going to have to start organizing at the grassroots level. Folks will need to develop a class consciousness that transcends cultural boundaries and harnesses the power of the internet. The major eras of civil rights expansion and reversal of the otherwise upward mobilization of wealth only came with significant grassroots organization, public protest, political activism, and sadly, bloodshed.

      Rights aren’t granted. They’re taken.

    • BarqsHasBite
      16•4 months ago

      Why is it that the right thinks science and expertise is an opinion?

      They work off belief and faith, that’s what religion is. So they project that everyone else thinks and works the same way, aka they think science is a belief and faith. It’s always projection.

      • @[email protected]
        11•4 months ago

        It’s never been about belief or faith. This goes back to the tobacco lobby when progressives were considered progressive because they followed the advice and research of experts. Conservatives couldn’t get away with doing whatever they wanted to do because progressives had facts and evidence to back up their platforms. While progressives were relying on input from third-party think tanks, conservatives invented their own think tanks by buying off professors from prestigious universities who needed more money and were willing to write bad-faith research.

        Conservatives don’t believe in anything other than money, power, and self-indulgence—they just muddied the waters enough to make facts and research look questionable. Finally, when people point to facts and figures, conservatives can point to their own tainted research and pretend like they believe their own lies.

        • BarqsHasBite
          3•4 months ago

          It’s a bit simpler. Those facts, evidence, research, and experts? The religious right thinks that’s all faith and belief, because that’s how they work. That’s really what they think. It’s mind boggling but that’s what they think.