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Libertarians try to tell you that “market pressure” will make self-regulation work, because no one will want to be found to fake that because they’ll lose customers. Sure Jan dot JPG. That only works when there’s a market that can reasonably be entered by third parties. Not airplane manufacturing.
So uh. They may have a break in the Boeing failures. And Airbus is affected, too. A British firm may have been forging release certificates, lying about the metallurgy of their parts, so that brand new parts already had corrosion.
FAA investigates counterfeit titanium used in some Boeing and Airbus jetswww.theguardian.com Investigation comes after parts supplier found small holes in material – used in manufacturing of jets – from corrosion
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Libertarianism only “works” when it’s entirely free-riding on the rule of law and once that’s been ridden into the ground…. It’s a very _stupid_ ideology.
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It very is. I have a whole collection of memes and screenshotted tweets.
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There’s a (small and shrinking) minority of libertarians who do care, but they still cannot see the real world to a degree that seems like straight-up delusion. I mean I learned about sulfuring wine from romance novels. You do not have to read actual history or understand the law to get this!
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I’m over educated and interested in a bunch of really weird things that most reasonable people consider terminally dull, but I know a lot of this from the fluffiest entertainments! (NB: I am not suggesting romance novels are bad, just probably more digestible than NIST 800-63B.)
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This one is my favorite.