People care when their drinking water is contaminated with lead. They care if their medicines aren’t safe and effective, or if somebody takes all the money out of their investment accounts. Those things don’t make people happy. Yet it’s administrative agencies that are guarding against that and protecting their rights. So when the Supreme Court starts to dismantle important features of these agencies, it matters because it’s destabilizing a really important part of government

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        You know, everyone hates that guy, but he was the only reasonable person in that movie.

        Ghosts aren’t real, and the Ghostbusters were reckless. Egon and Ray built an unstable containment apparatus without permits or inspections in an old firehouse with shoddy electrical wiring. They built back-pack carried laser weapons capable of annihilating a city block with an errant crossing of the streams.

        Ray also manifested StayPuft Gozer.

        Venkman was a charletain and a fraud, as well as a narcissistic sociopath.

        Winston was just a guy they hired off the street.

        Shutting down their nuclear “ghost containment” apparatus was the responsible thing to do. Walter Peck deserves a medal, or maybe a prosthetic device for his downstairs mixup.

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          You know, everyone hates that guy, but he was the only reasonable person in that movie.

          Much like the EPA!

          They built back-pack carried laser weapons capable of annihilating a city block with an errant crossing of the streams.

          Those were “unlicensed nuclear accelerators” – way worse than mere lasers.

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          Ghosts aren’t real

          You make some good points, but how can you expect people to read past this!? In-universe, ghosts are 100% real. That’s the entire premise of the movie!