Public to get chance to weigh in on plastic vs. paper straws under proposed Trump administration rule

[Karasu]

17. In case anyone somehow doesn't get why the regime is making this a thing...it's not about convenience or what

"the public" prefers. They are doing what modern conservatives always do and trying to normalize a new debate to shape the narrative the way they want it to be shaped. Just like they do with public health policy (see RFK's fucking insane HHS). In short, they want to make short-sighted anti-environmental policy to still be seen as a legitimate point of view, even as the climate crisis intensifies. It's a direct extension of the normalization of climate change denial in the public sphere.

They have and continue to put a great deal of time, energy, and money into dismantling environmental regulations, because they and their donors have a strong vested interest in perpetually maintaining the corporate status quo of dumping untenable amounts of plastic into the ocean. Their strong push for only plastic straws is just another conservative way of saying "fuck you" to the so-called "green agenda" and an attempt to assure that our unsustainable system stays exactly as is for the foreseeable future. Simply to maximize corporate profit, as with everything they do. It's just more late-stage capitalist BS.

That's literally all there is to it.