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Bitchkrieg posted:The entire state is a mess.  Holy poo poo. I've been to India and even the conditions there weren't this bad. And that's with squatter toilets as the cultural norm. Get your poo poo together, America!
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Wherein a USAToday editor writes to remind us that the lead levels in Flint, MI are a lot better now than 10 years ago and that people should just pipe down because they are "lucky to suffer the lead 'poisoning' [sic] rates plaguing the city today."
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Quorum posted:
Reminder that USAToday is America's #1 most-read newspaper.  e: #3 in circulation, but close enough.
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RevKrule posted:The greatest (most supervillainish?) thing Snyder ever did was leaving the elected leaders in place when he appointed EM's. He muddied the waters before any thing terrible even happened. Now he's able to say "well, these democrats also voted for this so it's not our fault!" even though the EM's had full autonomy. Yeah, you hit the nail on the head. There was at least one reader opinion in the printed USAToday issue I got the editorial from blaming the Democrats and all their horrible goverent spending that lead to this situation, so therefore it's all the Dummycrat's fault.  There's also the underlying vein of "All the black Poors in Flint got accidentally genocide/eugenicided? Good." too.
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HUGE PUBES A PLUS posted:It's really hard to take a governor seriously when he tells the press he's helping the people of Flint, but never leaves his condo in Ann Arbor unless it's under state police escort and is so out of touch with how much people in Michigan are suffering thanks to his own policies and actions that he orders a cake with 5th Avenue logos on it for his wife's birthday. Yeah, this looks like Marie Antoinette-levels of out-of-touchness.
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axeil posted:the more and more i read about this the more horrified i get. i tried writing something a bit more coherent but if you clean it up it's not much of a post. i honestly can't tell if this or literally torturing people for years is more heinous.  axeil posted:Has a sitting governor ever been arrested before? Huey Long is the closest I can think of but I don't think he ever got arrested, did he? He did get assassinated, though.
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The residents of Flint MI have just filed a class-action lawsuit against Governor Rick Snyder on the lead-tainted water supply issue. On my phone, just heard it on NPR. E: Link: http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/03/07/469506291/families-seek-class-action-status-in-federal-lawsuit-over-flints-water Teriyaki Koinku fucked around with this message at 21:45 on Mar 7, 2016 |
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HUGE PUBES A PLUS posted:What a poo poo show. The GOP screamed at the EPA chief that she didn't do enough, nevermind this is the same GOP screaming the EPA has too much oversight and it should be eliminated. Snyder of course ever since this scandal broke insists all levels of government are to blame, when it was his appointee who only answers to him who made the decision to use the Flint River. I've also seen people IRL argue Snyder's excuse point-for-point. 
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Regalingualius posted:And, again, which conspiracy is more likely: a global corporation running a long con that would absolutely hurt them if the truth got out, or a bunch of incompetent leaders trying to cover their asses for a real massive gently caress up that came about from failing to do their due diligence? The world seems a lot scarier to people if our leaders and better-thans are as dumb and incompetent as we are. See: 9/11 and jet fuel/steel beams, etc.
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