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[–] Dalai_Llama 0 points 7 points 7 points (+7|-0) ago
These people are so god damned ready to abort a retarded fetus because they don't want to take care of a Downy doll but if it's their own ass on the line they expect everyone to drop everything and take care of them for an eternity.
[–] Morbo 0 points 21 points 21 points (+21|-0) ago
I never knew just how prevalent brain damage was in our modern day world. I see now that roughly half of the US population and nearly all of the blue states are suffering from massive brain damage. Those tumors must be caused by Starbucks coffee or blue hair dye.
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[–] bikergang_accountant 0 points 9 points 9 points (+9|-0) ago (edited ago)
The water's safety is inmeasurabale. Somebody get me a county by county map of lead levels. You won't find it. The data doesn't exist.
That would only be lead levels as it leaves the treatment pant at that. You can't know what the levels are when it hits your home. So why don't they do a household audit across the US and map out some estimate of lead levels? Because it is so prohibitively expensive to properly measure lead that it's entirely infeasable. Why isn't Flynt having trouble with lying on some monthly record of lead levels? Because there is no requirement to log it once a month because measuring lead is so expensive that even municipalities get a break on it.
Your lead levels are a complete unknown. The only thing we know is that mortality rates on the east cost are higher and it is largely attributed to lead. The main symptom of lead poisoning is not death. It's cognitive problems. If the lead is high enough to kill you (or be measured) then it is high enough to cause mental problems (measured over aggregate).
Why do other nations not put drinking water though their pipes? Because they are poor or something? They, being in a developmental stage, have a cost advantage on laying down clean pipes and have no problem finding money for other infrastructure projects. They are a developing nation because they have money for infrastructure projects. They don't do it because it doesn't make sense. You can't do it in a way that's both accountable and cost effective. Only the US has a complex that everything must be safe because it is the US. Yes our water is cleaner than other nations but that's because they've stopped paddeling up river like idiots. It's time to stop treating tap water as safe to drink just because everyone else does it. That's not a measure of safety. We have data to show otherwise. We have a lack of data that should be equally concerning.
[–] InternetAdventure 3 points 3 points 6 points (+6|-3) ago
Sugar is why, literally toxic and 99% of people who eat it have parasites that can alter brain function.
[–] bikergang_accountant 0 points 4 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago
Interesting. Here's what I found.
https://altered-states.net/barry/newsletter406/parasites.htm
I at first thought you meant the sugar gives people parasites. The toxoplasmosis btw is the parasitic infection Martin Skrelli's drug cures.
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[–] puggy 0 points 10 points 10 points (+10|-0) ago
Capitalism is natural to all humans. Any 1st grade lunch room will have kids trading a cookie for a bag of chips (or vice versa) because they know that every commodity has value dependent on availability (supply) and preference (demand). Socialism is an unnatural economic system based on theory that distorts values based on an authority's desired outcome. It must be taught to people or imposed on them. At age 14, most kids haven't yet been successfully indoctrinated yet. By age 16, many have.
[–] Salbuchi_2019 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago
Capitalism is natural to all humans.
[–] killercanuck 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Most people have two sides to them so it's impossible to develop a purely socialist society, at least one that's larger than a few hundred members living in a tribal community. If you just base everything on selflessness to create your society it's going to go to shit. It doesn't matter if your rich, poor, a celebrity, some average working stiff you need a selfish struggle to fulfill your own needs. There are some things that get conflated with socialism like having law and order, roads, and a basic safety net for others that in fact are more for the market to reinforce itself. Even some basic access to healthcare and schools will mean you can create more selfish independent individuals. Universal state mandated services somehow manage to fuck up societies making people greedier out of desperation because they can't satisfy themselves. Worse is it turns a lot of people into thinking scarcity is a good thing so they can use it as a tool to promote their dangerous ideologies.
[–] Charlez6 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago (edited ago)
Those examples are not conflated with socialism, they are fragments of socialism that we've foolishly allowed because we were naive and they sounded nice. A "basic safety net" is a distortion of the market, not "for the market to reinforce itself", whatever that means. It's about as directly as you can possibly follow the core tenet of the ideology: from each according to his ability, to each according to his need. Along with education and health care, you managed to nail the holy trinity of sweet-sounding socialist society-killing poison.
Even law and roads could be argued as socialist implementations while the government has a monopoly on the provision of those and claims the right to extract funding via coercion, but I'm sure most would agree these are relatively tolerable transgressions.
Charity, education and health care are important; many would say that's why we need government to oversee them, I would say that's why we need to keep government very fucking far away from them so they can't screw it all up.
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