Democrats/Progressives
I find it... odd... That Democrats - online at least - are able to simultaneously attack Sanders and his supporters for destroying America, etc, and wonder why they aren't flocking to be Democrats.
No lessons learned at all in 2016 I guess.
Somehow this anger and recrimination is supposed to set the Dems on some sort of massive winning streak?
Seems pretty unlikely.
Socialism
Keep having conversations with Americans that think America is socialist, because taxes pay for roads, etc.
It's depressing the ignorance.
Of course part of this is Sanders' fault, for muddying the definition, but if kids actually learned basic facts about government they'd be able to spot that muddying and decide how it makes them feel.
Now Americans think that Obamacare is socialism, and the military.
It's just messed up.
MOAB
Yeah! Like, fix the ENTIRE Water system of Flint, Michigan. Estimated cost of repairs = Sixty Million Dollars .
@TimeSnow I think you'll find this article makes your point quite well. And yet, I still hold out hope for the Richard Bransons of the world disrupting businesses by actually taking care of customers.
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/04/07/customer_satisfaction_is_our_highest_priority_ok_maybe_secondhighest_or_third/
Some truths about Syria that Americans won't face.
1. Syria is America's fault. Full stop. No one else's. Those 500k dead. America's fault.
2. The US is currently doing horrible things other places that Americans don't care about. Google Yemen. The current tears re Syria are all fake.
3. America could fix Syria, but it would require hundreds of thousands of US troops. Americans don't care THAT much about gassed babies.
@kensanata @TimeSnow Adam Curtis's "What the Fluck!" would be good long-form reading:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/entries/44122901-c2e8-34f5-93e0-d4402c163966
Political, civilians, tiny babies.
The number of crocodile tears America shed over the last WMD attack in Syria is pretty disgusting and hypocritical.
Who is responsible for the world's largest famine? The US. It affects 10s of millions - largely women and tiny babies.
And bombing children's hospitals and refugee camps? The US.
And yet Americans act sooooooooo offended by Assad and Putin.
Hard to take America very seriously.
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