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How America looked like before pollution was regulated

• smt88 8y ago
  The title should either be, "How America looked before..." or "What America looked like before...". It doesn't matter much to me, but I thought that might be helpful to any non-native speakers. I see this mistake pretty often.
  • onetimemanytime 8y ago
    Original title was "Vintage photos taken by the EPA reveal what America looked like before pollution was regulated" and a little too long, so the change /mistake is mine.
• cmurf 8y ago
  The Trump Pruitt agenda is actually not unique, it's just more of the same Republican classism: everything is a product, and wealthy people can buy better versions. Clean water, clean public lands, and even clean air in your backyard, is not a right. It's a product. If you're wealthy you can afford clean versions. If you can't afford it, you don't deserve it, you're not a better person. Rich people are better than you. And the proof of this is the productization of everything: justice, education, environment, infrastructure, health care. These things are not rights in Conservatism. Higher classes get them, because they can afford them, they can afford them because they're wealthy, they're wealthy because they're superior humans. Until people understand the difference between conservative Liberalism, and Conservatism which is protect and preserve the classes, we continue to see these kinds of politicians and these kinds of policies and these kinds of outcomes.
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