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As an American surrounded by Superfund sites I would like some of these unnecessary restrictions and harassment by the state. The US is so beholden to private i

As an American surrounded by Superfund sites I would like some of these unnecessary restrictions and harassment by the state. The US is so beholden to private interests we can't even repair the roads or mandate healthcare without making it into a market.

lacy_tinpot 2y ago
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- inkcapmushroom 2y ago
  >Do you know how the railroad infrastructure was built? Abusing the heck out of immigrants and genociding the native people, I'm pretty sure. Also this (link is https://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtID=2&psid=3147 https://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtID=2&...): >Construction of the railroad provided many opportunities for financial chicanery, corruption, graft, and bribery. The greatest financial scandal of the 19th century grew out of the railroad's construction. The president of the Union Pacific helped found a construction company, called Credit Mobilier, which allowed investors, including several members of Congress, to grant lucrative construction contracts to themselves, while nearly bankrupting the railroad. I don't think the corporation/government good/evil dichotomy you have made is so clean cut.
  - lacy_tinpot 2y ago
    "several members of Congress, to grant lucrative construction contracts" The difference is that I see that part as the evil. As in who is the "corrupt", "graft" and "bribery" here referring to? It's the government.
- undersuit 2y ago
  >Do you know how we won World War 2? We as in the Allied forces? The Great Alliance? I also live within 200 miles of one of our Japanese Internment Camps.
  - lacy_tinpot 2y ago
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- pezezin 2y ago
  > Do you know how we won World War 2? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raising_a_Flag_over_the_Reichstag https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raising_a_Flag_over_the_Reichs... I don't see any American flag here.
  - lacy_tinpot 2y ago
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    - boq 2y ago
      > Lend-Lease. Who do you think they leased from and what do you think they leased? Did the US won the war alone ? who used the weapons ?
      - lacy_tinpot 2y ago
        I never said we did it alone did. But without US industry/industrialists the war would have very much been lost. Soviet Russia simply would not have survived. That anyone was left to use weapons was because of America.

lacy_tinpot 2y ago

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inkcapmushroom 2y ago
>Do you know how the railroad infrastructure was built? Abusing the heck out of immigrants and genociding the native people, I'm pretty sure. Also this (link is https://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtID=2&psid=3147 https://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtID=2&...): >Construction of the railroad provided many opportunities for financial chicanery, corruption, graft, and bribery. The greatest financial scandal of the 19th century grew out of the railroad's construction. The president of the Union Pacific helped found a construction company, called Credit Mobilier, which allowed investors, including several members of Congress, to grant lucrative construction contracts to themselves, while nearly bankrupting the railroad. I don't think the corporation/government good/evil dichotomy you have made is so clean cut.
- lacy_tinpot 2y ago
  "several members of Congress, to grant lucrative construction contracts" The difference is that I see that part as the evil. As in who is the "corrupt", "graft" and "bribery" here referring to? It's the government.
undersuit 2y ago
>Do you know how we won World War 2? We as in the Allied forces? The Great Alliance? I also live within 200 miles of one of our Japanese Internment Camps.
- lacy_tinpot 2y ago
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pezezin 2y ago
> Do you know how we won World War 2? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raising_a_Flag_over_the_Reichstag https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raising_a_Flag_over_the_Reichs... I don't see any American flag here.
- lacy_tinpot 2y ago
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  - boq 2y ago
    > Lend-Lease. Who do you think they leased from and what do you think they leased? Did the US won the war alone ? who used the weapons ?
    - lacy_tinpot 2y ago
      I never said we did it alone did. But without US industry/industrialists the war would have very much been lost. Soviet Russia simply would not have survived. That anyone was left to use weapons was because of America.