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I've been thinking of moving to Poland from the U.S. for a few months now. This sort of thing doesn't necessarily make me not want to go, but it does make me an

I've been thinking of moving to Poland from the U.S. for a few months now. This sort of thing doesn't necessarily make me not want to go, but it does make me angry how the U.S. and other countries treat the majority of the world like our own, personal dump. And it makes me wonder how well Americans would be received by the locals once people start coming down with cancer and other horrible diseases that we essentially are the direct cause of.

abduhl 13y ago
"Under an agreement reached at the Potsdam Conference in 1945, Britain and the Soviet Union dumped around 65,000 tonnes of Germany’s chemical weapons stockpile into the murky depths of the Baltic Sea in 1947-48." What does America have to do with this?
- mpyne 13y ago
  > What does America have to do with this? America didn't go to war to stop it, so obviously things that happen in the Baltic Sea are the fault of America. Or something, I don't know.
aestra 13y ago
>And it makes me wonder how well Americans would be received by the locals once people start coming down with cancer and other horrible diseases that we essentially are the direct cause of. Except the United States has already poisoned their own people with all those nuclear weapons test in Nevada. As I've pointed out in another comment here. (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7620859 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7620859)