US Politics Mega-thread - Page 3051

On February 27 2016 00:44 oneofthem wrote:
liberals should be supporting the nsa etc right now, because if there is a large terrorist attack right now say hi to prez trump.

Nearly a year before Michigan governor Rick Snyder publicly admitted his knowledge of the city of Flint’s lead-contaminated water crisis, advisers in his office had advocated moving Flint back to its prior drinking water source “before this thing gets too far out of control”, newly released emails reveal.

And nearly seven months before Snyder’s announcement in October 2015, his former chief of staff had internally proposed purchasing bottled water for Flint’s residents – even as the governor’s administration publicly rebuffed any characterization that Flint’s water wasn’t safe to drink.

Those are some of the revelations in a batch of 550 emails newly released by Snyder’s office to the Detroit Free Press and the Detroit News, a small slice of 8,000-10,000 emails expected to be released on Friday. Flint’s water became contaminated in April 2014 after the city, run by a governor-appointed emergency manager, switched its drinking water source to a corrosive local river. The city wasn’t required by Michigan’s environmental agency to treat the water with anti-corrosion agents that would have prevented lead from leaching off pipes and flowing into households.

It’s unclear why the governor’s office chose to release only a select number of emails ahead of Friday’s expected release. A message requesting comment was not immediately returned.

On February 27 2016 01:17 KwarK wrote:
To backtrack to the conversation yesterday about 80s crime rates and the perception that it would devolve into full on urban warfare (Demolition Man, Robocop, Predator II and so forth) I read a fairly interesting article that argued that the lead pollution from leaded petrol gave an entire generation of city dwellers brain damage. The superpredators comment was a reference to a demographic swell of young black men who were predicted to reach their prime criminal years in an unstoppable wave of violence. There was never really a good explanation for why that didn't happen but the article posits that the deciding factor between the previous generation and that generation was the phasing out of leaded petrol.

On February 27 2016 01:23 Doublemint wrote:


again one they did not see coming and/or did not warn us about!
and oh boy keeping up with this thread is damn exhausting, especially after work + another rep debate ^^


oh btw, people mentioned idiocracy?

http://usuncut.com/politics/idiocracy-writer-says-his-satire-of-america-has-become-reality/

On February 27 2016 02:42 oneofthem wrote:

simplistic take on a dynamic situation. the french attacks would not have occurred in the u.s.

On February 27 2016 01:51 Mohdoo wrote:


Think about how many kids have permanent brain damage now. This is sort of like a mass murder in a way. And clearly they knew it was happening. This is truly bizarre. From where I'm sitting, life in prison for everyone involved seems appropriate. They have completely ruined so many lives. It's so huge its daunting.