America - Sliding Down The Shitter

[Seraphina]

The notion that the lowest rung of US society is first world is simply ludicrous.  Every nation on the planet has its desperately poor, living in substandard housing in unsanitary conditions, without secure food and clean water,  By way of example:



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The first picture is a slum in America.  The second is a slum in Bangladesh.  Both look pretty goddamed third world to me.

Boru

Except in the US they do have secure food and clean water. Aside from Flint, and people were outraged at that. Meanwhile there are whole countries you can't drink tap water in. Even in Spain I was surprised to find most places you can't drink the water.

False. A town in Texas hasn't had running water for decades.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017...sandbranch
Porterville, California ran out of water a few years ago during the drought.
I could go on but your eyes are only open to the problems you've personally temporarily experienced, which is uninformative. There are whole other worlds out there that you're not aware of.

-Teresa