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[zethren]

This is still so fucking tragic... I really hope that as many people as can be are filtering their water however they can, since this doesn't seem to be being fixed anytime soon...

 

[zero_suit]

At this point I can't even come up with any rage for the situation. It should have never happened yet alone went on this long without any solution. The media doesn't give a shit, the government doesn't care, meanwhile you have a president running around talking about making America great while thousands of citizens are deprived of clean water. The worst part is knowing that it is neglected because it's Flint, and a predominant black district. How can so many people not care, how can so much of the state still continue to vote republican after this disaster, and how does the Governor of the state just get away with it? If this went on for a month anywhere else in the US, it wouldn't have even lasted a month.

Are you sure about that?

 

[FalsettoVibe]

That's horrible. I'd be doing the best I could to leave since no one is doing anything about it.
I'm sure property values suck there.

 

[nekkid]

I was expecting Flint to be a small backwater community, then I looked it up. Damn...

How does this happen for so long to a town so large?

 

[The Last Wizard]

How can something like this happen in a country like the USA? Ridiculous.

If you have to ask you'll never know.

Spoiler

The answer is black people, people could give two shits about them. Look how this has been swept under the rug by the media.

 

[Jmanunknown]

I was expecting Flint to be a small backwater community, then I looked it up. Damn...

How does this happen for so long to a town so large?

Do you really have to ask how this is happening for so long. Its a predominately black town and its a poor town two things a good portion of america do not care about unless they are shuckin and jivin for their entertainment.

 

[A Fish Aficionado]

I was expecting Flint to be a small backwater community, then I looked it up. Damn...

How does this happen for so long to a town so large?

Racism, first and foremost. Institutional dysfunction and the GOP.

 

[nekkid]

Do you really have to ask how this is happening for so long. Its a predominately black town and its a poor town two things a good portion of america do not care about unless they are shuckin and jivin for their entertainment.

Yes I did have to ask because I know very little about Flint.

 

[Hale-XF11]

You know we're fucked as a country when we can't even provide basic human needs like water to people who need it.

 

[Rest]

This feels relevant:
Alien Ant Farm - 1000 Days

That's almost three years. Insanity.

 

[Kaleinc]

How does this happen for so long to a town so large?

Turn water into lead then turn lead into gold. Science 101.

 

[Fantastapotamus]

Thanks Trump

 

[Socreges]

How can something like this happen in a country like the USA? Ridiculous.

When will people stop asking questions like this? US infrastructure, generally speaking, is not first rate and continues to deteriorate.

No offense - I just genuinely wonder for how long fictions/perceptions like these will persist, long after they've become untrue.

 

[Dreams-Visions]

When will people stop asking questions like this? US infrastructure, generally speaking, is not first rate and continues to deteriorate.

No offense - I just genuinely wonder for how long fictions/perceptions like these will persist, long after they've become untrue.

Wait until the decrepit power grid starts having more issues.

 

[Baron Doggystyle von Woof]

You know we're fucked as a country when we can't even provide basic human needs like water to people who need it.

This is some 3rd world country shit.

 

[O Canada Our Home and Native Land]

Flint water crisis wikipedia page reads very nicely for the governor.

 

[zugzug]

This to me is one of the bigger Federal Gov failures. I realize this was a state failure to start with but for me not seeing the Federal Gov just stop EVERYTHING and not fix this problem is astounding. I do not care Task every single Army corp engineer ride into town stop building one or two military thingie and just fix this. Stop every single Bureaucratic hiccup, wall, person clogging this from getting fixed. Dredge up every single pipe that was broken by porting in the wrong type of water. Cancel a festival ball, a parade.

This right here not being fixed makes me want to quit the USA. It breaks every single belief that we are 50 states combined into a Union working together as a group.

I do not even know what it would take to fix, just the fact that it hasn't been fixed, or we are still talking with topic of residents after day 1000 cannot drink tap water. There is nothing that drags the USA down more than this as a union of states together.

 

[MadraptorMan]

So what was that whole stunt with Obama drinking water in front of all those reporters again?

 

[WedgeX]

Flint water crisis wikipedia page reads very nicely for the governor.

Was that intro written by Snyder's team? Lord.