The US is a falling empire. It’s going to get so much worse for everybody until Americans do something.

I’ll be grateful when he puts a gun in his mouth.

Well… perhaps socialism would change some of the sociological and class conditions which allow social anxiety to be so prevalent.

Who here said to destroy the safeguards? Calling them useless isn’t the same.

But I never said we shouldn’t have it. I simply said it’s been useless.

That doesn’t mean we should tear it down. It means we should fix it.

At what point did I say the environmental protection and regulation was wrong?

I specifically said that the EPA has been useless in preventing tragedy. It’s an attack on the current organization and not the concept, but apparently that nuance was lost on you.

It’s hard to see the humanity in some of these people…

The only reason Superfund was established in the first place is because people like Lois Gibbs and the LCHA had to beg for it. The government had very much turned a blind eye to the initial disaster until people got loud about it.

So unless the whole city basically has to collectively shout outside the fire department every time there’s a fire while most of their home have already burnt down, I can’t say that I do agree with your analogy.

Or just not ignorant to history.

Look up the PBS documentary Poisioned Ground

Should be destruction of property instead. Murder implies the killing of a human.

The EPA has never been useful. I grew up in Western NY and Love Canal are words we haven’t forgotten.

Is America great yet?

There’s enough of a non American user base to counter it.

Fair enough. Open source software is something that continually improves as it gets into the hands of more people and they all voice their concerns. That’s the whole point. It’s software for people and not corporations.

Your comment would imply that most Americans are smart enough to understand the concept of triage.

The whole renaming thing is a distraction tactic at best.

I personally am a huge fan of CoMaps. It uses OSM data

Instead they’re renaming lakes instead of focusing on the trade war that’s going to hurt people on both sides of the border.

As somebody originally from a border city in the US, it just pisses me off to no end.

What mattered was that the US was moving forwards and not backwards. We were building a more inclusive America for all.

That’s no longer the case.

Fuck yeah. Proud antifa member here.

Not like anything of value was lost anyway