Where does she get these little idiotic quips from?
nadinbrzezinski (118,267 posts)
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Poverty...it's not sexy
But when you discuss SS, it's poverty, when you talk Medicare, it's poverty, union busting, poverty...
It is quite frankly around you, all around you.
I will spend the day again among working poor trying to improve their condition. I will spend my day among people who are being heroic, and will help to start change.
But they are poor, so really, it is not sexy...
cvoogt (303 posts)
1. and we're lucky
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.. here in the US of A. Our poverty looks like middle class to so much of the world. So much of India could only dream of being poor in America. I hope one day we can solve not only our own poverty, but worldwide poverty.
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This primitive understands 3rd world countries. At least to an extent.
nadinbrzezinski (118,267 posts)
3. that is a rw talking point
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And a tool of opression. Havinf an empty fridge, and not being able to afford more than cheao stsrches is low level malnutrition, for example
Nadin apparently doesn't though. It's just some "RW garbage>"
Also, what the hell is she trying to say?
cvoogt (303 posts)
24. thanks
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I had no idea that was a RW talking point. How did you know that? Geez.
If you have an empty fridge, at least you have a fridge. Low level malnutrition is still better than full-on malnutrition. We have trash pick-up services, for example, but much of the world lets their livestock eat their trash (including plastic etc), and then they eat their livestock. It's all relative and it's all bad.
This
Unterprimitiven must be really good at cryptograms. I wonder if it's looked into the Zodiac killer?
Lady Freedom Returns (3,424 posts)
37. Dude, I have seen the same conditions here in the US that you speak of.
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We are in no better shape than many a poor country is. It is just hidden slightly better.
The "Statue of Idiocy" comes to Nadin's defense.
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Sun Apr 7, 2013, 11:33 PM
cvoogt (303 posts)
40. I hear ya
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I have not seen enough of the US to evaluate properly, I guess. I do agree it is well-hidden here. I know when I lived in downtown Atlanta I made myself face it and try to help out, rather than trying to ignore it. So much of the rest of America just confines it to certain areas of the city, or suburbs, or even deports homeless folks en-masse under some pretense. Disgusting and despicable, what happened in 1995 prior to the Olympics in Atlanta (they cleared out all the homeless in advance of the Olympics).
And all those inner city spaces where poverty is a problem are property of.....DEMOCRATS. You guessed it. Your policies suck, and eventually kill people, primitive.
Crunchy enough for you?
nadinbrzezinski (118,267 posts)
32. Ok, let me explain this as basically as I can
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Our propaganda machine has this great message that we are number one. Nothing happens in the US that is just as bad as the rest of the world. We have it better...american exceptionalism, city on the hill, how dare you think otherwise? This is where it becomes a tool of oppression. It leads to people not questioning anything, and to the manufacturing of consent.
I cover labor, I cover poverty issues. I have not gone as far as Eirerbarch and done undercover for a nickel and dime story. But I talk to people who at the lowest levels of society are FINALLY starting to get tired and gone on ... wait for it, HUNGER STRIKE, demanding the most basic of respect.
This is bubbling up now, because the right wing media talking point, that our poor are better off, nothing to see here and worry about, is sounding pretty hollow anymore.
This is how it is a tool of oppression. I hope this makes some sense.
And you simply wish you were important enough to be a tool of oppression. You are a tool there, so the glass is half full.
You want to see a tool of oppression? Look at your Messiah, and his darling "wife."
Stupidity reigns supreme.
