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Post by cryptoflovecraft on Nov 14, 2020 14:22:45 GMT
Pretty accurate and informative video. If I had to live in one of these places, I'd probably choose Chicago (there are nice parts) or Appalachia (despite the poverty and drug abuse, it's a beautiful region).
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Post by Flying Monkeys on Nov 14, 2020 15:56:26 GMT
As he says a few times, it's difficult to believe those places are in America. I think the closest we would get to that in Europe is in the really shit parts of Romania and Albania.
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Post by Joc Spader on Nov 14, 2020 16:35:47 GMT
![[laugh]](http://storage.proboards.com/6870873/images/kPFtBpkwzwpFTaSmbFWI.gif) at the baby's face 10 minute mark.
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Post by Flying Monkeys on Nov 14, 2020 17:18:40 GMT
at the baby's face 10 minute mark. Surrounded by those clone hairstyles, I'd be the same! |
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Post by scienceisgod on Dec 3, 2020 12:15:18 GMT
As he says a few times, it's difficult to believe those places are in America. I think the closest we would get to that in Europe is in the really shit parts of Romania and Albania. Malmo Sweeden. Tower Hamlets London. |
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Post by Flying Monkeys on Dec 3, 2020 13:15:58 GMT
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Post by yggdrasil on Dec 4, 2020 9:15:25 GMT
Too depressing to make it all the way through. Is there no financial "safety net" in the US?. A basic level of income guaranteed by the state? Had no idea these kind of conditions could occur in a 21st Century first world country.
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Post by cryptoflovecraft on Dec 8, 2020 0:16:12 GMT
Is there no financial "safety net" in the US?. A basic level of income guaranteed by the state? Had no idea these kind of conditions could occur in a 21st Century first world country. In America, we have socialism for the rich and capitalism for the poor. Most of us have to struggle to make ends meet. |
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Post by Flying Monkeys on Dec 10, 2020 20:30:27 GMT
In America, we have socialism for the rich and capitalism for the poor. Most of us have to struggle to make ends meet. How do you have socialism for the rich? |
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Post by cryptoflovecraft on Dec 10, 2020 21:16:24 GMT
In America, we have socialism for the rich and capitalism for the poor. Most of us have to struggle to make ends meet. How do you have socialism for the rich? In the form of bailouts, tax breaks and grants for corporations and the wealthiest among us. Under Trump, it was more apparent than ever. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 31, 2022 12:20:21 GMT
That abandoned Kombi looks like a nice home for a family of rats
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Post by PaulsLaugh on Jun 13, 2022 6:09:06 GMT
Good podcast. He is very honest and doesn't blame and condemn the people for their dire situation.
To help put things in perspective, and I'm not trying to downplay the disgraceful images, but Detroit's extreme poverty is due to the automakers pulling out of the city starting in the 1980. While some plants moved to the Sun Belt, others left the country for Mexico. And there was no Detroit, Flint, Pontiac, South Bend, and other Rust Belt cities, to speak of before Ford and other manufacturers moved into these cities taking advantage of cheap European immigrant and Southern migrant labor. Now they've moved out and as the commentor says, it's a ghost town little different from those dusty, abandoned gold towns out West...just a lot more people left behind. And these were the cities that made American the industrial power with the highest standard of living in the post-WWII era.
He might have been a nazi, but Henry had it right when he said that his workers should be able to buy the cars they make.
New Orleans: Like all large cities, NO has had plenty poverty-stricken "ghetto" neighborhoods, but Karina is the cause for much of the current blight.
Chicago: Has no excuse. It's a rich city and can afford to clean it up...but keep in mind, this is Chicago, home of Al Capone, the St Valentine's Massacre, the Chicago Mob, and Major Richard J. Daley.
Appalachia: Coal. Fracking. Pollution. Religion. And despair. This is the place the Chicago "ghetto"-finger pointers don't want to talk about.
Mississippi: never recovered from the slave and Jim Crow era.
Native American reservations: never recovered from the pioneer era.
The FLDS cult is off the charts crazy off an already nutty-light cult: the LDS.
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Post by PaulsLaugh on Jun 13, 2022 6:13:33 GMT
In America, we have socialism for the rich and capitalism for the poor. Most of us have to struggle to make ends meet. How do you have socialism for the rich?  |
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Post by PaulsLaugh on Jun 13, 2022 6:14:32 GMT
Too depressing to make it all the way through. Is there no financial "safety net" in the US?. A basic level of income guaranteed by the state? Had no idea these kind of conditions could occur in a 21st Century first world country. How about that. |
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