U.N. poverty investigator visits Alabama: finds worst poverty in the developed world (READ THE OP)
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That last section you quoted kinda puts another dent in the whole economic anxiety excuse for R voters huh
who cares about poverty as long as they get to take a half-baked stand on abortion, an issue which was settled 40 years ago?
Wow. Even worse than West Virginia?
Well, considering what I've seen from rural Alabama (and Mississippi), this isn't too surprising.
Well, considering what I've seen from rural Alabama (and Mississippi), this isn't too surprising.
The American Empire is rotting from within, like many great empires of men. We don't really know how the world will look after the inexorable decline of the world's sole remaining superpower. Maybe China will rise to take America's place in world affairs.
Democrats haven’t exactly done shit for these people either. Obama was spot on with that “clinging to guns and religion” line.
holy fuck does that video suck, the vice guy started off antagonistically in order to draw the stupidest shit outta people
yeah, roy moore supporters are dumbfucks, but thats a dumb and ineffective way to interview a group of people
on topic, those quotes in the op are depressing.
jesus fucking christ
You watch them make excuse after excuse.
"they're lying"
"they're being paid"
"the girls are to blame as well"
"it was a different time"
When what they really want to say
"I DON'T LIKE BLACK PEOPLE OK"
I sometimes joke that maybe we should send missionaries from Europe. But maybe we should send missionaries.
https://ballotpedia.org/Party_control_of_Alabama_state_government#Historical_party_control
And how are Democrats supposed to do things for them when they drink the bootstraps Kool-aid?
People will gladly cut their leg off as long as a minority loses both of theirs
I especially enjoyed how different the reaction is once Bill Clinton is brought up
Things will only get worse for those people.
They have better things to do.
The lack of self awareness is breath-taking. They take it as a conspiracy that these women are lying because they didn't say anything at the time.
Then they admit they also received similar harassment from others but never said anything until now!!!
"I'm not blaming her! I'm blaming both of 'em."
That video is hard to watch.
edit: Christ. I feel like I just saw a horror movie.
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It's pretty close as far as income goes.
The poorest part of the US is Puerto Rico though.
China has all of America's problems but magnified.
They're too dumb to see the wool over their eyes. How much of rural America will never vote Democrat? All because they are fed lies about trickle down economics and the evils of socialism. They're happy to barely be able to only shop dollar general stores because Wal-Mart is evil not seeing that they are getting weirder sizes and actually worse prices on a per cost basis. They're going to vote a pedophile into office all because he'll help cutting taxes that won't benefit them, cuttind medicaid that won't help them, send billions of US taxpayer money to Israel so they can maintain a military edge bombing Palestinians who throw rocks and bottle rockets. I don't really have sympathy for many. They are wilfully ignorant and they choose to be.
I live here and I'd fucking love to move to one of those places. Birmingham mainly.
I mean, call me a bad person, but I feel weird talking shit about undereducated impoverished people who have no opportunity to rise above their social class due to conservative policies and propaganda.
Oh bull fucking shit. Trying to blame that on the interviewer is ridiculous. Some of you just can't deal with the fact that a large part of the population is irredeemable trash and have to make excuses for them no matter what they do and say
So what the UN is saying is most of them are white trash?
Poverty is a big issue though and really hard to escape especially in the US.
Poverty is a big issue though and really hard to escape especially in the US.
User has been warned for attempting to subtly accuse another person of racism.
How about the heavy racism that they have and continue to buy into that keeps them voting for policies and problem that keep them uneducated and impoverished? Is that weird to talk shit about too?
Even my mom, who hates Trump, said not too long ago that 'there's a difference between a black person and a nigger.' The casual racism here is stifling.
Federal policies apply to red and blue states last time I checked.
y would i defend americans when im canadian. I can deal with the fact america is shite in general
I didnt intend to make any serious value judgement on the group he was talking but rather judge his interviewing to which he was bad
And who has had the most control over federal Chambers for the better part of a decade?
The problems in Alabama and the south in general stretch quite a bit further back than the better part of a decade.
It's almost like something strongly correlates here.... ;P
But this is quite sad. As much as I'd prefer the US not to get a bad UN human rights review, I feel we'd deserve a poor review.
Of course they do, but now you're just backpedaling. But keep that both sides stuff up, such edge
I’m guessing that a sizable chunk of them are from Mountain Brook, which would explain the cognitive dissonance on display here. They’re too rich and “protected” to care.
Backpedaling what exactly? If you want to have a genuine conversation please lay off using doge.
Makes sense to me to a degree. The country is as rich as it is because of the things that they do to keep those people from getting their fair share.