🌞 Alexander Daychilde 🌞

You’d probably just call me out for “whataboutism” so you don’t have to answer try and justify your point

If you’re going to put words in my mouth, why should I bother? That especially seems unfair since I believe I answered your last reply in pretty damned good faith.

I was thinking OP was going for “chemicals bad”. Nestle is a good example. And frankly, the sugar cartel and corn… well maybe not corn cartel, but corporate farm certel perhaps has pushed so hard for corn subsidies that we put corn syrup (not inherently bad) in everything and push corn products and grow corn to burn in our cars…

I still think our food supply is generally safe - generally.

But anyway. Care to put any more words in my mouth?

I did say

Most tap water in the US is some of the best in the world. Some places are unlucky.

I had Flint in mind.

It’s my understanding that the problems have been resolved.

Water problems like that are not widespread in the US.

Just a few examples which you could’ve trivially googled yourself

Pardon me blocking you, but you’ve been shitty in every single interaction we’ve had, so bugger off.

Money is not fake, it’s arbitrary. It’s also not the goods and services themselves, but a pretty good way of exchanging goods and services. Better than barter, for example, where every little thing has to be negotiated and you might have to set up chains of barters ot make it work.

Food is not being poisoned, what a crock of shit. Sounds like someone is scared of “chemicals”. Drinking too much water can kill you. Eating natural things can, too - cyanide is natural. Are there concerns about our food supply? Perhaps, but “poisoning you” is a bit much.

And water? Most tap water in the US is some of the best in the world. Some places are unlucky. Where I live they put in too much chlorine from time to time which isn’t unhealthy or unsafe but makes it impossible to drink, so we keep bottled water for when that happens, which sucks, but the water is safe. Going on about how it’s being poisoned makes you sound anti-science or like someone trying to scare people into watching their paid content.

Wars based on lies? Yeah, can give you that one.

The country run by pedos? Yep, that one’s a go as well.

Too distracted? Yeah, and that’s thanks to our oligarchs who control the media and the messaging. They weigh us down with everything that can, take as much money away as they can so we struggle to survive and feel like it’s all pointless. But if we could all get out on the street and shut everything the fuck down and demand change - specific change, pony up people to run for office - we could fix our problems, although it would be hard. We could extend the social safety nets that would make our lives easier. But it’s hard. Fighting the momentum they have is hard.

But we have to keep trying. Keep talking about it - that leads to protests. Keep protesting - that leads to people taking action. Keep taking action - that will lead to actions that have a chance of changing where things are headed. Every part of that is important.

Do what you can, whatever that is.