Comments by "Chompy the Beast" (@chompythebeast) on "RealLifeLore"
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@Distress. Meanwhile the entire empire gets to foot the massive bill for the region every single time another hurricane comes through, and in a climate where they are getting worse and more frequent each season? That bank account isn't infinite, and of all the social programs I am happy to support, constantly pumping out an obviously fucked city enters the realm of the absurd. Honestly, there's a reason the federal government isn't doing anything to improve this situation year by year: It either can't, or it just won't.
What's really unreasonable is the madness of doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. Either New Orleans should be given Holland-like multi-billion dollar protection, or its population should be relocated as Holland has also done. If the latter sounds unreasonable, the former better sound like a plan. Otherwise the city becomes a literal death trap for all the people who can't afford or aren't able to escape in times of emergency, and I think we are all sick to our hearts of that ongoing human misery.
End of the day, if New Orleans is such a gem in the American crown, then why don't we fucking protect it? It is possible, it has been done, but all the region's money goes to state-of-the-art oil rigs (that leak every storm) rather than state-of-the-art civil defense, because the powers that be don't give a shit about the residents of the Lower Ninth Ward compared to the dead dino juice at the bottom of the Gulf. Private Industry > Government Projects, Money > People.
New Orleans highlights so much wrong with American society, despite being such an amazing place itself
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@Distress. Ah, right. Literally three families own more than 50% of all American wealth, and it's the poorest people struggling to get by who are bankrupting the country, silly me. The American Aristocracy owns more wealth compared to the average American than the kings of old owned relative to their serfs under feudalism, but yeah, it's the American serfs who are robbing us all, not the plutocrats and capitalists who care more about oil than human life, or you, who has none of their money but all of their casual hatred for your neighbors as you were bred and raised to possess.
It is attitudes like that that make people like you the real stumbling blocks towards progress: People like you, who don't care about your neighbors, are why New Orleans (nor indeed the rest of the South) hasn't had the community effort to protect human life. Blaming poor people who would never be able to fund it in the first place is nothing but a cop-out for the stupid, the ignorant, and the prejudiced―the dupes of the American Way™ who will always lick the boots of the rich and will always blame the poor despite being astronomically closer to the latter than the former.
Shuffle on with these dismissive yet wildly uninformed takes. Get with it, or get the fuck out of the way
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