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[–] LustyArgonianMana@lemmy.world 34 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Not just for the homeless, people in North Carolina are literally STILL FINDING BODIES, living in tents and cars, and can't swim in any river or lake due to run off pollution

This just shows the government is fine killing us via exposure to the elements

[–] Nangijala 26 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Your food too. The more I learn about American food production the happier I am that I have never set foot in the states. Way before all this crazy shit started happening, I already had many issues with the idea of visiting the country and one of the main ones was that I really didn't want to eat any of the food or drinking any of the water over there. They are literally poisoning you guys your whole lives.

[–] LustyArgonianMana@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Glyphosate, DDT, lead, mercury are huge issues in the US. Imo mercury is the biggest issue with what is happening in NC because that's all old gold mining territory and back in the 1800s they used mercury extensively to extract gold (severely poisoning the water supply and imo to this day it impacts us). But there's ofc lead in buckshot, and all the houses and cars that washed away had tons of different materials, oil, gas, MDF, etc etc

Corporations wont let us (via lobbying) have Medicare for All - because that would detect cancer (and toxins) and allow us to class action sue companies for them. Can’t sue if it was never detected. Thats why they find carcinogens and lead in kids’ products so much - their products dont have more lead in them, but kids all can be on Medicaid and that catches it. Flint, MI, water poisoning was detected by a kid on Medicaid.

They don’t want us to all have healthcare because that is public science and it will absolutely detect what theyve been lying and poisoning us with. It would probably destroy all the big companies like Nestle, Johnson&Johnson, Colgate, etc…

Yeah, don't blame you for not coming here.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

elemental mercury itself its the least toxic, its only the ones that are organo-mercury compounds.

[–] LustyArgonianMana@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

https://www.unep.org/news-and-stories/story/mercury-has-long-poisoned-gold-miners-new-strategy-helping-change

This toxic chemical has been used in small-scale gold mining for more than 3,000 years and can cause irreversible brain damage.

[–] Nangijala 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I hope things will get better someday. I don't know if it will happen in our lifetime, but I do believe that the US will improve and become a nation that is for the people and not a nation for the corporation.

[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 1 points 2 days ago

There was a very limited glimmer of that at a couple points in its history. I mean it's not alone in the world there, but clearly it's something all peoples yearn for.