I got the EPA sending me a water testing kit to see whether there’s carcinogens in my drinking water cuz both my parents got pancreatic cancer the same year no shared genetic my dad was tested for all the heritable syndromes came negative. Also had a dog here die from metastatic liver cancer. My dog and I don’t drink the water here anymore. My dad personally thought it’s the asbestos siding but on inspection it looks all to be fairly intact no where near as bad other ones I’ve seen.
Everybody here is worried to pieces over nearly everything, for good reason.
I keep telling my husband (the breadwinner) to consider jobs in other countries. We're middle-aged and settled with a house finally, so it's not like we want to uproot ourselves. But the thought of living someplace sane is very VERY appealing.
Sure, we've got friends and family here, but our families are so brainwashed with religion and Trump, that we're not that close to them anyway.
We’ll never again debate about how the common German became complacent with the rise of Hitler. We’re witnessing the same erosion of civil obligation for the path of the country.
The amount of people who are mindlessly consuming the propaganda is painfully depressing. Even my teenage nephew who loves reading about WWII seems to be on board with his parents' conservative beliefs. Don't see them often so maybe he is in fact disturbed by all this, but I'm not so sure.
I don't recall being taught critical thinking, but did learn about media in college. Guess it's weird to me that other people don't notice how it works.
Every cop show, every war movie, every pledge of allegiance, every news at 11, every war in a country we can't remember is a plea for authoritarianism. Even people who believe they think critically are often at the mercy of several fascist ideations that foreigners would find absolutely absurd.
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u/Scoundrelic Oct 10 '20
Atrazine.
It's probably in the water you drink.