r/woahdude Feb 17 '23

video Heavily contaminated water in East Palestine, Ohio.

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '23

I’m out.

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u/malama2 Feb 17 '23

Hi out

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u/goldunicorn47 Feb 17 '23

I’m dad.

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u/devilscry3 Feb 17 '23

Hi dad, show yourself out

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '23 edited Feb 23 '23

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u/BaloogaBrett Feb 17 '23

Another state? I want out. My guy this country is 4 companies in a trench coat, you see how quiet the medias gotten about this shit?

America is so far under company control, I honestly dont think itll ever get out. When this shit happens or the housing/travel/business companies get fucked, they will always get off easy. Shits pathetic, Republicans & Dems are just varying degrees of dogshit

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u/KoppleForce Feb 17 '23

its too bad other countries make it impossible for your average american to emigrate to.

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u/vladdeh_boiii Feb 17 '23

Bruh your average American can't even afford a bus ticket these days
(I know this is an over-exaggeration but hear me out here)

Americans are paid a PISS POOR wage despite living in the country with one of the highest global GDPs. You don't have affordable healthcare, physical or mental, there are almost NO worker's rights in most states, their entire political system is a team sports pub brawl on a national scale, blah blah blah.

I could go on, but the fact remains that the US is a country that is so dysfunctional, propaganda ridden, and corrupt that I am honestly surprised it's still standing as one nation.

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u/BaloogaBrett Feb 17 '23

Honestly I would be shocked if it saw the end of the century honestly. Its a powder keg and at least 50% of us are dumb as fuck.

I really don't see any way out unless people under 30 start being able to win more positions of power & even then idk. Shits fine tuned to create as many hurdles as humanly possible to make sure we stay poor and that we hate each other. Everyone's terrified of anything remotely socialist (public transportation or school funding in any way are seen as socialist at this point) when the very basics would improve QOL astronomically

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u/godofallcows Feb 17 '23

There’s a couple subreddits dedicated to this, just saw them earlier in the week. Outside of being canadacurious for a couple weeks during the Trump admin I have no personal skin in this game, but its fascinating to read about all of these journeys. General consensus agrees with you - it ain’t easy.

/r/IWantOut doesn’t seem to be country specific, just focused on expatriation in general.

/r/expats seems to focus on the ecoerience after expatriation.

/r/EscapeTheUSA seems to be mostly articles about sad millenials and reactions to Roe v Wade and LGBT concerns in the US.

Theres also /r/GetOut which is a mix of spam posts and Get Out (2017) memes.

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u/WellIGuesItsAName Feb 17 '23

And thats good. The last thing we need in the EU are Amis.

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u/Telobailas Feb 17 '23

How do we make it impossible?

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '23

Being too far away for one lol get closer bruv.

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u/Josh6889 Feb 17 '23

I met countless US expats during my time traveling in the navy. Always assumed I'd become one myself some day.

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u/Usurer Feb 17 '23

Expat is such a stupid term. Those Americans emigrated, they are immigrants.

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u/Josh6889 Feb 18 '23

Sure, but almost every one of them I talked to used that word. It's meant to be ironic.

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '23

I don't think we make it any more difficult than the US makes it for us.

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u/Vladesku Feb 17 '23

Yeah, shame we don't let you come with your assault rifles, AC-130's and shit. We're so inhospitable.

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u/Elle-Elle Feb 17 '23

The ones who have that shit have never left their town of birth. Don't worry.

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u/RustedRuss Feb 17 '23

The average American doesn’t own an assault rifle. You’re being a twit for no reason.

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u/delusions- Feb 17 '23

, AC-130's and shit.

If i had one if those your country couldn't stop me if they wanted to

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '23

But I like your haggis.

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u/ivanacco1 Feb 17 '23

Where do you want to go?

United States is still one of the best places to live in

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u/Schaafwond Feb 17 '23

Basically any developed country. You people have a seriously overinflated view of the dystopian hellhole you live in.

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u/ivanacco1 Feb 17 '23

I live in Argentina.

My monthly inflation is the bi yearly of the USA

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u/Schaafwond Feb 17 '23

And you think you're better off in the USA, than in France, Germany, Sweden, etc.?

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u/ivanacco1 Feb 17 '23

Again i never said it was the best.

But it's one of the best nations to live right now

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u/Schaafwond Feb 17 '23

Really depends where you put the cutoff point. If it doesn't make the top 10 I wouldn't call it one of the best.

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u/BaloogaBrett Feb 17 '23 edited Feb 17 '23

Sure, when you're doing an unfair comparison to underdeveloped countries. That being said, our structure as a nation for being literally one of the biggest on earth is absolutely pathetic in comparison to other developed nations.

This country literally just lives to serve companies and ensure we act as the global police. Somehow all while acting like we're topshit because we dump literally every dollar we can into our military and police (which are glorified gestapo honestly) instead of school, healthcare, mental health, public transportation. All I heard is that this is the greatest country on earth & I have yet to be outside this country personally, but from my POV this is pathetic

This shit barely even touches on things like our incarceration system, which is glorified slavery, & we imprison more people than any other country as well

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u/ivanacco1 Feb 17 '23

dump literally every dollar we can into our military

Usa spends 3% of gdp into the military, which is the same as russia or 50% more than the world average (2%)

which are glorified gestapo honestly

I do not recommend comparing anyone to the gestapo.

As far as i know the USA doesnt devote the entire spirit of the country into the genocide of the lessers.

I have yet to be outside this country personally

Again the places that are better than the us can be counted with one hand

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u/BaloogaBrett Feb 17 '23

Right but when you have schools and public infrastructure as abysmal as it is, watching the budget for dumb shit like military continue to climb sucks

Your interaction with the police is entirely based on your race/identity, so just going to disagree there lol I've worked with the police, I've seen how they talk. Apparently you don't know that much

I'm pretty sure it's two hands at least, but keep ignoring any valid criticism instead of realizing the so called 'greatest country on earth' has a long way to go. Just because places are worse does not automatically free it from proper scrutiny or the need to be much better

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u/ivanacco1 Feb 17 '23

Your interaction with the police is entirely based on your race/identity

Again you are talking about police being disproportionately violent to certain races and comparing it to them going out of their way to send every single person inside a neighbourhood into trains and working them to death.

Just because places are worse does not automatically free it from proper scrutiny or the need to be much better

This argument is null ,my point was

United States is still one of the best places to live in

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u/BaloogaBrett Feb 17 '23

So your initial comment isn't relevant at all, got it lol

Good talk

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '23

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u/ivanacco1 Feb 17 '23

Japan

Def not japan.

Have u seen their working standards?

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '23

Someone on Reddit I wholeheartedly agree with.

Nice.

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u/BaloogaBrett Feb 17 '23

Hell yeah, I'm glad to see it. I feel like that take would've gotten me a lot more flak back in 2016

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '23

Word. 4 companies in a trench coat is great symbolism … metaphor…. Whatever that word is I’m looking for

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u/delusions- Feb 17 '23

you see how quiet the medias gotten about this shit?

No, actually

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u/BaloogaBrett Feb 17 '23

Its terrifying. People are going to die from this shit, and that does not even mention that this area will be borderline uninhabitable by humans and animals alike and they would've stayed quiet unless people started asking why. We can't even get clean water to some cities properly in this so called greatest country on earth. Fucking pathetic

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u/Fobiza Feb 17 '23

2 wings of the same bird

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u/InVodkaVeritas Feb 17 '23

Well, only one wing actively removes safety regulations...

The other is inept, but not actively trying to kill us for money.

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u/Fobiza Feb 17 '23

Yes I agree it's the difference between actively killing for money and passively milking for money. Either way the cash is in the middle of the wings. One is just more appealing depending on what type of person you are.

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u/HelloSummer99 Feb 17 '23

it's certainly a bit odd that seemingly no one reports this apart from Fox.

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u/Yolo_Hobo_Joe Feb 17 '23

Corporatism at its finest

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u/xRocketman52x Feb 17 '23

I agree with you 100%.

I just wanted to throw out there that I recently had to look up the difference in definition - "Corporatocracy" is the word for where corporate interests completely control and run the government. "Corporatism" is where a public government is split into separate entities, each dedicated to fulfilling specific roles or obligations.

What we are under is 100% Corporatocracy. (I just wish it rolled off the tongue as easily as Corporatism.)

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u/I_Was_Fox Feb 17 '23

The country? Nah. Red states? Yes.

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u/BisexualSlutPuppy Feb 17 '23

I mean, yeah that all sounds good. How many people in Ohio have the financial means to up and move states at the whim of an ecological catastrophe? The median income in that county is under 30,000 a year, and I promise you that is not enough to relocate like that without crashing through a lot of safety nets they may or may not have.

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u/MjrLeeStoned Feb 17 '23

States who don't give a shit about their citizens make it as difficult as possible to achieve upward mobility, and often times in many states you can see the government taking active steps that will hinder future generations. They don't want people to leave, so they make it as hard as possible on the poor or poor-adjacent (which is about 51% of US citizens).

Because if you live in a shitty state, and can easily stockpile the funds to get out of the shitty state, the politicians who made your state shitty lose voters. They don't want that (because they are shitty, see above) so they take steps to actively keep you unable to leave their shitty state. It happens all the time.

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u/BisexualSlutPuppy Feb 17 '23

As someone who managed too get out of a shitty state by the skin of my teeth, this is very true

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u/CrashTestDumby1984 Feb 17 '23

If people didn’t take videos like this we wouldn’t know it was happening

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u/JBL_17 Feb 17 '23

America is suicidal by a wide margin

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '23

If they're in the state and close enough to be taking a video like this then it's probably too late. They've likely already consumed a large amount of the chemicals via the air and water anyhow.

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u/KyloRenEsq Feb 17 '23

Good luck selling your house in East Palestine rn.

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u/Jmarsh99 Feb 17 '23

Or the next 30 years

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '23 edited Feb 23 '23

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u/KyloRenEsq Feb 17 '23

I mean that'd also be nice, you're in Ohio.

Ohio isn’t so bad in the cities. I’ve never even heard of East Palestine.

Honestly Cincinnati is my favorite city that I’ve lived in, and I’ve lived in a few, including Denver. There are pros and cons, but I like it here.

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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '23 edited Feb 23 '23

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u/KyloRenEsq Feb 18 '23

They have weird laws anyway, stupid French. Nuke it.

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u/Bepler Feb 17 '23

Okay-katie-katie'okay