General Politics XII World • Page 338

Just to add: this was one of the things where low information people were initially like "Fluoride? I dunno what that is. Sounds scary though better get rid of it" and then the experts started educating people in the county about the reality of what that means, and people actually changed their minds and rectified that next election. Every county commissioner who supported banning fluoride was voted out. The main guy behind the push said "I will never support banning Fluoride ever again" in his farewell speech to the county commission.

There is slight hoped to be gleaned there that maybe when average unknowledgeable people are confronted with the actual reality of their voting decisions they will rectify it.

 

Yeah but that sort of thing happening on a national level would play out much differently im afraid

 

the crazy anti-vax home-schoolers are gonna end up making me have to home school my kids just to keep them away from all of the communicable diseases that we had functionally eradicated here but that are now making a comeback in this goddamned fucking shithole of a country

 

The good news is that it’s only a matter of time before Trump goes back to publicly humiliating Rubio.

 

Yeah from what I know NJ has already been given many millions of dollars from the federal gov and the work to replace the pipes has already commenced in several cities, so can’t imagine that there’s any chance on going back from this.

Congress would look evil as hell to revoke funding to replace lead pipes (though as we know they have no problem looking evil)

 

this was my favorite joke from the movie

 

Man, Denver saying no to a tax going towards affordable housing and the state as a whole saying yes to $350m in additional police funding is depressing.