On that very same day, there was a train that carried tons of chemicals (mostly PVC) riding through Ohio. It exploded in East Palestine, unleashing the dangerous chemicals in the atmosphere. While The US was overreacting over the balloon, the chemicals were contaminating the air and waters. The chemicals were killing people’s chickens, dogs, cats, and other animals. The crows were circling and flying about in a strange motion as if they were drugged. The fish that flourished now lifelessly float along the river.

If the chemicals are getting to the animals, it’s getting to the people too. People who lived there experienced lung issues, breathing difficulties, and more. The PVC chemicals are causing higher risks of cancer. People are still not able to live in their homes due to the nauseating air. Those who come back are faced with dangerous conditions. Officials however, (including the FDA) have told everyone that the air is completely safe and the water is drinkable. People who drank the water described it as “smelling and tasting like chlorine.” So basically the officials were lying and trying to sweep it under the rug.

All while this was happening, you see the media overreacting over the balloon. And they pulled another stunt with Canada again this week. Meanwhile, Norfolk Southern lobbied to ease federal regulations and cut costs on the train.

Which makes me question… What are we living for? With the capitalist powers having it’s grip on the world, we are living to be slaves and to fill the wealthy man’s pockets while our lives are constantly in danger. We are just pawns in their game of wealth, power and fame. Tragedies are swept under the rug until one day there’s a large tragedy, and then there’s a compromise from those wealthy pigs that just isn’t enough. Then the cycle starts all over again.

In America, we are going backwards. At this point, we are entering back to the Gilded Age. Or maybe we’re already in it? Or never got out of it?

  • @sinovictorchan
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    71 year ago

    Just like with the Nazi Holocaust that imitates the child slave camps called “Indian Residential Schools”, the Western European diaspora governments simply subject the Caucasian population to the same corrupted practices that they previously committed against the colonized people. In this case, they are subjecting the (presumably) European immigrant communities to the same war crimes that they conducted in the Indigenous concentration camps in the Federal Reserve in an attempts to force the Indigenous people to forfeit their “Indian” status that allowed them to maintain their ancestral land ownership that they and their ancestors worked hard for, their right to collect rent from white immigrants, their debt collecting right, and their right to obtain compensation money from the children enslavement, savage indoctrination, and atrocities from the Residential fake Schools during the Cold War.