Slovakian sees a video about American suburbs - eviltoast
  • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    • Yes. Yes. We played video games or read books or had to have our parents drive us to a park or walked the whole way (no sidewalks) there.

    • Because our officials are incompetent. Yes. Yes.

    • See above on lobbying from oil and car companies.

    • Because the word “commie” is scary to Americans from decades of indoctrination and the “nuclear family” having their own home is the biggest lie in the “American Dream.”

    • Because of zoning laws. Refer to the above about incompetent officials. Yep, it is simply not possible and legal.

    • Americans care way more about appearances than actually having things be useful. What can I say, we’re fucking coddled.

    Hope this helps. It’s valid to still be baffled at such.

    • minnow@lemmy.world
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      incompetent

      No, malicious. Racist in fact.

      Suburbs were intentionally designed to be hostile to families without a car. This created a financial barrier to living in the suburbs, organically weeding out “undesirable” (aka non-white) families. Yes this also meant that many white families also couldn’t afford to move to the suburbs, but that was a downside the rich white racists were willing to accept if it meant keeping most non-white families out.

      • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        You’re absolutely right but I’m also gonna go out on a limb and say malicious/racist and incompetent are not mutually exclusive from one another.

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          They are not but this incompetence angle ignores a more likely scenario: corruption

          But people in us sleep better when we say:

          don’t atribute malice when incompetence will do

          Yeah sure but this big money and when there is money, there is corruption

          This the hill I will die on.

          • otp@sh.itjust.works
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            Then literally everything bad involving people becomes a conspiracy theory

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              Yes, Capitalism is a big conspiracy involving the capitalist class conspiring against the working class. Look at their class interests. They are and have always been quietly waging a class war.

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                Amen…

                They are still living in the world where a good rich daddy guiding the country to a prosperous future…

                ADULT FUCKING MEN LARP THIS SHIT

                🤡

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              Well you see if this information was easily accessible online and we could review it then we would be able to tell what is going on buy government contracting while pretending to be transparent is hardly “open source”

              So taking tech analogy unless I can inspection the code or people smarter, why would I assume it is not malicious?

              So while I can’t claim that every government contract has corruption attached boy any close inspection surely always yields something, it is part of colloquial speech re “efficiency” of government contracting is always bring mocked but the people can’t reach a logical conclusion here.

              I am just positing that based on circumstantial evidence this is how corruption would look like.

              Sure they tell telsa get some money to do something but we don’t get the terms and conditions and performance unless some shit really got botched

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        many white families also couldn’t afford to move to the suburbs, but that was a downside the rich white racists were willing to accept

        I think this was a feature, not a downside. (I agree with the rest of your post tho)