I'm shutting down Google+ for the night and quite possibly for the weekend. Why? This stupid #gifwars thing people are so proud of. This Adam Black guy said he doesn't like gifs and now everyone is mass trolling him. Having been mass trolled like this I can relate to him easily enough. Have an opinion and the collective might of Google+'s lower class denizens jump on a bandwagon. I just saw a post where someone wanted to jump on board and had to get clarification she was tagging the proper Adam Black. She wasn't even connected to him ! Nor was she a part of the original discussion. She just wanted to follow the herd. When I called her out of it she claimed, "one gif doesn't make a troll." Perhaps not, but she's contributing to a larger troll effort. One straw doesn't break the camel's back, but thousands will. So, tonight, Google+ disgusts me. It probably will tomorrow as well. And possibly Sunday. I gave up Google+ for two months this spring
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Where are the links to lay blame?
Who has allowed or permitted Nestle to pump, filter, and bottle water from the lakes?
This is the kind of bullshit propaganda that really makes me sad to be a liberal democrat.
Reality: Gross generalization at best.
How about the Beer companies sending canned water to Flint? They are some of the biggest corporations around, but you fail to mention that as part of your supposed Republican dream.
Chalk one up to just plain sloppy propaganda
The Republican Dream is the prioritizing corporations over the health and welfare of citizens.That beer companies - anyone - is sending clean water in is great, but it was Tea Party policies that got the people of Flint into this mess in the first place. It was a GOP governor playing fast and loose with providing the one thing in this universe required for life. It is about the governor who disbanded the local city government and put in a "emergency manager" outside the rule of law and the consent of the governed who wanted to save money, not look at what's best for the city - because, remember, they prioritize the dollar over all else.It is about the governor and his staff ignoring calls from the water department, local public health officials, objective third parties and everyone else for months, maybe a year, about the water crisis.
That's your rRepublican government at work.
Its all crap that the governor dismantled local government. They have a law on the books that require emergency management if the books aren't balanced. The local government went in to the red and the emergency manager law was then required to take effect.
So tell me again how Nestle bottling water from the great lakes is a Republican Dream?
Propaganda fail.
It was Rick Snyder who used the Emergency Manager law repeatedly and repeatedly failed at it. If you want to make a sweeping claim that the emergency managers replaced "liberal" governments you have to prove it, not just say it. Or maybe you believe it's the "liberal" governments that destroyed Kansas' economy; have been in control of the nation's poorest performing states. Here you go: tell me which ones are red and which ones are blue and see if you can see a pattern: http://www.cnbc.com/2015/06/24/americas-10-worst-states-to-live-in-2015.html?slide=1
here, this will make it easier: http://goo.gl/vFwqqt