• SorosFootSoldier [he/him, they/them]
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    2 years ago

    It's sad because so much of the black community got hit hard by leaded products, namely lead pipes with drinking water. It's something that isn't talked about enough and I think a lot of people got hurt by it, not just boomers.

    • LucyTheBrazen [she/her]
      hexagon
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      2 years ago

      Oh absolutely. It's a fucking tragedy that there still are lead pipes being used in the US, and like everything in this god awful country it is lower class and PoC people getting the worst of it...

      • SorosFootSoldier [he/him, they/them]
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        2 years ago

        Not that universal housing will ever come to the USA without a bloody battle for it, but if it hypothetically did, so many homes would need to be outright demolished and rebuilt to code for people to safely live in them. My house is for sure one of them.

          • Thordros [he/him, comrade/them]
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            2 years ago

            Whoa, that can't be true. I heard from a chud that South Africa had done a white genocide, and is a communist paradise now. :brainworms:

        • LucyTheBrazen [she/her]
          hexagon
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          edit-2
          2 years ago

          Oh yeah, if you gotta deal with asbestos, lead paint and pipes you might as well start over...

          • SorosFootSoldier [he/him, they/them]
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            2 years ago

            That's why it's all the more maddening that a home built in the 70's with asbestos and lead pipes can go for upwards to 200 grand on today's market. Normal system.