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They need to check the Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico, I’d bet good money there are hundreds of undiscovered bodies just waiting to be found. This admin is so disgusting.
During the 1960s civil rights movement, some civil rights workers disappeared in the deep south, and federal cops went down and started investigating and started searching the local swamp to see if they could find their bodies.
They started finding tons of bodies. They had to keep going for quite a while before they found the specific bodies they'd been looking for, and some of the corpses they found were never identified.
https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20250731-how-the-mississippi-burning-murders-sparked-landmark-change-in-the-us
US history is not always a nice place to be.
By not always, do you mean never?
There have been plenty of times when if you're in the right zip code and you have the right ethnicity, it's honestly a pretty great place. It just doesn't stay that way automatically, and where it goes if people don't keep fighting it into shape is pretty horrifying.
So sometimes, in select places, for select people
Yeah, pretty much.
Every single American except the 1% used to work in conditions much worse than an Amazon warehouse, and then they spent several decades fighting for better, and after a while it worked, and that's why your grandad had a union and could buy a house in his 20s.
Black people used to not be able to vote and could be killed for more or less no reason but "uppity," and then everyone fought for better for several decades, and long story short one of them became the president.
My point is, you can fight for better, or it can stay as shit (and in fact get worse). Pretty much all those select places and select people were created to at least some extent by the people that came before them fighting against the injustice and corruption, instead of just saying "what a bunch of bullshit, there is corruption and there shouldn't be." You can't always make it happen for you but over time it happens for the next people up. Or it goes down.