Political Memes

There's a whole list on Wikipedia of Super Fund sites that might at first give you the impression that we as a nation monitor, manage, and clean up the spills of toxic and radioactive waste that happen by industry in this country.

If you start reading about these cases you'll realize how fundamentally inadequate our legal system is to punish and prevent toxic materials from escaping into everything from our drinking water to our grain.

It's not just the scale of mistakes and mismanagement, but also the unvarnished evil that lurks in the heart of our nations executive class that intentionally buries radioactive materials and builds a school over it to cover it all up.

Not everything gets a movie made about it especially when the victims of the toxic horror are not white.

Then there are the casual everyday mismanagements that we allow to occur because the owners of those institutions have lots of influence on the government to lower standards and evade punishment.

https://youtube.com/@uscsb The USCSB is another great resource for seeing how poorly our regulatory establishment is equipped to enforce standards on industry.

That same time period around 2013 we also discovered that several armed nuclear bombs were flown across the US under the mistaken idea that they were dummy bombs.

Norweigians be laughing...

But who really has the last laugh are the aliens watching this Human Zoo Exhibit right now

The largest population of Marshallese people in the continental United States is in Springdale, Arkansas, just a short drive from where I live.

Why is there a large Marshallese population in Arkansas?

Well, you see, between 1946 - 1958, the US government detonated sixty-seven (yes, 67) nuclear weapons on the Marshall Islands, rendering dozens of the islands uninhabitable.

I suppose you could call it a "big whoops" except for the part a where they were fully aware of the dangers of radioactive fallout and just did it anyway.

Also one of the cores was ever found and is still lost somewhere.

Half my immediate family has cancer from undisclosed testing causing nuclear fallout over swaths of the southwest US..

US is run by assholes.

You know how you hear stories sometimes about shadowy government agencies converging on an area for no apparent reason, and then leaving just as fast as they came? People usually assume it's aliens, but I wonder how many of those incidents have been stupid shit like this.

Isn't the US Air Force still missing like 5 bikes that they lost over the decades?

I could go over mk ultra and other fun little government projects but I guess people already got the point

If Chernobyl had almost exploded and melted down, I wouldn't blame the USSR for trying to hide it.

Turns out the USA has a long list of nuclear near miss and minor disasters, we just don't like to talk about them. Well There's Your Problem podcast just did a lengthy episode chronicling the more notable publicly-disclosed ones, including the ones in North Carolina. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqJR6kgwCio

Source? EdIT: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1961_Goldsboro_B-52_crash

Both of the weapons began their firing sequences upon separation from the aircraft, despite safeguards meant to prevent that from occurring.

For us not to qualify as a backwards ass country we'd also have to pretend that three mile island wasn't one lucky accident away from doing just what Chernobyl did.

It would really only be comparable if they nuked north Carolina then tried to cover it up.

It’s not shocking that the military keeps classified that sort of thing, they’d have been hard pressed to keep an actual nuclear detonation classified/hidden 🤷‍♂️

Accidentally dropping a nuke is wild.

That explains so much about North Carolina.

~ngl, sometimes I kinda wish they had exploded a little bit.~

Wholesome opossum lady isn't a tankie?? Thank God.