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In reply to the discussion: A taste of third world living [View all]Number23
(24,544 posts)41. Good Lord...
I think the looting point is a few days away right now. But it will come. It always does in third world countries.
Wow. I can't even... wow.
Edit: Reviewing my post, it sounds as though I am agreeing with the OP or can maybe even understand his point of view. In actuality, the privileged cluelessness of the excerpt above and the OP overall is what rendered me almost speechless. In a world where entire villages live without clean water, civil war prevents people from even being able to leave their homes, and children die from treatable diseases like diarrhea, that anyone in America could consider going a couple of days without power the same as being a third world country leaves me utterly astounded.
Wow. I can't even... wow.
Edit: Reviewing my post, it sounds as though I am agreeing with the OP or can maybe even understand his point of view. In actuality, the privileged cluelessness of the excerpt above and the OP overall is what rendered me almost speechless. In a world where entire villages live without clean water, civil war prevents people from even being able to leave their homes, and children die from treatable diseases like diarrhea, that anyone in America could consider going a couple of days without power the same as being a third world country leaves me utterly astounded.
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The S.F. bay area went through something similar during the Loma Prieta quake
OffWithTheirHeads
Jun 2012
#1
It is remarkable how quickly things can fall apart in a modern economy
4th law of robotics
Jun 2012
#6
Except its actually nothing like third world living because you'll have your power back in a matter
RB TexLa
Jun 2012
#17
My iPhone, rechargeable in the car, is the new millennium version of a transistor radio.
snooper2
Jun 2012
#20