A shithole is an astronomically wealthy nation that refuses to provide healthcare for all people.

A shithole is an astronomically wealthy nation that refuses to guarantee access to clean drinking water and heating for schools in the winter.

A shithole is a nation that has enough wealth to end poverty but allows that money to be hoarded by a small few.

A shithole is a nation where school massacres aren’t surprising and neither are mass shootings because of politics and profit.

A shithole is an astronomically wealthy nation where college education isn’t free or guaranteed, but debt for pursuing higher education is.

A shithole is an astronomically wealthy nation where the military budget is enough to fix crumbling infrastructure, but it’s used to murder people abroad instead.

A shithole is a nation that pollutes the earth so bad that it’s causing the climate to change which is putting everyone at risk, but it refuses to change because of politics and profit.

A shithole is a nation that pretends capitalism is fair and equitable.

A shithole is a nation that institutionalizes white supremacy and then blames those who aren’t white for the barriers they face trying to live under a racist system.

A shithole is a nation that goes around the world destabilizing other countries, killing and ruining lives so its corporations can exploit resources.

A shithole is an astronomically wealthy nation with plenty of space that refuses to accept migrants, immigrants and refugees from the countries it destabilizes with its foreign policy.

A shithole is a astronomically wealthy nation where the rate of mortality among women giving birth is increasing as it decreases elsewhere, even in the so-called developing world.


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  1. “The truth shall set you free,” said a man who was murdered and later iconized to avoid the power of his words.

    Amen, brother Anderson.

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