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    Not Enough Day DrinkingJay Connor
    3/02/19 3:49pm

    How about instead of trying to make America great again, we try to make America decent for once? How the hell do people not have running water in Dallas County?

    Sandbranch has no water pipes, sewerage, trash collection or street lights. In an added dash of irony, the sprawling Dallas Southside water treatment plant is situated about 10 yards from Sandbranch, its rusting barbed wire fence running along the northern boundary of the town.

    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/nov/23/texas-town-without-running-water-sandbranch

    This town is actually closer to downtown Dallas than Plano, which is considered a suburb of Dallas...except Plano is richer and whiter.

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      CrispyfurNot Enough Day Drinking
      3/02/19 5:45pm

      Exactly! America is ok but we could definitely improve. (I wish that thought did incense some people.)

      This no water part of the story is crazy. I live and work in North Texas and had no idea anyone nearby had **no running water**

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      DvsRey17Not Enough Day Drinking
      3/03/19 12:38am

      This is what you get when you pay no personal state income tax. Texas is one of the riches state in the union yet several of it’s cities are run like a 3 world country.

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    Tool of the MatriarchyJay Connor
    3/03/19 7:22pm

    We’re all desperately hoping that an act of arson that killed three people and badly injured a third is the politically-motivated assassination of a socially active pastor. Because that’s the only option where he can remain a good man. I hate that I read stories like this, and my brain instantly makes Assumptions. And I hate even more how often my assumptions are correct.

    A man of God, his wife and one of his children are dead; another is gravely injured. We should be able to simply express our horror and sorrow, and grieve for them and those who love them. Instead we have to deal with the knowledge that maybe he was a secret monster.

    My community suffered a family annihilation last year. A mother and adult daughter, and the daughter’s four children; three generations of one family. And one man who decided to take them all with him. Obviously the remaining immediate family suffered the most, but the entire community was devastated. Government agencies and community organisations set up special memorial and counselling days. People of all ages and interests were affected. The children’s classmates had their sense of security shattered. The effects will ripple for years. Because one man was a violent piece of trash.

    #notallmen, you need to start going after the violent fuckers who are making the rest of you look bad. If you listen to how afraid women and children are, and make it all about you and your hurt feelings...yeah, you’re part of the problem. You’re trash and you need to work on that.

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    ArtistAtLargeJay Connor
    3/03/19 2:42pm

    First, yeah, something really suspicious going on here.

    Second:

    He also ran a non-profit that was committed to providing the impoverished community of Sandbranch something it hadn’t had in decades—running water.

    That can’t be! People tell me all the time there are no 3rd world conditions in America!

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    FlamingFeministaJay Connor
    3/03/19 3:55pm

    Oh, I sincerely hope the ‘sounds like gunfire’ reports were some kind of explosions instead of an insinuation that this was one of those father kills family, murder-suicides due to financial troubles situation. Let’s every agree to wrestle idiotic people away from tv cameras when we see them, ok?! Because, in their thirst for 15 minutes of fame popping off to the cameras with scurrilius, dumbass words, they show themselves to the world in the worst light and impugn people’s characters unjustly and those words can’t be taken back.

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    DVDDVDDVDJay Connor
    3/02/19 3:03pm

    https://www.theroot.com/sandbranch-texas-a-small-community-denied-water-for-o-1790858153

    More on the story.

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    Shivaya NamahJay Connor
    3/03/19 11:03pm

    How troubling...

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