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		stavros 4 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Utah becomes first US state to ban fluoride in its... That's because Americans believe that poor people are poor because they just didn't care enough to be rich. This might have been true 200 years ago, when there was a whole unexplored continent to exploit, but it's less true now.

scarface_74 4 months ago [–]

Poor people are voting for policies that directly harm them because they don’t want other poor people and the “illegals” to benefit.

stavros 4 months ago | [–]

I think that's the same mentality, "yes I'm poor now, but I'll get the break I deserve soon enough, and I don't want all these undesirables to benefit when I do".

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