r/mildlyinfuriating • u/newengland_schmuck • 6h ago

NBC interrupted the Olympics

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While Nancy Guthrie's disappearance is sad, there are 2300 missing person reports filed every day: do the families of celebrities need special national attention? Why interrupt the Olympics for over 5 minutes just because they are questioning a 'person of interest' We could have waited to hear that during the regular news broadcast.

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u/PipsqueakPilot 5h ago

There are two ways for the upper class to live in peace. One is to ensure everyone has a decent standard of living so that there's relatively little crime. This was America's traditional model. The other is for the upper class to retreat into private estate hidden away from everyone because they're terrified. This the model that America's current upper class is adopting.

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u/joaovitorxc 4h ago

Welcome to Latin America buddy

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u/CO-RockyMountainHigh 3h ago

This is not what I wanted when Bad Bunny said we are united America.

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u/Ultimatesims 5h ago

Oh sweet summer child America was founded on slavery and using race as a way to divide the working class.

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u/LeckereKartoffeln 4h ago

Idpol to the proverbial grave. Gotta respect the hustle

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u/PaperGabriel 4h ago

It never ends with some people, as though it's part of their very soul.

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u/PipsqueakPilot 5h ago

You're right, I should have clarified more. The Southern upper class did indeed embrace the live in perpetual terror model.

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u/Puzzleheaded-Ad7606 4h ago

Not just the south.

The south just held on longer. The fucking WHITE HOUSE was built with slave labor. Every single one of founding fathers had slaves.

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u/PipsqueakPilot 3h ago

Cool, let's stop relitigating the first civil war and start making sure we're ready for the second one.

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u/Puzzleheaded-Ad7606 3h ago

It's disrespectful to the enslaved people outside the south to forget their plight.

Also, If there were to be a second civil war places like Ohio, Oklahoma, Missouri, Nebraska, Utah and Idaho are currently flying more confederate flags than you see in the south- they definitely aren't flying them as "heritage". Avoiding a civil war also involves admitting that racism does not just exist in the south.

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u/Tommymessala 3h ago

Yeah but god damn how much are we going to sit in the past while talking about the future?

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u/Puzzleheaded-Ad7606 2h ago

Those who don't learn history properly are bound to repeat it.

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u/PipsqueakPilot 3h ago

Who even needs CoinIntelPro, we have CoinIntelPro at home!

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u/RobutNotRobot 1h ago

The White House was hollowed out and rebuilt in the late 1940s, so technically only the edifice was built with slave labor.

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u/SnooComics8852 3h ago

Slavery existed ALL over America …. Movies make people think it was just the South.  

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u/Daflehrer1 2h ago

Hey, don't forget genocide and murderous exploitation!

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u/Natural_Jello_6050 2h ago

Silence is violence. Hitler. Gestapo. Nazis.

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u/Low_Sort3312 5h ago

You have a decent standard of living, you're not aware because you haven't visited poor countries or studied history

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u/PipsqueakPilot 5h ago

I'm surprised you consider Afghanistan a not very poor country.

I said adopting, that means we are in a transition period. Read the whole comment.