• Don_Dickle@lemmy.worldOP
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      Did you know the drinking age in Louisana was 18 until Katrina hit? Then Bush and the government at large told them if you want assassitance raise you drinking age to 21.

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        That’s in order to receive federal highway money if I recall correctly. Probably desperately needed that money right after Katrina though so that checks out. Was still trivial to drink underage when I was there years and years ago

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    These damn Mexicans coming over the border and providing disaster relief! This is Carter’s/Clinton’s/Obama’s/Biden’s/Harris’s America!

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            Red Cross has entered the chat

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                What country are you living it?

                edit: Are you of age to work for or volunteer for the list of groups and organizations above?

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                  US I was denied financial aid for fall semester because my legal partner makes too much money.

                  Edit: Oh yeah I’m old. Kinda don’t know how useful I’d be to any of these organizations honestly.

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    Cuba responded before anyone else did with food, aid supplies, and doctors, and were promptly turned away by the US.

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    Honestly it’s the best use for a country’s military. Send .5% out to actually, idk, help people.

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      Wait till you learn the history of the national guard

      (Spoiler: they were thugs hired by robber barrons used to murder striking workers)

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        And the Marines were the personal union busters of plantation owners in central America.

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            Well, if Hawaii didn’t want to get invaded, it shouldn’t have put itself in an ideal defensive location for the USA in the pacific, it’s their fault really

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      Mexicanos al grito de guerra
      El acero aprestad y el bridón
      Y retiemble en sus centros la tierra
      Al sonoro rugir de el cañón