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Re:You misunderstand what it means to be poor by reaperducer on Friday November 14, 2025 @01:37PM (#45930199)
This is just not true. America has many problems but access to electricity/running water simply is not one of them.

You are disconnected from reality.

I can take you to places in Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, West Virginia, and even California where people have to live without electricity, running water, or both.

I'll take the word of what I've personally seen with my own eyes over someone who created an HN account three minutes ago.

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Re:You misunderstand what it means to be poor by tredre3 on Friday November 14, 2025 @02:10PM (#45930706)
> I'll take the word of what I've personally seen with my own eyes over someone who created an HN account three minutes ago.

> I can take you to places in Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, West Virginia, and even California where people have to live without electricity, running water, or both.

But can you provide us with a source other than your own eyes for the "millions of people" you claim to be living in such conditions?

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Re:You misunderstand what it means to be poor by zarl on Friday November 14, 2025 @02:26PM (#45930959)
No one in this thread has any evidence of these "hundreds of thousands (millions?) of people" and just falls back to "well I met a guy".

The claim is not that literally 100% of Americans have electricity/running water. It's that there are not "millions" of Americans without them.

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