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[-] [email protected] 94 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

When 50 thousand people were evacuated from the city of Pripyat following the Chernobyl incident in 1986, the Soviet government built an entirely new city, Slavutych in just two years, 50km away, to accommodate those who lost their homes.

From the start, Slavutych was planned to become a "21st-century city". Compared to other cities in Ukraine, Slavutych has a modern architecture with pleasant surroundings, and the standard of living in the city is much higher than in most other Ukrainian cities.

This would be the last city the Soviet Union would ever build. The entire country would collapse in just two years’ time, but they managed to do something like this.

[-] [email protected] 42 points 6 months ago

So if I follow this logic, if the US builds a new city for the displaced victims, it would speed up our nation's collapse? Let's fucking go!

[-] [email protected] 50 points 6 months ago

Chernobyl was not the reason for the Soviet collapse, which was primarily driven by political and economic factors (i.e. import of Western liberal ideology).

I’m just saying that even a country with declining economy could manage that, let alone the wealthiest country in the world. It’s a matter of political will.

[-] [email protected] 41 points 6 months ago

No, I gotcha. I was just trying to make a dumb joke lol.

[-] [email protected] 17 points 6 months ago

Yeah but did they have blue jeans?

smuglord

Oh asking questions??? Go to gulag!!! 🤣🤣🤣

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[-] [email protected] 69 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Meanwhile Biden sent another $500 million to Ukraine and $8 billion to pissrael.

biden-the-thing We don't have any more money to help people survive, Jack, we spent it all making people dead

[-] [email protected] 36 points 6 months ago

That's $96,590.90 for each of the 88,000 people currently under mandatory evacuation orders for the LA fires btw

[-] [email protected] 64 points 6 months ago

Holy shit this is just insulting

Imagine having your entire life burnt away and the feds gives you a day and a half worth of funds for lodgings.

Even if you are fortunate enough to have free temporary housing from a family member or someone this is still going to go very quickly.

[-] [email protected] 58 points 6 months ago

That’s 70 more than we got in Appalachia. Things are trending in the right direction. bloomer

[-] [email protected] 38 points 6 months ago

maybe-later-kiddo It's the pragmatic thing to do sweetie.

[-] [email protected] 56 points 6 months ago
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[-] [email protected] 53 points 6 months ago

Landords: "So you're telling me my tenants can afford another $770 in rent this month? Thanks, I really needed this!"

[-] [email protected] 52 points 6 months ago

It's a house, Michael. How much could it cost? $770?

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[-] [email protected] 49 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Holy shit... My brain automatically corrected it to $770 million until I read the comments... I was thinking it was the sum of all payments, because $770 was so laughably incorrect my brain didn't even allow it to stand as is.

Here child, have half a week in a hotel or something. Buy yourself a pack of gum while you're at it, it might help with the hunger.

[-] [email protected] 27 points 6 months ago

Same here, I saw the number and my brain inserted 7 more orders of magnitude because what a pittance

[-] [email protected] 47 points 6 months ago

Sorry you lost all your material possessions, here is not even a months rent

[-] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago

not even a third of a months rent for many

[-] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago

Especially in Pasadena lmfao

[-] [email protected] 41 points 6 months ago

$770? Do they really think $600 is anywhere near enough? LA was already had a ridiculous cost of living, how is $450 going to even make a dent?

I guess they'll expect people to be happy they got a $375, after all Trump would have been worse amIright? maybe-later-kiddo

[-] [email protected] 28 points 6 months ago

"$2000 checks out the door immediately!" I guess at least the folks in LA are getting closer to receiving the 2k the dems promised 4 years ago, so that's progress!

[-] [email protected] 40 points 6 months ago

"sorry ya lost your home. Go get a shave and a new suit, jack!" biden-troll

[-] [email protected] 35 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Biden regime straight up laughing at the have-not Californians with this announcement.

[-] [email protected] 35 points 6 months ago
[-] [email protected] 35 points 6 months ago

DEMOCRATS SUCK ASSSSSS DUDE

partiotism

[-] [email protected] 34 points 6 months ago

brandon Here's some lottery money. Good luck, Jack!

[-] [email protected] 34 points 6 months ago

That’s like 1 week of rent in LA

[-] [email protected] 34 points 6 months ago

Goddamnit, with this and the Covid era windfall he gave the poors, we're never going to get them to work again!

[-] [email protected] 33 points 6 months ago

don't spend it all in one place, champ

[-] [email protected] 33 points 6 months ago

The right was accusing them of doing this with the storm over the fall and here they are literally doing the same exact shit! vote

[-] [email protected] 30 points 6 months ago

The same man who couldn't give us the full 2000 he promised

[-] [email protected] 29 points 6 months ago

Meanwhile the U.S. gives another $69 trillion worth of weapons aid to Israel for the 100th time.

[-] [email protected] 29 points 6 months ago

a jillion dollars to israel tho

[-] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

only a jillion huh? get me AIPAC on the phone disgost

[-] [email protected] 28 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

My neighbor's giant tree blew over and crushed her car, her mom's car, and her daughter's car. $770 wouldn't even cover removing the tree. She probably won't qualify for the payment because fire didn't down the tree

[-] [email protected] 25 points 6 months ago

Thanks for the xbox Joe, I don't have a tv to play it on or a house to live in but thanks anyway

Still love the xbox

[-] [email protected] 24 points 6 months ago

Might as well fling them a few copper coins from his passing curricle

Aristocratic ass charity amount

[-] [email protected] 21 points 6 months ago

Worse insult than nothing, even worse than throwing a nickel at them. This communicates one thing - they took a look and didn't care to actually assess finances, like 'how expensive could it be?!'. So they're looking at the issue as a check in the box, not a human need where they would have to actually talk to the plebes.

[-] [email protected] 18 points 6 months ago

this-is-fine $770 is fine

[-] [email protected] 17 points 6 months ago

I wonder how much ~~price gouging~~ inflation this will cause

[-] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I'm really looking forward to financial news in 2030 still intoning the holy litany "with pandemic savings dwindling" alongside this new "and wildfire windfall almost depleted" verse. Unserious country, I'd be less insulted by a bullet.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago

porky-happy: “Don’t give me that look, kiddo. You should feel grateful you even got a penny. You know that money came from the T-word, right?”

[-] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago

Lmao don't spend it all in one place

[-] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago

I really think at this point that Biden is not going to win 2028.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago
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