[ SECRET POST #3815 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3815 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Good News Though

[(Anonymous)]

And the water in Flint is still not safe to drink.

Re: Good News Though

[soldatsasha]

I was under the impression that there's pretty much no way to make Flint's water safe. They have to basically rip out every single bit of existing water infrastructure, including the pipes in people's homes, and rebuild from scratch, and even that might not be enough to fix the problem.

It'd be far cheaper to rehome people at this point and write the city off as a total loss. But no one wants to be the one to say "sorry, but you can't live here anymore." And no one wants to foot the bill for building these people new homes, or paying them so they can move.

Re: Good News Though

[(Anonymous)]

No politician wants to be the one to admit they screwed up so bad that they wiped an entire city off the map.

It is all about their stupid egos.

Re: Good News Though

[soldatsasha]

Hell, even if a politician was willing to bite the bullet there's no way their party or backers would allow that.

I mean, this is a problem on an international level at this point. It isn't just about Flint, it's about the fact that an American state couldn't keep it's shit together enough not to poison an entire fucking city. And then totally dropped the ball on protecting people after the disaster happened. How incompetent must this appear to literally everyone else on the planet?

Imagine if the official USSR reaction to Chernobyl was, "I mean we can't really fix it so I guess you can just, like, live here anyway?" ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Re: Good News Though

[(Anonymous)]

It is worse. At least with Chernobyl the USSR could claim it was a technical fuckup and they were trying to contain it even before the veil of secrecy was blown. Flint is a failure of the kind of low tax, low regulation, neo-capitalist ideology in a way that cannot be explained by mere technical fuck ups on a local level. Admitting it failed so hard it required wiping out a whole city and starting over, well that is a failure of the whole modern American ideology. It would be a definite admission that everything we've been doing was wrong, that we were wrong, that a radical rethink regarding political ideology on the level of the restructuring of the USSR itself, was necessary in America.

Can you imagine anyone ever admitting America was just that wrong, because America has this sort of divine mandate to always be in the right. Too many people have never been taught how to be wrong (and learning how to handle being wrong is a skill that does need to be taught to people if they are to learn how to handle it) and how to accept that their world view doesn't work.

Re: Good News Though

[(Anonymous)]

The Flint water crisis happened not because of "modern American ideology" but because the state of Michigan feared municipal/school district bankruptcies so much that the governor was given the power (by the legislature) to install temporary dictators. That is/was definitely not normal.

Re: Good News Though

[(Anonymous)]

Very few people would be surprised by Flint I think. You have to remember that the American way of money over people has been represented on an international scale for decades by companies like Coca Cola and McDonald's, both of whom have ridden roughshod time and again over some of the world's poorest people.