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lol haha its michigan maybe theyll just ford the river
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^lmao owned https://twitter.com/PMBreakingNews/status/1263129854960111618
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May 20, 2020 16:35
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No lmao those bastards got the dang welcome sign Lmfao dam these guys are being done dirty
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May 20, 2020 16:37
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So does the dam owner just send Midland a bill for all the water they've received or what? And is it filed as a rental or straight purchase?
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May 20, 2020 16:49
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he'll buy the town after they foreclose and make a luxury arcology in its place then he will tie the condo fees into dam maintenance and go cause another natural disaster thru controlled negligence somewhere else
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May 20, 2020 16:51
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgJm-DL40G0 Fairuza Bulk
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May 20, 2020 16:57
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lol honestly gently caress the gently caress out of that dam owner and all the greasy small town palms that signed that deal without a way to maintain the thing.
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May 20, 2020 16:59
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Robo Reagan posted:does this happen anywhere in the world or is it a US idea Spain owns a significant stake in the 407 (a toll highway) in Canada.
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May 20, 2020 17:14
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Robo Reagan posted:does this happen anywhere in the world or is it a US idea It was Rahm Emanuel's great idea to throw away a shitload of future revenue for a single one time budget fix
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May 20, 2020 17:16
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You call it negligence I call it job creation. Thanks to this heroic dam owner, there will be thousands new jobs in construction, burying people and various medical fields
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May 20, 2020 17:18
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Mental Hospitality posted:I love that private entities build and maintain infrastructure that has the power to kill and destroy if it fails. Yes I sure am happy to be free of that 50 cent annual tax burden. What could possibly go wrong? 
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May 20, 2020 17:21
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https://twitter.com/ChadLivengood/s...ingawful.com%2F
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May 20, 2020 17:33
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Always waterproof your containment ponds
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May 20, 2020 17:37
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Huh maybe US is gonna get its own version of Bhopal disaster 
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May 20, 2020 17:52
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Robo Reagan posted:does this happen anywhere in the world or is it a US idea The train companies in England are owned by the nationlised ones in mainland European countries.
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May 20, 2020 17:54
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free conversion into protainment ponds
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Robo Reagan posted:is the city rich or will it be left to die a slow death like flit dow chemical’s headquarters were there (as one of the only reliable employers in the area) but that location’s footprint was reduced when they merged or were bought out or whatever
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May 20, 2020 18:08
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The Glumslinger posted:It was Rahm Emanuel's great idea to throw away a shitload of future revenue for a single one time budget fix Nah, that was a Richard M move. 99 year lease on parking meter fees for 1.15b, which is a crazy discount considering how much the private company has increased parking rates in the decade since. I have a lot of affection for the Daleys, weirdly, but M sold off a LOT of city services in his last 2-3 years (also every year before, it was just more brazen once he was in his last term). I still think Meig’s Field was a baller move though, reclaiming private land for public parks in the middle of the night was 👌 E: sorry about your dams and also making the classic ignore-the-rest-of-the-Midwest Chicago move. Bibliotechno Music fucked around with this message at 18:34 on May 20, 2020 |
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May 20, 2020 18:23
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Colonel Cancer posted:Huh maybe US is gonna get its own version of Bhopal disaster Well, we can be sure that no white collar executives will be held responsible for any of this.
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May 20, 2020 18:35
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dem failures lead to dam failures
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Bibliotechno Music posted:Nah, that was a Richard M move. 99 year lease on parking meter fees for 1.15b, which is a crazy discount considering how much the private company has increased parking rates in the decade since. Yeah, I visited chicago right after the whole Meig’s Field thing and I thought it was hilarious
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May 20, 2020 18:46
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the last time a dam was gonna burst there was a thread with like 50 pages worrying on it and then it never blew. telling that now a dam actually bursts and the world has gone so utterly loving insane that it's 3 pages celebrating the chaos. death is certain 
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May 20, 2020 18:51
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Apparently this is the guy that owns the dams. lol just gently caress it.
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May 20, 2020 19:00
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Pure michigan
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May 20, 2020 19:01
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that repair bill was just too dam high
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May 20, 2020 19:10
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no way, the john galt hat is way too on the nose
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May 20, 2020 19:12
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If the guy owns the dam, makes money from selling power generated by the dam, and is responsible for maintaining the dam, then he should be liable for the damages caused by his dam failure. However, the fact the guy can own a dam and refuse to maintain it without punishment seems like a problem in the first place.
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May 20, 2020 19:19
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welcome to money and politics in semi-rural sections of flyover states
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May 20, 2020 19:23
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you can own a dam??? Can you own nuclear power plants too?
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May 20, 2020 19:26
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naem posted:welcome to money and politics in semi-rural sections of flyover states  it looks like the main flyover corridor roughly goes from montana to mississippi to west virginia
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May 20, 2020 19:37
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Ain't never been no private nuclear station meltdown unlike that commie Chernobyl, the facts speak for themselves!
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May 20, 2020 19:38
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sure okay posted:you can own a dam??? power generation is a private for-profit industry California’s own PG&E let their natural gas pipelines decay until they exploded several neighborhoods a few years ago, and their 100 year old power lines now consistently burn down half the state every year
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May 20, 2020 19:43
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*every 10-year old in the car on the way to their grandparents right now* say again why we had to leave "because of the dam" HAhHAhahHAHAahhHAahhHHA
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May 20, 2020 19:50
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Only the luck of the Irish can fix this. Bring back Kilpatrick
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May 20, 2020 19:53
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sure okay posted:you can own a dam??? Do you never watched the Simpsons?
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sure okay posted:you can own a dam??? Hey, when you can run private prisons for profit, why stop there? Why not buy the government? Oh, wait. That market's saturated. 
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May 20, 2020 20:38
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Mental Hospitality posted:Apparently this is the guy that owns the dams. If we literally have "John Galt" hats on "I'm not paying for repairs" that lead to millions suffering, have we reached guillotine leve... I kid, I know we never will.
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May 20, 2020 20:39
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According to my wife's dad it's somehow the fault of government bureaucracy that this privately-owned dam failed. They wanted to fix it, but the government wouldn't let them!
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May 20, 2020 20:42
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Was a Homeowner's Association really responsible for the dam? Because if so lmao at them, the State of Michigan, and all of us in America for being such stupid idiots that regularly turn parody into reality.
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Captain Quack posted:Do you never watched the Simpsons? Yeah fair point. I guess there's a divide in my mind between "major publically owned company owns this dangerous thing and decisions around that thing are made in shareholder meetings" and "some rear end in a top hat with a John Galt cap owns this thing and can just open it up and demolish homes at his whim" because the latter sound extremely unlikely but then again here we are
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