• someone [comrade/them, they/them]
      hexbear
      37
      2 months ago

      It just so happens that the bridge changed hands last year to what looks like a shell company at a discount

      Okay, let's pause there. Why is a major bridge in the hands of a private owner?

      • SacredExcrement [any, comrade/them]
        hexbear
        41
        2 months ago

        uhhhhhh

        The private sector owns the vast majority of the Nation’s critical infrastructure and key resources—roughly 85 percent. However, the government historically has funded the construction and maintenance of certain infrastructure sectors (e.g. transportation and water infrastructure).

        Over a third of the Nation’s dams are fifty years old, a number that will increase to nearly 70 percent in ten years. In addition, bridges are generally designed to last 50 years, and the average bridge in the United States is 43 years old

        paper written in 2011

        • Egon [they/them]
          hexbear
          31
          2 months ago

          However, the government historically has funded the construction and maintenance of certain infrastructure sectors

          Capitalism has the most effective allocation of resources - We do like the commies and then give the things away to noblemen entrepreneurs

  • happybadger [he/him]
    hexbear
    60
    2 months ago

    An Italian-American bridge thought it could fight an Irish-American ship. It's just normal Boston stuff.

  • InevitableSwing [none/use name]
    hexagon
    hexbear
    43
    2 months ago

    Buttigieg did it to up his profile. He'll be at the wreckage site in a hardhat with look of revolve and he'll opine "Well, let me say this. It's not a sizzling, glamorous issue, but the shape of our infrastructure is the issue that affects every other issue."

  • EnsignRedshirt [he/him]
    hexbear
    41
    2 months ago

    There was never a bridge there to begin with. Baltimore is just making all this up to get attention.

  • InevitableSwing [none/use name]
    hexagon
    hexbear
    39
    2 months ago

    I saw this at a comment at a different site...

    1. North Korean hackers, with the aid of the DNC, made the ship lose power because Agenda 21 Year Zero NWO the Protocols of the Elders of Zion.

    2. Somehow Mexicans did it by existing in large quantities in Baltimore.

    • @Great_Leader_Is_Dead
      hexbear
      21
      2 months ago

      Somehow Mexicans did it by existing in large quantities in Baltimore.

      Uh, most Hispanic people in Baltimore are Salvadorian.

  • Weedian [he/him]
    hexbear
    38
    edit-2
    2 months ago

    Show

    russians gave the bridge ship havana syndrome

    • InevitableSwing [none/use name]
      hexagon
      hexbear
      21
      2 months ago

      because of Woke

      That's the perfect three word explanation for anything right-wingers don't like or that is a bad situation.

  • micnd90 [he/him,any]
    hexbear
    30
    2 months ago

    Still a timeless conspiracy theory that has not been debunked

    Show

    • @Great_Leader_Is_Dead
      hexbear
      18
      2 months ago

      Considering the high number of West Virginians who moved here after the coal mines shut down, yeah that checks out.

      Mothman got a rowhome in Hampden Hon.

  • Rojo27 [he/him]
    hexbear
    24
    edit-2
    2 months ago

    It was an inside job at the behest of Biden and Big Rail. They're trying to replace all road bridges with rail bridges at all costsfrothingfash