Anyone have a take on the PG&E shutdown that isn't just jabbering about capitalism and climate change? Also, five days would suck but after Hurricane Andrew my mom had no power for three months, also her roof was missing. So y'know this shit isn't unheard of in ancient days.
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Replying to @St_Rev
Annoyed, uninformed, politically naive opinion, while waiting to see if we’ll lose power and wondering whether to evacuate preemptively in order to get inside the adversary’s OODA loop:
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Replying to @Meaningness @St_Rev
Plausibly this is a manufactured crisis designed to prepare the populace for a propaganda campaign along the lines of “the only way to have reliable electricity is to transfer all PG&E’s liability to the state, and also give them $10^11 to fix stuff.”
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Replying to @Meaningness @St_Rev
I 100% expect that it’s this, and is being deployed likely in conjunction with donations to appropriate politicians in a strategy which is partly carrot-and-stick, partly about creating a story which the public can accept as a reason not to consider holding anyone responsible.
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Replying to @TheAgeofShoddy @St_Rev
It’s due to global warming and therefore the fault of people who use plastic straws. Global warming is reality’s just punishment for our having being on the wrong side of history, so there’s nothing anyone can do now except repent our sins before the end of the world.
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Replying to @Meaningness @St_Rev
Passivity, self-reproach and fatalism are a fine stance to have the population in, if what you seek is quiet acquiescence to designs for which their imprimatur is needed but in which their participation must be avoided at all costs.
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A main function of any state religion. Source: have read a lot of Buddhist history
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