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It would be nice if instead of wasting $20 billion on a wall we dont need to mexico we got actual public infastructure projects.

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Agreed.

However, watching the tweets trying to make this political has been sickening. The number of people wishing to "send liberals to Oroville" is nothing short of mind boggling. What. The. Actual. F?!?

Right!?

I heard about this damage a few days ago and thought it was interesting, but now I find out there's this huge conspiracy scene around it. Stuff like 'the gov't is in CYA mode and trying to downplay risk' to 'this is a false-flag attack to undermine Trump'.

It's just so weird that this seems to have people frothing at the mouth. How did so many collectively decide to adopt this narrative?

If the bots and sockpuppet accounts on twitter are any indication of sockpuppetry among public internet forums than it's safe to assume there's a significant and non-trivial amount of postings coming from agenda pushing organizations.

Oh, the frothing pre-dates Trump by a long way. It seems to be a self-sustaining mode in US politics, this deep paranoia about conspiracies.

The "false flag" stuff is just loony. But there is an element of CYA because previous rounds of funding allocation have apparently evaporated into the ether.

No, maintenance to existing infrastructure. This distinction is important. Most people think of new roads, bridges, dams, railroads when they think infrastructure. Politicians love to attach their names to such things so they get funded first. Often at the expense of keeping existing infrastructure.

You see this all over, roads that people use in bad shape while new "roads to nowhere" are being built.

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