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It is remarkable to me how officials are able to commit these harms without suffering any repercussions. Of course, immunity provides cover for so-called official acts, however, when harm is so blatant, it’s rather astounding there are no carve outs in the law so that officials can be prosecuted. I’m not an attorney so I can’t suggest a strategy for holding them accountable, but this is a great time for an activist/crusader lawyer to go after wrongdoers and set a precedent.

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I followed this closely as I live close to Flint. The handling of Flint in the aftermath was an example of partisan politics that went horribly wrong. For example, the state supreme court, which leans left/democrat, ruled that the attorney general office (democrat led) was doing illegal things in the prosecution of the state officials from the time of the incident (who were right/republican). It was quite a mess from numerous angles. The people targeted for prosecution were state level employees (republicans/right) while the people close to the water systems operations (democrat/left) were never really looked at by prosecution that leans democrat/left.

As a local person following the situation, it was hard to tell what was really going on and where opinion pieces (like this and many of the linked articles) were pointing. I suspect people screwed up at all levels and want to just defer blame to the other political party.

It's remarkable how government is able to commit these harms without suffering repercussions. Normally the law covers damages. Well, the water disaster in flint caused billions in damages. The state government should be broke from the damages.

I don't much care what happens to individuals. First concern is the victims. But the victims were cared for somewhat, but nowhere near the point where they'd not suffer damage.

Instead, the law was modified to minimize what the government paid ...

I imagine some kind of forgery or fraud must of happened I can't believe that's coved by the law. (but it could be)

Looking forward to putting every Meta employee in jail. No one died in Flint. Lots of people killed themselves after using Meta products.

At least 12 people died from an outbreak of legionnaires disease directly caused by the water conditions in Flint in 2014.

> Lots of people killed themselves after using Meta products.

That statement carries as much water as "100% of people that breathe air will die."

I'm gonna kill myself after reading this comment, wonder what sentence you're gonna get

A few people in Myanmar and a small handful of preteen girls don't matter according to the downvoters. Out of sight, out of mind.

It's ridiculous to blame a decades long ethnic conflict that already had established routes of propaganda through the state on Facebook. You can also see no noticeable increase in violence correlating with internet access.

I'm not blaming the entire ethnic conflict on Facebook. I'm saying Facebook made it worse and, through reckless neglect, contributed to deaths of people that otherwise wouldn't have died.

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