In Pennsylvania, residents are resisting a corporate takeover of their water system as state lawmakers attempt to change a law that incentivizes privatization.

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    1 year ago

    This is a feature of corrupt state government in the US south. They abandon their infrastructure, pocket the cash, sell the infrastructure once it fails or do what Mississippi did and just make fema come in and replace it all.

    Corrupt southern states hurt their own constituents for money.

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      1 year ago

      So what is the answer to that?

      Clearly representative government simply doesn’t work since even after a revolution, some unscrupulous evildoer can just fake their way into office and repeat the cycle all over again, so what will it take to fix the problem?

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          1 year ago

          But what do we do now?

          Clearly we need a better way that ensures our basic needs are met and other people can’t simply fuck it up or take them away from other people.