California Dam Crisis Could Have Been Averted

Re:California Dam Crisis Could Have Been Averted by ythn on Tuesday February 21, 2017 @12:34PM (#13697479)

> the problem

Instead of enumerating all of "the problems" sometimes it can be healthy in a discussion to acknowledge that someone got something right with no strings attached. By always villainizing people you disagree with, you contribute to the partisan polarization issue we currently have

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Re:California Dam Crisis Could Have Been Averted by mikeash on Tuesday February 21, 2017 @12:59PM (#13697698)

I'm happy to acknowledge the good things Trump does, in the unlikely event that such a thing ever occurs.

I can't acknowledge that he got this right, when he has no real concept of what it would look like, no plan to get it done, no idea of how to pay for it, and there's pretty much no chance it'll actually happen.

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Re:California Dam Crisis Could Have Been Averted by M_Grey on Tuesday February 21, 2017 @12:42PM (#13697561)

I'm really tired of people trotting out this old, "Be positive, you're part of the problem!" crap. Be realistic about the society you live in, which is a fairly malignant plutocracy, and stop selling the notion that the only thing separating us is the separation between us.

The problems we have are longstanding and systemic, not some recent attitude shift or problem getting along.

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