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Re:If I Sleep for an Hour, 30 People Will Die (2016) by Retric on Sunday March 24, 2019 @05:21PM (#19478851)
American politics is generally focused on meaningless issues for most people. For an older example, the keystone pipeline was going to have zero impact on 99.999% of Americans yet it somehow became a “Major” issue.

That crap sucks up the attention so much that when issues that have real impact show up they get lost in the noise.

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Re:If I Sleep for an Hour, 30 People Will Die (2016) by war1025 on Sunday March 24, 2019 @07:53PM (#19479426)
A thing I got a real kick out of with the Bakken (thought it was Keystone, but looked it up and it wasn't) pipeline, is that it was a big news event, and several people I knew were all worked up about it. The pipeline literally went within 5 miles of our city though, and no one cared about those portions. They cared about the parts that were hot in the news.

There are still a couple semi trailers parked in fields with big "Stop Eminent Domain Abuse" signs painted on them though. So I guess at least the farmers whose land it cut through cared locally.

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