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Re:‘This Did Not Go Well’: Inside PG&E’s Blackout Control Room by dredmorbius on Saturday October 12, 2019 @07:03PM (#21236974)
PG&E was never a public utility.

I suspect the harm meant was more of the general form of "government is not the solution to our problems, government is the problem".

http://factmyth.com/factoids/reagan-said-government-is-the-p...

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Re:‘This Did Not Go Well’: Inside PG&E’s Blackout Control Room by listenallyall on Sunday October 13, 2019 @03:56PM (#21242529)
Except that poster wanted the utility to be taken over by the government. Thus the comment was in favor of increasing government.
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Re:‘This Did Not Go Well’: Inside PG&E’s Blackout Control Room by dredmorbius on Monday October 14, 2019 @05:01AM (#21246314)
Which could well be a good thing. Reagan's dictum is often invoked to mindlessly reject any such possibility.
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