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Re:US unprepared for an electrical grid collapse, but it cos... by closeparen on Monday May 04, 2020 @01:47AM (#23064936)
Trump's election reflected a popular belief that rule by establishment experts was so intolerable, literally anything else would be better. It was the same passionate, desperate anger, the same "fuck it, let the world burn" strategy, just pointed in the opposite direction.
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Re:US unprepared for an electrical grid collapse, but it cos... by angry_cactus on Monday May 04, 2020 @02:26AM (#23065127)
Opposite direction? Same direction as the poster above, just in different language.
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Re:US unprepared for an electrical grid collapse, but it cos... by closeparen on Monday May 04, 2020 @02:28AM (#23065132)
The mandate was to respect scientists less, not more.
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