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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    11 months ago

    She told me that basically these municipalities did not take care of their pipes,

    So it’s bog-standard “let-it-break-and-then-sell-it-for-a-song” neolib shitfuckery.

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      11 months ago

      Yeah, man if Boomer’s parents could see how they are running the government systems that were so carefully put in place there would be a lot of beatings again.

      We really are in the “gut everything and fire everyone so that I can save a few more bucks for myself” endgame

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      11 months ago

      It’s the same tactic for the NHS in the UK, the one remaining publicly-owned service the Tories can’t get away with selling off, so they’re letting it slowly die.

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        so they’re letting it slowly die.

        It’s the exact same thing here in South Africa with the electricity grid - popular resistance is too strong for the ANC-regime to just sell it off to billionaire parasites, so they are just “sabotaging it in place.”