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InevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.net to askchapo@hexbear.netEnglish · 1 year ago

What's a great conspiracy theory about why the bridge collapsed in Baltimore? Share one or make one up.

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What's a great conspiracy theory about why the bridge collapsed in Baltimore? Share one or make one up.

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InevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.net to askchapo@hexbear.netEnglish · 1 year ago
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  • happybadger [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    An Italian-American bridge thought it could fight an Irish-American ship. It’s just normal Boston stuff.

    • InevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.netOP
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      Excellent point.

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    • someone [comrade/them, they/them]@hexbear.net
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      It just so happens that the bridge changed hands last year to what looks like a shell company at a discount

      Okay, let’s pause there. Why is a major bridge in the hands of a private owner?

      • SacredExcrement [any, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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        uhhhhhh

        The private sector owns the vast majority of the Nation’s critical infrastructure and key resources—roughly 85 percent. However, the government historically has funded the construction and maintenance of certain infrastructure sectors (e.g. transportation and water infrastructure).

        Over a third of the Nation’s dams are fifty years old, a number that will increase to nearly 70 percent in ten years. In addition, bridges are generally designed to last 50 years, and the average bridge in the United States is 43 years old

        paper written in 2011

        • Egon [they/them]@hexbear.net
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          However, the government historically has funded the construction and maintenance of certain infrastructure sectors

          Capitalism has the most effective allocation of resources - We do like the commies and then give the things away to noblemen entrepreneurs

    • InevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.netOP
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      That sounds more plausible to me than conspiracy-y.

    • Egon [they/them]@hexbear.net
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      👁️

    • Voidance [none/use name]@hexbear.netBanned
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      deleted by creator

  • Ram_The_Manparts [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    There was no boat, sometimes bridges just do that.

    • InevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.netOP
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      BECAUSETHEYARETOOWOKE!

      • Ram_The_Manparts [he/him]@hexbear.net
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        COLLAPSED under the WEIGHT of whatshernames YUUGE BASED honkers!

        • CliffordBigRedDog [he/him]@hexbear.net
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          they decided to identify as a collapsed bridge

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          Removed by mod

          • TeddyKila [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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            awooga

  • dannoffs [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    The Houthis had commandeered the boat.

    • QuillcrestFalconer [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      Ansarallah have really ramped up their capabilities

  • InevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.netOP
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    Buttigieg did it to up his profile. He’ll be at the wreckage site in a hardhat with look of revolve and he’ll opine “Well, let me say this. It’s not a sizzling, glamorous issue, but the shape of our infrastructure is the issue that affects every other issue.”

    • Ram_The_Manparts [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      If we can light up a bridge, we can

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    There was never a bridge there to begin with. Baltimore is just making all this up to get attention.

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  • InevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.netOP
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    I saw this at a comment at a different site…

    1. North Korean hackers, with the aid of the DNC, made the ship lose power because Agenda 21 Year Zero NWO the Protocols of the Elders of Zion.

    2. Somehow Mexicans did it by existing in large quantities in Baltimore.

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      Somehow Mexicans did it by existing in large quantities in Baltimore.

      Uh, most Hispanic people in Baltimore are Salvadorian.

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        It doesn’t matter what part of mexico they came from! /s

        • Great_Leader_Is_Dead@hexbear.net
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          There is a joke on Maryland, “every Mexican restaurant here mysteriously has pupusa on the menu, and a El Salvador flag in the kitchen 🇸🇻”

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        That’s what they want you to believe

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    russians gave the bridge ship havana syndrome

    • InevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.netOP
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      Holy shit. Haha.

    • IceWallowCum [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      I’m pretty sure every weapon is “directed energy”

  • aFairlyLargeCat [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    The ghost of Frank Sobotka tore down the bridge he was murdered under.

    • InevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.netOP
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      The Ghost of Frank Sobotka should be a song or even better - a miniseries.

  • DengistDonnieDarko [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    Footage was doctored, the boat never existed. The bridge just did that on its own, because of Woke.

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      because of Woke

      That’s the perfect three word explanation for anything right-wingers don’t like or that is a bad situation.

  • micnd90 [he/him,any]@hexbear.net
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    Still a timeless conspiracy theory that has not been debunked

  • ProfessorOwl_PhD [any]@hexbear.net
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    boat fuel doesn’t melt steel beams

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    • Great_Leader_Is_Dead@hexbear.net
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      Considering the high number of West Virginians who moved here after the coal mines shut down, yeah that checks out.

      Mothman got a rowhome in Hampden Hon.

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    It was an inside job at the behest of Biden and Big Rail. They’re trying to replace all road bridges with rail bridges at all costsfrothingfash

    • TraschcanOfIdeology [they/them, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      sicko-wistful

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    anti-bridge protest by pro-ferry forces

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