Keystone Pipe Line Leak Spews Oil Into Kansas' Water

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After the first 20 spills the local residents should really have built another pipeline on the outside of the original pipleline, some sort of twin-wall system if you will. You know what they say: if you want something doing right, take on a massive infrastructure project despite being an accountant the rest of the time.
Have children fund raise for it through lemonade stands and you'll have the perfect Entrepreneurial American Dream Feel Good story for any local news station.

"Local kids raise funds to stop constant oil spillage".
 
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Since I do have personal responsibility I will admit this: I should've known better than to actually look at this from a objective viewpoint. I should've just gone along with the narrative of everybody else and blamed the corporations 100% for absolutely everything.

Accidents do not always happen to everything that has ever been run by human hands in the history of mankind. No one aside from the corporations is culpable for this or any other accident that has ever happened. No one else besides the corporations can or should do anything to reduce or completely mitigate the damage of accidents like this one before they happen. We the People in particular are completely helpless to take any action whatsoever so we shouldn't bother to. We should just trust that a corporation only concerned with it's profits and a government that has never given a crap what the People want or even need and never will has their best interests at heart.

There, now I've fallen in line.
Damn, a huge passive aggressive sarcastic post by someone talking about the personal responsibility.

Guess personal responsibility about being wrong about such takes as "the local neighbourhoods should have engaged in more million dollar infrastructure projects, or just moved" is beyond you.

Fun hint: Your ideas of infrastructure were in fact good takes, you somehow missed that the billion dollar company who profits from the line should be bankrolling them. But please, accuse us all of being emotional because we didnt think the local home owners association should pick up the tab for that one.
 
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Fun hint: Your ideas of infrastructure were in fact good takes, you somehow missed that the billion dollar company who profits from the line should be bankrolling them. But please, accuse us all of being emotional because we didnt think the local home owners association should pick up the tab for that one.
To add to that, to and anticipate of the attempted counter, it's not only that the companies should do that, but that they could do that.

Even if you were to argue that the local residents should take the measures mentioned, they can't, it's totally beyond their power. They tried protesting for years because it was something they could do, it just didn't work.
 
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No one aside from the corporations is culpable for this or any other accident that has ever happened. No one else besides the corporations can or should do anything to reduce or completely mitigate the damage of accidents like this one before they happen.
Correct, it's the corporation's pipeline so the corporation is solely responsible if it leaks or breaks down and is soley responsible for cleanup. That's what Personal Responsibility means
We the People in particular are completely helpless to take any action whatsoever so we shouldn't bother to. We should just trust that a corporation only concerned with it's profits and a government that has never given a crap what the People want or even need and never will has their best interests at heart.
The only way for We The People to prevent this sort of thing from happening gets a ban from most places on the internet as soon as you start getting into specifics.

Because I'm *damn* sure you don't mean "vote in a government that will regulate this shit out the wazoo and nationalize the fuckers if the corporations don't play ball"
 

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To add to that, to and anticipate of the attempted counter, it's not only that the companies should do that, but that they could do that.

Even if you were to argue that the local residents should take the measures mentioned, they can't, it's totally beyond their power. They tried protesting for years because it was something they could do, it just didn't work.
I mean, there's one more thing We The People can do...
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Thaluikhain

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Well, the precedent is the Boston Tea Party, and the problem is products ending in the water already.

Less flippantly, it's not We The People, it's a small subset of The People who actually care, and the smaller subset who care enough to do anything. Imagine if the government decided to spend taxpayers money on fixing problems facing Native Americans. People claiming to be We The People would get angry and post with their guns.

I am, of course, not saying anything everyone doesn't already know.
 

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Since I do have personal responsibility I will admit this: I should've known better than to actually look at this from a objective viewpoint. I should've just gone along with the narrative of everybody else and blamed the corporations 100% for absolutely everything.

Accidents do not always happen to everything that has ever been run by human hands in the history of mankind. No one aside from the corporations is culpable for this or any other accident that has ever happened. No one else besides the corporations can or should do anything to reduce or completely mitigate the damage of accidents like this one before they happen. We the People in particular are completely helpless to take any action whatsoever so we shouldn't bother to. We should just trust that a corporation only concerned with it's profits and a government that has never given a crap what the People want or even need and never will has their best interests at heart.

There, now I've fallen in line.
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