What a giant flop

  • geophysicist@discuss.tchncs.de
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    15 days ago

    It’s clearly designed to be big and impressive and “look at all the expensive help we are providing” while not actually aiming to resolve the situation. It’s a distraction

    • deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz
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      15 days ago

      It’s not even a distraction.

      It’s nothing more than a funnel for money to whichever military industrial complex contractor built it, with a flimsy veneer of “aid”.

  • doubtingtammy@lemmy.ml
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    Every single aid organization calculated that this pier would be a drop in the bucket, even if it went according to plan. So blaming this on a “miscalculation” is ridiculous.