r/TikTokCringe • u/Girl-Understood • Aug 22 '26

Discussion This mother has gone viral vlogging her experience during the ongoing Gary, Indiana Blackout, people angered by the GoFundMe support she's attracted decided to report it and doxxed her.

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u/wildtwindad Aug 22 '26

The real issue should be that Electrical Engineers have been SCREAMING warnings on the state of the US powergrid for DECADES.
The last full scale build out was in the 1970's.

Yet no one has mentioned this, at all.

Profits taken, yet no will to modernize/update/upgrade the backbone to modern life on the part of the corporations that use/degrade the infrastructure decade over decade.

So.....it is gonna be a huge TRILLION dollar bill and noone wants to be the first to take a bite of the HUGE white elephant iin the room.

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u/Duane_ Aug 22 '26

The last time the government tried to subsidize buildout, it was for cable/internet infrastructure.

Rather than actually do the work, companies built lines to nowhere, incomplete sections that were not connected to the main high speed grids anywhere, and just straight-up kept the money without providing the work in most cases.

A lot got spent on buybacks, and then Time Warner became Spectrum. Cable infrastructure should have been ripped from them and nationalized after they failed to deliver and left the US with the bill.

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u/A_Nonny_Muse Aug 22 '26

They did the same thing in Iraq. First, they shipped about $300 billion to Iraq - Heavy hauler aircraft filled with palettes of $100 bills. Then they required an ideological litmus test for any contractors to operate in Iraq. If you were not a neocon, you couldn't be there. Next, an open vault policy where contractors could just walk in, fill duffel bags full of cash, and walk out. Sometimes without so much as a signature to show you were even there.

At first, contractors did some work, like string up some power lines. Then the wire would be stolen overnight. Eventually, they just stuffed duffel bags and disappeared. Of the 300 billion dollars, the GAO figured about 200 billion was outright stolen with no work done at all.

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u/Duane_ Aug 22 '26

The real conspiracy theory is that the same company rebuilt Iraq AND Europe post WW2 under the Marshall Plan. They also built out the entirety of Saudi Arabia's gas refineries back in the 70's. Same contractor restrictions.

The Bechtel Corporation.