Sowing DEI division after tragedy: =>1 of these posters has to be a paid actor right?
this post was submitted on 26 Mar 2024
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Some of these feel like actual bot posts, not just paid botposting.
"too busy with violent crime calls to show up to the Baltimore Harbor Patapsco River Bridge is gone."
Seems like a scraper picked up on the collapse and tried to insert it in, but the syntax is wrong.
Could also just be a non-native speaker.
Just seems odd to me.
I'm suspicious of the timing of these posts, because I was bored enough to listen to "conservative" talk radio yesterday and I heard the repugnant outrage jockeys parroting the same stuff about DEI programs before the boat crash. They were talking about how everything is being ruined by diversity programs. They went on a tangent about how bad government websites are and one of them said "must have been a diversity hire" who built those crappy websites. I was a bit shocked at that blatant nonspecific racism.
It was baffling how they put so much energy into hating that stuff. Now I'm wondering if they were on a similar script to the trolls posted here.
Yeah and besides, what the fuck are the cops going to do if they did respond to it? Swim out there and catch the boat? They'd have watched it hit the bridge just like everyone else.
I read somewhere that the ship send out a mayday when they lost propulsion hoping the cops could clear the bridge. If the poster was a steaming pile of shit I would assuming they were trying to imply something along those lines.
And the police did stop traffic from getting onto the bridge. Listening to the police audio [0], it sounds like they were in position almost immediately after the request came in. Having said that, I don't think they were quite fast enough for the traffic already on the bridge to get off.
If they had responded faster, they might have made it in time for the one officer to be on the bridge evacuating the workers when it collapsed. With the benefit of hindsight, that would have accomplished nothing except 1 more death.
I'm often pretty critical of police, but I see absolutely nothing they could have done better in this case.
[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2024/03/26/baltimore-key-bridge-collapse-maryland/#link-SG74QTQZKNCI7CT3KCUCWYEZYQ
I think they just used newlines instead of periods for some reason
I hope it was a bot, but only because I don't want to believe that actual humans are that stupid. Like, assuming it was even true that fewer cops showed up... What exactly were they supposed to do? Shoot at the bridge for resisting arrest?