Pedestrian Bridge Collapse, FIU, S Florida

[Okeefenokee]

Bridge to nowhere? $11.4 million taxpayer grant from US DoT (Muh Infrastructure!), contractor cuts corners to pocket the difference?

How many doctorates did you need to unravel that mystery?

[Smitty-48]

Bridge to nowhere? $11.4 million taxpayer grant from US DoT (Muh Infrastructure!), contractor cuts corners to pocket the difference?

How many doctorates did you need to unravel that mystery?

It's ye olde "infrastructure!" story, shovel the money out the door with abandon, pigs to said trough with alacrity, put a little water in that wine to make a buck on the side, plus organized crime has to get its cut, right off the top.

[PartyOf5]

And yet, most bridges don't collapse.

This was a new design. The bridge was called a "one-of-a-kind engineering design.

Anyone who has ever hired an architect and contractor knows what happened here. The clowns on the crew ignored the specs. I'm sure this was a brilliant design, it's hard to fuck up this bad with today's engineering design technology. Workers on the other hand, are much harder to control.

Not so fast with that conclusion. See above. Maybe the "brilliant" designers made a mistake.

[K@th]

The engineering firm ordered the cables to be tightened. They were in the process of doing that when it collapsed.

[Ph64]

Another time, a female NCO almost got people killed when I warned her that a hangar was filling up with hydrazine and she chose to ignore it and drive her friends around first.

Eh, it was probably only worthless toxic masculinity men that would die, not a big deal in today's culture, even better if it was only worthless white men.

[Speaker to Animals]

The cognitive dissonance lies in the fact that some of you refuse to acknowledge that affirmative action necessarily leads to higher risk of these sorts of events. Whether or not that's what caused this collapse, or if it played a role, the fact remains that affirmative action awards responsibilities to people with lower qualifications.

Do you want a surgeon to operate on your heart who got his medical degree because he is a black transsexual or do you want the guy who scored top of his class in medical school?

Do you want a pilot who got a job because she is a woman, even though she didn't do so well in flight school, or would you rather have the man who met minimum standards?

Do you want soldiers who meet the minimum standards for men protecting your convoy or do you want soldiers who meet the minimum standards for women?

Would you rather have firefighters who meet the minimum standards for women, but lack the strength to actually drag your injured body out of a burning building, or would you just want to stick with firefighters who meet the standards for men, which includes the ability to carry an injured person to safety?

This isn't rocket science, guys, but I am pretty sure even rocket science will be infected with this toxic marxism before long.

[Okeefenokee]

The cognitive dissonance lies in the fact that some of you refuse to acknowledge that affirmative action necessarily leads to higher risk of these sorts of events. Whether or not that's what caused this collapse, or if it played a role, the fact remains that affirmative action awards responsibilities to people with lower qualifications.

Do you want a surgeon to operate on your heart who got his medical degree because he is a black transsexual or do you want the guy who scored top of his class in medical school?

Do you want a pilot who got a job because she is a woman, even though she didn't do so well in flight school, or would you rather have the man who met minimum standards?

Do you want soldiers who meet the minimum standards for men protecting your convoy or do you want soldiers who meet the minimum standards for women?

Would you rather have firefighters who meet the minimum standards for women, but lack the strength to actually drag your injured body out of a burning building, or would you just want to stick with firefighters who meet the standards for men, which includes the ability to carry an injured person to safety?

This isn't rocket science, guys, but I am pretty sure even rocket science will be infected with this toxic marxism before long.

Affirmative action, giving a person a job based on who they are, not their qualifications, that's social justice.

But corruption, giving a person a job based on who they are, not their qualifications, that needs to stop.

[DBTrek]

One might say it’s almost an economic inefficiency to hire based on demographics or corruption/nepotism.

Which means HM is probably decidedly for it, as there’s nothing that puts a smile on his face like inefficient economics.

[Hanarchy Montanarchy]

One might say it’s almost an economic inefficiency to hire based on demographics or corruption/nepotism.

Which means HM is probably decidedly for it, as there’s nothing that puts a smile on his face like inefficient economics.

I'll do you one better.

I'd rather unprofitable public works were designed and constructed by unprofitable public employees.

That being said, I hold the people who fucked up this project accountable for their fuck ups, not minorities or women, or even the gub'ment in general.

I know, it is a super hot take 'round these parts.

[Okeefenokee]

"This bridge was about collaboration and was about hope and determination," said FIU president Marc Rosenberg.

Is that what a bridge is about?