• RampageDon@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    But they aren’t left to that fate because every time the wind blows to hard and their power grid fails they come crawling for federal disaster relief hand outs to fix it.

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      9 months ago

      That’s my point–because they cut themselves off from the rest of the country electrically, it doesn’t matter what their status is: when that underfunded and unsupported network fails, people will die. It happens every time.

      And, would disaster relief be much different? Maybe the asking as a sovereign nation would take longer and have to be approved by Congress (?), but I’ve never heard of a state or nation every paying back US aid. If this has happened, please educate me. Seriously.