If it is enemy action, then who is doing this? What is the end game here? Might be an enemy, but could also be like the train derailments. If memory serves, everyone made a big hoopla about some recent train derailments, but it turned out to be a fairly common occurrence in an empire built on cut costs, DIE and broken infrastructure.
Yep. Can confirm derailments happen constantly, you just only heard about them more after east Palestine. Tbf, that one was especially bad, but over 1k happen a year. Usually just grain cars or similar though.
Wasn't that a pretty misleading stat, though? As in, most of them "derailed" in the station at low speed, and didn't even flip or anything?
Similar to "school shootings" including NDs in the parking lot next door with no injuries, the stats were trotted out to conveniently fit the narrative.
Not saying train derailments don't happen, and we don't hear about them...but I think the mainstream stats they pulled up were also bogus.
That's the fra definition of derailments. There's probably 80+ a year with cars on the ground, though I don't have exact numbers and I'm on vacation and not digging through fra reports right now.
most of them "derailed" in the station at low speed
This much is true. BUT... a disproportionately high percentage of THOSE derails will be hazmat, BECAUSE safety derailleurs are required in hazmat terminals.
Most of the "in the wild" derails occur because of flash flood damage, or from rotted ties with bolted rail.
DEI proponents. Things like this are just a symptom of the disease rather than the end goal. Things are going to get wild due to the competency crisis they are creating.
“Mr Bond, they have a saying in Chicago: 'Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it's enemy action'.” Does this make it 2/3?
If it is enemy action, then who is doing this? What is the end game here? Might be an enemy, but could also be like the train derailments. If memory serves, everyone made a big hoopla about some recent train derailments, but it turned out to be a fairly common occurrence in an empire built on cut costs, DIE and broken infrastructure.
DIE adherents are also self-declared enemies of the US. They just go about destruction in a different way.
Me. I'm doing this. I am the hacker known as 4chan.
Yep. Can confirm derailments happen constantly, you just only heard about them more after east Palestine. Tbf, that one was especially bad, but over 1k happen a year. Usually just grain cars or similar though.
Wasn't that a pretty misleading stat, though? As in, most of them "derailed" in the station at low speed, and didn't even flip or anything?
Similar to "school shootings" including NDs in the parking lot next door with no injuries, the stats were trotted out to conveniently fit the narrative.
Not saying train derailments don't happen, and we don't hear about them...but I think the mainstream stats they pulled up were also bogus.
That's the fra definition of derailments. There's probably 80+ a year with cars on the ground, though I don't have exact numbers and I'm on vacation and not digging through fra reports right now.
Yes and no.
This much is true. BUT... a disproportionately high percentage of THOSE derails will be hazmat, BECAUSE safety derailleurs are required in hazmat terminals.
Most of the "in the wild" derails occur because of flash flood damage, or from rotted ties with bolted rail.
Define "east Palestine"? Is that supposed to be a joke delegitimizing the state of Israel?
Are you actually retarded?
DEI proponents. Things like this are just a symptom of the disease rather than the end goal. Things are going to get wild due to the competency crisis they are creating.
The same enemies who have been running the show on Capitol Hill
3/3, actually.
In Oklahoma a bridge on the Arkansas River was hit by a barge about a week ago.
That one doesn't count.
Anyone who's lived along the Mississippi long enough knows barges get lose all the fuck time.
A month before Baltimore, a bunch of barges hit a bridge on the Ohio and nobody batted an eye. And that same week on the Mississippi three broke free and ran into the shallows by lock & dam 25. Crazy barge shit just happens. Across all the navigable US rivers there's probably one barge incident a week.
But I'm willing to grant you 2/2, because the NYC one fits the M.O. of the Baltimore incident.
barges are made of the boat equivalent of toilet paper.
oh it's a cohencidence, alright