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this post was submitted on 08 Sep 2024
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There was a user, like in the first 12mths of the site, who popped up at least twice (the second time with a new account) to suggest the solution to California's water problems should be a pipeline from the great lakes. And they seemed to really thought it was a good idea beyond simple trolling.
And they kept arguing back when people pointed out how that wasn't possibly legally or politically as there's treaties between the USA and Canada. That it wasn't practical in terms of cost or logistics. That it would damage the ecosystem of the great lakes. That California would be fine if they just stopped water intensive crop farming and recycled water (even before considering solar powered desalinisation).
And they weren't like a lib (or more than any of us). Their answer to things like treaties or costs was often things like "well after a socialist revolution there won't be a Canada and USA with those treaties" or "we could build this pipeline with a centrally planned economy" etc
Even with all of that aside, pipes leak. Pipes rupture. A pipe that long has a staggering number of points of failure all the way to where it's going, and not all of them would be accidental.
California doing less bazinga shit with water like golf courses and rich asshole amusements would matter a lot, and also less almonds and alfalfa crops, but...
Then their answer would be something like "but under communism we'll have better pipes that don't leak"
Communism is about rich assholes in California getting to keep their golf courses.