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Nashville is furious about power outages. Republicans say ‘woke’ is to blame. (www.nbcnews.com)

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The finger-pointing escalated this week as some Republicans argued that a major utility company run by Democratic appointees has “woke” policies on diversity and tree-trimming that are the causes of customers’ woes.

There’s bipartisan and widespread consensus that Nashville Electric Service, which serves the city as well as surrounding counties, mishandled the storm, struggling to mobilize enough workers and equipment to quickly clear fallen trees and restore service.

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[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

But didn't the new tree trimming practices result in some of the trees being too close to the power lines? Doesn't seem to be all that smart of a strategy to me.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Probably not!

It's not as if the Republican dipshit actually knows anything about the subject. He's just mouthing off with a self-serving post hoc fallacy. In reality, he has no fucking clue whether the pruning was done correctly or not -- and it probably was done correctly, given that the workers hired by the utiilty were actual arborists -- because the mere fact that the power lines fell is not by itself proof of error. It's entirely possible, for example, that the storm was so extreme that no reasonable amount of pruning (i.e. anything short of clear-cutting) would've saved those wires!

And if the utility had gone "anti-woke" and clear-cut them, he would've just been bitching in bad faith about that instead.