Think about this for a bit. How different the world had to be for a thing like this to be able to come into being. Capital structures, regulatory regimes, the mindsets and capabilities of people physically planning and organizing and working on it. Compare to today.
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Hog Island Shipyard was once the largest in the world. During the First World War, the shipyard had 50 slipways extending over a mile.

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I had a long conversation last night about this. We literally couldn’t do this today, even if we wanted to
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Yeah, but let's see the environmental impact review first before I judge if this was better.
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There’s a reason that people say we used to be a country, a proper country.
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it had to be on another level back
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It's shocking. The things that were built hundreds, even 1000+ years ago can't be built today because of the systems of the world.
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Does anyone have any confidence in the US government to ever organize and direct actions at this scale ever again?
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And here’s the National Mall in the same era. Whilst building the wartime infrastructure was massive, reclaiming this public space for peacetime was just as large an accomplishment and achievement by the greatest generation.
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What an absolute waste of time and resources Do you know how many black lesbians we could feed with those resources? 🧐😅
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Mostly it's because they were allowed to. We could do that but the government wouldn't let you
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it's zoom meetings all the way down
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War mostly
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Its just willpower and lack of redtape
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You posted this on the internet.
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A lot of it is that the top 1/2 of every org is 40% BS. Completely unnecessary layers of admin having meetings and sending emails about things that are just not real. Initiatives, strategies, etc. Most of what they do is invent reasons they are important.
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The national pride of competing with a perceived rival nation elevates all parties. Look at today, we aren’t even a functional country because China is a terrible rival.
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a straight, 0% incline, 2-lane, 2 mile road costs $1B and takes 5 years to build. \o/
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Every transaction on paper in a file cabinet somewhere
Replying to @RickDeVos @AgroNationalism
Pretty sure this was for liberty ships, which were based off of a design that was 60ish years old once the program was up and running.
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Horrible destruction of coastline.
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White people did this.
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