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Let me explain something to you: your (Texas’) power grid is seen by absolutely fucking everyone as already as ‘deregulated’ as it can fucking be. You don’t have a sleek, vertically-integrated monopoly that controls generation, transmission, and distribution where sane government regulators set the price the profiteers are allowed to charge, like every sane fucking place in the country had before you, Pelosi, and the rest of McConnell’s unwitting, unwitted little serfs got their fucking hands on us. Instead, you have a sprawling, hyperbureaucratic fucking shitshow where a bunch of snotty little LLC asswipes control electrical assets and “compete” with one another to sell electricity to another set of snotty little LLC asswipes who couldn’t care less if your great-aunt freezes to death as long as they get to line their fucking pockets.
No argument from me about the criminals running every government. What does "regulated" look like to you? Government ownership of the whole thing? You think the state of Texas doesn't control prices, distribution, access, and infrastructure? Where do you live?
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How about one more fucking thing: absolutely fucking nobody who has read my shit thinks that I don’t know anything about the history of policy in the US. And I know goddamn fucking well that you don’t think so, either. If it’s fun to be mean to people who sometimes care about different shit than you, carry on—but don’t think for one isolated fucking second that you’re fucking fooling me about this.
If you think that deregulation doesn't lower prices, you don't know anything about the history of deregulation. Maybe you're so young that you don't remember The Telephone Company.