I haven’t had this much fun since binge watching Forensic Files on HLN. Forensic Files was essentially the same plot over and over with just slight twists. First, here’s an incredibly stupid criminal. Add said criminal doing something incredibly stupid. Then the investigators look into it and find out that incredibly stupid criminal left enough of a trail and gets jailed. Real life crime stories. It’s CSI without supermodel female investigators and multiple easy to spot red herrings.
This YouTube channel is much the same. Real life accident. A bunch of people die. The investigators find out that costs were cut somewhere and someone was negligent. And maybe, only maybe, someone got nailed for being irresponsible.
I highly recommend you view at least some of these documentaries. They are all short enough that you don’t need to invest an hour or even half an hour to digest the entire video. In the last eight videos as of this writing the longest is about 14 1/2 minutes. The one thing I would change is the name of the channel.
The Horrors of Deregulation
It’s all fun and games until it’s you or someone you know that gets hurt by a tragic accident. And the vast majority of times these horrors are always in part due to someone doing something they know was a bad idea and was just hoping they wouldn’t get caught. Chicken grease in a restaurant that wasn’t up to cleaning standards adding extra fuel to that fire started by an electrical shortage. The nightclub that locked the fire exits so people wouldn’t sneak in to avoid the cover charge. The boat that capsized because it was too heavy. The aircraft maintenance not done that should have been done. The carbon monoxide fumes overcoming the train operators. Over and over again these videos recap what went wrong leading to tragedy that could and should have been avoided.
This is somewhat like modern conspiracy content without the artificial scapegoat added. The denouement is the higher ups are pretty much caught red handed and whether they get away with saying, “I’m sorry”, and a slap on the wrist or if there’s at least a hefty fine and some settlement money going to victims or families of victims. It’s extremely rare that it’s just a freak accident that was unavoidable.
At least occasionally there’s someone acting heroically like the man going back into the burning plane to save an infant. Today, that man would be labeled a crisis actor in a modern conspiracy video. The corporate big wheels would be ignored. Instead it would be blamed on the propaganda generated scapegoat of the day. Almost assuredly today this would be blamed on DEI policies. Because sure. Cutting costs by corporate fat cats is always the responsibility of people not being hired by corporate fat cats cutting costs. The actual problem is not enough people being employed at all. When your plane can’t land when you want it too it’s likely to be overworked air traffic controllers regardless of their scapegoatable qualities.
I recommend you watch a few of these old stories and get desensitized to it by that doom scrolling. Or whatever you call doom scrolling on YouTube. Accidents due to cost cutting are about to reach epic proportions in the U.S. Every single member, and that’s not hyperbole, every single member in a high office in the current administration was placed in position due to loyalty to corporate interests and not actually doing a good job. Cost cutting and trimming the budget doesn’t mean the stated reduction in existing fraud. It means unemployment and reduction in staffing and not having to pay people to do a job that should be done by a person and not a robot. If this channel or a similar channel exists a couple decades from now it will be recapping the horrors of unchecked climate change disasters, pandemic caused staffing shortages, sea level rise flooding, etc….
Whether there’s some bullshit gematria along with that remains to be seen.
