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I am begging American politicians: Cut the shit with the sinophobia and let us have a decent train system. Think about how much money it would save to have qualified people with abundant experience helping build critical infrastructure like trains across the country. I know it'll never happen because it's essentially admitting that America isn't #1 in something but god damn
They're already murdering all the low income Americans, and as long as it only hurts poor people the libs won't care.
You can't just mention the Vulcan Bridge without linking the greatest WTYP ever recorded: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9o19EaposFE
...ok, but i'll be back with the timestamp if liam does a left-anticommunism
Exactly. It might save the country overall billions, but the automobile lobby will pay like 10 dudes 25 million and they'll kill the project before it can ever take off
Xia said, "Local culture and religion have been fully respected in the design for the line's stations, which all have bathrooms and prayer rooms for Muslims."
What's the American version of this? Double wide turnsiles and designated spaces for anti-aborton rallies?
Destroying infrastructure in the third world isn't imperialism, building it is sweaty.
Destroying a nation: spreading democracy
Western proxy puppet government is illegitimate and collapses when no longer propped up with extreme violence: The people just don’t don’t have the democracy lobe in their brainpan, they are too cowardly
Constructing a nation: Debt trap imperialism
Forgiving that debt: Uhh… idk some kind of inscrutable celestial plot? Surely it’s evil.
I love how liberals take diplomatic moves and rhetorical methods that have been in use for thousands and thousands of years and pretend it's some new nefarious tactic invented by either the Soviets or the dastardly celestials.
Like whataboutism. It's called pointing out hypocrisy and it's been a thing since people stopped communicating with grunts and moans.
Investing in infrastructure: wow, this is the first time any polity has ever gained popular support through mutual assistance, truly an evil seeseepee plot.
Carries over to Russia too. Why would Russia want to have a friendly or neutral buffer state? How oppressive and evil and imperialist of them! (Whoever taught them the words imperialism? Hilarious hearing NATOids and neocons swinging that one around)
These fuckheads forget how great power geopolitics and realism works. They live in their fantasyland where everything goes their way and the other party gets 0. Worked for them when they massacred everyone who opposed and bought out domestic traitor cronies, but the world is waking up
Whataboutism is also a term for an entirely sensible way to judge something. You compare things to peer things all the time in all sorts of fields.
It’s also the case that people are often saying that the US is dishonest or biased, not merely hypocrites. Calling out American intelligence agencies or the pentagon for being unreliable sources is a distinct thing from saying they are hypocrites so it’s ok for the other party to do it too.
I see this around Xinjiang and the Uighur discourse. Lib says that China is genociding the uighurs, you say that only the lying, genociding imperialist west claims that and not the majority of the planet then the lib says you are doing “whataboutism” because you pointed out the source and accuser is biased and has an interest in projection and muddying the waters
Forgiving that debt: Uhh… idk some kind of inscrutable celestial plot?
:xigma-male: Yes
the time has come for nuclear trains. they would never have to surface for fuel.
Trains finally free roaming in the wild, like nature intended!
Would actually be cool for that China-US intercontinental railway that China proposed.
nuke it and then build trains on top
it's the only way
Is it still Infrastructure Week? Can we get something other than highway expansions?
All this because Deng visited Japan, saw the Shinkansen and thought "we should have those".
