"How do you find around the subway?"
Uyghur: "I can either follow the grooves in the floor for blind people or I watch out for the signs that are in Mandarin, English, and my native script!"
American: "I cast daylight and roll 1d20 for perception"
But you see that's bad because it robs the Chinese people of the adventure of exploring their own cities by getting lost in labyrinthian Kafkaesque transit systems thus proving the see see per is ebil! - some paid shill probably
smh those yuan could have gone to a billionaires offshore bank account smh
greedy poors
they could have given them to Elon Musk to build some kind of death trap
More shitty rockets, bigger! Hopefully one day they will crash into the white house.
Yea, ok, but can you murder mentally ill minorities on Chinas subways and be treated like a hero?
That's right, improving the subway system would amount to gentrification and an assault on the American way of life!
You can't just say gentrification as if the NYC subway were a part of town where poor people live! Oh wait
As well as the Asian-American who was pushed in front of an oncoming train.
A few years ago a Chinese diplomat was tweeting about how there was a terror attack by Uighur extremists at a metro station in a large Chinese city. He explained it like "imagine if someone went to a busy Dallas subway station and started stabbing people."
A bunch of Yankoids responded like: "Hah! Ignorant Chinese just assuming we have a subway in Dallas
Goddd i wanna play these games so bad but i scare easily
Not pictured: Something that's straight out of a creepypasta, or someone that's straight out of a tragic 6 'o clock news report's police mugshots.
This is why you guys needed that infrastructure bill, eh? Though admittedly it should be better spent than it is being, though.
US infrastructure is like 50 years behind where it was in US 50 years ago.
For most cities true. For NYC, I think present infrastructure is better than the 70s.
For the most part it is the same infrastructure. The signal system in the subway is still analog.
I have seen train stations built 200 years ago that look significantly better than that
That right one looks like something out of a nuclear apocalypse.
I couldn't believe how rough and run down the NYC subway system was when I visited. At least they have a somewhat adequate number of lines and what not, compared to somewhere like Toronto which has probably 1/6 the size of a subway network a city of its population and wealth should have. Hard to say what is worse.
I figured that the richest city on earth would have good public transport. When I visited for the first time I was shocked to find that there was no aircon, no cell reception, and rats fucking on the platform.
This is effective infrastructure use. Instead of having to run cell service or wifi in the tunnels just so people can browse porn on their phones, they bring the smut directly to you.
Ugh! Don't you know that that train station is a fake just to trick gullible foreigners?!
New York's real subways are much nastier.
Yeah, when I visited NYC I was in awe just how dilapidated that subway was
The state of the subway system is a really good proxy for how civilized a place is.
Ok nobody panic but the Iroquoian and Algonquian script has been removed from the signage in the New York photo. I don't want to jump to any conclusions or anything but maybe we should keep an eye on that area just to be sure there's no cultural erasure happening. I don't want to be dropping the big G word or anything rash like that but I haven't seen any evidence of the indigenous population practicing their local customs and culture in the area, except in obviously-staged displays.
To be fair, the xinjiang subway is 4 years old. The NY subway is 99 years old.
To be fair, this is the US you’re talking about. It’s a difficult sell to get it to work on infrastructure at all.
It’ll be this meme but the photo of the ny subway will just be desert dunes
We can always hope for communist revolution in the USA one day
I, too, wish I'd still be around to visit the Urumqi Orbital Elevator Station
one day China will be as run down as the US. Checkmate tankies
Nah, the U.S. is definitely in the negatives — being taken over by nature would be an infrastructure upgrade
You're clearly much denser than the concrete they build all those failed buildings out of.
If you’re not familiar with Hexbear, sarcastic takes like this are common.
You know it’s a Hexbear user when there’s all these emoji like that.
"Honey, it's time for your daily low speed train derailment."
"Yes dear."
This is one of my favorite genres of lib cope. Somehow they have convinced themselves that repairing existing infrastructure is harder than building it new.
the liberal mind is incapable of grasping the extremely difficult concept of "maintenance"
Okay, then explain the profit centers in this so-called "maintenance"
It’s 124 years old, and has more stations than any other metro/subway in the world.
Yes, it should be better, but this is not exactly a fair comparison.
comrade
