• duderium [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    If everything good is impossible, maybe the USA should just cease to exist? Why is it that China can achieve so much so quickly when the USA hasn’t achieved anything remotely positive since the fucking moon landing?

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      1 year ago

      Because that is building a station in an area that did not previously have that form of transportation, and thus does not have a massive quantity of people that rely on it for daily survival?

      What a fucking bizarre train of thought. Literally toddler logic, “Waaaah, the fix isn’t simple and easy so it might as well cease to be! Fuck all the working people that make up the population! Here’s an asinine reason why they all deserve to be thrown in the garbage!”

      Also really? I despise the US too, and it’s leadership has been a force of immense evil, but you can’t think of a single positive thing someone in the US has done, or a single positive thing that has happened in the US in the past 50 years? Not a single thing?

      Also why has China been able to accomplish so much? Their systems of organization. That’s it. The end. What else do you want to know?

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        Also really? I despise the US too, and it’s leadership has been a force of immense evil, but you can’t think of a single positive thing someone in the US has done, or a single positive thing that has happened in the US in the past 50 years? Not a single thing?

        It’s like trying to find the good in apartheid South Africa. Something positive must be there (the music), but overall, it’s not good.

        Their systems of organization.

        We should adopt this here. Other countries with relatively old metro lines (South Korea’s oldest was built in 1974, China’s oldest is three years older) have a shitload of people using them but also ways to repair and upgrade things (already discussed by others in this thread) without too much inconvenience. NYC doesn’t upgrade its subway because it’s run by shitlibs who are owned by the bourgeoisie, who lose money when society is even remotely functional.