• Krono@lemmy.today
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    8 months ago

    In 2008, both China and the US announced competing high speed rail initiatives.

    According to wikipedia, China now has 43,000 km of high speed rail. The US has 80 km of high speed rail.

    Yes Cali has plans for high speed rail, its pretty much the same plan from 2008.

    And going down your list- renewable energy, fighting inflation, student debt forgiveness, homebuyer assistance - all of these are tepid, surface level initiatives that do not solve the underlying problems. So you’re right, I dont give Biden much credit.

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      8 months ago

      In 2008

      Check calendar

      As it turns out, as the date changes the world changes as well. Sometimes you can’t have it all, sometimes plans have to change.

      Sorry you don’t like the progress we have made 👉👈

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        8 months ago

        I’m not asking for “it all”, I don’t expect it to be perfect. I’m just pointing out the glaring contrast- China successfully built high speed rail, and the US has failed (so far)

        I dont like the progress we have made because I believe in the promise of America. America can do so much better. We should be building rail just as fast as China, but instead we are building at 1% of their pace and people like you call it “progress”.

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          I agree with everything you said here except America having promise. America doesn’t have promise, it’s been holding the world back for a long time now, and bullying all the other nations. It would be best for it to crash and burn like all the other nations it made crash and burn.

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              8 months ago

              I think the fact I am English has as much bearing on this opinion as being left-adjacent. My country helped form the United States, and many of us (not just leftists) are disturbed at what has happened since we were kicked out. I mean it’s a common stereotype here that Americans are dumb, fat, and racist.

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                7 months ago

                Funny how this comment is being made by the same guy that accused me of being a mutt because he doesn’t think I’m as Irish as he supposedly is? Now he says he’s English. Hey, mutt, where is your dna test to prove you’re so much better than everyone, especially Americans?

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                  7 months ago

                  I was actually born in England though. I live in England. I have an English passport. That’s what it means to be English. Being born in America with an American passport makes you, wait for it, American.

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                    7 months ago

                    I never told you where I was born. Let’s hope you were born where you think you were born. Some people were born in other countries and carried to another country, as infants. No matter how you label a person, you can’t change their dna and the culture that has transcended through generations of a family.