carcinisation of mass transit – right-wingers and tech bros keep re-inventing the train
Except they always do it in the dumbest ways because they don't want to have to rub elbows with plebeians. They want their own private service, every time.
Trains used to have private cars, that's totally available to those shit bastards. Train don't care
what if we put everyone in an artillery shell and simply fired them along a ballistic arc toward their destination?
Soon:
Related: The Cannon Travel was legit one of my favorite parts of the video game Secret of Mana.
At least this is a real train, not "pods" or just some teslas in a tunnel.
If trump managed to build effective high speed rail that goes coast to coast, hits more than just NYC and LA, and is affordable, I think history would probably end up forgiving him for a lot of shit.
Never gonna happen though.
I wouldn't trust it for a second. They'd use it to move minorities into camps more efficiently
Arbeit Macht Frei, baby.
That's German for "All aboard the Trump Train!"
Yeah, they would arrest more Latinos without due process and have us build the rail as slave labor (contracted out to their corporate buddies, ofc.)
And there is no forgiveness either.
This is exactly how you motivate a toddler.
At least the toddler grows up eventually
Deadass im okay with naming it the trump train we can rename it later it would 100% get him to build it
200mph? Like those french trains in the nineties?
Yeah, even the german ICEs can do that much. US mediocratism as usual.
Honestly at this point, we should just all fully get behind this tactic as I think it genuinely has a good shot of accomplishing more than taking politics seriously.
Musk sabotaging this "centuries old technology" based project in 3...
The only reason Trump wants to do this, is because Elon would get the contract. Just another way to funnel taxpayer money into the hands of the PayPal Mafia.
Actually, Musk would embrace it and claim to invent the whole concept, say that no one has ever done it before, even while just rebranding a Siemens Mireo: https://tech.yahoo.com/transportation/articles/tesla-launches-worlds-first-electric-111535136.html
Don't worry it will be bankrupt in no time like all the other Trump stuff including Casinos.
It's high speed rail. I'm guessing the general attitude in here is that we don't want this to fail.
With America's amazing track record of spending big on repairs and maintenance to infrastructure, I can see absolutely nothing going wrong with this at all.
Let's declare a war on bad infrastructure! We can funnel all "War on Y" money in. America First! Let's reduce unemployment with a huge jobs program. Hire everyone to build tracks, trails, and parks.
puts on red hat Yep just MAGA over here with my high speed rail and free universal healthcare, just as the founding Trumps intended
Trump supporters haven't figured out we don't just oppose them blindly, it's just almost all terrible ideas.
Throw a good idea out there like a high speed train, and we have no problem supporting it, because non-Maga are generally well adjusted humans capable of reasoning.
I would be amazed if they can actually build the train using only American parts like they claim.
well US could have been already working towards that if Elon did not derail all funds to his ridiculously failed hyperloop
Hitler made the trains run on time.
(Not really)
No, but Hitler built the Autobahn (mostly for war purposes) and to this day there a still a few Germans that use this for "at least he did something good".
Not even that. The plans existed beforehand, and what the Nazis built was largely useless in war as rail logistics were way more important and the network was rather incomplete. What the Autobahn did enable, though, was the quick advance of allied troops. Parts of the Autobahn were also used as military airports which is why you see the current-day Autobahn make a weird curve around Ramstein Airbase. Those still exist but unlike in the cold war it's not airbases that can pop up within days but sections of paved median, with the barriers separating the directions being easily removable. That is, the runway is mostly in place, the rest would have to be constructed, OTOH it's dirt cheap to do.
Mostly, for the Nazis, it was a works programme. Millions of unemployed were put to the task under quite bad working conditions, the workers then wrote letters to the Führer portraying the bad, "Ungermanic, dishonourable" behaviour of their bosses, those letters never reached Hitler they reached the GeStaPo. C.f. "Wenn das der Führer wüsste".
Oh, EDIT, there's one good thing that came out of Nazi rule: They pushed full-grain bread, preferably rye, heavily. The whole ideology behind it was Nazi-typical bonkers, also preparation for a war economy, but the idea in general is definitely a good one and Germany kept its preference for at least partly full-grain as well as rye-heavy breads.
Wasn't that more Mussolini's thing ? (Only in the propaganda, but still.)
Surely nothing bad will follow Nazis building trains.
Only 200mph tho? Kinda weaksauce compare to 🖐"CHINA"🤚
i agree twitter user @ FrottingIDK
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