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  • Usabilly [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    China ran roughshod over every farmer and peasant in the way of these trains. America can't do that because of property laws.

    • SaniFlush [any, any]
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      3 years ago

      ...the USA'd mow over Native American territory to build tracks, wouldn't they...

      • ssjmarx [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        A lot of the highway system was built straight through black neighborhoods. If we built trains under the current government we would find a way to make it super racist.

        • SaniFlush [any, any]
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          3 years ago

          we could start with restoring all the defunct railways we just sort of gave up on out of capitalist corner-cutting.

    • The_Jewish_Cuban [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      I know you're trolling but I'll still bite. China's farms don't exist in the same way the US's do. If you look at their villages it's a cluster of houses and the farmland is on the outside of the village. So laying rail and putting in trains doesn't really harm the "peasants and farmers" you're talking about. Relatively few people live in fuck off no where in their own house like they do in the US.

    • throw42069at [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Which is why poor communities are regularly bulldozed in America to make way for highways?

    • anoncpc [comrade/them]
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      3 years ago

      Bruh, poor neighborhood got bull doze all the time for highway which create a shite legacy, so much for property law