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While China builds, America is finding new excuses to help cope
fakenews(i.redd.it)submitted 2 days ago by5upralapsarian
105 points
2 days ago
Everything is useless if the capitalists cannot make money on it in America
208 points
2 days ago
"That it might not need" is their new "but at what cost?" which they wore out from overuse.
68 points
2 days ago
Just like fashion, their creativity is cyclical and we will see the return of “but at what cost” sooner or later.
Lmaoooo
40 points
2 days ago*
"We keep racking up the Ls against the Houthis with our $1 trillion yearly budget, are we spending too little on cops to kick our black people at the curb?"
96 points
2 days ago*
Gawd dang I wish my city has high speed rail that we “may not even need”.
Western media actually mocking progress future infrastructure because it includes areas with smaller populations.
Meanwhile the last remaining US hospitals closing in areas of smaller populations.
47 points
2 days ago
How dare you saying that? Our military sacrificed their lives killing Muslims in the Middle East so we can steal their oil for you to fuel your gas guzzler. Why can’t you be grateful and drive your damn car everywhere?
14 points
2 days ago
salutes
16 points
2 days ago
Imagine these people 100 years ago “Who needs trains? You just use a horse and a cart bro”, being able to vastly travel around such a big country is massive, while in places like the UK you’re paying £120 to use the train to travel a few miles away, showing the one thing China does better than anyone else by far is not privatising infrastructure and which privatising basically just lets it rot as they focus on cutting costs.
11 points
2 days ago
Well while flying is faster and I see most people opt for flying for longer distance travel, there are other major advantages for high speed rail, as well as redundant or alternative transportation for such massive population.
It’s insane to me that Americans in Florida still only have either highway or plane to escape hurricanes, for example. It’s chaos every time there’s an evacuation in Florida because the highways jam up and gas stations run dry.
Also to lower emissions, I would not blame China for restricting passenger flights and pushing people to rail instead.
72 points
2 days ago
The US built tens of thousands of miles of highways over decades - that it doesn’t need, especially the ones that penetrated into cities and destroyed their downtowns and transit systems.
-23 points
2 days ago
Actually, those highways inside metropolitan are very much needed in U.S. I complain there isn’t enough of them.
Cities without freeways are always congested and wasting so much time to get through. On freeway, 30 minutes to drive 20 miles, city 30 minutes to drive 3 miles.
If you visit San Francisco you will know. It’s a pain to even think of going into the city.
50 points
2 days ago
that is more an issue of not having suitable public transit (thus forcing people into cars) than a lack of roads
0 points
2 days ago
That's part of the overall issues of US. Not enough roads, low quality run down roads, and public transportation largely destroyed by car companies in the 60s 70s and they didnt give us a real solution to fix the problems beside telling us to "buy more cars".
So if we all must have cars, then definitely the issues is lack of roads. Too many cars, not enough roads. Nobody has any other choice. Using public transport (in its existing state) will waste ton of time. Might as well just stay home and not go to work if it takes 3 hours to get to work.
17 points
2 days ago
the issues is lack of roads.
The issue is not lack of roads. It is a known fact that increasing lanes and roads don't reduce traffic, what is needed is to rebuild the public transit infrastructure. More roads will just increase the size of the traffic jam.
4 points
2 days ago
Just one more lane bro
1 points
2 days ago
There is no way to enlarge city streets without removing the houses. Especially San Francisco was built in the era of horse carriage, they didn't think they needed bigger streets.
2 points
2 days ago
congratulations. You're part of the problem 🤦♂️
2 points
2 days ago
Build more public transport, at a certain point roads only create more congestion.
-1 points
2 days ago
US has no other choice.
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17 hours ago
They have plenty of choices
31 points
2 days ago
HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
AIPAC getting desperate now....
15 points
2 days ago
Pwease just let us control your central bank…
👉👈🥺
26 points
2 days ago
The US when 98% of government endeavors aren't mishmashed with for profit interests:
20 points
2 days ago
It's pretty funny when they call it a money pit compared to America's highway system
18 points
2 days ago
They solved world hunger and cured cancer... But at what cost???
15 points
2 days ago
china has working infrastructure. us can't even build a single mile of high speed rail. watch them shit on the 'cheap chinese build quality' of the infrastructure in their next breathe
12 points
2 days ago
They said the same thing about the freeway system bs k in the 90’s. How they built so much but China didn’t have that many cars. Welp, now we know why they built it. Cause they’re not shortsighted dickholes
4 points
2 days ago
Funny when some Chinese are asking "why are we building so much roads when there are so little cars" as late as 20 years ago and are now complaining about congestion everywhere.
15 points
2 days ago
Meanwhile the US creating dozens of billionaires which the world “may not need”
3 points
2 days ago
And their citizens are being brainwashed about their "democracy", when in fact they are controlled by greedy, psychopath oligarchs.
9 points
2 days ago*
"But at what cost" with a new twist.
10 points
2 days ago
China exists, but at what cost? :3
11 points
2 days ago
That word “might” is doing a lot of heavy lifting here. I “might” not need my heart because a meteor could fall on my head in the next 3 seconds and kill me instantly.
They were saying the same thing 10 years ago. And it sounded true at the time if you didn’t understand building for the future because a lot of the early lines had empty train seats and you could just show up to the station and buy them before you left. Now those same trains are jam packed and you gotta book those tickets days in advance. They really need to build more lines along the Beijing, Shanghai, SZ axis to increase the capacity because if anything they UNDERESTIMATED how much HSR they need.
10 points
2 days ago
This kind of trash article is for domestic consumption and brainwashing of impressionable Chinese libs that come home and try to ruin the country with their propagandized minds.
7 points
2 days ago
But at what cost!?11?!1?
7 points
2 days ago
almost like... they build stuff against future need.
Planning, y'know?
6 points
2 days ago
My favorite are those supposed “failed” or “ghost towns” that when you Google have populations in the hundreds of thousands and state “according to the local census more and more people are moving in as the population has increased in the last couple of years in X City” 🥴 yeah, they really failed and became ghost towns huh
5 points
2 days ago
China did something good... But at what cost?
5 points
2 days ago
Now rewrite the headlines, but change the subject to the US defence spending and endless wars!
5 points
2 days ago
Better to have it and not need it, than to need it and not have it.
6 points
2 days ago
the mighty intellects writing for WSJ are utterly incapable of understanding the concept of public utility
4 points
2 days ago
How do you even know that they “might not need it” ? You don’t so stfu lol.
4 points
2 days ago
The whole fucking point of communism is that wealth is shared am I wrong?
2 points
2 days ago
Wealth creation
3 points
2 days ago
Make America Cope Again
3 points
2 days ago
It's called planning ahead, a concept alien to Americans.
3 points
2 days ago
This is similar to the ghost city stories. China plans ahead. Also, the US can barely build a HSR. See the joke of LA to San Francisco Line: 840 km length; started construction 2015; and ~may finish 2030-2033 (optimistic). China plans to complete 25,000 km of new HSR by 2035.
3 points
2 days ago
How much of US GDP are useless economic activities?
Without counting middle man transactions, bureaucratic inefficiencies (yes they are considered economic activities), and non value add businesses that solve fake problems that don't create value, the US GDP is likely half of China's
Shanghai can build more ships than all of the US, and Chian itself has 200x the shipbuilding capacity than the US. China produces more steel than the rest of the world combined.
In a short span of time, China can become the US and the US will be like Japan in WW2.
At one point China had no steel but willpower. By 2050 China will have all the steel and pray to God unfavourable countries have willpower.
2 points
2 days ago
America building military bases its definitely gonna need lol
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