• otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    7 days ago

    Musk is not “people in the US”, and most of those have no say in what “gets built”, so rephrase your blame, fellow crab in the bucket.

    • hono4kami@slrpnk.netOPM
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      7 days ago

      Yeah, should have rephrased that. AFAIK Elon is a South African, not even US citizen right?

      I’m not even from USA to be clear, but my limited image of USA is that it lacks efforts of building public transport, especially compared to other developed countries. Heck, compared to developing countries even.

      One of the example, US seems like a perfect place to build a high-speed rail network. Yet, CAHSR seems to keep getting delayed. In comparison Morocco has a HSR. Even Indonesia has one opened last year.

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        7 days ago

        You’re gonna love the history rabbit hole re: the automotive industry lobbying and all but singlehandedly squashing rail expansion (see: highways), NGL. 👨🏽‍🍳

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          7 days ago

          I think we should stop saying “lobbying” and start saying “corruption” or “bribing” isntead