True, but they’re also really bad at doing propaganda for internal consumption too so I don’t know if that’s the cause specifically. It is a good point you bring up though because despite the
It seems like whenever people trainpost about Chinese high speed rail it gets really good reception on Western social media aside from the obligatory copypastas. Maybe I’m just more hopeful for Westerners than they are for themselves but it does look like there are pockets of good people out there, just very disenfranchised and alienated.
Fuck it lol I’ll take it, if public transit gets widespread support because people can frame it as treats, it is better than not having public transit and the current paradigm of “I’d rather sit in traffic for 4 hours a day than sit next to the poors”.
True, but they’re also really bad at doing propaganda for internal consumption too so I don’t know if that’s the cause specifically. It is a good point you bring up though because despite the
It seems like whenever people trainpost about Chinese high speed rail it gets really good reception on Western social media aside from the obligatory
copypastas. Maybe I’m just more hopeful for Westerners than they are for themselves but it does look like there are pockets of good people out there, just very disenfranchised and alienated.
But how much of that is because high speed rail is seen as just another “treat”?
Fuck it lol I’ll take it, if public transit gets widespread support because people can frame it as treats, it is better than not having public transit and the current paradigm of “I’d rather sit in traffic for 4 hours a day than sit next to the poors”.