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Images at sum up an era
In the foreground, the densely-packed, soot-saturated workers' neighborhood, with tiny windows (to evade the window-tax), and cramped courtyards to hang laundry, etc: overcrowded, gloomy, and miserable.
In the background, that shockingly-modern miracle of transportation, the train, that whisks the middle- and upper-classes across the country in a matter of hours. (you can almost imagine zooming in to the luxury dining car, where top-hatted and high-collared Victorian travelers are enjoying a glass of sherry.)
The train literally speeds by above the working-class--it seems oblivious to the common peoples' misery below.
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It ruined trains for me when I found out that the ability to travel from one train car to another while the train was in motion was only developed in like the 20s.
Like, all you need is a central corridor and doors on each end.
Who wants to be stuck in one fucking car for the entire trip.
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>>2068553
People couldn't miss something they had never had
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European imperialism, cruelty and racism.
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>>2069170
Maybe he shouldn't have been a lazy nigger and those hands would still be attached to his ape-loli
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>>2069170
fuck off, /leftypol/tard
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