Why do people who make memes hating america not even bother doing

American freight rail is pretty much the best in the world too.

>>137671130
I'd take a hulking steel beast any day over a faggy plastic speed train

>>137671130

Hatred for America desu. Plus, those little shit countries in Europe have like 200 miles of tracka piece. It takes me 200 miles just to get to the next state. Way more expensive here.

>>137671130
Actually took the "high speed rail" in the US once. It's most certainly not the same thing as an actual high speed rail.

American's train system is sub-par because the auto and oil industry destroyed it.

>>137672295
You aren't smart.

>>137672538
yes he are

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>>137671130
Envious of our large tracts of land.

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at least our conductors stay awake

we talkin transporting goods or people? our commercial railroads are quite literally packed

>>137672943
>conductors drive the train

wow europeans are right americans are dumb

I like our shitty trains lol, anything else wouldn't seem right.

What we need is a really fucking super ugly new train that's just like the old one but twice as big and x10 times stronger, going really fast is a meme.

>>137671130
No one should be using China as an example when talking about America's infrastructure problem.

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>>137671130
Biggest cost of high speed rail is the cost of land

Europe and Asia build hi speed rail through mostly rural areas where land is cheap.

Lets NOT spend trillions of dollars to straighten out the north east corridor so we can build high speed rail from Washington to Boston.

That's what aircraft are for.

Pic related - furries suck.

>>137671130
When non-Americans try to insult America it always just falls off because it's so obvious how deeply they misunderstand the country. They have absolutely NO comprehension of the amount of space we have, among many many other things.

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>>137672538
The auto and oil industry DID destroy it though.

>Source

Fucking LA

>>137673251
I hope this new one is a nuclear powered steam turbine locomotive, to piss off greenpeace

>>137673225
oh right, that must be why the train was charged with 79 counts of homicide

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>>137671130
We move freight with our rails nigga. Trains are for cargo. Cars are for people.

>>137673469
Elon Musk is already talking about building a hyperloop in the NE corridor. May just be talk, but who knows...

our trains are so slow because you can't go fast when making a turn. nothing's gonna get done unless you scrap everything and connect every station with a straight track

>>137673225
Technically, the conductor tells the engineer when it is safe for the train to move.

So the conductor is senior to the engineer.

>>137671555

Trips are truth.

>>137673547
Yeah same thing in Chicago. There's the 'L' Metro 20 ft up, the Metra commuter at ground level, and before the auto industry killed it there was a subway below ground level. Kinda sucks because they just sealed up the tunnels (some with cars in them) so they really could have kept them operating if they wanted. Funny thing is beneath the subway is ANOTHER narrow-gauge system that is unfortunately beyond repair.

>>137673561
I know a lot about nuclear and a little bit about trains and I'm scratching my head to think of a reason why this would be a bad idea.

I can't. You'd have to get into the hard economics of it.

>>137671130
High speed trains are comfy.
>3hours to St Petersburg
>no time wasted in airport
>no butt probing
>no super control
>enough room for your knees
>you can go out and smoke on the stops

american train looks great. the rest look like airplane dildos 0/10 would not ride

how would a jewish-only railroad system work in america?

>>137671475
these fools equate our population density to china; why no high speed trains. people in the US are dumb as fuck and plentiful, thank dem run school system.

>>137673561
A 10 metets wide train is too much of a bummer to build, let alone huildng the new roads for it.

Would be dank though

>>137673842
The only reason Tesla exists is California pays 8700 dollars in subsides for each car.

Tesla most profitable business is selling clean air credits.

I'm sure hyperloop will get huge government subtleties while he keeps getting richer.

>>137673879
it's literally the other way around

The Conductor just calls out the signals, the Engineer makes any actual decisions

>>137674390
This.
Tesla is a scam.
Solar city is a scam.
Anythung green is a scam.

Musk is smart though cashing outta big public scam to fund his space shit makes him cool

>>137674256
>nazi breitspurbahn

>>137673816
yup. see the eurocucks don't realize how big the USA is. i gotta regular from ireland who told me his folks back home still don't realize how big the US is, even though he's been living here for years and keeps telling them it takes fucking HOURS just to get to the next state, whereas over there that's the time between countries!

>see image
>expect the OP to be rambling bullshit about how all American trains should look like those
>it's actually making fun of it
>most people realize that high speed rail is stupid for freight
Pleasantly surprised.

>>137674256
They wouldn't have to wide. You just build the nuclear plant in a line. You could use existing track without problem. You could fit the whole radioactive part in a single train car- they've already built such things.

>>137673842
I do not like those Hyperloop proposals (coming from my eight years of Civilian LE Counter-Terrorism experience). One attack/false flag could knock out hundreds to even thousands of miles of Track, at one time, to extremely heavily populated parts of the US.

>>137674561
You think that and then Tesla actually puts out a self-driving car. The kind of shit we thought we'd have in the 21st century back in 1980 when instead we got Myspace and Homeland Security.

>>137674666
But satan kun, thats amtrak not freight

>>137674666
The high speed trains run on general purpose rails though at double the regular speed

Trains are gay anyways. It took like 8 fucking hours to get from Zurich to Split via rail, whereas a plane ride takes you like 30 mins. Was a pretty ride through the Alps though.

>>137673225
Conductors actually do drive the train. They carry electricity.

>>137675094
The journey is the destination, man.

>>137674721
that's what I was thinking

>>137674945
Self driving cars are a good innovation.
Electric cars are a scam.

They arent even green considering efficiency of car engines vs efficiency of power grid delivery and battery charge and gischarge losses you literally burn more carbin for it.

>>137671130
No one cares about Israel ran US "high speed rails" that haven't been updated since the 1950's. In fact I'm GLAD they haven't as many free rides as I've got on them from state to state. Also has helped me evade police capture a few times when ripping off lefties and righties alike. So make up all the excuses for their shittiness you like, in fact I support these type of face saving. Luckily most 'Muricans know nothing whatsoever about railroad tracks and maps, and to top that off you idiots hire niggers and mexicans who only pretend to work on them. By all means please INCREASE your level of delusion and partiotardism so I can make even more $$$$.

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>>137674666

>>137671130
America has the only non queer looking train.

>>137675094
yeah, but TSA doesn't grope people at a train station

>>137671130
I don't know how to explain it, but something feels comfy about a bulky steel train.

>>137671130
Fuck Agenda 21 I'm happy driving wherever I want to go in my car thanks.

Why do leftists love trains so much?

>>137675391
take your meds sweetie, you're being delusional again and your rambling is beginning to scare the neighbors

>>137675094
Made a similar flight to Split. Took longer shits than that.

>>137672295
>>137671130

We have zero need for a high-speed rail to be honest. I reckon if the states want to build them locally to connect major metro areas fine, but it would be incredibly stupid, pointless, and wasteful to build any major national system.

Our population density is relatively low and everyone own's motor vehicles anyways

>>137671130
America doesn't have the mone for infastructure rebuilding either

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>>137671130
america have the best railroad system in the world.

>>137671555
>>137673950
>too stupid to come up with a legitimate retort so anon defines his preferences by A and then justifies A with his preferences
You are making us Americans look bad.

>>137675562
everyone should love trains, it's nearly impossible for jews to crash them into skyscrapers

>>137675562
They want nigger and Arab to hit on them.

>>137675227
Most of the trip was nice, but at one point my mom and I were stuck in a compartment with some smelly Slav. His stink was nauseating.

Every few years the Green party pushes for high speed rail for a route like Sydney to Brisbane and we waste millions on feasibility studies. And every time they come back it's not worth it, not even close to being worth it. But it doesn't stop the next study being commissioned.

>>137673816
actually you move people with planes friend.

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Honestly though, why DOESN'T America have bullet trains around NY, LA, and Chicago? I'm tired of the slow ass Metra.

>>137671130
Which one of these countries have 40 Million niggers?

>>137675416
Yet.

>>137676126
Train retards don’t deserve fast speeds.

>>137675660
You're a retard posting on cuckchan who doesn't know shit. Jump on an intermodal and get some free high speed rail travel.

>>137673977
When they tried it in the 50s they had trouble fitting in the heat exchanger and (air of course) radiator. Might be different with new technology though.

https://books.google.com/books?id=bVMEAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA78&ots=oNcGmhCvuD&dq=x-12+locomotive&pg=PA78&hl=en#v=onepage&q=x-12%20locomotive&f=false

Hard to justify, though, since you can just power it with electricity.

>>137675660
>off ur meds

Such an old joke...

>>137676126
Get in your car and drive cuck. Stop letting Agenda 21 commies build infrastructure in your community.

>>137676248
>No one cares about Israel ran US "high speed rails" that haven't been updated since the 1950's. In fact I'm GLAD they haven't as many free rides as I've got on them from state to state. Also has helped me evade police capture a few times when ripping off lefties and righties alike. So make up all the excuses for their shittiness you like, in fact I support these type of face saving. Luckily most 'Muricans know nothing whatsoever about railroad tracks and maps, and to top that off you idiots hire niggers and mexicans who only pretend to work on them. By all means please INCREASE your level of delusion and partiotardism so I can make even more $$$$.
posting the text above as if it isn't the ramblings of a paranoid schizophrenic

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>>137676375
I was hoping a modern one would look more like the C&O M1

>>137676556
>posting on cuckchan like you aren't mentally ill

>>137672295
Stupid

>>137671130
Most trains in Russia aren't like that and I say this as someone who thinks Russia is mostly better than Americuck la d of the 52%

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>>137671130
>TALKING SHIT ABOUT F40PH

NUH UHH FAGGOT

>>137671130

Amtrak survives on government subsidy which is fed off of by the survivors of the Amtrak dynasty. It will never be great until they all die off.

>>137676843
implying I am

>>137672943
ayy the nostalgia

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>>137672943
>>137673225
>meanwhile in BC
>passenger rail trains have driven themselves since the 80s

As a trade off though we only have it in a small part of one metro area but hey take that test of Canada and rest of world we had self driving vehicle before anyone else. Tell Elon (((musk))) and the faggots who want automated cats to fuck themselves
Trains are for being automated cars are for driving

>>137673469
Why doesn't your government just seize the land? That's how China and Europe avoid paying land costs

>>137673954
Chicago's subway system is great but a union scam & aged beyond belief. As Trump says, America looks old and tired

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How dare these nu-pol fags disrespect the F40PH

>>137675094
Plane ride is fucking expensive though.

>>137675354
Self driving cars are a scam too depending on where you live

I'm in a heavily mountainous region where road conditions are highly unpredictable. Nobody even has wanted to try testing self driving cars here

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>>137676442
I can't even tell if you are being ironic but it nonetheless hurts.

>tfw no decent public transit

Maybe us Americans don't deserve it. Maybe this is our punishment for polluting our cities up with lead filled smog.

>>137674409
No it isn't. The conductor tells the engineer what to do. Why do you think the conductor is the one always looking at his watch. If the train is late, it's his ass, not the engineer.

>>137676375
>radiator
having difficulties with this was my initial suspect(ie. the replacement for those giant concrete cooling towers you see nuke plants have). However, our heat exchanger and radiator technologies are lightyears ahead of where they were in the 50s.

I'm not actually a supporter of more nuclear power anyway.

>Hard to justify, though, since you can just power it with electricity.

Or use steam! I don't think Musk's so-called "Hyperloop" is just a meme.

>>137675354
Can't tell if troll or really that autistic.

Electric cars recover energy lost in braking etc, and lose less energy through heat. Maybe they "cause carbon release" by charging but they are more efficient.

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>>137671130
fuck attending rallies lets build some fucking trains

actually do something you know?

/how many people troll here? 1000? 10000? 1000000? Lets pick up a shovel and hammer

>>137678997
In my Russo-bro's defence, electric cars are kind of a "scam". If an electric car is more expensive than the internal combustion alternative than what is saved in gas money then you are doing more harm to the environment than good because most of that cost is ultimately traceable to fossil fuel consumption or shitting up some poor chink's river with heavy metal poisoning.

I put "scam" in quotation marks because investing in electric cars is nonetheless a necessary step in kicking humanity's oil addiction. It's an investment such that Peak Oil doesn't sting as badly once it happens.

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>>137671844
You don't have to build it across the whole fucking country for it to be useful. Just put small Yurop-sized routes across the major metropolitan areas. The Northeast Corridor is already serviced by Acela (the ONLY profitable Amtrak passenger line, by the way), and there's no reason (other than political ones) we couldn't do the same or better in SoCal, the Great Lakes region, or the Texas Triangle.

>>137671130


Behold the single most fuel efficient way to transport good that currently exists on Earth. The US has an extensive freight rail network, one that is very valuable.

You can't effectively track share high speed trains with heavy frieghters. We need to build new tracks. Thousands of miles through mountainous terrain. Full of little towns and small cities with no doubt low ridership.

I do think american rail networks need work, but we should focus on freight and urban and intercity rail developments at a state/state joint level, and keep Amtrak alive and in a bit better shape, especially in the eastern corridor.

But we don't need a TGV or ICE for example.

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>>137679718
forgot pic related

>>137679589
We don't need people travel. We need better shipment methods of goods.

>>137671555
>the fox and the grapes

you are the fox

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>>137679839
People travel would be nice though.

>>137676126
They'd need brand new tracks, separate from other rail lines, and that means they'd need land. Try to justify the price of that to tax payers. I doubt anyone would privately fund it.

i think america is too big for HIGH SPEED TRAINS ACROSS THE COUNTRY . altho they could make connections between big cities on the east and west coast and leave planes to do the rest of the job . air traffic is huge anyway

>>137680248
It would cool to see high speed rail from LA to Las Vegas. Everyone fly in at LAX then hop on the train to LV.

>>137678504
What do you want public transportation for? When our cities were majority white trolley cars were simply a matter of convenience. People would even ride them just for fun. No one considered them a necessity which is exactly what the inner city bus lines are now. They're force projection for the welfare dependent.

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>>137680229
Eminent Domain, bitch!

>>137680836
Because it's fucking inefficient to haul around a literal tonne of steel per person. I don't let vanity erase the simple realities of the situation.

>>137680172
No, it wouldn't. And it doesn't matter. It won't commute people to work over those sorts of distances, and it doesn't increase access to consumption anyway.

>>137680229
They also loose money and have to be heavily subsidized in most cases.

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>>137681119
Yes, it would.

>>137671475
Not to mention rail is for socialist retards that don't mind their mind neu squandered on inefficient shit. In America we have pls es that don't destroy the country side and there are thousands of miles between destinations and where there are t there are people with property rights. Why would you want to go 200 mph when you can go 350 in a plane ?

>>137675227
but it's not about the destination man

>>137671475
Are you high!? Even our cars are shit.

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>>137681320
If it net helps the average commuter or businesses more than it costs then the government indirectly recoups its losses via taxes.

>>137681459
TSA doesn't screen rail travelers

>>137681531
That doesn't follow.

>>137680229
If the ground is somewhat soft they could build it underground?

>>137677810
Because the land is owned by rich business, not American Indians.

>>137681108
Is public transportation really efficient? If its so efficient in the long run why is it that other people have to subsidize everything for you?

Gasoline and diesel engines are continually making advancements in efficiency, HCCI for example, and electric vehicles are viable for daily commutes of most people. Some motorcycles and scooters can easily hit 60-80mpg if fuel efficiency is the primary concern.

Public transportation isn't a necessity for a functional society. The fact that we have anyone dependent upon inner city buses shows a great malady taken root.

>>137671130

Airplanes>Trains

anyone advocating for more publicly funded trains is a fucking retard

just look at the shitshow that is amtrak

>>137671130
why dont people whoe make any memes bother doing any research?

>>137680837
>Eminent Domain, bitch!
Government still has to pay fair market value for the land.

>>137680229
I have the solution. Just tax soda like Philly did and it will all work out. Hehehehe

>>137682192
>If its so efficient in the long run why is it that other people have to subsidize everything for you?
see >>137681554

>option A is worse than option B because option A isn't necessary
>if I define not having a car as bad then public transit is bad
Come on now.

>>137682707
Yes, things cost money. Things also cost money in countries with bullet trains, and yet they still have bullet trains.

Just saying.

>>137683012
>more ifs
What if it doesn't help the average commuter, anon? What if the people who use the train lines and bus systems are only leaving their government subsidized housing to collect their welfare checks? What if non criminal gainfully employed people utilizing public transportation is actually such a small number that the tax money used to pay for the system is a complete waste?

Make one solid argument and stick to it. Don't be wishy washy. You're in favor of taking land from people to build hypothetical train systems that you can't prove would even be used.

>>137678521
the conductor literally sits there, calls signals, and walks the train if there's a mechanical problem, he has no say whatsoever in how the trains run, because he's not qualified to run the train, all train crews start out as conductors and have to go through additional training/certification to become engineers.

T. NorfolkSouthern employee

PS: The Train Dispatcher is the one who decides how the train runs, the Crew just follows the signals

>>137672295

Actually, it's 'sub par' because American trains have weight and material requirements far above those in other countries.

It's why train accidents here kill 3 and injure 86 instead of killing 86 and injuring 3.

>>137683395
>what if faster trains doesn't help people who ride trains?
>more ifs
Why are you building train lines to places people don't want to go?

>>137683541
>It's why train accidents here kill 3 and injure 86 instead of killing 86 and injuring 3.
>automobiles are dangerous so let's make the speed limit 20 mph forever
That doesn't sound conducive to innovation and improvement.

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BOW DOWN BEFORE YOUR KING!!!

cn rail conductor reporting in. currently on the road.

got the big rx on the way up.
first up on the board. just waiting on that call

>>137683837
>you are now imagining how bad the inside of that train smells

Its quicker to fly than to take a high speed train across a country which is basically the size of Europe.

Amtrak makes sense for traveling between very close located cities such as DC, Philadelphia, New York, and Boston

>>137683917
Travel everyday in that anon, my life is sad.

>>137683580
Again, don't be wishy washy. I'm not building anything here. You're the proponent of widely abused public services, not me.
The destination's traffic isn't in question, but ridership of public transport is. Ton of places have bustling populations but very low ridership on their buses. The average person doesn't ride a bus, doesn't want to ride a bus. Buses are slow, the riders have no agency, they're far from ideal.
You're positing a whole host of things without any concrete basis.

Why do Jews shill so hard for High Speed Rail?

Can someone answer that for me?

>>137683894

also. cndr is jr to engineer. however cndr tells engineer when to move.
in the yard cndr makes the calls. on a road trip it's more 50/50 I would say. unless your hogger is a dick

>>137684129
Infrastructure projects get government money, and when the government is dishing out money to subsidize anything it will end up in some Jew's pockets. Its a racket. High speed rail lines would be billion dollar initiatives. That means someone would be skimming millions in free tax payer money.

>>137683395
Commiefornia is a good example of public transportation gone bad. The cities fucked their roads for bike lanes and bus stops, and now due to traffic congestion people with money slowed their visit to commercial centers (and decreased willingness to spend due to tax increase) while subsidized buses literally bused in thugs and crime.

>>137684114
>wishy washy
>autistically presumes general you specifically refers to him and shuts down his mental processes because it doesn't make sense
>public transportation getting humans from point A to point B constitutes "abuse"

The silly parts of your posts aside, the problem is memes. American car culture has poisoned us to the point of ignoring the option that makes financial sense for the sake of the status and feeling of power car manufacturers have sold us.

>>137671130
Fuck you
My taxes will continue to go toward corporate welfare OR NOTHING ELSE
REEEEEEEEEE!!!

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>>137675416
I wish.

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>>137683837

>>137684361
That makes sense but it's kinda like saying non-white immigration is only to make money with low wage workers, when in reality it's white genocide.

I think there is a better reason.

>>137681459
It's cheaper and can move more people?

It's because the government in the US is corrupt as fuck.

Jerry Brown tried to build a high speed rail system in California. The project ended up a $50 billion boodoggle. Years behind schedule, fraught with problems and delays, and the cost keeps mounting. It seems like it will never be done

This is why Americans hate the government so much, it's because the American experience with government is fucking crappy inefficiency

>>137683837
The comparison between this and something like the MRT system in Singapore is astounding.

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>>137671130
Holy shit I went to Japan and the bullet train system is fucking incredible. Main destinations like Toyko and Kyoto run every hour and sometimes half hour.

Literally last time I took an Amtrak I had to wait three hours because one of the train's engine went out. Fuck our trains. I fucking hate our shit ass fucking slow trains that share tracks with fucking freight scum.

>>137684875
>doesn't understand contextual consistency in argumentation
>likely would score in bottom percentiles on SAT/ACT
>is vehemently pro public transportation

American car culture hasn't poisoned anything. Your use of emotionally charged language here is a clear sign of intellectual dishonesty. What car ownership has done is give people agency, and that is universally a good thing.
Rehashing the same fallacious points is not gaining you any ground. You cannot prove that public transportation systems would be better. You can't prove they're efficient in any material sense as they run tremendous losses.

>>137682192
> Defending the car jew

The car industry has lobbied for the way our highways, roads and cities were built. It's basically a requirement that you own a car to succeed in society. We are slaves to the car industry.

I think i'd prefer paying a little more tax for cities that aren't 60% parking garages.

>>137681459
>In America we have pls es
>pls es
Dumb phoneposter please go and stay go

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Business operation of Maglev will start in Japan 2027.
It can run over 600 Km/h (373 Miles/h) now, but the operation will be with 500 Km/h in the first some years.

>>137671130
Americans can afford cars

>>137685462
Cars = freedom

(((Agenda 21))) wants you to walk, ride a bicycle, take a bus, or take a train.

>>137685462
Why shouldn't an individual have the means to travel where they want, at any time they want? This isn't some conspiratorial machination playing out. It is quintessentially American philosophy; empowering the individual.

A car was a literal replacement to a horse, and horses were transportation for individuals, and small families in carriages.

>>137676831
Art Deco trains were the best.

>>137685941
Elon Musk and other car kikes are going to start lobbying that self driving cars are the only way. Then cars will be so expensive you will have to take a tax because there will be a fleet of cars to drive us places. The only difference is we are paying private companies and not the government.

http://fortune.com/2016/10/11/shared-electric-self-driving-cars/

>>137686223
Its fine owning a car but building our cities around them is such bullshit. If you want to drive around the country side that's fine. But a better city is one that isn't built for cars. Just compare european cities to american.

>>137686479
Have you ever actually been to a European big city? I guarantee you that people own cars, and want to drive them to work, but they can't.

>>137684975
Epic meme, friendo

>>137685448
>ad hominem
God your post is ironic.

>emotionally charged language
Maybe you are projecting because there is nothing emotional about my post.

>the car industry didn't get us to value the power of automobiles, they got us to value the AGENCY (i.e. the capacity, condition, or state of acting or of exerting power) of automobiles.
>everything you just said is a fallacy because I said so

Okay, let me make this really simple for you. Why do you think we fit as large of semi trucks on the road as possible to move things? Why do you think we use as big of freight ships as we can harbor to move things across the ocean? Why don't we use billions of tiny vehicles for everything instead? I'll tell you why, because moving a lot of things with one large vehicle is is inherently more efficient than moving a lot of things with a lot of tiny vehicles.

As Earth's population grows and energy fails to keep up the defining attribute of changing technology and infrastructure will be efficiency, doing the same with less.

>>137686755
Yes i've been to florence, paris, barcelona, mardrid etc. My ex girlfriend hardly even knew how to drive a car because she walked to work every day because their cities aren't so spread out.

>>137671130
The fact that we don't have high speed rails period and that if you were to make an accurate chart the United States space would just be blank?

>>137686777
Anon, insults are not ad hominem fallacies. The fact that you don't know the difference is just validating me further. I didn't insult you to discredit anything you said, I insulted you independent from any refutation because you're behaving like an insufferable cunt. Regurgitating terms you can't grasp is the behavior of someone with a low IQ.

There is no projection on my behalf. Your statement
>. American car culture has poisoned us
is emotionally charged. This is what would be called rhetoric, it isn't dialectic. Failing to differentiate between these two things shows you don't understand argumentation.

Speaking of fallacies, you're making an enormous one, false dichotomy. Moving freight and moving people aren't comparable. Freight is moved by private industry, it is entirely profit driven, it is also in demand 100% of the time in all locales. Public transportation is none of these things.

If you can't argue in good faith and conduct yourself as an adult with at least a GED don't bother posting. Ghetto dwelling incels aren't worth a white man's time.

>>137686978
There was a great youtube video I saw once explaining the fundamental difference between American cities and European cities. I wish I could find it. It has everything to do with when the cities got big.

>>137686777
>>137687547
ayy lmaeo

>>137687670
Here it is!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQSxPzafO_k

>>137675416
They didn't grope you at the airport before either. The second trains become a major method of transportation is the second that security theater sets up shop at your train station and sticks a finger in your shithole.

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>>137675784
Doing nothing.

>>137671130
It's almost as if freight trains have a different purpose than high speed rail.

>>137677658
Nigger you are dumb as fuck. They have a control centre in burnaby where the trains are run remotely by a bunch of fat white trash.

t. Went to a field trip there in trade college

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>>137671130
BUT BUT I THOUGHT TRUMP WAS GONNA REBUILD AMERICA RIGHT GUIES?

>>137687958
Interesting video.

they didn't go over how the car jew ripped up trail tracks and lobbies against any public transportation initiative.

Also lol he ignored the nigger problem of New York that London doesn't quite have as bad yet. I

>>137687547
>argues against anon based on assumptions of his intelligence, not his arguments
>not ad hominem
You just keep going for the jugular at every single turn and failing horribly. I cringe at the term, but if you aren't a pseudo intellectual then I don't know who would be. You keep talking down about other anons intelligence and saying they don't understand how logic works despite you being the only one itt who is misusing logical terms like not knowing what ad hominem is and seemingly calling anything that disagrees with you a fallacy by virtue of disagreeing with you.

>If you can't argue in good faith and conduct yourself as an adult
The irony is reaching unparalleled proportions here. Seriously, I haven't read a post this unintentionally ironic in months.

>with at least a GED don't bother posting.
Fitting that you should end your post with the same attempts at sidestepping arguments with presumptions of intelligence. It's been your hallmark from the beginning.

Anyway, on to the fraction of your post that actually means anything.

>Speaking of fallacies, you're making an enormous one, false dichotomy. Moving freight and moving people aren't comparable. Freight is moved by private industry, it is entirely profit driven, it is also in demand 100% of the time in all locales. Public transportation is none of these things.
Yes, when government serves the greater good rather than quarterly profits it must only invest in projects that have a well understood net benefit for society as a whole and require an authority that no private business could muster.

>>137677827
>As Trump says, America looks old and tired

Lol and he hasn't done shit to help. But let's have another tax cuts.

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>>137685941
>(((Agenda 21))) wants you to walk

>>137671130
Trains is what allows amazon to have 2 day shipping.

>>137689359
Isn't he passing an executive order to decrease the time table on infrastructure investment or something?

>>137689531
They're just boot lickers of the (((wheeled jew))).
There's no difference in the government fucking us over and companies fucking us over. This is something a lot of libertarians like to ignore.

>>137689620
You mean planes and drones?

>>137689849
Because when companies don't have incentive to fuck you over, unless they can lobby with government intervention. Corporations make money by producing smart phone and raise your living standard, so how exactly are they fucking you over? There is no way to compare government fucking up your civil liberties, to companies having higher prices because maybe prices are inelastic

>>137674209
They'd be ran on gas.

>>137671130
Our rail system sucks because of the corrupt oil industry. Everyone owns a vehicle here. Every other commercial is related to the auto industry.

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>>137691830
Your railway system it's fantastic since the chinese built it, the problem it's that you aren't using it.

>>137675711
It would just be a nigger nest

>>137675191
damn that was sly.

>>137676017
Governments like to build these kind of projects as a kind of dick measuring contest. It's obvious to anyone with half a brain that in such a sparsely populated place like Australia this kind of infrastructure is not economical...

>>137671130
Yeah, I'm totally going to go practice my American 2A rights via train. Carry 1,000 rounds of ammo, my kit, and 3 rifle cases. Fuck off commie nigger. SUVs and trucks are all I buy.

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>>137671130
Now can faggy dildo looking trainlets compete?
Enjoy getting your kike nose crushed my a cow, plane looking mofo.

>>137692325
Amtrak literally costs more than an airplane ticket or simple gasoline costs for your car.

It is 0 pragmatic and 100% nostaligic

>>137682192

The only public transport that really works is commuter rail.

Can you imagine trying to get around New York City, London or Singapore without their subways? You would spend all day travelling to where you're going if all you could do was travel on the streets.

Buses have to travel on the streets and take forever as they stop every couple of blocks for people to get on and off. In some cities a healthy person can walk faster than a bus.

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>>137694620
It's not when you realize how much truck driving they can replace.

>>137691830
damn this burger is woke

>>137685309

In the time that California has been fucking around, China has built thousands of miles of high speed railways.

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If you don't think this would be the tightest shit then you can get the fuck out of my country.

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>mfw the L

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>>137695490
Sweet.

>>137677037
Our trains got updated in last years so are pretty damn good, though probably not in all regions obviously.

>>137678710
You don't need towers like that on a smaller scale reactor. Even the guy that invented the light water reactor thought it was stupid to scale out to the megawatt range.

You could easily run trains on the same power plant as the mars rover as well.

Fission is nearly as good as fusion if done properly. Google lftr.

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>>137700103
Yes, but how can thorium possibly succeed when both hippies and the fossil fuels industry are legion against it?

>>137674595
And russians have trans siperian railway. Much longer than from state to state. So it can be done.

>>137672943
Non track drifting!!

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The Norfolk & Western 611 Steam engine has been running on the tracks here in Western North Carolina recently. Its pretty fucking cool! So much bass in your chest when that thing lets off steam. Very cool looking & sounding.

>>137679589
>You don't have to build it across the whole fucking country for it to be useful
You need at least to do it NYC to LA and SF and that is excluding all of the cities inbetween still making it cost billions of dollars.

>>137674252
What is Russia's population density again?

Our infrustructure and roads were not built with rail trains in mind. In many respects airplanes and faster.

Regardless, I think public transport could be improved

Rail is the past. The future lies in MuskTubesTM. We will used pressurized underground tubes to transport goods & people. The MuskCapsule will be the cylindrical structure that will carry these things, and we'll be able to do it at almost no cost & at a much faster rate than even the fastest high speed rail.

The future is here, so get with the fucking program.

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How the other world can even compete

>>137702416
>You might live to watch the first footage of a violent decompression disaster of the musk tube.
Can train derailments even compete?

>>137671555
yeah, lets see those trains go head to head

>>137702797
by having the chance of death or serious injury while riding lower than 25%

>>137671475
This, I have done work in an area that has heavy freight train traffic, and those fuckers go plenty fast enough for the insane loads they are hauling. 2 or 3 engines pushing a fucking double stack load a mile long running 60+ miles an hour through town, a train blowing through every 10 minutes.

>>137671130
eurofag here, I would gladly roll back ALL train infrastructure (specially spanish AVE, not even profitable, government must pour taxpayer money into it to keep it functioning and of course the rails costed literal billions already, so no hope of ever getting that back either) to get better airplane routes.

Fuck trains. They are slow and too damn expensive. We could build a cutting edge research facility and fund it for 2 years with the budget of a 10km AVE rail.

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>>137681578
>travel on trains begins to expand because muh speed trains
>we need the TSA on the job or who else is going to diddle little jimmy for being a closet terrorist

>>137676831
You Muricans always had some small dick issues, didn't you?

>>137678118
That doesnt make it a scam retard.

>>137705685
It becomes a scam once it becomes illegal to drive anything else because muh liability.

>>137671130
I don't know about other coutries, but pic with "russia" doesn't correct.
We have 10-20 trains like this "sapsan", but this is expensive and rare. 10-20 to our big country.
The ticket to "sapsan" cost 100$.
Generaly, you can see trains like this:
https://www.google.ru/search?q=%D1%8D%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%82%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%BF%D0%BE%D0%B5%D0%B7%D0%B4%D0%B0+%D0%BF%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B3%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%BD%D1%8B%D0%B5&newwindow=1&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjCjN3fuNvVAhXKJZoKHXIKBPsQ_AUIDCgD&biw=1366&bih=589
You must choose uglyest pics, and this is true siituation.

>>137671130
Nah, the Chinese didn't make that train, it's German technology.

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>trains will never be this glorious again
>ywn worship the big black loco

>>137687547
hmmm? trains/subways are more efficient, faster, maybe more confortable than cars period.

>>137705379
>government must pour taxpayer money into it to keep it functioning and of course the rails costed literal billions already
thats really the problem anything run by the govt is shit

>>137671130
Damn Japan, your trains are fine as hell

>>137673816
your people don't move at all

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>>137710330
your people move a lot

>>137710494
ayy nice

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>>137671130

>>137671130
we should go with whatever one has more catastrophic crashes.

>>137671130

In the US, planes are more efficient.

Planes go just about everywhere. Trains have a few major routes through the country. Even if your path is a straight line you still need to fill gas before and after. Taking amtrak up the east coast is a 24 hour trip, and thats just VA to FL. By plane thats 2 hrs. Costs just dont make up for the difference in convenience.

Trains arent reasonable. Good for freight, unreasonable for traveling.

>>137711702
r9k can't into romance

>>137681459
>post without spell-checking
Fuck you.

>>137684975

how the hell does that even pull out of the station without killing a dozen poos?

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>>137711294
>that
>EU
Sure, now that the anglos are out.

>>137714725
WTF I love the girl on the right now

>>137671130
fun fact russia, germany and china show slightly different versions of the same train...

>>137674046
i heard people throw rocks at them because sapsan replaces cheaper connections..

>>137715110
Dumb kids throw rocks at trains in general cuz it's "fun". The damage is higher the faster the train goes. And the scene is fucking gruesome.
Stopped riding trains after I saw a guy's face turn into minced meat with glass shards. Thankfully I went into the train connector for a smoke so I wasn't in the cart at that time.

>>137715323
guess it's the same kind of people that try to blind pilots with laser pointers.... or throw stones on highways.

>>137671130
In America, we have nice cars and can go anywhere we want when we want.

>>137716212
Not really, most rock throwers are kids from outskirts of large cities. Uneducated, unknowing about the consequences of their actions. It's just playing for them, just like breaking glass bottles on lake beaches and digging shards into the sand.
The majority of russian population are hillbilly rednecks, unfortunately.

>>137713407
Dude, there's already over a billion of them gypsies. A dozen wouldn't even make into a statistic.

>>137674252
Schools were shit under republicucks too. Neither of them are your friend.

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>grocery shopping
>public transportation

>>137677810
>what is the Constitution?

WEE

>>137671130
Unlike roads, railroads are for the most part privately owned.

They run into many logistical problems because of it.

>>137671130
they can keep their cuck transport. Give me a small block V8 and an open highway any day. We are Americans, we don't need to explain our exceptionalism to anyone.

>>137675562
Because it's infrastructure that will be paid for by the government, so they get to use something with people more wealthy than them paying for it.

>>137695490
That's so inefficient. You're dumb as a rock