Consider this and weep
ARENT LONG DISTANCES WHAT TRAINS ARE FUCKING FOR?! HOW DID ANYBODY EVER ARGUE THIS?!
the insane thing is depending who you ask the US is still operating more rail than china (slower, almost exclusively freight), and used to have twice as much track. There isn’t a community in america you can go to built before the 60s that doesn’t have a defunct rail connection. “Too big” is so mind-numbingly ignorant it makes me see red
China ran roughshod over every farmer and peasant in the way of these trains. America can’t do that because of property laws.
I know you’re trolling but I’ll still bite. China’s farms don’t exist in the same way the US’s do. If you look at their villages it’s a cluster of houses and the farmland is on the outside of the village. So laying rail and putting in trains doesn’t really harm the “peasants and farmers” you’re talking about. Relatively few people live in fuck off no where in their own house like they do in the US.
…the USA’d mow over Native American territory to build tracks, wouldn’t they…
A lot of the highway system was built straight through black neighborhoods. If we built trains under the current government we would find a way to make it super racist.
