aMeRiCa cAn'T dO TrAinS bEcaUSE iTs tOO bIG

Consider this and weep

“something something muh rites!”

so building trains is rather useless

That’s why they built them, communism also bad at resource management

I’m planning a trip to China next year and I was looking at the train times between major cities. The fact that I can go from Beijing to Shanghai (like a thousand miles) in 4 hours for right around $100 is insane. In the US going that far would cost double or triple that and take one or two days.

Considering all the time on either side of a flight (driving to the airport, parking, security, waiting for the flight, boarding, take off, etc), planes are really only faster if the train ride is more than four hours. And that isn’t even considering how much more enjoyable it is to ride trains.

That’s really cool. Also yeah that’s something I’m looking forward to if the trip turns out to be possible is the train ride.

Plus you can actually do stuff on trains because they’re so chill and comfy.

Yeah, listening to the bells and blips as someone three rows up plays majiang without headphones is so awesome. And China train meals are the worst. At least in other countries you can get off and buy food from vendors on the platform.

That simply does not match my experience with Chinese high speed rail at all. Why do you hate China so much and tell these lies?

It’s an even better deal if you’re a resident

do you expect them to be accepting travellers by then or are you going for work or something (if you don’t mind my asking)? i thought i heard somewhere that they weren’t expecting to open up again fully until like 2025 but i haven’t really looked into it much, but i’d love to visit as soon as i could.

I’m just in the money saving phase but this is all predicated on whatever the situation around summer of next year is. I have some distant family there but afaik that isn’t enough rn.

Before Deng Xiaoping hijacked the people’s revolution onto the capitalist road.

Considering what happened to all of the other socialist countries around 1989, any analysis that doesn’t conclude that Dengism saved Chinese Communism is wrong on its face.

Also the travel time alone on that trip is like 6-8 days

What level of Western leftist am I if the trains alone are like 30% of the reason I’d want to live in China?

I’ve been thinking for years that my dream is to live somewhere I can walk/use public transportation to get to work, home, shops and so on. And couple that with the very real improvement China is doing (I’ve never know a US government that did anything other than war and highways) it seems like the place for me to live.