Oh, great, more phallic shapes to slap the Trump label on.
i agree twitter user @ FrottingIDK
carcinisation of mass transit – right-wingers and tech bros keep re-inventing the train
Except they always do it in the dumbest ways because they don’t want to have to rub elbows with plebeians. They want their own private service, every time.
Trains used to have private cars, that’s totally available to those shit bastards. Train don’t care
what if we put everyone in an artillery shell and simply fired them along a ballistic arc toward their destination?
Soon:
Related: The Cannon Travel was legit one of my favorite parts of the video game Secret of Mana.
The Miracle Transport Machine in Legend of the Mystical Ninja, too!
At least this is a real train, not “pods” or just some teslas in a tunnel.
some teslas in a tunnel with no clearance and no ventilation
On fire.
Except this is just…a train? What are you saying they’re reinventing here?
Also, it’s absolutely just a play on the final words of the post rather than an actual appeal for more trains.
Trump, a very stable genius knows high speed rail is a good idea. I am extremely against high speed rail as an antifa leftist.
200mph? Like those french trains in the nineties?
Yeah, even the german ICEs can do that much. US mediocratism as usual.
Fun fact: the train pictured here is a Siemens Velaro. That’s the same family of train as the ICE.
It’s the American Pioneer Edition, the variant for the American market, set to operate Brightline West services, but even that one is based on Velaro Novo, a platform designed 100% in Germany.
Edit: Velaro Novo for comparison:
ICE making America Great Again!!!"
Hey now, we were mediocre before but now have crossed well into toxic inferiority.
It can do that much for about 20 minutes before it hits a Stau.
200mph is pretty good. That’s 320 kph. IIRC, China’s high speed rail has a max speed of 350kph, often cruising at 300kph.
Hitler made the trains run on time.
(Not really)
No, but Hitler built the Autobahn (mostly for war purposes) and to this day there a still a few Germans that use this for “at least he did something good”.
Not even that. The plans existed beforehand, and what the Nazis built was largely useless in war as rail logistics were way more important and the network was rather incomplete. What the Autobahn did enable, though, was the quick advance of allied troops. Parts of the Autobahn were also used as military airports which is why you see the current-day Autobahn make a weird curve around Ramstein Airbase. Those still exist but unlike in the cold war it’s not airbases that can pop up within days but sections of paved median, with the barriers separating the directions being easily removable. That is, the runway is mostly in place, the rest would have to be constructed, OTOH it’s dirt cheap to do.
Mostly, for the Nazis, it was a works programme. Millions of unemployed were put to the task under quite bad working conditions, the workers then wrote letters to the Führer portraying the bad, “Ungermanic, dishonourable” behaviour of their bosses, those letters never reached Hitler they reached the GeStaPo. C.f. “Wenn das der Führer wüsste”.
“Fascist administration carried out infrastructure (using slave labour) that would create benefit for the companies it was serving” isn’t the own fascists think it is.
Cars <—> Fascism
Wasn’t that more Mussolini’s thing ? (Only in the propaganda, but still.)
Yeah, definitely Mussolini’s propaganda
This is exactly how you motivate a toddler.
At least the toddler grows up eventually
Actually I find “Here comes the airplane” to be way more effective.
… is this a 9/11 joke?
Shhhhhh don’t call it a high speed rail or they’ll never buy it
I half remember something like that happening in Brazil. The right proposes something the left approves, there’s no fight, they realize their mistake and start opposing their own idea.
I’m reminded of the time Mitch McConnell filibustered his own bill because too many Democrats supported it.
With America’s amazing track record of spending big on repairs and maintenance to infrastructure, I can see absolutely nothing going wrong with this at all.
Let’s declare a war on bad infrastructure! We can funnel all “War on Y” money in. America First! Let’s reduce unemployment with a huge jobs program. Hire everyone to build tracks, trails, and parks.
So, you’re not going to believe this, but…
Okay forget rails, we put big fucking monster-truck tires on the trains and just crash through the countryside.
Just have the people who maintain the roads in michigan build it! What could go wrong!
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Honestly at this point, we should just all fully get behind this tactic as I think it genuinely has a good shot of accomplishing more than taking politics seriously.
The giant, gaping flaw in your idea is that it requires leftists to all rally together and cooperate on a unified plan and actually work together.
You’re describing something very deep, while only touching the surface.
On the left, people are not very forgiving of other leftists, when they cross the line. And if you really cross the line, then we just don’t want you on our team anymore, gtfo.
On the right, it’s like no matter what you’ve done, as long as you fight for the same thing as the others, you can still be on the team. This is why you see artists make a shift to the right, just before a big scandal, they know they will still have a fangroup as long as they share rightwing propoganda.
This is great for the right wing in the short term, but eventually the techbros and the christofascists, and the Nazis will all realize that they don’t really have anything in common, except a desire to rule everything. “But not like that, like this!”
It’s gonna be interesting to see the showdown between all the different fascist groups Trump has under his flag.
Yes, fascism cannibalizes itself. This means that, in the end, fascism always collapses, however, that doesn’t prevent it from doing lots of damage in the meantime
At which point might as well elect competent representatives then lol
Surely nothing bad will follow Nazis building trains.
If trump managed to build effective high speed rail that goes coast to coast, hits more than just NYC and LA, and is affordable, I think history would probably end up forgiving him for a lot of shit.
Never gonna happen though.
I wouldn’t trust it for a second. They’d use it to move minorities into camps more efficiently
Arbeit Macht Frei, baby.
That’s German for “All aboard the Trump Train!”
OK but you missed a golden opportunity to use the word Fahrt.
Only Arbeit is capitalized and its the only noun.
In german the capitalisation of words sometimes changes the meaning of the:
macht (from the verb machen, to do/make) Macht (as a verb means force/power/might)
I saw this double meaning several times, like the title of an art exibition: Geld Macht Kunst ( money, power, art or money makes art)
Yeah, they would arrest more Latinos without due process and have us build the rail as slave labor (contracted out to their corporate buddies, ofc.)
Or just a quick stop in the valley between Dry Mountain and Saline Peak near Death Valley to “drop off some passengers”.
It’d be Trumps “Hitler build the Autobahn”.
Canadian here. No we fucking won’t.
It would make getting to DC for protests a whole lot easier.
And there is no forgiveness either.
Yeah fuck it I’ll support the Trump train
