• adultswim_antifa [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    Tens of millions of people live in cities with passable subway systems in the US and have for like a hundred years. And small towns were connected with rail all over. This fantastical scenario was completely normal.

    • rubpoll [she/her]@hexbear.net
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      Liberals love describing basic public service concepts as if they’re fantastical utopian fever dreams.

      Things like free public transportation, or public zero-interest banks, or public grocers.

      It’s usually a “well that could never work” and refusal to elaborate on why. If it doesn’t presently exist in America, it must be impossible and ridiculous, especially if there’s no price barrier.

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        At least in Europe, the norm isn’t free public transport, but very cheap subsidized public transport. In Prague, for example, 1 month of unlimited bus & metro use is currently 50 USD.

        I think Prague has an amazing public transport system, it’s really intelligently designed.

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      Kind of crazy how these people just accepted public transport as a normal thing until like…3-4 years ago? Now suddenly trains and buses are driven by Lucifer himself apparently.

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        I think these kind of liberals were always uncomfortable with public transit but then the magical quackery of EVs as a cure-all let them banish even the reluctant acceptance of mass transit as a good thing.