We already discussed this on the board. Pete Buttigieg should post here.
We concluded:
- High speed rail, and passenger rail in general, are bad and possibly even a tool of Satan.
- America is the greatest country on Earth,
BECAUSE we can't build high speed rail here.
- You can only build high speed rail in countries that are small, like Germany, Japan, and France.
- You can only build high speed rail in big countries, like China, if they're not California (which is a bad place), or have union labor. China is also a bad place, but not as bad as California.
- Like hardly any countries have high speed rail, and
anything that says otherwise is BULLSHIT.
- You must ignore the fact that high speed rail in the US, where it's been tried, had a far higher cost per mile than even France, which has even stronger unions than the US. If you read an article that this is because political and financial corruption in the US is out-of-control, you're the DUMBEST PERSON of ALL TIME. Besides, we know this can't be true, because the US is the greatest country on Earth. DUH.
- If you listen to lobbyists from the oil, airline, or automotive industries, or the myriad of trade groups those industries fund, who go on TV and tell you high speed rail is bad
you're a smart independent thinker.
- If you question the motives of any of these industries,
believe they might actually manipulate public opinion, or
have actively conspired to oppose rail and other public transit in the US, you instantly become
THE DUMBEST PERSON OF ALL TIME, and
TOTALLY STUPID.
