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New Report Argues Private Rail Is a Train Wreck, Public Ownership Needed
  • As an American living in NRW, German trains are a well oiled machine compared to their US counterparts. Our trains constantly derail, catch fire, break down etc. I love having S-bahn, U-bahn, and RE compared to the underfunded death traps that are Amtrack, and major city subway systems. It sucks occasionally but I don't fear for my life on a German train

  • New Report Argues Private Rail Is a Train Wreck, Public Ownership Needed
  • people are too car-brained to admit how awful the situation is.

    I challange you to find one American who doesn't constantly complain about their local roads. I've driven everywhere across the US excluding the pacific north west and everywhere I've been ppl complain about lack of up keep. Rightfully so

  • Freeloaders
  • Because of America's greatest fear, that if we do something that benefits people, we might accidently help the wrong people. People who aren't even white.

    You just explained how unions fell apart, pensions stopped being a thing, schools lost funding, college education went up, and social safety nets disappeared.

    I constantly come back to this quote from LBJ

    "If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you."

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