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[–] [email protected] 72 points 8 months ago (1 children)

During the cold war, the anticommunist ideological framework could transform any data about existing communist societies into hostile evidence.

party-parenti

[–] [email protected] 30 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Parenti quote

edit: ok I thought there was a bot that replies the parenti quote when someone says parenti quote but I guess not

[–] [email protected] 17 points 8 months ago

It's on lemmygrad, it doesn't seem to troll Hexbear

[–] [email protected] 63 points 8 months ago (2 children)

smuglord "See bro, that's the problem with China; they're too concerned with rush, rush, rush to the destination when every wise man knows it's all about the journey. That's why we designed our transit system around massive traffic congestion resulting in multi-hour commutes. Just think about how much time for reflection and "being in the moment" you lose without your ritual stop-and-go traffic twice a day. No, really, think about it. You have ample opportunity..."

[–] [email protected] 36 points 8 months ago

Somehow brought to you by the same brain processes that brought you Falling Down

[–] [email protected] 18 points 8 months ago

Part 2:

smuglord: "What's that, you think the slow train rides are interesting like the Amtrak surfliner? Well, we need to defund Amtrak because uhhh....You just HAVE to drive, okay?"

[–] [email protected] 42 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

In China they don't have the luxury of having a 6 hour amtrak delay because passenger rail is sharing track with cargo which has precedence.

I feel bad for them. If they only could have a taste of this freedom.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 8 months ago (4 children)

I've done one of those long Chinese train rides and they were deeply unpleasant

[–] [email protected] 44 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Every time I try I wind up embroiled in a murder mystery

[–] [email protected] 30 points 8 months ago

Maybe don't participate in a vast train-wide conspiracy to gaslight a sweet old french detective.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago

Track gaps judder

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I did one but in one of the sleeper cabins and it was pretty nice. Nowhere near as nice as the new high speed trains they have now but not bad at all.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago

the sleepers are fine; if you get one of the church pew regular seats (or worse, have to stand or sit in the aisle) it's another story

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago

Yeah took an overnight from Shanghai->Chengdu and just slept, it was fine, but high speed on the return.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

ehhh I have positive memories of my whole extended family riding a sleeper train, but I was a child and also have positive memories from that period of playing in a large pile of dirty sand.

I saw in video that in some really rural and mountainous areas they kept the slow train service so villagers can transport their livestock to the city markets, so the whole narrative this article gives doesn't even make sense.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 8 months ago

In Soviet China, they force their population to take fast train rides on modern high speed rail yeonmi-park

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

A "Tradition" is just peer pressure done by dead people

[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago

Shen Yun: China Before High Speed Trains

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago

American: Train journey?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago