Comments by "LancesArmorStriking" (@LancesArmorStriking) on "CNN"
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@captlazer5509
It only means personal freedom when that's your only option.
Ever stop to think why you were so excited when you got your first car, why it meant freedom to you?
Because a teenager in the US has no other options. None.
Greyhounds only go city-to-city and Pace buses don't cover all neighborhoods, so if you wanted to go somewhere like your friend's house or a party... you're basically trapped at home like a 1950's housewife.
In Europe, on the other hand, teenagers don't have that kind of reaction, because (thanks to clean, efficient, bus and subway services) they don't have to wait.
While American teenagers are sulking at home or begging mommy to be driven to their playdate, Europeans can just go right away. They had the freedom all along.
Tell me, who's got it better?
To your other point:
You do realize that Germany didn't start over from square 1, right? They invented the car, "Motorwagen" in the 1860s, and the Volkswagen was founded during WWII.
You act like, postwar, they suddenly had no automakers or accumulated know-how, and just through "grit and a can-do attitude!", they made a car industry. Not true at all,
Know your history.
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@captlazer5509
Haha, you're trying so hard to spin having a larger transportation system as being worse😂
It's not just how expansive the system is, it's the quality. I have been to both New York and Chicago, and both their transit systems make me want to jump on the tracks. You Americans are uniquely awful at building anything public.
Skip if you want, but this is what I thought of both:
New York's was extremely dirty and small, clearly built with no future plans in mind, It was always crowded (why haven't they built out the most popular stations?) full of awful smells (rats, piss). It was also disorganized, why are there 3 separate levels each disconnected and requiring different payment types? Why are the tickets machines so old and slow? The entry passages, too. No automatic door, just a turnstyle. Very old.
Chicagos was better, but still horrible by any European country standards. Cleaner than New York, but still garbage was everywhere, many stations are placed in the middle of a highway. The "L" cars were small and cramped, and poorly designed. The buses don't announce their next stop (broken speakers?) and you need to pull a string for the bus to even stop. No dedicated bus lanes for most stops in either city.
The inter-state transit was even worse. Both Metra (Chicago) and Amtrak were slow and ticket prices were very high for such a slow train. Every time either one turned slightly on a track, it squeals like a pig. And all 3 modes of transport were very, very loud.
Should I go on?
Moscow's by comparison is a marvel. Now maybe you, obviously with firsthand experience with both, could tell me what you think??
You are right- Spain has more. But you are holding a poor standard, since Spain has the most in the whole world, behind only China.
It is like saying I am a bad basketball player because I am not Michael Jordan!
Russia has at least some high-speed rail, reaching beyond 200km/hr. You have none.
To experience something amazing like that, you have to travel outside your wonderful country, since your homeland simply cannot provide it.
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@House of the Diamond 8
No, I'm asking you for specific examples of him allegedly doing that. He does often pivot to a larger issue but he always goes back to the question asked of him by the end, ans answers it.
Specifically, he's answered that question you posed by saying that he would adopt the Green New Deal and rework America's energy policy, specifically its dependence on fossil fuels. Why'd you lie like that?
"Free public tuition!?! WHY!?!"
Because those who can afford it, don't go to public universities. Amenities, prestige, connections, are all better at (mostly) private universities, especially the Ivys.
But not everyone can go there, so we make university a public service and disincentivize, or cap, colleges from raising their tuition to whatever their administrators' wallets are feeling that year. Grants are a poor way to distribute funds- both in terms of who "deserves" the money more, and in terms of efficiency, cost-wise.
Stop using hyperbole, it's making you look even less capable of thinking with nuance than before- that's not saying much.
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@Rexxxxxxxxxxxxxx
In chronological order:
Loss of manpower. While African tribes initially did sell other tribes' POWs and/or criminals to Europeans, they eventually ran out. This was when Europeans began taking people of all kinds in raids on the mainland.
Loss of economic potential: being a colony meant that all industrial infrastructure was created solely to send goods and services to other countries. (ex: India's railway system pales in comparison to what it could have achieved on its own).
Lack of unity: when African nations were divided and, several hundred years later, given their independence, the lines drawn were again arbitrary. The tribes within each country have grudges thousands of years old, so forcing them into the same space and calling them a country made civil war (of which there are many in Africa) inevitable.
Think what would happen if Turkey and Greece were forced to be a single nation, or Ukraine, Poland, and Germany. Tell me that those would be stable.
That's basically what happened in Africa— Europe's tribes had time to band together and build borders; Africa's climate does not allow for that. So when Europeans came in, they made borders based on their needs, not Africans'.
Hope this helps
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