There’s something strange about *celebrating* the fact that we got it together enough to fix our roads and bridges. Shouldn’t that be something that in an advanced civilization you do repeatedly and like clockwork - the way they feed the war machine?

Nov 8, 2021 · 5:02 PM UTC

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Like they do in every other country? Yes. Maintaining vital infrastructure should not even be newsworthy, let alone a reason to fire off confetti cannons.
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Whooaa! What a unique concept! Scheduled maintenance!
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Especially since what little it even constitutes is mostly a corporate giveaway and resource privatization scheme disguised as public works, anyway.
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Well if you're speaking of trains... All are privately owned so tell me how we rise to the level of other countries that have high speed railways? It's bs.
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Good question
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All money into the coffers of the building trades mafia.
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The economic system we subscribe to is fundamentally against that.
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Honestly, I don't know why people don't treat healthcare and climate change as the number one most important things for us. Nothing else really matters when those determine if we survive or not
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America is a failed state, nothing about its failures should shock any of us at this point.
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