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[–] coffeeismydrug@lemm.ee 23 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

honestly im glad someone has called it out, the US is BAD and China is also BAD but with highspeed rail and some better ideas along the way which is tbf GOOD. and if we are criticising everyone i want to know why rent and housing is so unaffordable in most of europe and why landleeches can reap. i also want to know why the hell life is worse for women in so many countries, looking at you india, iran and others. problems dont go away because u ignore them and yes sometimes less bad or least worst is progress too but we must strive for the best hard enough that if we fail to hit it we achieve at least good.

[–] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 2 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah dictatorships are good if they build a train

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 2 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Infrastructure Investment is an indicator of good governance... Us just provide straight cash transfer to our parasites and we get nothing in return beyond being priced gouged by industries we subsidize

[–] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 0 points 2 hours ago

I hope Americas dictator makes a train because then we could ignore having a dictatorship.

[–] Jiggle_Physics@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Individuals are far too complex to be 100% anything, so the same applies to the added complexity of a state.

[–] Val@lemm.ee 2 points 11 hours ago