• Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz
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    23 hours ago

    I’m in China right now, its weird how the government does more for the people than most western democracies if they’re totally unaccountable. Is it possible you don’t have any idea wtf you’re talking about?

    Here’s a place where you can go 250 miles in an hour and a half for 30 bucks. No idea who this is for if not the people.

    • teft@piefed.social
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      13 hours ago

      It’s for the party bosses. People on time means more economic production which means more global political clout.

      Let’s see the rural infrastructure and collapsing tofu dreg bridges. Bet they don’t look as good.

      • Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz
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        12 hours ago

        It’s for the party bosses. People on time means more economic production

        HSR is for long distances, nobody is commuting 250 miles when you can live in the city because rent is <300/mo. But you are correct in that party bosses interests are selfish; they’re graded by economic development, human health, veggie prices, etc, and at the end of each 5 year term can get promoted to a bigger area, demoted from being able to run anything, or literally thrown in prison depending on their performance.

        Let’s see the rural infrastructure and collapsing tofu dreg bridges

        The buildings in less economic areas aren’t as nice, but that’s true literally everywhere. As for collapsed bridges and other infrastructure, I’ve literally never seen that.

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      14 hours ago

      I’d like to answer but you used your free speech to disqualified yourself.