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  • Having a different opinion than the Chinese people is neither racism nor removing agency from the Chinese people. Where did this logic even come from? It’s not like he’s criticising the Chinese race by disagreeing with their opinion. Me not liking your favourite food does not relate to your race nor your agency to like the food, so why should it for opinions on goverments?







  • You’re right, I didn’t refute. Wrong word used there. i was asking for receipt, because saying .world is not a receipt. If I accused you of doing the same thing the guy accused these people of, would you accept if the only receipt I used is the fact that you’re a .world account?

    I never said they didn’t do the thing they’re being accused of, I just have a better standard of proof than what server they started their Lemmy account in. Turns out you didn’t, so I am quite disappointed in you.

    As was predicted. “One day, when it’s safe, when there’s no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it’s too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this.” - Omar El Akkad

    But it’s not too late. The people who are responsible in your assertion are still alive and still doubling down on the genocide, so by what metric are you measuring the people here who are already acting against genocide before your prediction has come true? It doesn’t seem like you thought your logic through.














  • Well, first of all, you could read usernames. That would be helpful to determine what points you’re going to argue against and what the appropriate response would be.

    Second, nobody is asserting that the US never considered public transport, we were only addressing the actual decision of the US in general, which IS very much focused on electric cars to the detriment of progress on much saner public transport projects. The Vegas Loop and similar projects immediately come to mind.

    The laws that gets in the way of public transport projects are a result of the US’s obsession with car-centrism and capitalism. Instead of thinking of long term solutions, they’d rather clutch to a band aid solution to keep their status quo.

    And discussions about public transport is not focussed solely on trains. On the contrary, the most depressing thing about the us car-centrism is the inability to do short trips without needing a car. Pedestrian and cycling infrastructure are pretty cheap relative to building high speed train networks or even inner city metros, yet the US even struggle with that.

    The source of the problem are the people themselves who have been deluded into thinking they need to force everyone to use a car simply because they don’t want to use public transportation, which is an absurd thought process. The focus on electric cars will only continue this brainwashing, not fix it, so it is a net negative in the long run.