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Most of the time when people say they have an unpopular opinion, it turns out it's actually pretty popular.

Do you have some that's really unpopular and most likely will get you downvoted?

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[-] STUPIDVIPGUY@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 year ago

what you say makes sense, not saying you're completely wrong, but your whole argument is based off the fact that we have already chosen cars. But simply doubling down on a worse solution just puts us deeper in to the hole, instead of making the more difficult decision of redirecting some of our massive amounts of GDP in to larger scale projects (yknow instead of wasting billions on military spending & corporate bailouts) such as making the investment into the development of a proper rail network BESIDE our existing infrastructure, like china has done for example. (not supporting china but it is true that they have made massive progress in public transportation across a country equally large as ours, in a relatively very short time)

[-] Catsrules@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I just have no confidences in the US to make a national rail system. Every attempt it seems to have failed dismally for some reason or another.

[-] Jolteon@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 year ago

Every other country that has succeeded in making a mass rail system is an order of magnitude smaller than the US.

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