The two trains pictured:
More info about (and photos of) the driver, Han Junjia:
this post was submitted on 27 May 2026
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It's absolutely hilarious to me how people in the west are genuinely surprised that people in China overwhelmingly support their system and government. Just imagine what it must be like to live in a country where you see this sort of progress happening all around you in a single generation. You see a clear and tangible demonstration of the government working to improve your life everywhere you look.
It does keep baffling me that your average western government keeps rolling out the scary china bad AI face recognition panopticon but like without building a gajillion miles of high speed rail and then people who advocate for the panopticon are still stumped that maybe being chinese sort of fucks rn
It's like we get all the bad aspects of Chinese system with none of the benefits because the difference isn't in the amount of freedoms or human rights, but rather in which class holds power in society.
That's not fair, outside of america we're getting at least 1% of the benefits China gets. That's infinitely more than 0%! 😎
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