Some countries build high-speed rail. We do this.
3d 8h ago by lemmy.world/u/ickplant in politicalmemes
The picture of the white house in front of the white house somehow gives me a powerful message: everything in this place is fake, nothing is well thought out.
Like he wanted to have his redneck show in front of the house and then someone told him "uh sir we can't actually see the white house from there, there's all your UFC stuff in front of it". "Oh. Meh, put a picture".
As a hick, please don't call this Redneck it's below even our standards on average and also tends to at least be cheap. Call it classless white trash profligacy.
I'll take that :)
He is merely aspiring to redneckdom.
He is fundamentally incapable of understanding any breed of redneck culture, with maybe the sole exception of the ones who go yuppie and develop a complete lack of taste. But who am I kidding few if any of my kin have even the mildest respect for themselves.
The White House is a 1950s fake anyway
We didn't need a sequel to idiocracy.
This is more of a prequel.
True.
Seriously let's let Terry Crews wrestle Trump for the presidency.
Our last pro wrestler president did an okay job, as far as presidents go. Lets have another.
For those who don't get the reference. He's referring to Lincoln, he also has a patent to his name.
Anyone who's gender you don't know is a man. This is known.
Weirdly enough I usually use gender neutral terms but I'm playing Rogue Trader and it's fucked up my writing style somewhat.
Well I'm a town, so maybe don't be a bigot.
Abelard remove this thing from my presence.
Oh, hi I'm Danny the Street!
Hold on now, this is the prequel!
Exactly what I was thinking about. President Camacho approves.
Camacho understood there was a problem, he found the most competent person to solve that problem, promoted him and gave him the resources to solve the problem, and managed to solve that existantial problem this way. Sounds nothing like what the Trump administration would ever do.
Camacho also wasn't a fucking pedophile.
I would far rather have a president camacho. But to be fair they only got him after centuries of decline
Is that a picture of the white house on scaffolding?
No, there's a scaffold in front of the WH to support the asinine UFC fights tonight (and the stands for those). It's a temporary structure, theoretically (though of course, Dear Leader has floated the idea "as a joke" of just keeping it in place permanently "for other events".)
for other events
i can think of one or two.........
Putting all the billionaires in a cage fight allowing the last one standing to survive?
The survivor doesn't keep their wealth
a hunger games for billionaires. or at least a safari. we all know billionaires only tolerate each other, they would probably try to turn on each other if they dint have single goal.
I prefer at least 5 guillotines in a row for the billionaires.
It is however a picture of the WH on the scaffolding
Sigh..... yes. I don't even know what's happening anymore.
It’s a picture of the White House on meth and stupidity.
yes, as to hide the actual WH itself.
My non-american mind failed to understand why a picture of seemingly the white house is infront of the white house?
The view from there is currently blocked by the UFC ring they’ve been building for a couple weeks now
Damn it nitro circus. I used to think you guys were cool when I was a kid
That’s where I’m at. I used to play as Deegan on Freekstyle all the time. Nitro Circus is dead to me now.
Motorsport politics is like Russian Roulette with a semi-auto, unfortunately.
Kids and adults with kid-development-level brains think that this is still cool. You don't need to feel shame for maturing.
I mean, it's uncool because of giving in to Trump's garbage, but it's still cool on its own
Yeah pretty much this.
The guys who created Idiocracy should create a documentary style “prequel” showing how Trump leads us down the path to Idiocracy.
“I mean, in a way Idiocracy kind of looks optimistic right now,” Mike Judge tells The Daily Beast by phone from his Los Angeles office.
At least the president in that movie gave a shit about his people.
Someone else mentioned that he also hired the most qualified person and provided the resources to solve an existential problem.
Yes, we live in a world where dystopian stories from just a few decades ago are looking good.
Yup. He was stupid, but knew when to listen to others. He cared about the country even though he fucked up along the way, and openly chose to listen to people he at least assumed were smarter and knew more than him.
President Camacho might have been an idiot, but he knew how to allocate ideas, and knew what he didn't know when smarter people came around.
This government is banning vaccines and tells you not to look up.
Trump led us here? You should check out the history of USA sometime. Concocted by literal enslavers committing genocide.
I’m suggesting the plot for a fictional movie making fun of the current administration…
Some countries have universal healthcare paid by their tax dollars instead of roller rink cheeto's circus.
Some countries have no homeless because their tax dollars help the citizenry instead of lining the orange criminal's pockets.
Some countries feed their children so that no child goes hungry in the midst of plenty.
Some countries don't have a fucking fascist shitbag lying and stealing and grabbing anything not nailed down.
Stuff being nailed down doesn't seem to stop him now, does it?
Doesn't even slow him down.
To be fair, even before the orange shitbag, America didn’t address those things and instead funneled money into a few different shitbag’s & criminal’s pockets.
If anything orange shitbag is a good rep for what the U.S. be like for decades if not centuries.
Orange shitbag is a symptom of systemic ineptitude of America. But even if he's just a symptom he's like massive rectal bleeding or gangrene is a symptom of something more serious rather than a runny nose.
His second term is entirely the result of the democrats arrogantly ignoring the rot while trying to go back to normal. And they're going to it again in 2028.
Ah yes. Everything trump is doing is the Dems fault, not Trump's fault.
Always trying to pass the blame.
I was agreeing with you. "Orange shitbag is a symptom of systemic ineptitude of America." You are correct. That ineptitude that includes democrats and the failure to prosecute him for his crimes when Biden was in office.
We are in a fucking idiocracy. This is exactly the type of stuff that was in that movie.
Always I see this, I have to check whether this is actually real, unbelievable what happens in the USA...
all that's missing is the broken dead cars on the "lawn"
When's he going to have the whole building painted gold? I mean, The Gold House would be much classier than The White House.
I hope he never sees this comment.
Just wait until he cheats the 2026 elections, and suddenly his party controls 2/3rds of everything, including the power to do just that.
He's already demolished a third of it. Painting it is well with in his power now.
In Rome, and other empires, when an Emperor was this egregiously bad, they would not only forcibly depose him, but also tear down all of his statues, works, scratch out his name from documents and dedications, and consign his memory to the garbage bin of history.
For all of their faults, they appeared to have far more courage than our current populations.
I'm never one to condone the death of people very much, but I wish nothing more than for Trump to die on camera like when Charlie Kirk got shot. I want the world to be able to watch, rewind, and watch again. I don't need him to die slowly in hospital, I want there to be absolutely zero chance the right could pretend 8.5 billion people didn't watch him bleed out on a sidewalk.
I wish nothing more than for Trump to die on camera
We've more than earned it.
I'm hoping for a massive stroke where he leaves a giant pile of diarrhea shit where he collapses, and then he doesn't die but ends up drooling in a hospital bed with an IV for a year or two.
they appeared to have far more courage than our current populations.
This.
We're going to go down in history as pathetic. That'll be our legacy through time.
No panem but circensis that you have to buy tickets for.
High speed fail.
OMFG this is real?! I thought the pictures were satire! Satire!!
...the fabric image of an unsullied white house façade hung as a cheap backdrop to the proceedings really is the pièce de résistance...
Is that what that's about? I kept trying to ask people why there was a backdrop of the white house blocking the view of the white house. So it's covering up the East wing destruction?
...yeah, it's essentially an open fabric mesh attached to scaffolding with an image printed across its face; they started as a way to shield construction activity from public view, then contractors began printing logos on them until someone realised that rendered façades could mitigate the visual impact of high-profile restoration projects in progress...
To be fair, this would be way more dangerous to do on a high-speed train
Retarded is a word we cannot use anymore according to reddit and lemmy admins. I don't understand why because I always used it to mean this sort of thing and not to refer to anyone's particular mental or genetic issues. But you can call this stupid. It just doesn't feel the same.
How would you feel about calling such things "Republican" or "Trumpy"?
Maybe it is time to transition the meaning to a new word! Good idea. It hits like fresh santorum. I already call old people presidential.... "People of a certain presidential age"
SouthPark made some lead way with changing the "F aye Gee" word to mean inconsiderate insecure people who drive loud motorcycles around. I think it stuck a bit for a while.
I still hear people making that joke sometimes.
It's the only time you can call someone a fg. And that's fine. We really did need a word for them and why not repurpose an outdated one. ?
Maybe SouthPark could help with "retard".
South Park's brand of enlightened centrism has played a not insignificant role in encouraging people not to vote. Even that goddamn giant douche and turd sandwich episode uncritically promotes a false equivalency where an admittedly not very useful container of water is the same as actual shit on a sandwich going in your mouth.
That episode is like 20 years old tho.
It was bullshit then too and their perspective hasn't shifted much. They still claim to be libertarians for fuck's sake.
I think they were criticizing the government and how we consistently have two shitty options.
Doesn't stan decide at the end of the episode it's still best to choose the lesser shit option ? But there is some critique about how the people aren't really represented anymore by politicians. Maybe they never were.
I do believe the creators have changed their position on a number of topics over the years. Like global warming.
They often criticize the left but they criticize the right even more.
I mean cartman is the character that represents the right conservative the most and the show makes it a point that cartman embodies all the worst traits of humans.
Trumpublican
But that's accurate and doesn't attack marginalized groups!!! Doesn't have the same punchiness for this person and that's what's actually important here. \s
I think v should call this presidential.
It's fine in this instance. These people are severely, mentally retarded
"chromosomal" is what I'm try to make happen.
That's worse in it's specificty.
Yeah, that's a problem with supporting hate speech.
If this event was held in a field just outside town I would be looking super forward to it. You watch next they are going to do a tractor pull and mud races
We've been 'building' a high speed rail route here in the UK for over a decade now. It'll probably not be finished for another 10 years, isn't going to reach as many cities as first planned, will probably cost as much as m**k is worth by the end, tickets will likeky cost you three legs and you'll no doubt always arrive at your destination late!
I get your point, but don't get too jealous of the idea!!
That's due to corruption, not because AVEs high speed rails are hard to build (and the UK is much flatter than Spain..)
I understood that some stupid old laws were involved too, allowing any random village to veto infrastructure like this (sounds good in theory, but doesn't really work in practice)
Also modern ones, such as animal protection laws requiring a 900m tunnel to protect bats, at a cost of £100 million.
I don't think it is (only) corruption. I blame two things, on one side there is no meaningful and certainly no long term political support for high speed rail infrastructure, neither in politics nor among voters on the other side legislation is seriously anti-rail development. Laws are tough on any infrastructure projects, causing overheads larger than the actual construction costs (possibly even multifold larger) but they are especially hostile against rail projects and even against operating rail.
Geography isn't even part of that equation, it is an entirely different debate. (California is not so different from Spain, dry, mix of mountains and flats etc)
If only. It’s the universal western sickness of every change being up for endless debate, hearings and vetoes while doing nothing is seen as the default. Of course doing nothing is just as much a choice as doing something…
And yet it’s likely to get much worse, after we recover from seeing what happens when you DOGE it. The only bright spot here is the more illegal actions can be eventually walked back in court. That doesn’t undo the damage, but we’re going to need more laws like that
Stagnation. Resting on your laurels, so to speak.
We in germany got u. We have this mega-project called 'Stuttgart 21', and it is going to be the new main station for Stuttgart. The completion was originally planned for 2019. It got repeatedly delayed, with the latest date for completion now being 2031. It is also severely over budget. If it comes to incompetence for mega-projects, germany is number 1 lol.
Worst competition ever
And Brandenburg Airport.
Stuttgart 21 is terribly late and over budget but it is a reasonable project in my opinion, even if many see that differently. There are some issues with it but overall it will be a considerable upgrade. Very substantial progress has already been made.
That said, Germany is a really negative model for rail development in Europe. It is still on another planet compared to the US though.
Sounds like you've got the same management team, you lucky lot you!
We don’t even have a shitty long distance high speed rail to talk about, so we have to admire yours.
I'll let you know when it's done and we can enjoy a cuppa and admire it together :) I shan't put the kettle on just yet though...
Don’t buy the tea yet, either. It’ll probably be stale by the time it’s done.
Good point, if I start growing some tea plants now, I'll be able to pick the leaves fresh in a few years time once they've gotten big enough. I should be able to get a good enough harvest by then for a couple of pots!
Brilliant. That’ll do.
Why not both?
Edit: To be clear I meant bike jumping not celebrating the orange pedo in any way.
Because I don't want my tax money being used to celebrate a pedophile's birthday.
I just meant the bike jumping.
I have zero issues with the bike jumping by itself. That shit is kind of rad.
It’s a lot of fun to watch at a fair or small town arena. I really prefer my country’s seat of governance to be at a higher level than a county fair though
Those are usually privately run. So people who wants to see it can pay to go see it. There is no reason any tax money should be involved.
Who did this?
Fuck the nationalist "we".
Sweet jumps though
Motorcycle skills....
We’re in Caligula times.
That's some Caligula vibes right there.
At least you get a show of your politican's corruption. We don't even get that.
one of those it's so bad that can't help but laugh
Fuck yeah!
At the risk of sounding like Theodor Adorno, I've been saying that a classless society is uncomfortably close to a society without class.
Anyway, did they at least put a shark in that pool they're jumping over? Pulling a Fonz?
Wonder how my parents will defend this very anti-doge behavior
We can do high speed rail, we just have to do medium speed rail first
Currently have basically, no speed rail.
Listen up, what if you gave me a bunch of money for vaporware tunnels instead?
Maybe we just need to market it as the first step for viable railguns
Here’s a question I have about this from another country? Was this a privately funded birthday party, or did they use taxpayer funds for this?
If it’s just what he wanted for his birthday and paid for it himself, then it seems less of a problem. However, if taxpayer dollars were used for this instead of school lunches or Medicare, that is such an egregious use of funds that you’d think there would be rioting.
Who the fuck pays the salary of all the people cooking, cleaning, security, emergency services, and the fucking list goes on.
FFS
Think.
That is literally what I’m asking - whether he hired a catering company and a security firm/if UFC is paying for this for the publicity, or whether it is all done by White House staff (which I presume from your tone that they are publicly funded, I don’t fucking know). It’s not to my taste, but it makes a big difference who had to foot the bill for it.
Does this kind of crudity, cage-matches and motorcycle stunts on the closest thing a secular state has to sacred ground, actually work for anyone?
I mean I get it. The US is under the thrall of a cult and an oligarchy, and so this caters to an audience of one. But is there someone else in the US that actually enjoys this?
secular state
Secular lol? You're describing civil religion. It's by far the most dominant religion on the planet.
More or less, though the US civil religion doesn't infer diety or an afterlife. But there is a solemnity about Abraham Lincoln and the speeches that he gave during the process of freeing the slaves, that from that point on the US aspired to be a country in which the notion that all men are created equal would be ever inclusive.
The reality is far more debatable, even today. Especially today in which a small group of reactionaries have seized power and are seeking to enforce hierarchy and even reverse some of the steps towards inclusion. But that doesn't stop faith in the United States, that it aspires to equality and plurality and will at some point include an even greater part of the population into the fold of the mainstream.
Some countries also have cheap in-country flights, unlike Canada. It's cheaper for us to travel Canada to Europe or Mexico than across our own country. This to me is a big problem. I'd like to travel more in my own country.
Id prefer we have highspeed rail tbh.
Also, electric high-speed train reduces travel related carbon emissions by 85% to 90% per passenger-kilometer. Making it a no brainer if we gave a shit.
I'm starting to think the Western coalition empire/hegemon built itself on oil so its never going to let it go. The rest of the world is going to move on while it just clings to it desperately, hoping it will provide all the answers as it once did.
Hell don't even need highspeed rail if you have a station in everytown and the ability to pass without slowing down. I'd love the ability to one day take a train from say San Bernardino California to Twin falls Idaho.
Stupid? Yeah, sure. Plenty of better things to spend money and time on. Still rad AF? Yep.
Young me would have thought it was rad. Older me just thinks it's a bunch of fools sacrificing their one body to look cool to young people for a second.
And in the moment, with what's going on, it's just kind of disgusting for us to be paying for this for a pedophile's birthday.