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Just for the record, Italy is not a "backward-ass doofus country".
by w_t_payne 6y ago
Just for the record, Italy is not a "backward-ass doofus country".
- MattGaiser 6y agoThey have a claim to it: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-20025626 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-20025626
- 9dev 6y agoAn American ignorantly complaining about American ignorance. I found the tone of the article rather unpleasant to read.
- DoingIsLearning 6y agoYeah the tone of the whole article was really off-putting. Seems they are trying too hard to convey a 'no-bullshit' style of writing but completely overshoot and distract from whatever point they actually wanted to get across.
- C19is20 6y agoResident here. Yes, it is, and that's what brought me here, and that's why I stay. Sadly, some of that quality has being eroded over time, but the further south you go the more there is. Sadly, current economics keep me northern-bound.
- wkljeklwjelwkej 6y agoAnd neither is Spain, nor France, nor any other European country with a substantial high speed rail network. These networks are the product of decades of cross-party strategic investment in rail to combat the need for short-haul domestic air travel or a proliferation of tarmac across empty countryside to link population centres. The very fact that the US has failed to invest in rail in any meaningful way since the westward expansion suggests that it's not the european countries that are backward-ass or doofus. What's the experession - 'Those who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones'?