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homiro · 4 months ago

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[Picture ID: Screenshot of a Twitter post that is a quote tweet of a post by U.S. American user Representative Seth Moulton about railways in China comparing 2008 and 2020 where there are a lot more in 2020, that reads 'If China can do it, so can we. Let's build hashtag High Speed Rail nationwide. And the quote by user BoringStein reads 'I mean, look, I obviously want this but fundamentally, no we can't. The last forty-five years of legislative and regulatory shit-flinging has been with the explicit intent to make something like a new deal level public works program impossible. End ID]

American doomerism needs to be studied

#us politics #honestly same like worda have meanings #if you want to do a very good faith reading of a very extreme wording suit yourself #but don't call other people silly for reading words literally #especially when they're extreme words such as possible and impossible #i have autism for one and often read things literally unless it's stated that it's not literal #or implied such as when it's a poem #so saying haha you're an idiot for reading this literally #when nothing in the text indicated that it wasn't meant to be literal is pretty ableist #and also what? if you don't want to say something is impossible then don't say it's impossible #when i hear impossible i don't take it as a challenge or start tugging at what i know about the subject #or try to decrypt what the other person was thinking because I don't know what they know or don't know #because I don't know them simple as that #and when i ask for clarification i mean it genuinely because in this case it'd require it #in order to know what the quoter meant #just my personal observation not an opinion im just autistic and it upsets me when a literal reading is called 'silly'#when nowhere was it said that it wasn't meant to be literal #it's not obvious lol unless you're op you're just making assumptions in your neurotypical brain #and the word fundamentally is also there lol that's a zero from me on the interpretation skills buddy #because nowhere in the text does it say op thinks it's possible quite and very literally the contrary #and the take is indeed doomeristic #even if op does know what the user who didn't assume anything said that isn't in the text #so that interpretation is not backed up by the text and is thus simply speculation about the author's views #again not an opinion on the topic at hand since i don't know much about us politics or whatever #im just talking about the interaction here #actually autistic #long tags #homiro said some shit #oh yeah and a side note: the user's handle and acreenname also indicate a doomer take #just observing here chief

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