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I really think the 2010s were America’s lost decade
90 upvotes, 13 comments. Yik Yak image post by Anonymous in US Politics. "I really think the 2010s were America’s lost decade"
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Anonymous 18h

The rest of the world is passing us by while republicans make us go backwards

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Anonymous 18h

It’s been a long-time coming, Henry ford and the creation of the car industry + the comparatively significantly heavier investment in highways versus upgrading railways back in the mid-20th century really made the choice

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Anonymous 17h

That is genuinely crazy tbh Yes I know that it’s done by poor labor, taking peoples land, etc. And most Chinese don’t use them more than 1-2x as year, similarly how we don’t fly more than 1-2x a year. But it’s still just like “okay now if you want to not take a car, you don’t have to”

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Anonymous 17h

Maybe under the United States of Mamdanistan we can finally have some functioning HSR 😔

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Anonymous 25m

It’s shaping up to be more like America’s lost century tbh

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 17h

??? 6 years of the 2010s was democrats

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 17h

I mean don’t act like republicans were investing in public transportation of any kind 💀. They actively do not want it. Dems definitely don’t fight for this shit either though lol. Progressives / left are the only ones that actively want/work toward good public transportation, i.e, Zohran

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 17h

You mean when Democrats were reforming financial regulations to protect consumers, fighting tooth and nail for affordable healthcare, dealing with the aftermath of Bush’s steel tariffs, the peak of the opioid epidemic caused by OxyContin which was marketed as non-addictive by Perdue Pharma and pushed aggressively, and Middle East wars started by the Bush Admin? Almost like it began before the 2010s and Democrats were left picking up the pieces

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 15h

I’m no huge fan of Democrats but also 2010 is when the tea party took over the house and Obama never had a democratic Congress again

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 11h

Just a friendly reminder that the continental United States is about twice the size of the EU.

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Anonymous replying to -> #7 9h

And China is bigger than the US

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 9h

Yeah China US Brazil are roughly the same size I guess in terms of land mass I think Brazil smaller since it’s bigger than mainland but Alaska is huge

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 1h

Yes, with Republican controlled congresses who decided to block everything.

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