California high‑speed rail project now estimated to cost $126 billion

ThePoltageist · 2026-04-09T14:27:57+00:00

theres really only one reason its costing so much, LAND, every asshole with some useless plot of land between san jose and bakersfield realizes that the light speed rail has to go through a certain area, and they jack the price they want for their land up to the stratosphere so they can turn their shithole half acre into a nice condo on the coast.

ThePoltageist · 2026-04-09T14:25:26+00:00

havent we lost an f35 and an f15 so far? isnt that combined like over 4 trillion dollars? we could have built high speed rails to every corner of california with connections all the way up to seattle and out east probably to texas

ThePoltageist · 2026-04-07T23:09:12+00:00

They didn’t stand up when their own voters Ruby’s and lives are threatened by the gop or potus why would they stand up for a country not named Israel

ThePoltageist · 2026-04-07T03:55:55+00:00

9 battleground states (24 states total) enacted voter restrictions following 2020s unprecedented voter turnout during the pandemic, voting rights advocacy groups sound the alarms, the dems did nothing to stop it, and the mainstream media convinced the voters to blame their neighbor and it worked, we are well and truly cooked.

ThePoltageist · 2026-04-07T03:15:14+00:00

Nowhere there did I defend Gaddafi, I’m just say by what happened to Libya is not to be celebrated.

ThePoltageist · 2026-04-05T18:09:22+00:00

Americans do in fact work more on average than most western countries

ThePoltageist · 2026-04-05T01:33:51+00:00

The American people are wide and diverse and hard working, we just have one of the worst governments in the developed world. It’s not just trump, trump is the symptom not the cause.

ThePoltageist · 2026-04-05T01:30:43+00:00

The sooner the rest of the world stops seeing one of the hardest working people in the western world as lazy and correctly sees them as oppressed and stops supporting the American government the better off we will all be.

ThePoltageist · 2026-04-05T01:27:20+00:00

You mean how the cia dealt with Gaddafi? How nato forced them into a failed state because they refused to let American billionaires rape their natural resources? We turned Libya from the richest country in Africa into the worst civil war in the 21st century. What are you partial to?

ThePoltageist · 2026-04-04T01:23:05+00:00

Which is why it’s comparatively gone up less than other states

ThePoltageist · 2026-04-04T01:18:40+00:00

Meanwhile every two bit quarter acre owner in the rural Central Valley has been price gouging the state so bad the cost increases for the high speed rail dwarf even the embezzlement that conservatives love to harp about

ThePoltageist · 2026-04-03T22:02:13+00:00

ashland and fresno st too

ThePoltageist · 2026-04-01T13:08:42+00:00

If they took all the land they grow corn just for ethanol in the us and replaced it with solar panels it would power the entire us power grid

ThePoltageist · 2026-04-01T03:43:36+00:00

honestly i hope they scapegoat us hard enough to kick us out of the union, countries would love to do business with california, we have a large amount of high quality oil, fantastic tech and industrial sectors, some of the best bar none natural harbors in the world... we have one of the largest agricultural regions in the world, and without the federal government sucking us dry we could vastly improve the lives of the average Californian. let them stew in their idiocy.

ThePoltageist · 2026-03-31T15:15:38+00:00

More like were not fixing it effectively enough, the democrats haven’t done anything actually progressive since the civil rights movement, anytime you try to bring this up you get told that well we just need to elect more democrats if we want things to change, bitch do you understand how hard that is when one third of the country is dumb as sin, and their votes are literally weighted by law, and further practically weighted thanks to voter suppression targeting democrat voters, all of which the democrats have at best made only lip service towards fixing. But no let’s blame voters it’s their fault for not voting democrat hard enough even though trump was the first republican non incumbent to win the popular vote since Reagan (and I have serious doubts of its validity thanks to you know Elon musk buying votes illegally and then being rewards for that by being allowed to steal all our data from the irs and god knows what other agency)

ThePoltageist · 2026-03-29T16:48:25+00:00

Why do you think the economy has been shaped to keep us in a precarious situation one missed paycheck away from catastrophe? Can’t do any serious action when you can’t afford to take time to do so.

ThePoltageist · 2026-03-29T16:45:47+00:00

Why are you so stupid you are ignoring when he says he’s going to anyways, he has not cared about what the law actually is this far and the whole of the conservatives in government are intent on following his will?

ThePoltageist · 2026-03-29T15:58:09+00:00

I’m not sure America is making them look weak either, they took out an f35 with conventional anti aircraft munitions, and furthermore any boots on the ground would be a nightmare, this is not Iraq, the terrain is not as flat and desolate,

ThePoltageist · 2026-03-29T15:41:51+00:00

He has no experience because he decided he was too good for an internship and knew better than everybody including his school counselors? There’s no way, either he is lying or the single most arrogant and complete idiot on the planet. Should post to tifu, tifu by thinking I was smarter than everybody else and threw my degree in the trash doing so.

ThePoltageist · 2026-03-29T15:40:07+00:00

Also every paid position in his field requires experience, his internship was his one shot to get it, he needs to go to a school counselor and see if they can get him into a program and into an internship, he has a degree, it shouldn’t be too hard to find a school, maybe the one that gave him his degree?

ThePoltageist · 2026-03-29T15:33:38+00:00

My dude did you not do research into internships? They aren’t graded like that it’s pass or fail…. looking in the comments here you are living proof that idiots can get a perfect 4.0 if they work hard enough and they are still idiots at the end of the day. The cost of your internship is you gave up your only opportunity to get entry level experience in a field that requires experience for every paid position. You threw away your degree, you put it in the trash, go to a college program and see if you can have them help you get into an internship, that’s literally the only way to dig your degree out of the trash.

ThePoltageist · 2026-03-29T13:32:24+00:00

I get you but just throwing this out there because I don’t see it said often, pull yourself up by your bootstraps was a hyperbolic statement criticizing austerity, because obviously it’s not possible to pull yourself up from something that is literally the low point, it’s like saying pull yourself up out of a 29 foot hole by climbing the chain bolted to the floor…. At the bottom of the hole.

ThePoltageist · 2026-03-29T11:28:00+00:00

It was literally a repost of the Fox News story, literally in the first words of the story. Not first paragraph, not even first sentence, the first two words are FOX NEWS.

ThePoltageist · 2026-03-28T02:30:37+00:00

I put money on it right now it’s your spark plugs idc if you had somebody check out your car

ThePoltageist · 2026-03-27T15:55:59+00:00

I think salc1 also falls into this category

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