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What America really needs
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this post was submitted on 11 Jun 2024
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Says the guy seriously considering building a canal across the U.S. .
I wouldn't tell anyone they're a troll if I were you.
Alright, I'll take you seriously, the fuel efficiency per weight is far superior over water and vastly superior per volume. Sorry if I've been a little short with people in this thread, but it's hard to take any of you seriously after that first guy suggested the canal would somehow displace millions of people as if it absolutely had to be routed in a perfectly straight line through major population centers. I wonder if the disconnect is that the European Mind cannot comprehend vast swaths of unprotected land being underutilized in the USA.
Jesus Christ dude.
First of all, I'm american, I'm a woman, and just look at our highway system. Black neighborhoods were bulldozed and paved over with highway interchanges. Cities were destroyed and continue to suffer from their existence. St. Louis, Detroit, Memphis, Cleveland, Chicago, etc., etc., didn't happen because suburbs 'won' in the free market of infrastructure or something.
Remember 8 mile, that road you don't go past in Detroit? Hmm yeah I wonder how that happened if bridges/crosswalks are such a good replacement for infrastructure that doesn't require those things in the first place. Infrastructure can facilitate national movement but it can also stand locally as an impenetrable wall. Put as many expensive "gateways" up as you want, it's still a fucking wall. There's a reason rivers are used as division lines between cities, states, and countries.
Do you really think there's going to be a perfect route through ALL of that land and that avoiding population centers wouldn't negate its usefulness?
Edit: also "underutilized" is an insane term to use for land. Just because humans aren't utilizing it, doesn't mean that land is devoid of use by other life. There is an entire ecosystem across this country that shouldn't be disturbed if we can help it, much less a river be built through it. I mean come on, we have a mass extinction event going on right now, all the way down to the fucking insects that splatter on our windshields.
Here is an idea for you: Don't build a fucking canal through Detroit?
They didn't have to bulldoze underserved and impoverished neighborhoods to build a highway, they wanted to. They could have gone around. Imagine not trusting any profession because notable examples of people in that profession in the 1980s included a really bad person.
Oh I get it. You're trolling. Nice.
I knew you were trolling and I still gave an honest reply.