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The guy who deliberately tanked plans for high-speed rail is worried about high-speed rail.

The billionaire says that if he doesn’t successfully colonize Mars at some point in the next few years, you can blame Kamala Harris.

You know, cause he’s already so fucking close.

Can we please tie this man in a burlap sack and drop him in South Africa?

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Didn’t he himself get one high-speed rail initiative derailed so he could pimp his techbro version of a subway for his asshole customers?

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“Government Efficiency Commission” run by Elon, nothing corrupt would come from that. /s

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Coming from a motherfucker who made up hyperloop vaporware specifically to fuck up cali high speed railways

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Musk pretending he cares about rail while in reality his worst recurring night mare is him being in public transport with poor people. Classic.

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From my understanding California already had the red tape and funding figured out for it too. But they paused it because they wanted to look into the vaporware loop.

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It’s back btw.

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Good thing they ended up doing the sensible thing.

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Remember when Las Vegas was set to receive the country’s first high speed rail between there and LA until Elon Musk promised the city commission that he could do it cheaper using the hyperloop? And then the hyperloop became a murder subway until it eventually crumbled beneath his hubris?

Pepperidge Farm remembers.

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Or the fact that the whole thing was a gimmick to stop the rail from being built so that it wouldn’t affect the sales of teslas.

https://disconnect.blog/the-hyperloop-was-always-a-scam/

And the fact that he can suck it because it’s still happening

https://www.newsweek.com/high-speed-trains-between-california-vegas-1952031

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13 points

Monorail…

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I heard those things are awfully loud.

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It glides as lightly as a cloud.

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2 points

6399 or 6990?

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6991, it has a robot

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What do you mean by murder subway?

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Putting humans in an extremely low atmosphere environment… underground. I let you think of the really bad accidents that could occur from that. I’ll start you off with, what if there’s a fire? What if there’s a leak? Or an earthquake?

It’s got all the terror of space, but you’ve also got thousands of pounds of earth overhead. Makes Oceangate’s Titan sub seem downright safe by comparison.

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