"How do you find around the subway?"
Uyghur: "I can either follow the grooves in the floor for blind people or I watch out for the signs that are in Mandarin, English, and my native script!"
American: "I cast daylight and roll 1d20 for perception"
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But you see that's bad because it robs the Chinese people of the adventure of exploring their own cities by getting lost in labyrinthian Kafkaesque transit systems thus proving the see see per is ebil! - some paid shill probably
but at what cost
Several billion yuan to the government to build it
Yea, ok, but can you murder mentally ill minorities on Chinas subways and be treated like a hero?
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Thats not fair! The NYC metro has a great tradition of murdering homeless people of color like Jordan Neely.
The metro wouln't be the way it is without it.
That's right, improving the subway system would amount to gentrification and an assault on the American way of life!
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As well as the Asian-American who was pushed in front of an oncoming train.
A few years ago a Chinese diplomat was tweeting about how there was a terror attack by Uighur extremists at a metro station in a large Chinese city. He explained it like "imagine if someone went to a busy Dallas subway station and started stabbing people."
A bunch of Yankoids responded like: "Hah! Ignorant Chinese just assuming we have a subway in Dallas 
taps head can't have subway stabbings when there are no subways
American ingenuity
That's what elementary schools are for
Colllddd 😂😂 and fucking true 🙁
US infrastructure is, like 50 years, behind.
US infrastructure is like 50 years behind where it was in US 50 years ago.
For most cities true. For NYC, I think present infrastructure is better than the 70s.
For the most part it is the same infrastructure. The signal system in the subway is still analog.
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And 50 years unmaintained
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That right one looks like something out of a nuclear apocalypse.
Ugh! Don't you know that that train station is a fake just to trick gullible foreigners?!
New York's real subways are much nastier.
I couldn't believe how rough and run down the NYC subway system was when I visited. At least they have a somewhat adequate number of lines and what not, compared to somewhere like Toronto which has probably 1/6 the size of a subway network a city of its population and wealth should have. Hard to say what is worse.
I figured that the richest city on earth would have good public transport. When I visited for the first time I was shocked to find that there was no aircon, no cell reception, and rats fucking on the platform.
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Yeah, when I visited NYC I was in awe just how dilapidated that subway was
The state of the subway system is a really good proxy for how civilized a place is.
Ok nobody panic but the Iroquoian and Algonquian script has been removed from the signage in the New York photo. I don't want to jump to any conclusions or anything but maybe we should keep an eye on that area just to be sure there's no cultural erasure happening. I don't want to be dropping the big G word or anything rash like that but I haven't seen any evidence of the indigenous population practicing their local customs and culture in the area, except in obviously-staged displays.
To be fair, the xinjiang subway is 4 years old. The NY subway is 99 years old.
The London and Paris metro stations are even older and don't look half as bad. To be fair though, the picture is Chambers Street station, which is renowned as one of the worst in the system. There are some nice stations for rich people though, like in Hudson Yards
To be fair, this is the US you’re talking about. It’s a difficult sell to get it to work on infrastructure at all.
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Trilingual metro signage? Why don't they just learn English
Genocide deniers btfo
This is clear proof that China genocided shitty public transit
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