• HobbitFoot
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    1 year ago

    Why so defensive?

    And my critique is based on the experience of Chinese High Speed Rail, which I noted in other comment. All you did was ask me by what right I can critique them, and I responded that I will critique any of these types of plans, including plans in my country.

    • APassenger@lemmy.one
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      1 year ago

      It’s a troll move. Make you do hours of work, you post, they do a new low-effort post and expect you to dance all over again.

      Because if you won’t, you’re clearly avoiding the topic.

      Flip the script and ask them to post, but sometimes you learn there’s another angle than you’ve been told. Sometimes.

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlOP
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      1 year ago

      Why are you saying I’m being defensive when I’m simply pointing out that what you’re saying is unsubstantiated, and it’s not really possible to have a meaningful discussion without knowing the actual details of the plan. If there’s something specific you want to criticize then that would be an interesting discussion, but simply claiming high speed rail is a bad idea because reasons is just noise.

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        1 year ago

        This post doesn’t have that detail. I’m only critiquing the project based on the information at hand which you provided. If there is noise, it is because the resolution of the plan as detailed is allow you are going to only get noise as part of the discussion. I don’t know if the planning has been gotten to my discussion points yet.

        You had also said several times asking if I thought the African economists did their jobs competently. It sounds like an appeal to authority to not talk about what is known. I’m looking at this project as being planned by experts and I haven’t said anything to suggest otherwise. However, people can still critique experts.

        • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlOP
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          1 year ago

          I know the post doesn’t have the details, hence it doesn’t really much make sense to make extrapolations you’re making based on the content of it. The post just says that Africa is building high speed rail, which I think is an interesting development. Whether there are going to be problems or not remains to be seen but to me this is clearly a positive development.

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            1 year ago

            It is a positive development, and it is good that they are looking at it from the continental point of view to ensure compatability between countries. Europe really dropped the ball on compatability.

          • APassenger@lemmy.one
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            1 year ago

            Nor does it support yours in meaningful ways?

            We inhabit many similar fora, we share many interests, but I keep running into you alienating people with uneven logic.

            Being called a tankie doesn’t help you. Or other causes.

                • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlOP
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                  1 year ago

                  It’s so adorable that you actually spend your time following me around here. I’ve unlocked the pet troll achievement.

                  • APassenger@lemmy.one
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                    1 year ago

                    I’m not following you around.

                    You’re a ubiquitous troll in many of the communities I like. I now question if lemmy is actually for discourse because you’re always sitting on it.