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First he purged rightist employees (even his friends) working at Current Affairs to consolidate an editorial line under his leadership, now he reposts in support of Dengist developmentalism.

The libertarian socialist to Leninist pipeline is real.

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[-] PKMKII@hexbear.net 15 points 4 hours ago

By comparison, the Shinkansen has a regular operating speed of 200 mph/322 kmh

[-] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 16 points 3 hours ago

And it's more than 60 years old.

The first line, the Tōkaidō Shinkansen, opened shortly before the 1964 Tokyo Summer Olympics, the 552.6-kilometre (343.4 mi) route connects Tōkyō, Yokohama, Nagoya, and Ōsaka, the four largest cities in Japan.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinkansen

I'd love to know typical 1960s and 1970s and 1980s predictions about when the US would have ~500 km of HSR. Could the US will get there by '64? 2164 I mean. I think I'm being way too optimistic for Hexbear.

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