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Socialist Civil Engineer. Iranian-American. Here to read the news and ask questions.

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@swolecialism @FredYeetzche Conservative catholics, really?

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@iyad_elbaghdadi When is this process actually going to start in your estimation

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@thembofemboy @bread_fixer Difference is there is a constituency that will profit from unconstrained development and is this invested in the change. Not so for public transit

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@yungneocon @the_transit_guy Damn good point

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@thembofemboy @bread_fixer The market does increase housing supply, and will do so faster if unconstrained. Public transit is a public good, the market will not produce HSR or subway lines. Unfortunately DOTs are forced to allocate most resources to car transport

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@IbragimovMussa @kamilkazani All, Mughals Safavids and Ottomans were Turks by bloodline, and ruled turko-persianite states as was the style since Seljuks. But Ottomans underwent turkification as European conquest continued,eg moving court language to turkic and cultivating sufi religious order,partly for mil

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@kamilkazani Ottoman Safavid conflict was more Persianite-Legaist vs European Tukic-Sufi. Mughal Persianite Sunni rulers never accepted anti shia alignment with Ottomans due to cultural link. This time actually marked a relative synchronism between shia and sunni

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@marcusseldon1 @SpecialPuppy1 @mattyglesias Very specific explanation, why?

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@holz_bau Isn't less commuting better for consumption?

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@thekarami Tax savings

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@SwaroopKunapuli @MiguelMadeira11 @Sturgeons_Law Small ethnically homogeneous pop heightened class conflict, so good public education/engineering early on. Industrial base was not destroyed by WWII unlike most of Europe and so built a welfare state in top of export oriented economy

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@akashnikolas @jbendery @EricLevitz @AJentleson ...Utopia?

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@csilverandgold Walkable is a word that has an obvious meaning and you can imagine the implications. Wtf does rollable or human-centric mean. Maybe it simply doesn't matter, but it feels like this obsession over word choice is either a contribution or a cause of our impotence

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@patience_not @rmccown @NatashaBertrand @GlennKesslerWP Engineers don't determine funding of the military lol

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@christapeterso Excellent point, I am now against debt relief

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@Theophite @MenshevikM Based on what can you say confidently sharp decline in candidate quality?

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@Paraglobalism Lmao what

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@JasonMBrodsky @StateDept Good point, not only was there no direct conflict but the US and Iran actually collaborated to positive ends!

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@NotaCommie7 @yungneocon It's the same reason we can't use the existing tracks. We have a good freight system, but that all moves a third of the speed of HSR