• vzq@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    What’s the European angle here?

    It’s a straight up “liberal govt does liberal things and public gets the bill” story.

    EDIT: apparently the liberal thing here is making it impossible to build high speed rail. That definitely is an European angle. Also, extremely fucked up.

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        Barely. And even then, I would not really be interested in a post about a failed government land scheme in Portugal or Austria in this community either unless it somehow intersected with EU policy or influenced relations with its neighbors.

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          Its great when stupid people tell you they’re stupid because then you can just smile and pat them on the head like you’re supporting a toddler trying to form a proper sentence.

          Hint: it’s you, you’re the stupid.

          Another hint: Europe isn’t the EU. One is geographical, the other is political.

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            I never said it should be about the EU, I said it should have a European dimension.

            This clearly does not.

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              High speed rail is definitely something that’s important internationally. If done well, it could replace a bunch of polluting flights with a train trip

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                It’s about high speed rail? I really couldn’t figure that out from the article. I guess HS2 stands for “Highspeed 2” or something?

                In that case, yes, it definitely has a European dimension. I retract my objection.

                Thanks for filling me in.

                But the article could have used the word “rail” just once. It would have been enough.

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                  In the UK hs2 is a very big thing and this article was written for them, here you would have to be living under a rock not to have heard of it.

                  I would not expect Europeans to know so the op posting here should make it clear,

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                  Yeah, I’ll bold it for you so you can see:

                  Barely. And even then, I would not really be interested in a post about a failed government land scheme in Portugal or Austria in this community either unless it somehow intersected with EU policy or influenced relations with its neighbors.

                  Boy I sure am dumb, I didn’t realise you said Europe and not EU.

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                    or influenced relations with its neighbors

                    If you’re going to start a pedantic argument on the ass end of the fediverse for an article nobody’s really going to read, at least ensure that you’re actually being correctly pedantic.

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                    The other words also have meaning.

                    Besides, the other poster brought me up to speed. I understand the European angle now.