My politics are deeply influenced by traveling the world and seeing how less wealthy countries manage to have longer lifespans, better transit, more affordable housing, and less gun violence than we do we need to stop squandering our wealth with bad policies

@TheBloggins the country in that picture is Spain, a healthy democracy with western values. but ok!

@sam_d_1995 @TheBloggins Sure? Looks very much like a German ICE train

@domplexity @sam_d_1995 @TheBloggins The velaro family has tons of models. They're not all German, they're used on the Eurostar, Spain's network, Germany's network, turkey's network, in china, etc. Here's my source: mobility.siemens.com/global/en/port… Look at the stripe in the image. It's not red, is it?

@Teo0781 @sam_d_1995 @TheBloggins True. Didn’t check carefully enough for the colour

@domplexity @sam_d_1995 @TheBloggins There's also no ICE letters on the front, if you want to make sure.