• deranger@sh.itjust.works
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    1 day ago

    Read about the construction of the Three Gorges Dam. Over a million people were forcibly displaced from their homes as a result. Many cities, towns, and villages were completely destroyed.

    The US did this all the time back when we actually built things.

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      23 hours ago

      The good old days where highway planners looked upon black communities and called them free real estate.

      This is not a dunk on your comment, just historic context.

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        21 hours ago

        While I was more specifically referring to dam projects in the US that displaced people as a direct comparison, you’re absolutely correct. That bastard Robert Moses fucked up our cities so badly.