If someone asks how is it possible for a train carrying toxic chemicals (vinyl-chloride monomer among others) to derail in “first-world” America, let me show you a video of train tracks in AFAIK the same area:
This is the actual condition of American infrastructure today, so, when an American self-ironically says they’re having a “first world problem”, I don’t really know what they are talking about.
Yugoslavia was literally the “third world” (meaning the non-aligned countries, the other “two worlds” being NATO and the Warsaw pact) and our infrastructure was orders of magnitude better maintained. This is not even the “third world”, this is a post-apocalyptic wasteland still posing as a country.
I’ve seen videos from New York, and what I found stunning is that everything looks like a derelict shithole; old apartments, water damage, aging and rusty stuff, filth and so on, and everything is extremely expensive to buy and rent, as if it were actually valuable and everybody wants it – and nobody actually does, the same stuff is advertised for rent/sale for years and nobody shows interest, it’s all vacant, derelict, insanely priced shit. They are just completely fucking insane, the entire country.
After seeing this I won’t ever say a bad word against Croatian Railways or make jokes about Indian train passengers. 😂😂😂 I guess they stopped maintenance of their railways network some time aroung when Butch Cassidy and Bufallo Bill were riding all around The Wild West?! 🤔😗😗😗 And after that they were too busy waging wars all aroung the world so maintaing railways wasn’t an option since it doesn’t make dollars.
Even more shocking than the rail tracks in the video is when you meet an American in Croatia in real life, and he starts telling you how he “holds the US passport that everybody in the world wants to have”, you tell him that’s not really the case and he replies “I don’t believe you”, and tells you all of that on a Croatian island. 🙂
The top of American insanity isn’t that they are doing crazy shit, but the fact that they actually and truly believe America is the best place in the world and everywhere/everyone else is lacking. So even if they seem like kind of a nice guy/girl, there is a very short path from that to them thinking about how the America is superior to everybody, and thus they are as well.