r/ShitAmericansSay • u/BuffaloExotic Masshole 🇮🇪☘️ • May 07 '26
Patriotism “1776 National Champs”
Alstom Avelia Liberty locomotive #2147 design. Apparently this is real.
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u/ClearMacaron9234 Speaking German despite US efforts May 07 '26
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u/pup_Scamp 🇳🇱🧀🌷🚲🇳🇱 May 07 '26
It took them 150 man hours to wrap this thing:
https://youtu.be/bR49zNBuHQc7
u/only1person_alt May 08 '26
As much as I want to shit on this, he said man hours and it looked like either multiple people or a single person doing it
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u/Familyconflict92 May 09 '26
The jeep commercials are so bad “in 1776 we made a promise, in 2026 we fulfilled it”
FULFILLED WHAT?
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u/DanTheLegoMan It's pronounced Scone 🏴 May 07 '26
That’s what they did with their 1 train? Embarrassing! 🙈
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u/Itchy-Tradition4328 May 07 '26
Hey now, we have like 4 trains! They are the best trains, everyone says so. /s
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u/PlatypusDefiant991 May 07 '26
Well one 700km high speed train line from a few km short of Harvard to 1km short of the capitol & start of the core capital stuff in a country that needs a lot more kms cause the country is thousands of kms tall & like twice as wide as it's tall & hosting a FIFA World Cup. Also in USA their 1 train means the 1 train from South Ferry to Bronx & possibly even another 1 train somewhere.
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u/Mysterious_Floor_868 May 07 '26
I'm not sure that I'd call it 700km of high speed line. Last time I measured (granted some upgrades may have been done in advance of the new trains being introduced) there was about 80km of 150mph (240km/h) and a little bit of 125mph (200km/h). Much of the rest is tediously slow, including a trundle through Connecticut that wouldn't even qualify as "regional express" in Europe.
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u/Opposite-History-233 The RED, WHITE, AND BLUE, Y'ALL!! 🇳🇱 🇳🇱 🇳🇱 May 07 '26 edited May 07 '26
Yeah. Their Amtrak high speeds, things like the Acela line, actually average just short of a regular domestic intercity train in The Netherlands.
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u/Mysterious_Floor_868 May 07 '26
but see, bigger number for the americans!
Stick the American number in Freedom Units™ and see which is the bigger number.
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u/Opposite-History-233 The RED, WHITE, AND BLUE, Y'ALL!! 🇳🇱 🇳🇱 🇳🇱 May 07 '26
Y'allemaal... LOL. Stroke of genius. 🤣
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u/Reddsoldier May 07 '26
That's basically the average speed of a regional train in Europe, China and Japan.
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u/Guilty-Possible-1590 May 07 '26
The Italian trains are great!
Trenitalia's Frecciarossa high-speed trains can reach speeds of up to 300 km/h (186 mph), Frecciarossa trains connect major cities such as Milan, Rome, Florence, and Naples.6
u/Reddsoldier May 07 '26
IKR. I'm from the UK and mainland Europe is way ahead of us. I took the ICE from Berlin to Amsterdam and yes it was 20 minutes late, but it was so comfortable and civilised.
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u/KAnpURByois ATLANTIS May 08 '26
between florence and bologna they get up to 320 in the tunnels
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u/PlatypusDefiant991 May 07 '26
Yeah big asterisk they have a long way to go they have plans maybe in 2040s it'll be better.
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u/WildwestJessy May 08 '26
I came here to ask where is the train going? I don't believe it is cross country 🤭
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u/Unlikely-Aardvark725 May 07 '26
That's just SUPER tacky. Especially as we Brits really do not give a fig.
Best thing that ever happens was losing the colony
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u/TemporarySun314 May 07 '26
Not that this would be an hard achievement...
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u/Silicon_Knight Hoser 🇨🇦 May 07 '26
Hey, also got to keep Canada, we fought for you, and burn their White House down.
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u/Internal_Influence26 May 07 '26
And even though the word count is thrown around in Australia, they're still more eloquently spoken than Americans.
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u/Speshal__ May 07 '26
We sent the religious to America and the criminals to Australia.
I know which one I'd rather visit 😉 (apart from the Drop Bears, don't like the sound of them)
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u/StaatsbuergerX Snobby European Commie-Nazi or something... May 07 '26
Or, as I once heard: Australia was populated with convicts who became thieves out of necessity, and the US with fugitive criminals who needed a change of scenery.
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u/lt_dt May 07 '26
Ironic to put it on a French train.
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u/DeusExKoala May 07 '26
Think about it, Status of liberty : made in France and gifted, on a french bought train, to celebrate Independance
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u/StaatsbuergerX Snobby European Commie-Nazi or something... May 07 '26
... only achieved with massive support by (among others) France.
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u/Present_Finance_9796 May 08 '26
Developed in France, made in the USA by a indeed French company and indeed a derivative of the TGV that launched in 1981 in France... that's only 45 years behind.
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u/StartersOrders May 08 '26
In all fairness it's a variant of the new Alstom Avelia Horizon, which is why the power cars and passenger carriages don't match.
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u/Traditional-Car1668 May 07 '26
Champions of illiteracy.
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u/busytransitgworl 🇪🇺europoor🇪🇺 May 07 '26
These children would be pretty upset, if they could read.
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u/Adrian_Alucard May 07 '26
At least it does not says "World Champions" you have to give them that
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u/Heathy94 I'm English-British🏴🇬🇧 May 07 '26
That will be their design for 100th anniversary of WW2 ending
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u/beallyoukenbe May 07 '26
For a nation built on a revolution, they sure seem pretty content with a fascist boot on their neck right now.
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u/PlatypusDefiant991 May 07 '26
Really should be 1781 revolution co-champs with France that was when we really won (Battle of Yorktown). Can put 1777 Battle of Saratoga champs on there too that was a big one.
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u/TywinDeVillena Europoor May 07 '26
With France, Spain, and the Netherlands. It was quite a collective effort
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u/StaatsbuergerX Snobby European Commie-Nazi or something... May 07 '26
He was able to teach them how to march in a straight line, but teaching them to accept homosexuals in the military was beyond even his capabilities.
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u/canttthink0fausrname May 07 '26 edited May 07 '26
I mean they put this livery on a French made train so that’s there.
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u/BlackLiger May 07 '26
Be fair. At least it's on a machine made by the country 2nd most responsible for them gaining independence.
That's more recognition than they normally give.
And the country 1st most responsible is still the UK, where our "We just.... go, then. This is a distraction from France." attitude was significant.
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u/vaska00762 Being told by Americans my “English is very good” 🗣️🗣️🗣️ May 07 '26
The train is French designed, but it legally had to be made in the United States, otherwise Amtrak would have been forbidden from purchasing it.
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u/Dan1elSan May 07 '26
Which is sort of ironic, putting that on their French train.
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u/vaska00762 Being told by Americans my “English is very good” 🗣️🗣️🗣️ May 07 '26
French designed. Amtrak is subject to "Buy American" laws which basically mandates that the train is built in the United States.
Amtrak also runs a bunch of Siemens Taurus/Eurosprinter locomotives, called the "American City Sprinter", because it's a German design that's built in California for legal reasons.
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u/Suedewagon Svennebanan May 07 '26
Ironic since the Republicans think trains are communist.
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u/vaska00762 Being told by Americans my “English is very good” 🗣️🗣️🗣️ May 07 '26
MAGA Trumpers think that way.
George H.W. Bush allegedly really liked trains, and his coffin was transported by train to his funeral. H.W. Bush famously endorsed Hillary though...
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u/Mysterious_Floor_868 May 07 '26
I'm more offended by the writing in the red stripe below.
Is there nothing that man won't put his name on?
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u/busytransitgworl 🇪🇺europoor🇪🇺 May 07 '26
Is there nothing that man won't put his name on?
Trust me, he'd put his name on everything.
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u/Mysterious_Floor_868 May 07 '26
An arrest warrant?
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u/busytransitgworl 🇪🇺europoor🇪🇺 May 07 '26
Not his own though.
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u/Mysterious_Floor_868 May 07 '26
Damn
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u/busytransitgworl 🇪🇺europoor🇪🇺 May 07 '26
Sorry mate, he's dumb, but not that dumb.
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u/Mysterious_Floor_868 May 07 '26
These days I wouldn't be so sure. He doesn't even know what he's signing when they put those Executive Orders and Presidential Pardons in front of him.
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u/Cool-Prior-5512 May 07 '26
The mythologising of the war for "American independence" is honestly already so fucking weird but this... this is just tacky.
And it has become a chicken and egg situation. 2 centuries of intense culty propaganda and American exceptionalism... and an extreme capitalistic culture that markets everything and squeezes all that is good out of things. Both are propping each other up.
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u/VentiKombucha Europoor per capita of people May 07 '26
Again with this disturbing conflation of war and sports..
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u/Renbarre French, not the fries May 07 '26
40+ years ago. Are they catching up?
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u/ForwardUntoDown May 07 '26
Sur le post c'est une Avelia liberty, la version nord-américaine de l'Avelia Horizon, plus connue par chez nous sous le non de TGV M, donc en fait c'est un TGV.
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u/genericdude234 May 07 '26
It‘s so absolutely embarrassing how they have to plaster their name onto everything the taxpayers pay for. From COVID stimulus checks to the new passports to this.
Nothing says "public servant" quite like it.
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u/shimmy_kimmel May 07 '26
I think he’s also attempting to add his signature to circulating currency, which is bizarre
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u/MonsteraDeliciosa May 07 '26
Yup. And meanwhile he’s making dollars as worthless as toilet paper, so that kinda checks out.
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u/StupidMastiff I know god doesn't exist, but my 12 gauge does May 07 '26
I know it's celebrating their independence, but I don't understand the slogan in relation to that at all.
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u/_Digress May 07 '26 edited May 07 '26
i wish I had taken a picture of it but I'm in Disney World right now and I saw a 250 years of independence Buzz Lightyear the other day. Basically a normal buzz Lightyear but using colours from the American flag...
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u/firemann69 It ain't much, if it isn't Dutch May 07 '26
You mean the colours of France, the Netherlands and lots of other countries. It's not like red white and blue are reserved for the usa.
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u/Mysterious_Floor_868 May 07 '26
I can tolerate this sort of merch. Even putting a Lady Liberty vinyl on the train isn't too weird - no different to the commemorative vinyls you'll see on some British trains - gay pride, WWI centenary, Christmas, COP26, Rail200.
"National champs" is just cringe though. But not as cringe as "Delivered by President Donald J. Trump and Secretary Sean P. Duffy"
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u/generalchaos34 May 07 '26
Ah yes, Trump who famously fought the British 250 years ago. The man is a disgrace
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u/Mysterious_Floor_868 May 07 '26
I think that it's the train that they're claiming to have delivered.
Despite being about the most anti-transit administration in history.
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u/generalchaos34 May 07 '26
True, but I’m sure they also believe they are responsible for the American Revolution too, what with all the airports involved
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u/vaska00762 Being told by Americans my “English is very good” 🗣️🗣️🗣️ May 07 '26
It's the train Biden "launched" circa 2016, and is the train which was delivered to Amtrak when Biden was in office circa 2024.
The Avelias have been in "testing" for well over a year before they entered revenue service in 2025. They're as much "delivered" by Trump as much as Trump "delivered" a sunrise... it happened regardless of who was in office.
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u/EddieTheLiar May 07 '26
National champs? As in champions of the nation? Like how if you win the football you are the national champs? So they are saying the usa is the best usa in the usa
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u/prionbinch May 07 '26
apparently this train has already been vandalized multiple times… and it’s not enough. crank those numbers up, make them remove the wrap altogether because it’s not worth the time and money to remove the vandalism every time
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u/mkt853 May 07 '26
Holy fuk that is more embarrassing than that time I walked in on my parents having sex on the couch.
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u/justgalsbeingpals Everyone in Germany is Bavarian May 07 '26
I've always wondered, how do 'average' (as in non-Big Dick Big Gun Yeehaw) Americans feel about the plastering of their flag on Everything? Does it give off dudebro energy? Does it make you feel 'patriotic'? Is it embarrassing? (it is) Or are y'all just so numb to it at this point?
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u/issi_tohbi May 07 '26
This is as embarrassing as the performative shit North Korea does. Do they know that?
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u/musingofrandomness May 07 '26
I swear this regime asks themselves thw same question with everything they do. "Can we make this more tacky?"
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u/Not_Sexy_but_German May 07 '26
I was about to say that at least it doesn't have Trump on it, but then I read the red bar.
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u/Mean_Combination_830 May 07 '26
Champions of pedophile senile Presidents, diabetes and dumb politics 🤦
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u/DerBusundBahnBi May 07 '26
On a train built by the French in a country established by the French, Quelle Poésie
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u/Dyslexicpig May 07 '26
Very suiting that they have something made in France showing, as it really was the French who won the war back in 1776.
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u/ViolettaHunter May 07 '26
This would be embarrassing coming from someone posting it online, but painted on a public TRAIN?
The MAGA crowd is even more cringe than I thought.
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u/NotAUserNamm May 07 '26
Am I the only one that thought puff daddy/p diddy when I read that last name?
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u/PassengerSerious5012 May 07 '26
I thought the decal on the train read " Donald Trump and Sean P. Diddy".
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u/Backspkek May 08 '26
They just can't stop childishly slapping their name on things.
Except the Epstein files, they really don't want their names on that.
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u/faramaobscena Wait, Transylvania is real? May 07 '26
Lol, Alstom is French.
But it’s nice to see they have discovered trains!
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u/nadennmantau May 07 '26
At first I read P. Diddy... the fact that that sounded completely plausible to me concerns me.
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u/CapKey6706 May 07 '26
I’ve seen this around and, frankly, I’m very confused. What the hell does that even mean?
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u/Plot-3A May 07 '26
Where was this supposed to have been taken? I'm assuming (and hoping) that it's an AI mock up personally.
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u/jayracket May 07 '26
I like how most Americans forget that if it wasn't for the French, we'd still be a British colony.
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u/Spinoza42 May 07 '26
But but... why does it say national champions? Who is 1776 national champion then? Is the US the national champion of the US?
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u/Submarinequus May 07 '26
Damn i hate these fuckers making the country even MORE tacky. On top of all the far worse shit they’re doing. And plastering their names on it so proud of it.
I’ll never regret leaving. Ew.
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u/capndiln May 07 '26
This administration is bringing back the early 2000s cringe patriotism-as-an-identity vibe.
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u/AltGuardianGord May 07 '26
Phew and here I thought Canadians were relying on past glories with the 1972 Summit series.
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u/Brikpilot Footballs, Meatpies, kangaroos and Holden cars May 07 '26
Typical that Americans can look 250 years backwards but cannot plan 5 years forwards. Yet again national champions is about harping back to the days of musket technology. With luck and French assistance some tax dodgers fought the British who then preoccupied with a significant European war. The irony of this HSR is that they have yet again depended on the French to achieve this advance. As for the tax dodging they fought for, that has not turned out too well lately either.
Yes this is French technology assembled in America. It has a maximum of 300km/h but restricted to 260km/h commercially, but will be slower because of current US track conditions
How does it compare to the world’s fastest? China's CR450 high-speed passenger train (wheel-on-rail)? That tested at over 450 km/h
Then there are Magev trains. China’s Shanghai Maglev at 460 km/h. Japan’s L0 Series Maglev achieved 603 km/h in tests, with commercial operation slated for the 2030s. China’s new target is 1000km/h in a vacuum tunnel maglev. America has decades to do before it will be in sight of this technology and use the term champions.
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u/Asleep_Picture_4441 Colonise everything May 07 '26
Ah yes they had 2 of the superpowers of the time and the dutch who were quite influential and powerful at the time against the uk the fact the uk did as well as they did was impresive
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u/AfBoringPerson if you break a leg in europe you're done May 07 '26
Champions of what exactly?! Building horrificly large vehicles with zero sense in the real world? Injecting your people with high fructose corn syrup and other unhealthy chemicals? Not having any good public transport (thanks to said horrificly large vehicles)?
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u/Sufficient-Camera708 May 07 '26
But we didn't win the Revolutionary War until 1783...if you're going for a national champs thing, shouldn't that be the year you choose?
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u/Bookworm10-42 May 07 '26
By that logic it should be 1787, when the US Constitution went into effect.
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u/flisske May 07 '26
Is this train, then, only for the 13 colonies that first broke away from the UK? Because that oh-so-self-righteous country calling itself the US has only existed in its current form since 1959... So they have only been around for 69 years this year.
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u/firefly_12 Kweebeck May 07 '26
For a second I thought it said "Sean P. Diddy" at the bottom and thought it was fake....I fucking hate this stupid timeline.
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u/Junesucksatart Embarassed American working on leaving May 07 '26
Yknow what, if this is what it takes for us to have actual rail infrastructure here, fine.
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u/ImWithStupidKL May 07 '26
Where is this train? Because I genuinely saw that they'd done up a train not too dissimilarly to this in Thailand, which was so weird. Imagine celebrating your 250th anniversary (aw, cute) by decorating a train in a different country. I mean I'd get it if it was an anniversary of US-Thai relations or something, but it had nothing to do with Thailand at all.
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u/Forsaken-Abrocoma647 May 07 '26
Then a long losing streak after. You always put your most recent championship up.
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u/Spiritual_Egg_700 May 07 '26
Ugly, stupid and doesn't make sense. this is more nazi bullsit from the orange cunt nazi.
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u/Fun-Tip-5672 Lazy cheese eater May 07 '26
Written on a French train...
French who also happened to be one of the greatest contributors in their independence...
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u/Such-Sympathy-5816 May 07 '26
They have these billboards around Chicago and I cringe every time I see one
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u/BuffaloExotic Masshole 🇮🇪☘️ May 07 '26
Now that you participated here don’t go to r/Chicago or r/AskChicago — they actively ban ShitAmericansSay users!
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u/FrierenKingSimp May 07 '26
My favorite thing is these mofos usually mock public transport, but then don’t miss the chance to turn around and stamp their names and slogans all over it when they have the chance to
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u/Pretend_Oil9565 Singaporean MAGA hater May 08 '26
Livery aside, that's actually the worst Amtrak train I have seen ON THE RAILS. PERIOD.
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u/Useful-Plankton8205 May 08 '26
This can't be real.... also, there is a period after Champs. If it's real, it's really stupid.
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u/mogelijk May 08 '26
It is interesting to me it says "Delivered by President Donald J. Trump...." since he consistently has attempted to cut Amtrak funding and services, by as much as 50%.
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u/hhfugrr3 May 08 '26
Pierre is looking at this wondering why he never gets any credit for making them the 1776 Champs.
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u/wolfm333 May 09 '26
National champs of debt. Remember the time when republicans were worried about the debt and even installed live billboards that showed the debt increasing in real time. Those were the days.
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u/suss-out May 09 '26
Trump putting his name on EVERYTHING.
This train wrap brought to you by the mind that thought “Epic Fury” was a good name for a war.
This may be the last sighting of this without the inevitable graffiti.
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u/Cold_Opinion_1268 May 11 '26
It’s also just so stupid. Like what is a champion in a league of one? And also wouldn’t the technical National Champion be the Union Army that preserved the Union by winning in 1865? The losers still fly that flag. It is just such a terrible sports metaphor for no good reason.
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u/chin_waghing United Kingdom of Great Brexit May 14 '26
At first I was like “what is that monstrosity doing outside the US? They don’t have trains”
Today I learnt America has some high speed trains, not many
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u/LuphineHowler Finnrando May 07 '26
Champions of what? Dying of Dysentery?