Aerial footage shows aftermath of massive train derailment in Texas
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Video shows mangled train cars piled on top of each other on the tracks, as emergency crews attended the scene

A Union Pacific train with approximately 35 cars derailed close to Gordon, Texas, on Tuesday afternoon.

Video shows mangled train cars piled on top of each other on the tracks, as emergency crews attend the scene.

Palo Pinto County officials confirmed the derailment happened near the Coalville Road Bridge and that no injuries have been reported.

“Union Pacific Railroad is on scene with equipment and cranes preparing to move rail cars off the track. This will be an active scene for several days”, officials said on a Facebook post.

  • Lyra_Lycan@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    53·
    10 days ago

    Oh damn, the US is already at Atlas Shrugged Part I?

    For reference Atlas Shrugged is a book about the impending collapse of capitalism from the perspective of billionaire CEOs of corporations, with some magic involved but we don’t talk about that, and the primary focus is that now the public is made irrelevant by poverty etc. the government start to sanction the corps and effectively destroy them. It was adapted into a movie trilogy, which plays out like an NBC drama.

    • pelespirit@sh.itjust.worksOP
      71·
      10 days ago

      lmao, nah. Wasn’t she the one that took social services? Libertarians can go kick rocks.

      In the 1960s and 1970s, Rand developed and promoted her Objectivist philosophy through nonfiction and speeches,[98][99] including annual lectures at the Ford Hall Forum.[100] In answers to audience questions, she took controversial stances on political and social issues. These included supporting abortion rights,[101] opposing the Vietnam War and the military draft (but condemning many draft dodgers as “bums”),[102][103] supporting Israel in the Yom Kippur War of 1973 against a coalition of Arab nations as “civilized men fighting savages”,[104][105] claiming European colonists had the right to invade and take land inhabited by American Indians,[105][106] and calling homosexuality “immoral” and “disgusting”, despite advocating the repeal of all laws concerning it.[107] She endorsed several Republican candidates for president of the United States, most strongly Barry Goldwater in 1964.[108][109]

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayn_Rand

    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      2·
      9 days ago

      Yeah, nah. Fuck off with that shit. Anyone trying to make Ayn Rand, or anything she wrote, seem good or normal should kick rocks.