Shared on Facebook with the caption “Doing absolutely no favours to their international reputation, Americans have swarmed social media posts of Taylor Swift’s Melbourne concerts confused by a very obvious detail. Can you spot it?”

It’s an article from the Murdoch right-wing paper “The Australian”, so I won’t link the original source.

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Aerial photo of the Melbourne Cricket Ground, surrounded to its North and East by tree-filled parks, to the West by a warm-up pitch, and to the South by a train line with two pedestrian overpasses over it. Underneath this photo is the article title “The MCG show detail that has American Swifties baffled” and byline “by Sam McPhee”.

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    9 months ago

    Yeah sure, it’s nice, but not every country can afford a mass ride-in-a-kangaroo-pouch transit system.

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      9 months ago

      The US absolutely can afford it, reduce military spending by 10% That is about 80 billion usd, with 80 billion usd they sure as hell can afford to build some public transport

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        9 months ago

        Sorry but you have clearly never imported and raised giant kangaroos for mass transit. $80 billion is nothing to them. Nothing.

      • hglman@lemmy.world
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        9 months ago

        The cost of cars is something like 4.8 trillion annually in the us. Could build everyone transit in a decade if anyone cared.