@gaiaslastlaugh I walk every day downtown during the work week. I walk my dog almost everyday in my neighborhood. I have no desire to live downtown. Neither do most families.
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Jon Matthews
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Jon Matthews
@mitake111
Follower of Christ, husband, father, and (no longer) suffering Texas Rangers fan.
Texas Sumali Kasım 2011
307 Sinusundan149 Mga Tagasunod
Learning this week that people hate living in a walkable city because they hate the very concept of “walking”
Zerve@Captain_C2
Thats a horribly inefficient waste of time. You probably end up spending close to 5 hours just in grocery stores every week if you do this (nevermind the extra hours spent walking there and back as well), when you add up shopping+waiting in line. I'd rather just do 2-3 weeks worth of shopping at once in <2hours, drive my groceries right to my front door, and then not have to go to a store again for a few weeks There's a reason no one who gets a license ever uses public transit or walks anywhere ever again if they dont have to - its way worse in every way. Society should be more accommodating to cars, not less. Bike lanes for example, should be illegal
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Settle a debate I'm having.
Can you count having visited a country if you never left the airport?
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@CynicalPublius Hollywood and Leftists tried to normalize collectivism coming off of Woodstock and Vietnam to soften American views on Communism. And they have since normalized Islam after Munich, American hostages in Iran, and 9/11. Truly amazing.
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I came across a YouTube video full of old commercials.
It just dawned on me that the "I'd like to teach the world to sing" Coca-Cola commercial was one of the earliest times popular culture tried to convince us that all cultures are equal in value and worthy of respect.
Despite the fact that we know that many cultures enslave women routinely, endorse honor killings, have culturally acceptable pedophilia and generally spit on human rights.
It was all just one big propaganda campaign.
The question is: why?
youtube.com/watch?v=ib-Qiy…
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A majority of Americans having gone to Texas does not pass the smell test for me, unless you are counting layovers in DFW or IAH
Hunter📈🌈📊@StatisticUrban
There are only 4 states (and one district) that a majority of Americans report having been to: - Florida (64%) - New York (58%) - DC (54%) - Texas (54%) - California (53%) 5% of Americans say they have never left their home state.
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I must be a quite exceptional American, far above “average”✔️ How many for you?
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@GambelerQuail Americans like beaches, theme parks, and freedom.
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No boomer has ever applied to 500 jobs and gotten 5 emails back and 2 interviews and no employment.
They do not understand the world that we live in. They cannot understand it, that would shatter their world view. They reflexively call you lazy to protect their view of reality.
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@euromaximal I think the point is that Americans have a very real culture that heavily influences the entire civilized world. We understand we have a shorter history than European nations, but what has been established here over 250 years rivals anything seen in world history.
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Americans really don’t seem to be able to conceive the world beyond what they already know.
Most European countries didn’t start with their constitutions. No one even thinks of it like that. They were just stepping stones in our historical trajectories. But there was essentially no American history before the American constitution.
This isn’t a diss on American history. I think it’s actually quite interesting. But Americans simply don’t realize that their perception of their history and what constitutes a “nation” is very different from how Europeans perceive the history of our countries, and even what defines us as “nations”.
Walker⚡️@WalkerAmerica
Europeans will be like “we have buildings older than America!!!” Which is cute but meaningless, because when it comes to our actual nations as they exist today, the American constitution (1789) is older than **EVERY SINGLE EU NATION’S CONSTITUTION** You have buildings older than our country? We have *people* older than your country. Hell, I’m older than a third of the EU. Oh, your ancestors were insanely based and built the open-air museum you live in today? Congrats. Your constitution is like 5 minutes old and you are probably going to be communist or live under Sharia law in another 5 minutes unless you reawaken your ancestral based-ness and take your countries back from the woke scolds and would-be totalitarians. Eastern Europe seems to be doing pretty well in that regard, since they just got rid of the totalitarians within my lifetime, are unlikely to revert to communism, and have zero tolerance for woke propaganda. But Western Europe… oof… you must wake up.
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@EricLDaugh Somebody(s) is getting massive amounts of money dumped into their offshore accounts.
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🚨 NOW: Senate Leader John Thune just said President Trump should DROP the $1.8B anti-weaponization fund if Trump wants the Border reconciliation bill to pass
THUNE: "[White House should] shut it down themselves."
This after Republicans WENT HOME on RECESS without voting on anything because they threw a fit over the fund.
Absolutely unbelievable.
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You voted for Trump twice and the American South is one of the most racially polarised regions in the developed world. There's no parallel for it in the UK
mio@itsallmindsets
british people are more racist than americans and its not because of the slang
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Why do we call Trump, Obama, Bush, and Biden by their last names but Kamala and Hillary by their first names??? Whats the logic behind this??!!!!
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@alisha_hg You’re talking about someone who is single. Most Americans have families. One bag of groceries doesn’t get you through a day.
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It is fascinating to see people get so close to the point, but not getting it. A selling point of living in a walkable city is that you don’t need to have more than like a bag of groceries per trip.
Based in Christ@theistinthought
Question to the ‘walkable city’ advocates who hate cars: If you go to the grocery store and have eight bags (or even four bags) of groceries, how do you get them home? You push around a little cart or something? Sounds bad.
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@leftcoastbabe Because it would not be celebrating who we are or what we’ve been, but a rally to make into something we should never become.
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So if a Democrat wins the White House in 2028 can we have a do-over of American 250?
I mean, come on, reunions, weddings and other big events got postponed for COVID, why not a belated birthday celebration for America when we get back to adult supervision?
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@em_Lazzy Socialism and Communism are great until you run out of other people’s money.
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Mamdani is proving that everything Bernie Sanders wanted to do for the country as president really was possible. He wiped out a $12 Billion deficit, and no rich person died. Crazy how having a great politician can be good for the ppl
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@_PaleblueDot__ @PrezGHz Right or wrong until they’re older, Americans prefer investing time and indulgences in entertainment over culture. A twelve year old doesn’t want his dad to take him to a European castle or cathedral. He wants a rollercoaster, a beach, or a ski slope. We have all that here.
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@PrezGHz @mitake111 Yeah that's a good insight. The tourist spots are ironically the least cultural spaces in the US. I think that's what Gaiman was getting at in American Gods when he called Disney world anti-religious
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The “America has no culture” pops up every now and then, and one thing I’ve never seen mentioned is why it feels that way. Has no one thought that maybe it’s b/c America has been so globally dominant that all modern, affluent societies are simply localizations of generic America?
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How does this happen? She quite literally let the city burn to the ground while she was out of the country and people still want to re-elect her? Make it make sense
Polymarket@Polymarket
BREAKING: Karen Bass surges in the Los Angeles Mayoral Election odds — & tomorrow is Election Day. 64% chance she's re-elected.
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@lilbabygandhi Because we started that way and want to stay that way while other countries are content with giving away their identity.
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@blondesnmartini The problem isn’t an attack from the outside, it is methodical infiltration to create the disease from within. Europeans should understand this.
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@Lunasreign_ I think it is funny that outside of Europe’s beautiful landscapes, anything man-made that is worthwhile was made 500 years ago by institutions Europeans now wholly reject.
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I’ve been to 30 countries and American cities still have a more diverse vibe than Prague v Budapest
sid 🌹🔆🇨🇦@lilbabygandhi
Why do Americans get so butthurt about the fact that, outside of natural beauty, America is a pretty uninteresting cultural experience. If you’ve seen one American city you basically have experienced all America has to offer.
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