@otakara18 IIRC, dude was private security coming off a shift somewhere else. He just wanted a coffee, and found an armed robbery in progress. (The fact that the gun was fake doesn’t matter)
@BhattiLaib9960 Farmland. Trees. Mountains. Tundra. The ability to defend our borders. The ability to project power globally. The ability to dictate food prices. A functioning society. Liberty. A guarantee against tyranny. A justification to violently end tyranny. The means to fight tyranny. AC.
@Andrea19aaa@Random832@nmheath0377742@222rainclouds I’m glad your commitment to not eating is so great that you’d suggest we not build in *checks notes* the great plains and midwest, the largest, extremely fertile and productive swath of land in the world, which feeds earth.
We live in this place so you can have affordable food.
@tuuu28283 If we are able to speak the language at least well enough to benefit from immersion, we usually do go to friendly nations alone the first time.
We then can act as guides to our friends and family for the second trip. That way, everyone knows how to act respectfully.
@MiddleearthMixr They literally have to make up strawmen.
Dude’s got six toes, and the chyron on the TV is wholly unintelligible. This is AI slop. The picture is made up. The sentiment is imagined.
The people proffering this to support their worldview lack both empathy and theory of mind.
@tuuu28283 Avoid New York. If you want an authentically American experience, go to Nashville and attend a concert at the Grand Ole Opry. New York is effectively an international city at this point.
Despite the fact that my Georgia roots have animosity for Tennesee, Nashville rocks.
@mattyglesias I get why you’d prefer the cover of feigned ignorance to the tacit admission that your hypocrisy is showing.
But now you just look like a dumb hypocrite.
@HaroldWren22 The bitch is a name+bunchanumbers botspam account created recently in order to try to run interference for planter. The *dude* is probably not even actually american, if there’s even a carbon-based element behind the fake spam account.