Trees stolen again... I'm done

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I'm not sure what your hostility is about. I haven't said anything that should offend you. I don't know why you care so much about a country where you don't even live. None of this affects you, so why are you bothered?
 
You are the US. It absolutely affects me. Just stop reposting the things you read in your social media here. Because they are false. Just stop.

I don't know why you brought up Walmart stores in Chicago. Walmart closed them because they were not making a profit. The reason for it is unclear. One narrative is that they were in black & brown communities in those shops may have been so severe, it caused those Walmart shops to not be profitable. However, that seems unlikely for many reasons. Among them being that shoplifting is not up in Chicago, and people saying those shops were just bad, or even doubting the reason Walmart gave. And I don't see why you even want to discuss very specific shops in Chicago closing in this very thread. Why bring it up? I don't visit those shops in Chicago. You don't either.
I am sure there are many shops in the US that had severe shoplifting that hurt their business. Why is it relevant? Am I advocating for shoplifting? No, it was some other user that claimed theft was not being prosecuted in Cali.
 
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there's no better country. There are dozens of great countries, just none as great as this one.
I keep hearing this, yet I see no reason why this would be the case. What makes USA so great that there is no other country as great?

It's still so good that people from almost every other country are trying to get in.
Is this true though? I mean, migration is a global thing. The EU receives 1.2 million asylum seekers per year, interestingly with a large share from latin america.. On top of that you have the formalized migration coming in as well as illegal immigration. About 10% of the EU population was not born in an EU country. The EU orders about 400K persons to leave the EU each year.

Sometimes I wonder whether the USA is telling itself this story of mass migration and global drawing. I wonder whether it is any different from other economically strong country.
I for one know no single person that has the wish or ambition to seek residence in the USA
 
This is my only social media. No Facebook, no Twitter/X, no IG, or TT. You obviously know more about my country than I do. Maybe you should move here and fix it? You're a good talker, maybe you could be a politician here. All you have to do is say words. You don't even have to make sense. You never have to actually DO anything.
 
The most puzzling thing is that those Americans only attack their own country. Usually the states they don't live in. There is a reason why one candidate is running under the slogan 'Make America Great Again', implying it is not great right now. Despite that fact that said candidate has been president and during the time it was not great.
 
This is my only social media. No Facebook, no Twitter/X, no IG, or TT. You obviously know more about my country than I do. Maybe you should move here and fix it? You're a good talker, maybe you could be a politician here. All you have to do is say words. You don't even have to make sense. You never have to actually DO anything.
Please don't write me in for president. I am not eligible. Vote Biden. So that way in 4 years, you actually get to vote again. Because if you write me in, you help the other guy get elected. And he has promised to be a dictator from day 1 and suspend the constitution. And when he was in power for 4 years, he did nothing for non-millionaires in rural areas & red states. Just bite your lip, vote Biden, and try to elect a true conservative in 2028.
 
I keep hearing this, yet I see no reason why this would be the case. What makes USA so great that there is no other country as great?
Being only 166 miles from Juarez, I can confirm, we are having an invasion of sorts. In February, the biden administration confirmed over 9,000,000 illegal border crossings in his term, not including the ~1,800,000 who were not apprehended.
 
The most puzzling thing is that those Americans only attack their own country. Usually the states they don't live in. There is a reason why one candidate is running under the slogan 'Make America Great Again', implying it is not great right now. Despite that fact that said candidate has been president and during the time it was not great.
Trump: no new wars - globally.
Gas prices down
Unemployment down
Illegal border crossing down
Inflation down
Market up
Wages up
...
 
What's real news is California not prosecuting theft, leaving it's citizens to fend for themselves.
It isn't just California. That's pretty much everywhere.

Theft isn't much of a crime until it meets a certain dollar value.... and that's the freaking world we live in.
 
Being only 166 miles from Juarez, I can confirm, we are having an invasion of sorts. In February, the biden administration confirmed over 9,000,000 illegal border crossings in his term, not including the ~1,800,000 who were not apprehended.
Sounds like a challenge for the country to deal with. On the other hand, Germany, with about 85M inhabitants, takes in total about 1M migrants each year; Compared to USA 330M inhabitants, that would make 4M immigrants per year. Times 4 would give 16M migrants to USA in one presidential term. It does not feel like there is a magnitude of difference?

Doesn't your congress develop plans to curb this?
 
While there are many people who would be better, Trump is the best option running.
I could imagine a large part of the population might consider neither candidate a great option? I would not want a 78 nor 82 year old running for the highest office here. Geezers that age should be enjoying retirement, and leave running a country to a younger generation.
 
If you rather want a dictator for president because the last time that guy was president gas prices were low because the entire country was shut down, and even globally oil consumption was so low that petrol prices went negative, because of a pandemic, then you go and vote your constitution away.

But this is complete incoherent and clownesque. That guy has no policy ideas to lower gas prices. The US produces more oil domestically today than 4 years ago. If the global economy grows, then petrol prices go up
But you go vote for this guy who only became famous for playing a mean bully and a fake billionaire in reality tv. And forget that he literally tried to kill his own vice president to stay in power. And just forget that 44 of his 49 senior staff members have come out and said he is a danger to the country and intellectually incapable of being president, despite him also showing obvious age-related decline.
You go vote for the guy that praises extreme dictators like Putin, Xi, and Kim Young Un over and over. You go do that.
All because of some Fox News disinfo that that guy made unemployment go down. Or didn't start any new wars.
You go vote for that guy that when Iran attacked your US soldiers in Iraq, that guy literally did nothing in response. And then blamed the soldiers that had traumatic brain injuries for faking their injuries because they were 'not very serious'.
You go vote for the guy that cites from Hitler's Mein Kampf, and has said Hitler 'did some good things', and the guy who when in France during a D Day commemoration refused to go to the cemetery where US soldiers are laid to rest because those US soldiers who fought and defeated Hitler were 'suckers and loses'.
You go vote for the guy that cheated on his third wife with a porn star while his wife was pregnant.
You go vote for that guy who called American war Hero John McCain 'not a war hero because he was captured'. John McCain, who was tortured by the Vietnamese for years. And who when the Vietnamese finally were willing to release him, because McCain's dad was an admiral, refused to leave without his fellow PoWs. And was then tortured some more.
You go vote for the guy who was in charge of the US federal pandemic response when 1.2 million Americans died of covid. And who started off the covid response by saying over 38 times that 'covid will just go away'.
And when people explain this to you, you just call them 'eurotards'.

You go vote for that guy because Biden has dementia, for which there is no evidence btw, despite Biden being in office today and traveling all over the world and doing a highly competent job.
Or because California legalized theft. Or because Walmart closed 4 shops in Chicago. Or because some guy on Bonsainut tragically had their bonsai trees stolen.
You go and vote your constitution away.

I am not saying Clinton, Obama, or Biden did great things for more rural areas, the rust belt, the red states. But if you vote your democracy away, you never get to vote out the guy in the future. Whoever that is. And that other guy is also ancient. He is running to stay out of jail. Not to serve the country. Someone else will suddenly be in power and you have no idea who and maybe no way to get them out. You are kidding yourself if you think the US will get a dictator that isn't focused primarily on large liberal coastal cities. The only reason red states and rural areas in the US right now even matter is because you are a democracy. Even that guy himself never visits these states and calls their major cities, like Milwaukee 'horrible cities'.
In a dictatorship, which that guy, a failed NYC real estate heir, has promised to deliver, no one in DC will ever have any need think about or to talk to anyone in Iowa, in Kansas, in Missouri, in all those flyover states, ever again. DC will start to pretend that part of America doesn't even exist.
 
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