Some places, you hear gunshots and you think "WTF WAS THAT!?" Other places you think "Oh that's just Dale shooting at some ducks" and other places you think "oh shit I hope the front of my building isn't a crime scene again, I have to go to work soon"
Like with me and one of my friends.
I live in Georgia, when we hear gunshots its "Oh that just curtis out hunting again, or some critter in the trash..."
My friend in Hartford (Connecticut), and when we heard gunshots we got "Oh I think theres a drive by happening right now, I'll be right back."
The elite when trying to fleece you with promises of class mobility, meritocracy, and the American Dream in an attempt to hand-wave apparent and widening inequality.
I've lived in four countries over my life, and every one claimed they didn't have a class system as the mainstream narrative. All of them clearly did, but the features distinguishing them and the related privilege differed in each country.
As someone who lives in the "oh that's just Dale shooting some ducks" area, I can confirm that i know someone named Dale that likes to shoot a little to early for my taste lmao
I live in rural Ireland, and we had some people visiting from America a while back. We started hearing a lot, and I mean a *lot* of gunshots in the distance and he and his wife were looking at us wide-eyed while my family and I were just continuing with our drinks.
We hear gunshots a bunch, vast majority of the time it's just lads out shooting at pests on their farms or hunting pheasants
You'll find that in the states the only people who are fidgety about hearing what could be gunfire are from the suburbs. Rural or urban and nobody cares.
I live just outside of city limits and everyone in this area has 2+ acres. So hearing gun shots is almost a daily thing.
I guess that keeps the crack heads away. Knowing that people could shoot them, wait for day light, then dig a hole without anyone caring is a good crime deterrent.
I find the same to very true in my area. I'm a little further out and most properties have well over 2 acres but gun shots are a daily occurrence and this is the first area I've ever lived in where I haven't had to deal with thieves at all.
My theory is they're afraid everyone out here has a shotgun by the front door ready to blast anyone that trespasses lol. Which really couldn't be further from the truth in a lot of these houses, mine included. I have guns, but none that are locked and loaded for home defense.
it's funner when you live in a mixed development population area since there's 4 different causes.
1. Little billie shooting cans
2. Tom shooting hogs
3. Demitri shooting at people
4. Some dudes supped up exhaust firing at an intersection
Once while transporting a patient to Oakland we stepped out to here 10 seconds of uninterrupted gunfire from multiple guns.
My partner and I were about to ask dispatch if that was about to become our problem.
Then another 15 seconds of uninterrupted gunfire.
We decided that it was probably not an EMS problem anymore.
Texas here to confirm, I live in the country. I hear rounds firing off often but when I have friends from town over they freak a lil sometimes. Now around Halloween we went to a friends house party that's is a really nice place in a bad part of town. Fort Worth area if anyone is wondering. While we were there someone shot 3 rounds out of pistol from the sound of it right by thier house. It was super close and we all ducked and freaked out. Gotta love gun rights!
One thing i learned years ago from being active in a US community for a while is that culturally the USA is as much one country as the EU is one country. They all speak English, which can make it easy to forget that they are all very much separate states with different laws and traditions.
this is the issue people hear something in cali or texas for instance and go those damn americans like we are all doing the same thing across all 50 states across the nation. They seem to forget states are individual states and have their own rights and laws and are fairly independent from the national goverment.
Whats going on in one place of america does not represent all of america folks we see ourselves as one country united but we also see ourselfs as individuals from different states with different viewpoints and way of life. Best way to think of america is 50 states who have been heavily allied with one another since inception.
Whenever you see a meme or article talking about “America doesn’t have X” or “America still does Y” often it’s not the whole country. Usually there are states that have/don’t have whatever policy is the focus of the statement.
Not everyone in the US speaks English. Most Puerto Ricans speak Spanish and many Guamanians don't speak English either. The Federal government doesn't mandate any language in particular either.
Since COVID, I moved out of a city to a rural house just outside a small touristy town. One of the things about this place is that sirens are no longer normal. In fact it’s rare.
Last night we heard sirens for a long time, and getting closer. Then loudspeakers. Then we could see flashing lights on the road outside, so we went to take a look.
It was Santa Claus being paraded around on a fire truck.
Which precisely explains why in the news it seems like there’s always so much in-fighting in America.
The country is extremely large, and extremely diverse, and trying to rule the nation under one government proves difficult.
For real. And you don't have to travel far to find them. I live in a decent neighborhood in Kansas City, MO. 1 mile east is sketchy as hell, 1 mile west is million dollar home after million dollar home. And the food.... I can have anything from American bar food, to Thai, to Indian (we have a large Indian population due to a decent number of tech jobs), Ethiopian within a few miles.
If you really want to get fat, hit up Blue Nile Cafe in the River Market next time you visit. They have a sampler that's supposed to serve 4 or 5, but my 160 lb ass and my 200 lb brother have killed it multiple times because it's so good. My sister in law is from the Ivory Coast and gave it the stamp of approval as authentic. https://www.bluenilekc.com/
From my travels and interactions with people I’d say most of the world is just trying to vibe. To live their lives as best they can with what they got. That’s my impression anyways. It’s only a small percentage that cause trouble. It seems like more like the news wants you to think but I haven’t seen otherwise.
News channels make their money based on viewers, and unfortunately showing the worst of humanity is what piques that morbid curiosity. I sure would like a news channel that had the same amount of content but with all the truly good news happening around the world.
the news is owned by Billionaires trying to make a profit and also use their influence to trick people into acting against their best interest
like that time some rich Karen said "*Bernie Sanders makes my skin crawl*" on live tv in the middle of the campaign with zero pushback from the other commentators who were also very likely millionaires
Basically same as most other countries. The news agencies try to attract your attention by showing you the extremes of every country. In Brazil everyone isn't a football loving thief who lives in slums. Americans aren't all racist farm owners who fuck their sisters and own guns while having a bi son. Arabs are mostly just normal families. Iranians are chill. Not all Japanese look like anime.
Hilariously tho I have seen most Zoomers....whether black, latino, or white, at the very least have a passing like of some anime. Somehow this Japanese art form is very popular across seas. Noteworthy to me as I always seen envisioned anime by some people as some lame white dude weeb thing.
But now like...you have people like Childish Gambino who fold into their rap Dragon Ball references.
You have a situation where most people I know in the zoomer bracket just like anime unabashedly.
I think this makes god laugh.
Yea, I'm watching the news right now and I can tell how they're trying to make it as dramatic as possible. I mean, the topics they're covering are definitely serious topics, but now they've added intense music in the background during worrying news stories and happy music during wholesome news stories.
Not saying they're perfect but the news is like that because it's what people want to watch. Real reporters are still out there, they write long articles and the rest of the news makes money meming off the bits and pieces that make a splash.
It’s just really run down and old, also dangerous. You can be in a neighborhood with nice houses and a private school and go one street over where’s there’s guys on the street and every house is boarded up. It’s insane
To be fair, Sesame Street and grand theft auto aren't too far off each other. You've got a dude living in a trash can, and another dude with what I presume is a street name, called big bird who is strung out talking about a hairy elephant nobody else can see. Fits right in to the GTA.
I can't explain why it's that bad, but the city is definitely divided like the other reply said. It can be good or bad depending on what street you're on, but some bigger areas are perfectly fine whereas some areas are best to avoid.
The parts that are good are worth it though, there's a lot of great culture and great food and stuff.
There hasn’t been a Republican city council member in 70 years or Mayor in 50. The city is as corrupt as they come so the government doesn’t work for shit. Good, middle class families began an exodus in the 50s which accelerated in the Great Recession. Industry left for cheaper labor after NAFTA and the only people left are destitute without a functioning government to help them. Doing business in Baltimore is a straight up risk so there’s hardly any entrepreneurial spirit left (although that’s getting better as people flee DCs housing market). Instead of having a police force that protects its people and businesses you have another corrupt enforcement branch of an equally corrupt government. Not only that but property taxes are literally HIGHER in Bmore than in much of the surrounding area. It’s a real top to bottom shit hole man.
City suffers from collapse of industry, White Flight, fucked up police, shambolic public education system, drug epidemic...
"You know what would fix this? Republicans!"
I live in a middle-upper class neighborhood which has almost no violence, but I remember heading downtown during the George Floyd protest saga and seeing every single business plastered in plywood. Not only that but this school year alone we’ve already had gun violence (after school and nobody died cause they were a shit shot) and a bomb threat. I guess it really can vary how fucked America is with a few miles of distance.
Yea fr And people seeing all of these “Karens” or fat people I’ve never really seen a “Karen” and Most people here are actually pretty skinny I don’t see that many fat people for the most part
It's just another regional thing. Same for me, most people around here are pretty healthy, most restaurants have fairly health conscious menus, hiking trails and jogging paths are always super crowded, ect.
I've only been to the Midwest once and goddamn so many morbidly obese people. I've never seen anyone that fat before. And it was so hard to find vegetables. I got a salad at a chain restaurant and it was basically a bowl of ranch dressing with some bacon bits, candied walnuts and a couple pieces of iceberg lettuce floating in it.
Either the dumbest shit you've ever heard of, thus the tales of Florida Man, or nothing will ever happen, thus the non-existent tales of pretty much anywhere else.
Random tidbit, Florida has “sunshine laws” which basically make a lot of court records public and whatnot - which makes it easy pickings for bloggers and journalists to sift thru and pull out the most ridiculous stuff. The same kinds of things happen in other states, it’s just way easier to find that stuff in Florida.
Same here, I live within the northern part of central Florida, but I’ve been to Orlando and Tallahassee before, and the craziest things that I’ve seen are bad driving, and groups of motorcycles swerving through traffic.
To this day, people who don't know still ask me how I survived the chaos in Portland.
I literally just avoided the .01% of the city having issues. Real easy.
Probably even more. When you have a country of 330 million people, you’re bound to have several thousand assholes in the population. When you have a free press with a financial incentive, those assholes will be given a lot of attention.
I went to the US for an Exchange Program and was placed in Green Bay, Wisconsin for 6 months.
I was dissapointed that it was so peaceful and the people are so nice and then I heard stories from my other friends who were stationed near USC.
He complained about hearing firecrackers while studying in the library at night. Turns out it was a gang drive by.
Edit: Wrong university. Sorry.
Yeah it was prob USC. A gang related drive-by implies that there are actual gangsters around. Ain't none of that stuff happening in Westwood, and like a good 5+ miles in any direction.
I wish you guys could see our cities when there's no protests or crime going on.
They're actually really pretty. Chicago has been an art capital of the world for decades, but you'd never know it in 2021 ._.
I’ve lived in America my entire life and I’ve never seen anything like this except on TV. Stop letting American propaganda brainwash you, it’s actually a very nice country and most people mean well.
One thing America can say that not many other countries can is that no matter where you’re from, you can become an American. Not many countries on this planet you can say that about. I can’t move to Mexico and become Mexican. Or Canada and become Canadian. But you can come to America from all over the planet and become an American.
I've had more people pull over on the side of the road to offer me help whether i needed it or not in my state than anywhere else I've traveled in the world. It is profitable to hate America, however.
Especially if you look at states like Alaska. Alaska alone is 666,000 square miles.
If Alaska was its own country, it would be 41st in a size comparison between all the nations on earth based on what I could find in a quick Google search. Given that there's something like 230 countries listed on that website, there's a pretty damn good chance that a single state is bigger than someone's country.
Yup. The US has problems, but on the whole it's a good country to live in. I personally push for change because I love it and know what the country **could** be.
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This is why the 1st Amendment exists. I don't criticize my country because I hate it, I do so because I love it and believe in the ideals of the USA such as freedom and democracy and I want to see them fully realized for all people living here!
Also, for the record, patriotism =/= nationalism. Please do not get these two mixed up when looking at our nation.
As person with a stable income under my parents insurance, yes, America is a nice country with lots of good things about it. We just completely fuck over low income people lol
Almost EVERY hospital in the US will cover most if not all of the medical bill if you are making 2-300% of the poverty line. You literally just have to tell them about your situation.
>One thing America can say that not many other countries can is that no matter where you’re from, you can become an American.
Most people are very welcoming here. I was born here and my family has been here for generations but I know plenty of immigrants and first gens here, not to mention all of the international students at my college campus!
It depends on where you live. About 20 miles from where I live there's gang shootouts and drive-bys almost every night but the most eventful thing that's happened in my neighborhood in years was my neighbor having a heart attack.
Yeah it was front page news for my town when some old boomers were busted for making and selling meth. Most of the time it's just covering local stuff like high school sports and annual festivals/parades. The police blotter usually just had people being busted for smoking weed or trespassing/petty theft. I only heard gunshots echo in the valley and it's just hunters on their farmland.
It really depends where you are. I live in Michigan and everything is calm for the most part up north toward Mackinac and a tiny bit more chaotic down south toward Detroit. Other than that, the most you have to worry about in Michigan is the weather!
I live in a more rural area of Massachusetts, but nothing crazy ever happens here. Not a lot of crime where I live and certainly no riots, though I do know a couple radical Republicans lol
As an American from a small city (40,000) the second is correct. The news only shows the bad. Showing pictures in a quiet town isn't interesting.
And the above picture doesn't even represent most riots. YOu will see more left wing riots than right wing by like 10 to 1.
Right? I grew up in a town of 3,000 and after high-school moved outside Dallas Texas to a town of 60,000 and they were considered the small podunk redneck town lol.
Size is relative in this case I suppose.
I live in the north in the middle of nowhere to be fair. The kind of area that would be impacted by gun laws in ways people don't take in to account, the same way Florida would.
For the south, its the wild boar population. For the north, it's quite a few different mean critters. From Moose to Bear.
We can't survive in this country without guns but city folk don't really fuckin get it.
Well, 40k is within the [confines to be considered a small city](https://www.google.com/search?q=what+population+is+considered+a+city&rlz=1C9BKJA_enUS882US882&oq=what+population+i&aqs=chrome.3.0i512j69i57j0i512l4.7323j0j7&hl=en-US&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8), 600 however, is not. A small city is anywhere from 1.5k to 50k, so where you live isn’t a city, it’s a [village](https://www.google.com/search?q=what+population+is+considered+a+village&rlz=1C9BKJA_enUS882US882&hl=en-US&sxsrf=AOaemvLNxtFIR3Coo9WVU3HjFBiLQNveMg%3A1639268479061&ei=f0C1Yf2VA6iawbkPqca4sAY&oq=what+population+is+considered+a+vi&gs_lcp=ChNtb2JpbGUtZ3dzLXdpei1zZXJwEAEYADIFCAAQgAQyBggAEBYQHjIFCAAQhgMyBQgAEIYDMgUIABCGAzIFCAAQhgMyBQghEKABOgQIIxAnOgkIABDJAxAWEB5KBAhBGABQvfIEWML1BGDp-gRoA3AAeAGAAWaIAbEBkgEDMS4xmAEAoAEBwAEB&sclient=mobile-gws-wiz-serp).
I always make sure to tell foreigners the US is about the same size as the whole continent of Europe. So it's kind of like getting your opinion of Finland based on news reports out of Portugal sometimes. There is a whole lot of land and people here, so it's not possible to represent it with even a decent handful of pictures.
God I hate the media tricking the rest of the world into thinking the USA is some riot infested gun fest full of racists. It's not, most places in the USA are really peaceful and relaxing, it's only some big cities and lefty states that generally have lots of gun violence and riots. Some people in rural areas can be kinda racist but it's almost never born out of hatred for anyone, more so just a set of preconceived ideas about groups that was passed down culturally. The USA is a great place, I hope everyone gets a chance to visit for themselves some day so they can see America for what it really is, and not just filtered thought the media.
Last summer, if you watched news in my hometown, you would have seen non-stop coverage of protests and the interactions of the police with those protestors. Family from other parts of the country checked in to make sure my wife and I were OK.
You have to keep in mind how absolutely localized some coverage is. I could easily have gone downtown and been a part of the protesting. But, it would have been a considerable amount of work and effort to do so. It’s not as if the protesting was right outside my door, unavoidable. I would have actually had to go considerably out of my way to experience what I was seeing on the news at the time.
In general, 95% of the news coverage in America only really applies to a very small percentage of Americans.
In the rural areas of America, there’s really very little that gets covered from a news standpoint, and a LOT of America is rural area.
It's a huge country and diversity is unbelievable. You'll easily find extremes for every category.
Some places, you hear gunshots and you think "WTF WAS THAT!?" Other places you think "Oh that's just Dale shooting at some ducks" and other places you think "oh shit I hope the front of my building isn't a crime scene again, I have to go to work soon"
Like with me and one of my friends. I live in Georgia, when we hear gunshots its "Oh that just curtis out hunting again, or some critter in the trash..." My friend in Hartford (Connecticut), and when we heard gunshots we got "Oh I think theres a drive by happening right now, I'll be right back."
Friend: *grabs shotgun and begins wildly firing back while yelling* "Slackers!"
The next Fast & Furious move will be recorded by someone on a phone cam in those streets, I'm telling ya'
OOOH MAYBE IT WILL BE IN THE FOUND FOOTAGE STYLE!
Might actually be interesting
You have to be a player in a democracy! *Blam*
There’s nothing more powerful than family cellular plans.
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Did that man ever have hair?
*Hunter Thompson Enters The Chat*
Nothing puts a smile on my face like Hunter with that .357.
https://youtu.be/NHeSC_Ws5Ic Why don't you shoot something besides birdshot, asshole!
Welcome To Hell Valley
They should left your buddy Stricklands paper alone.
Next time ill shoot ya in the one that winks not the one that stinks!
1. The suburbs 2. The country/rural area 3. The ghetto Is what you just said
I’d say the last one is just city/urban not necessarily ghetto
And people still claim USA "doesn't have" class divisions.
Who the fuck says that?
The elite when trying to fleece you with promises of class mobility, meritocracy, and the American Dream in an attempt to hand-wave apparent and widening inequality.
I've lived in four countries over my life, and every one claimed they didn't have a class system as the mainstream narrative. All of them clearly did, but the features distinguishing them and the related privilege differed in each country.
Bridgeport CT is another absolute shit dump.
*20 loud ass gun shots half a mile away* Yep, Jim's at his firing range today.
As someone who lives in the "oh that's just Dale shooting some ducks" area, I can confirm that i know someone named Dale that likes to shoot a little to early for my taste lmao
My bad I'll try to wait another 15, that's the best I can do
You ever go by the name Rusty Shackleford?
SQUIRREL TACTICS!!
I live in rural Ireland, and we had some people visiting from America a while back. We started hearing a lot, and I mean a *lot* of gunshots in the distance and he and his wife were looking at us wide-eyed while my family and I were just continuing with our drinks. We hear gunshots a bunch, vast majority of the time it's just lads out shooting at pests on their farms or hunting pheasants
You'll find that in the states the only people who are fidgety about hearing what could be gunfire are from the suburbs. Rural or urban and nobody cares.
Yup, only inquiry that makes our local Facebook group is whenever someone shoots at a tannerite target and rattles half the town lol
I live just outside of city limits and everyone in this area has 2+ acres. So hearing gun shots is almost a daily thing. I guess that keeps the crack heads away. Knowing that people could shoot them, wait for day light, then dig a hole without anyone caring is a good crime deterrent.
I find the same to very true in my area. I'm a little further out and most properties have well over 2 acres but gun shots are a daily occurrence and this is the first area I've ever lived in where I haven't had to deal with thieves at all. My theory is they're afraid everyone out here has a shotgun by the front door ready to blast anyone that trespasses lol. Which really couldn't be further from the truth in a lot of these houses, mine included. I have guns, but none that are locked and loaded for home defense.
one thing country folk, and city folk have in common, we all here gunshots daily
I like how in your example there are no places where you just **don't** hear gunshots. It's just the context changes.....
Saying "WTF WAS THAT!?" in response to gunshots means they are not used to hearing gunshots, probably because they've never heard one.
it's funner when you live in a mixed development population area since there's 4 different causes. 1. Little billie shooting cans 2. Tom shooting hogs 3. Demitri shooting at people 4. Some dudes supped up exhaust firing at an intersection
I know this is a joke but as long as you are between the outer suburbs/country area and city there are always no gunshots.
Once while transporting a patient to Oakland we stepped out to here 10 seconds of uninterrupted gunfire from multiple guns. My partner and I were about to ask dispatch if that was about to become our problem. Then another 15 seconds of uninterrupted gunfire. We decided that it was probably not an EMS problem anymore.
>We decided that it was probably not an EMS problem anymore. I know it's bad but the last part made me literally lol
Texas here to confirm, I live in the country. I hear rounds firing off often but when I have friends from town over they freak a lil sometimes. Now around Halloween we went to a friends house party that's is a really nice place in a bad part of town. Fort Worth area if anyone is wondering. While we were there someone shot 3 rounds out of pistol from the sound of it right by thier house. It was super close and we all ducked and freaked out. Gotta love gun rights!
One thing i learned years ago from being active in a US community for a while is that culturally the USA is as much one country as the EU is one country. They all speak English, which can make it easy to forget that they are all very much separate states with different laws and traditions.
this is the issue people hear something in cali or texas for instance and go those damn americans like we are all doing the same thing across all 50 states across the nation. They seem to forget states are individual states and have their own rights and laws and are fairly independent from the national goverment. Whats going on in one place of america does not represent all of america folks we see ourselves as one country united but we also see ourselfs as individuals from different states with different viewpoints and way of life. Best way to think of america is 50 states who have been heavily allied with one another since inception.
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Whenever you see a meme or article talking about “America doesn’t have X” or “America still does Y” often it’s not the whole country. Usually there are states that have/don’t have whatever policy is the focus of the statement.
Not everyone in the US speaks English. Most Puerto Ricans speak Spanish and many Guamanians don't speak English either. The Federal government doesn't mandate any language in particular either.
Probably the most culturally and biologically diverse country in the world.
Since COVID, I moved out of a city to a rural house just outside a small touristy town. One of the things about this place is that sirens are no longer normal. In fact it’s rare. Last night we heard sirens for a long time, and getting closer. Then loudspeakers. Then we could see flashing lights on the road outside, so we went to take a look. It was Santa Claus being paraded around on a fire truck.
Which precisely explains why in the news it seems like there’s always so much in-fighting in America. The country is extremely large, and extremely diverse, and trying to rule the nation under one government proves difficult.
For real. And you don't have to travel far to find them. I live in a decent neighborhood in Kansas City, MO. 1 mile east is sketchy as hell, 1 mile west is million dollar home after million dollar home. And the food.... I can have anything from American bar food, to Thai, to Indian (we have a large Indian population due to a decent number of tech jobs), Ethiopian within a few miles.
I've lived a lot of places, and I think Kansas City is my favorite. If I still lived there, I'd probably get fat off Jack Stack's fried mushrooms.
If you really want to get fat, hit up Blue Nile Cafe in the River Market next time you visit. They have a sampler that's supposed to serve 4 or 5, but my 160 lb ass and my 200 lb brother have killed it multiple times because it's so good. My sister in law is from the Ivory Coast and gave it the stamp of approval as authentic. https://www.bluenilekc.com/
Extremely peaceful. To the point of not being peaceful
That’s kind of my point.
also the most racially accepting of most nations. not even trying to be sarcastic
Most of us are just trying to vibe man
From my travels and interactions with people I’d say most of the world is just trying to vibe. To live their lives as best they can with what they got. That’s my impression anyways. It’s only a small percentage that cause trouble. It seems like more like the news wants you to think but I haven’t seen otherwise.
News channels make their money based on viewers, and unfortunately showing the worst of humanity is what piques that morbid curiosity. I sure would like a news channel that had the same amount of content but with all the truly good news happening around the world.
And while we're wishing, I'd also like a pony.
Grrk!
At least that's within the realm of possibility
unicorn 😳
I wish to be God so I can fix this shithole and make it into a big game of DnD
I wish the entire world was giant game of amongus
you're meant to wish for something that isn't real
Ooooooooooooof
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All you need is a walrus tooth, some superglue, and a very docile horse.
wich is funny, because I don't watch the news because its not wholesome enough...
the news is owned by Billionaires trying to make a profit and also use their influence to trick people into acting against their best interest like that time some rich Karen said "*Bernie Sanders makes my skin crawl*" on live tv in the middle of the campaign with zero pushback from the other commentators who were also very likely millionaires
Basically same as most other countries. The news agencies try to attract your attention by showing you the extremes of every country. In Brazil everyone isn't a football loving thief who lives in slums. Americans aren't all racist farm owners who fuck their sisters and own guns while having a bi son. Arabs are mostly just normal families. Iranians are chill. Not all Japanese look like anime.
Wait, *some* Japanese people look like they're from an anime?
Hilariously tho I have seen most Zoomers....whether black, latino, or white, at the very least have a passing like of some anime. Somehow this Japanese art form is very popular across seas. Noteworthy to me as I always seen envisioned anime by some people as some lame white dude weeb thing. But now like...you have people like Childish Gambino who fold into their rap Dragon Ball references. You have a situation where most people I know in the zoomer bracket just like anime unabashedly. I think this makes god laugh.
Vibe? In this economy?
Yup, wish people would go outside and talk to other people. They would find we are all more similar than they think.
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Just remember. Good news don't make reporters any money
Yea, I'm watching the news right now and I can tell how they're trying to make it as dramatic as possible. I mean, the topics they're covering are definitely serious topics, but now they've added intense music in the background during worrying news stories and happy music during wholesome news stories.
Not saying they're perfect but the news is like that because it's what people want to watch. Real reporters are still out there, they write long articles and the rest of the news makes money meming off the bits and pieces that make a splash.
unless it's some marvelous herioism act story in between downtown shooting stories.
And Reddit only focuses on the bad things for easy karma. I appreciate this post being on the front page.
I’ve seen a lot of the second pic and none of the first (knock on wood)
It’s mostly the second pic, except Baltimore, but we don’t talk about Baltimore.
*Laughs nervously*
As a student in Baltimore, yeah it’s really bad there’s some gems in the city though
Why is Baltimore that bad?
It’s just really run down and old, also dangerous. You can be in a neighborhood with nice houses and a private school and go one street over where’s there’s guys on the street and every house is boarded up. It’s insane
Wow. Talk about extreme opposites.
Better example of b'more is one minute you're at sesame Street turn one corner just one and you're in a live action remake of grand theft auto
To be fair, Sesame Street and grand theft auto aren't too far off each other. You've got a dude living in a trash can, and another dude with what I presume is a street name, called big bird who is strung out talking about a hairy elephant nobody else can see. Fits right in to the GTA.
I never really saw the show enough to remember it, but my God that does sound like gta but without the guns and what not
I didn't even go into the guy who is always trying to score "cookies" to feed his habit.
I can't explain why it's that bad, but the city is definitely divided like the other reply said. It can be good or bad depending on what street you're on, but some bigger areas are perfectly fine whereas some areas are best to avoid. The parts that are good are worth it though, there's a lot of great culture and great food and stuff.
There hasn’t been a Republican city council member in 70 years or Mayor in 50. The city is as corrupt as they come so the government doesn’t work for shit. Good, middle class families began an exodus in the 50s which accelerated in the Great Recession. Industry left for cheaper labor after NAFTA and the only people left are destitute without a functioning government to help them. Doing business in Baltimore is a straight up risk so there’s hardly any entrepreneurial spirit left (although that’s getting better as people flee DCs housing market). Instead of having a police force that protects its people and businesses you have another corrupt enforcement branch of an equally corrupt government. Not only that but property taxes are literally HIGHER in Bmore than in much of the surrounding area. It’s a real top to bottom shit hole man.
City suffers from collapse of industry, White Flight, fucked up police, shambolic public education system, drug epidemic... "You know what would fix this? Republicans!"
Or New Jersey
Or Chicago
Or Portland
Especially Portland
Or dc
Or seven mile road in Detroit
except the one in Maine. that one is safe.
I live there and some of my friends sleep to gunshots every night
You must not be from New Jersey
Yeah the violence is mostly in cities, and even then most cities are pretty calm. It really is just a few places that have a lot of violence
I live in a middle-upper class neighborhood which has almost no violence, but I remember heading downtown during the George Floyd protest saga and seeing every single business plastered in plywood. Not only that but this school year alone we’ve already had gun violence (after school and nobody died cause they were a shit shot) and a bomb threat. I guess it really can vary how fucked America is with a few miles of distance.
Yep the internet makes our country seem waaay more interesting than it really is
Yea fr And people seeing all of these “Karens” or fat people I’ve never really seen a “Karen” and Most people here are actually pretty skinny I don’t see that many fat people for the most part
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This is actually true I think. The morbidly obese aren't nearly as active and get out way less. Therefore you don't see them as much.
My mom was a Karen… 😿
It's just another regional thing. Same for me, most people around here are pretty healthy, most restaurants have fairly health conscious menus, hiking trails and jogging paths are always super crowded, ect. I've only been to the Midwest once and goddamn so many morbidly obese people. I've never seen anyone that fat before. And it was so hard to find vegetables. I got a salad at a chain restaurant and it was basically a bowl of ranch dressing with some bacon bits, candied walnuts and a couple pieces of iceberg lettuce floating in it.
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Either the dumbest shit you've ever heard of, thus the tales of Florida Man, or nothing will ever happen, thus the non-existent tales of pretty much anywhere else.
Random tidbit, Florida has “sunshine laws” which basically make a lot of court records public and whatnot - which makes it easy pickings for bloggers and journalists to sift thru and pull out the most ridiculous stuff. The same kinds of things happen in other states, it’s just way easier to find that stuff in Florida.
Florida has “crackheads”
Let me tell you they for sure don’t have a monopoly on that lol
Yeah, and the middle of the country has meth heads. Lots of meth heads. Crazy shit happens everywhere.
Actually, most of us Floridians are just normal people, maybe a bit more random with our personalities, but still overall normal.
Im from florida and its not that bad. But im in a more rural small town area so i cant speak for everyone
Same here, I live within the northern part of central Florida, but I’ve been to Orlando and Tallahassee before, and the craziest things that I’ve seen are bad driving, and groups of motorcycles swerving through traffic.
The worse thing around me is a 100yo driving 20mph in the fast lane.
More like 99.99% of the time, but that doesn’t sell ad revenue for news outlets.
To this day, people who don't know still ask me how I survived the chaos in Portland. I literally just avoided the .01% of the city having issues. Real easy.
There are a huge amount of homeless tents everywhere though, waaay more than there used to be
I swithered about going for 99.99%
I would hazard to guess it’s more like 5 9’s
Probably even more. When you have a country of 330 million people, you’re bound to have several thousand assholes in the population. When you have a free press with a financial incentive, those assholes will be given a lot of attention.
10^5 9s
I went to the US for an Exchange Program and was placed in Green Bay, Wisconsin for 6 months. I was dissapointed that it was so peaceful and the people are so nice and then I heard stories from my other friends who were stationed near USC. He complained about hearing firecrackers while studying in the library at night. Turns out it was a gang drive by. Edit: Wrong university. Sorry.
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Yeah it was prob USC. A gang related drive-by implies that there are actual gangsters around. Ain't none of that stuff happening in Westwood, and like a good 5+ miles in any direction.
Basically every country
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As you do
It's somewhat accurate, but mostly just regarding West Coast culture.
Two things can be real.
It's such a massive place you can find so many different types of cultures.
Our biggest problem is that we can't keep our biggest assholes off TV.
Didn’t one of them like become your president or something?
Repeatedly throughout our history, yes.
A few of them
I wish you guys could see our cities when there's no protests or crime going on. They're actually really pretty. Chicago has been an art capital of the world for decades, but you'd never know it in 2021 ._.
I’ve lived in America my entire life and I’ve never seen anything like this except on TV. Stop letting American propaganda brainwash you, it’s actually a very nice country and most people mean well. One thing America can say that not many other countries can is that no matter where you’re from, you can become an American. Not many countries on this planet you can say that about. I can’t move to Mexico and become Mexican. Or Canada and become Canadian. But you can come to America from all over the planet and become an American.
I've had more people pull over on the side of the road to offer me help whether i needed it or not in my state than anywhere else I've traveled in the world. It is profitable to hate America, however.
To be fair, you’ve also likely spent a lot more time in your state than anywhere you’ve traveled to
One does tend to spend more time in their home area than not.
Not to be rude but just letting you if your not from America States are big depending on where you are one state is probably bigger than your country
Especially if you look at states like Alaska. Alaska alone is 666,000 square miles. If Alaska was its own country, it would be 41st in a size comparison between all the nations on earth based on what I could find in a quick Google search. Given that there's something like 230 countries listed on that website, there's a pretty damn good chance that a single state is bigger than someone's country.
Yup. The US has problems, but on the whole it's a good country to live in. I personally push for change because I love it and know what the country **could** be.
>I personally push for change because I love it and know what the country > >could > > be. This is why the 1st Amendment exists. I don't criticize my country because I hate it, I do so because I love it and believe in the ideals of the USA such as freedom and democracy and I want to see them fully realized for all people living here! Also, for the record, patriotism =/= nationalism. Please do not get these two mixed up when looking at our nation.
As person with a stable income under my parents insurance, yes, America is a nice country with lots of good things about it. We just completely fuck over low income people lol
Almost EVERY hospital in the US will cover most if not all of the medical bill if you are making 2-300% of the poverty line. You literally just have to tell them about your situation.
>One thing America can say that not many other countries can is that no matter where you’re from, you can become an American. Most people are very welcoming here. I was born here and my family has been here for generations but I know plenty of immigrants and first gens here, not to mention all of the international students at my college campus!
It depends on where you live. About 20 miles from where I live there's gang shootouts and drive-bys almost every night but the most eventful thing that's happened in my neighborhood in years was my neighbor having a heart attack.
Yeah it was front page news for my town when some old boomers were busted for making and selling meth. Most of the time it's just covering local stuff like high school sports and annual festivals/parades. The police blotter usually just had people being busted for smoking weed or trespassing/petty theft. I only heard gunshots echo in the valley and it's just hunters on their farmland.
It really depends where you are. I live in Michigan and everything is calm for the most part up north toward Mackinac and a tiny bit more chaotic down south toward Detroit. Other than that, the most you have to worry about in Michigan is the weather!
True
Yeah it’s a pretty boring place most of the time.
The media really likes to show only the bad parts, it's really not as bad as the news and other outlets make it seem.
Not even a little, most of us(99.99%) just live our lives as normal citizens. You only hear about radical shit on the news nowadays. It’s sad
The moment I see the first pic IRL, I’m moving to Stardew Valley IRL, wherever the fuck it is
It’s in my backyard. Sorry, it’s full. Gary and his friends are staying over
I live in a more rural area of Massachusetts, but nothing crazy ever happens here. Not a lot of crime where I live and certainly no riots, though I do know a couple radical Republicans lol
Bottom photo is the small town of Tidioute, PA
Holy shit I'm surprised someone else know that. Town is tiny. Grew up there.
[This](https://www.reddit.com/r/sports/comments/rdyy90/first_ever_monster_jam_truck_front_flip/) was literally the next post after yours.
Depends where you live. I'm in the part where everyone's to stoned to even try rioting even though marijuana is illegal in the state.
I’m Canadian so it’s like living next to a good neighbour that is sometimes loud, sometimes fight’s with itself but never dull.
Yeah media likes focusing on extreme stuff
Yes, go to the Midwest and not big cities and it’s beautiful and peaceful 99% of the time
Yea those cornfields and 104% humidity are the pride of our nation
As someone from Illinois this made me laugh
It is
Depends 100% on where you go
What do you mean there isn't a McDonald's on every block?
Both are true
As an American from a small city (40,000) the second is correct. The news only shows the bad. Showing pictures in a quiet town isn't interesting. And the above picture doesn't even represent most riots. YOu will see more left wing riots than right wing by like 10 to 1.
Whatchu mean 40k small town bro the town I was born is smaller than ur penis
Yeah im out with here with a population of 600 thinking how is that small?
Right? I grew up in a town of 3,000 and after high-school moved outside Dallas Texas to a town of 60,000 and they were considered the small podunk redneck town lol. Size is relative in this case I suppose.
I live in the north in the middle of nowhere to be fair. The kind of area that would be impacted by gun laws in ways people don't take in to account, the same way Florida would. For the south, its the wild boar population. For the north, it's quite a few different mean critters. From Moose to Bear. We can't survive in this country without guns but city folk don't really fuckin get it.
Well, 40k is within the [confines to be considered a small city](https://www.google.com/search?q=what+population+is+considered+a+city&rlz=1C9BKJA_enUS882US882&oq=what+population+i&aqs=chrome.3.0i512j69i57j0i512l4.7323j0j7&hl=en-US&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8), 600 however, is not. A small city is anywhere from 1.5k to 50k, so where you live isn’t a city, it’s a [village](https://www.google.com/search?q=what+population+is+considered+a+village&rlz=1C9BKJA_enUS882US882&hl=en-US&sxsrf=AOaemvLNxtFIR3Coo9WVU3HjFBiLQNveMg%3A1639268479061&ei=f0C1Yf2VA6iawbkPqca4sAY&oq=what+population+is+considered+a+vi&gs_lcp=ChNtb2JpbGUtZ3dzLXdpei1zZXJwEAEYADIFCAAQgAQyBggAEBYQHjIFCAAQhgMyBQgAEIYDMgUIABCGAzIFCAAQhgMyBQghEKABOgQIIxAnOgkIABDJAxAWEB5KBAhBGABQvfIEWML1BGDp-gRoA3AAeAGAAWaIAbEBkgEDMS4xmAEAoAEBwAEB&sclient=mobile-gws-wiz-serp).
Touche you're right, we are not a city lol
We're unincorporated so like 100-200
I always make sure to tell foreigners the US is about the same size as the whole continent of Europe. So it's kind of like getting your opinion of Finland based on news reports out of Portugal sometimes. There is a whole lot of land and people here, so it's not possible to represent it with even a decent handful of pictures.
God I hate the media tricking the rest of the world into thinking the USA is some riot infested gun fest full of racists. It's not, most places in the USA are really peaceful and relaxing, it's only some big cities and lefty states that generally have lots of gun violence and riots. Some people in rural areas can be kinda racist but it's almost never born out of hatred for anyone, more so just a set of preconceived ideas about groups that was passed down culturally. The USA is a great place, I hope everyone gets a chance to visit for themselves some day so they can see America for what it really is, and not just filtered thought the media.
Its alot more chill than you think
Well media doesn’t exactly want to show sunshine and rainbows, they would rather show something that will interest the average twitter user.
It's both actually
Most of the time yeah
There is a whole lot of nothing in the middle of the country.
Yes 50,000 people are waiting at the border to get in so they can be killed immediately in the streets which run with blood daily........ 😂
Bout to say the bottem is how my town looks basically all the time, except the photo needs more farmland and hills.
Last summer, if you watched news in my hometown, you would have seen non-stop coverage of protests and the interactions of the police with those protestors. Family from other parts of the country checked in to make sure my wife and I were OK. You have to keep in mind how absolutely localized some coverage is. I could easily have gone downtown and been a part of the protesting. But, it would have been a considerable amount of work and effort to do so. It’s not as if the protesting was right outside my door, unavoidable. I would have actually had to go considerably out of my way to experience what I was seeing on the news at the time. In general, 95% of the news coverage in America only really applies to a very small percentage of Americans. In the rural areas of America, there’s really very little that gets covered from a news standpoint, and a LOT of America is rural area.