First thing that comes to mind when you think of America

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15 Oct 2017, 12:59 am

"Everything's free in America"


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15 Oct 2017, 1:07 am

babybird wrote:
"Everything's free in America"


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15 Oct 2017, 1:11 am

a dissocially rent national culture of cliquish tribes akin to the hatfields and the mccoys.



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15 Oct 2017, 2:45 am

Rednecks.


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15 Oct 2017, 3:48 am

a divorce in the same national household - "a house divided upon itself cannot stand."



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15 Oct 2017, 4:05 am

Mcdonalds
Mormon girls that I met in Olomouc



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15 Oct 2017, 8:26 am

Freedom of speech.



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15 Oct 2017, 11:01 am

Home,and I like it regardless of the problems we have.
And the Grand Canyon,Zion,Bryce,and many other national parks,rivers and monuments that are SO amazing.And they all belong to the people.


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15 Oct 2017, 11:53 am

America... It's where I was born, grew up.

Preface: My Aspie superpower is pattern recognition - hardly unique to me - and sadly I am hideously good at predicting individual and group behaviors/outcomes, but hideously awful at persuading people to believe me, and to consider, and perhaps avoid, the most negative of these behaviors/outcomes. You know - thinking before acting? God knows, I tried.

I used to call it Cassandra syndrome, from Homer, before I knew I was Aspie.

So: when I think of my home country these days, two things.

First, I was about nine, I think, when Don Rickles began spewing hatred and meanness camouflaged as humor, on the public airwaves. He surely wasn't the first, but radio and TV provided a mass broadcasting platform for his "jokes" that wasn't there earlier. As young as I was then, I remember my soul-deep sick feeling that he was giving selfish, mean, nasty people a license to be even meaner and nastier - in public - without shame or remorse. Sure enough, some of my schoolmates/"peers" quickly emulated him with gusto.

Second, over the years, I've watched with horror as these characteristics have entrenched themselves ever deeper in the society. I really think we had several opportunities to choose to become not a more perfect union, but a truly civil society, and every time - every! Dam'! Time! We pick Door Number 2.

From which I've concluded that hate is a drug more potent and addictive than heroin.

Again, when I was a child, I many times heard adults tell one another: I disagree with what you are saying, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it. (Or similar.) I haven't heard that in decades. On any topic.


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15 Oct 2017, 12:06 pm

Junk food.

Sorry, I don't know why. That was just the first thing that came to mind when I saw the title. :p



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15 Oct 2017, 2:29 pm

BBQ,the Blues,Bluegrass music,Fourth of July,and homemade ice cream.


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16 Oct 2017, 3:24 am

Capitalism


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16 Oct 2017, 3:44 am

limitless gizmos for people with plenty of duckie$$$$$$$



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16 Oct 2017, 4:05 am

Beautiful nature is the first thing. Specifically the rocky mountains, salt lake area.

Also, Louisiana's beautiful Jazz culture, New York's fantastic business sector, San Francisco's famous scenic rainbow houses (not sure what they're called), Hollywood. Too many things, overwhelmingly good. The bad stuff happens anywhere and we (at least people who are in political alignment with me) constantly strive to better this beautiful country for our descendants.



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16 Oct 2017, 7:39 am

turtle protection groups
the wolves I follow
books, movies and TV series I like


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16 Oct 2017, 4:08 pm

Make America horrible again


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