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This list is funny. Non-Americans Sharing Signs Someone Is From The US (buzzfeed.com) I'm definitely less American than when I moved to Thailand but I think it's true, almost all Americans are doing some things that are obvious tells. I hear this all the time. Non-Americans asking Americans abroad where they are from and they answer with the state. It's so cringe. Like if someone says California (I used to do that!) it's usually them trying to communicate that they're blue not red as if the foreigner cares about that code. What would you add to the list? Being fat obviously but that isn't specific to Americans. I do have a memory of my first trip abroad in Austria with two friends (as teens). We were on this tour of some kind of cave ride and the guy helping us looked at us and said he would have never guessed we were Americans. What a compliment!
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Not only me. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/nov/04/the-american-civil-war-didnt-end-and-trump-is-a-confederate-president The American civil war didn't end. And Trump is a Confederate president His supporters hark back to an 1860s fantasy of white male dominance. But the Confederacy won’t win in the long run
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Controversial media influencer Andrew Tate arrested in Romania.
Jingthing replied to Social Media's topic in World News
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Ignore the Naysayers ! Live the dream in Thailand
Jingthing replied to Social Media's topic in ASEAN NOW Community Pub
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Ignore the Naysayers ! Live the dream in Thailand
Jingthing replied to Social Media's topic in ASEAN NOW Community Pub
Or just pay an agent wink wink nod nod. -
"It wasn't about slavery" is the false narrative associated with southern types that refer to the civil war as the war of Northern aggression. You get all kinds of revisionist history on these matters. Such as Trumpist types still associating modern democrats with slavery even though as far as racism the two parties did a complete 180.
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He definitely chose the "right" party. Kind of reminds me of Jared Kushner's interest in prison reform.
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A big bull market will come eventually, either this year or next year. So arguably it's a great time to BUY stocks, but in my view, carefully selected stocks, and not indexes this time. A big worry I now have is that the radical nihilistic republicans (the extremists like Gaetz) have taken over the US congress and they have permission now to attach conditions to national budget bills. They will, the conditions will be unacceptable (such as attacking Medicare and Social Security) and then they will shut down the government. This is not only a US problem as such an event or event will crash market globally. The good news I guess is that after they crash, what a great buying opportunity!
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Assault on Kiev: Russian helicopters swoop above Ukraine's capital
Jingthing replied to Chris.B's topic in The War in Ukraine
Yes, Zelensky gets the urgency and has been doing a great job communicating that, but sadly as strong as the western support has been, it still hasn't been strong or quick enough. -
That's exactly who he thinks he is.
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Is the government of Brazil asking for that? If not, much as I detest him, I don't see the legal grounds if he is in the U.S. legally.
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He's not called the Trump of the Tropics for nothing. What a horror show.
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Assault on Kiev: Russian helicopters swoop above Ukraine's capital
Jingthing replied to Chris.B's topic in The War in Ukraine
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What Movies or TV shows are you watching (2023)
Jingthing replied to CharlieH's topic in Entertainment
The Kings of the World Poignant sad story infused with Colombian magical realism and harsh class realities. The sweet scene with the boys being mothered in a rural house of eldery prostitutes would make Fellini proud. https://www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/review/the-kings-of-the-world-2022-film-review-by-amber-wilkinson "The dreamy surreal and harshest of realities rub shoulders in Laura Mora Ortega’s San Sebastián Golden Shell-winning drama, which also suggests the past and the present have a closer interplay than you might first think. Her tale of five street kids hoping to claim a patch of ancestral land often has the tone of a fable, emphasised by its opening near-post-apocalypic opening of a city street, empty of everything except a white horse, in which a voiceover notes: “One day all the men fell asleep and all the fences of the Earth burst into flames.”"