Made the mistake of going extramuros yesterday. Boy, howdy, it sure would be pleasant if one could eat dinner without seeing an infant encouraged to crawl on a table, listen to loud idiots repeat themselves 20 times, or overhear someone discussing an acquaintance's overdose.
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3/ This is in a nearby town that's 99% white, has a median household income of $73,000 / yr. So it's not even a case of "strange people bring their strange ways". It's "!@# it, Dude, let's give up on standards entirely so that non-pierced faces and non-inked skins are rare".
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4/ And perhaps you dismiss my concerns re facial piercings and skin based artwork as the grumblings of a fuddy duddy. Even so, the casual discussion of overdoses and divorces etc shows a culture in decline. Maybe the Chinese deserve to inherit the earth. Who knows.
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5/ Living in America in the CURRENT YEAR is a bit like the the movie Children of Men - seeing everything rot and fall apart and knowing that your people are dying out.
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6/ The difference is that in the real world we're being replaced by abhuman versions of ourselves; doppleganger Americans with the same skin color and the same language, but no shared history, values, or decency.pic.twitter.com/nQhhWNVmKI
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