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7/ People just say God-damned stupid crap, all the time, and I !@#-ing hate it.
10/ "I have been to XYZ, and in XYZ things are great, but in America they suck" This is a status move. The speaker claims: - to be well travelled - to be knowledgeable - to be sophisticated - to have status high enough to crap on the in group
11/ It often works, bc people don't challenge someone who swaggers in with a lot of confidence. Ironically "I have been to X and it is better than home" is actually a very provincial claim - it usually means "I've been to 2 beautiful spots in X during my 3 day vacation".
12/ And when people crap on America "oh, here we don't have a good rail network / factories that can build X / walkable neighborhoods / whatever", they're basically saying that they don't know much of the US EITHER. Yeah, I'm sorry your crappy small town doesn't have X, my dude
14/ This is another key point. The US has inherited most of its land use from 1900, and has only updated it piecemeal, and at great cost. Japan had ... _cough_ ... a huge opportunity for urban renewal circa ... oh, wow, that's weird ... 1945 and 1946.https://twitter.com/FishLikesFlicks/status/1288595090873737217 …
15/ TLDR: * don't speak about country X in generalities unless you've spent months, or better yet, years there * don't speak about your home country unless you've actually gotten out there * stop saying stupid false things; it's irritating AF
16/ EVERY country has a history of industry and roads built on the water. Water transportation is a fraction of the cost of land transportation, so EVERYONE puts industry and ports there.https://twitter.com/kettlecorn/status/1288596375551131648 …
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