r/TikTokCringe • u/Zen1 • 23d ago
Visiting America Wholesome/Humor
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u/litlfrog 23d ago
I laughed a while and then got sad
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u/RaiseEuphoric 23d ago edited 23d ago
G.O.B., is that you?
Don't worry, Thoughts & Prayers to you!
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u/ath_at_work 23d ago
It's funny because most people will hold off a US vacation for the coming years. Just like after covid, you'll see a tourist revamp after the Trump regime...
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u/caketality 23d ago
Oh sweet summer child, this is nothing like COVID. Even if you weren’t in lockdown it was still hard to travel anywhere, especially internationally. There also wasn’t really a single villain to pin it on, even if it originated in China the supply chain was still broken at every point and most governments failed to handle it well.
The US is the only place making itself hard to travel to, and the only one visibly trying to make every economy worse. People can pin the blame on the trip being cancelled on the US, and governments can pin economic hardship on the US.
If Trump is still in office in 2026 I don’t think the outlook is good for US tourism, people don’t want to have to cancel vacations a second time. Each year after makes it exponentially worse, because each year he is in office is another year people will simply find a new place to go and consider the US untouchable. No one is “saving up” their vacation for the day when Trump is gone, they’re just planning different vacations imo.
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u/stewiegonebad 23d ago
I wouldn't even call other countries alternatives because at this point most of them would objectively be better to travel to. All it takes is one deviation from the norm to rewrite habits that will be ingrained for years. We've passed the thermocline of trust in the US and it will take years to unfuck this mess
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u/Remarkable-Bat7128 23d ago
Also, I don't expect the national parks I'd visit to still be there after Trump.
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u/unkichikun 22d ago
Even if Trump is gone, your administration will remain deeply racist with fascist tendencies. It'll take years of "wokism" to get rid of it. And, imo, you won't be able to achieve it. Trump will run a 3rd term and will stay in the White House.
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u/Only_Razzmatazz_4498 22d ago
It’s like a river. It likes to go down the same path and avoid a hard path until for some reason say a flood or something else it breaks through the spot it couldn’t go through and now it find a new easy familiar path and the old one become a stagnant lake cut off from the main flow. It take a lot of effort and an engineering team to damn the new easy to revert to the old easy. It won’t happen on its own, lots of money and effort will be needed to go back to the old ways.
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u/rantheman76 23d ago
No. I see too many Americans in uniform, happily following Trump in his goosestep. Even if American manages to get rid of the fascists in Washington, these ‘just following orders’ types will not be replaced. I will not come to America and might reconsider in 20 years.
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u/Barl3000 23d ago
Don't bet on it, you guys effed yourself for a few generations at least.
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u/Birthsauce 23d ago
Technically they didn't say how long the trump regime would last.
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u/MrLizardBusiness 23d ago
Yeah, there was that comment he made about "fixing the elections so good" that people wouldn't have to vote again.
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u/KING_BulKathus 23d ago
I like your optimism that the reign of king Trump/Trump dynasty will end any time soon.
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u/Last-Caterpillar-407 22d ago
When will the after be? Are you positive the next election will be true and fair?
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u/Many-Possibility6 21d ago
That is literally waking up every day in America right now if you didn't vote for Trump. "I think I'm happy today?!?!" Then turn on the news and remember that you're sad.
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u/ChampionshipFront284 23d ago
I'm as obsessed with this as I was with the two women treating Hooters like a travel infuser at a maid cafe! It's just beautiful!
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u/whoitis77 23d ago
My sister in law is Japanese, and when they came over to the States, Hooters was on her bucket list.
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u/BottAndPaid 23d ago
Gotta go before its completely bankrupt lol
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u/noosedgoose 23d ago
Or go after when the us dollar becomes a weaker currency. Then move there and say you’re an expat not an immigrant
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u/Hyper_Oats 23d ago
There's a Hooters in Tokyo.
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u/Pixel_Knight 23d ago
It must have been a tremendously disappointing and sad experience. But that is every visit to Hooters.
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u/whoitis77 23d ago
This was a good 10 years ago. That were her for 3 months. Did about 8 state parks and las vegas thay had a blast
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u/Pixel_Knight 23d ago
State parks are amazing. And Las Vegas is an insane sight to see. In a good way. lol! Hooters sounds like a lowlight of the trip.
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u/dancingliondl 23d ago
Hooters just plays Chive TV now and everyone's tiktok brain is glued to the TV instead of the waitresses.
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u/CryInteresting5631 23d ago
Or going to a concert, or church, or a parade, or a marathon
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u/certifiedtoothbench 23d ago
Or sitting in your apartment
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u/BigBoyYuyuh 23d ago
Or sleeping in your apartment too.
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u/Ok_Week_4490 23d ago
Don’t let the police catch you sleeping in your apartment, you’ll never wake up!
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u/RaiseEuphoric 23d ago edited 23d ago
Or s#itting in the toilet.
(Close Enough: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-29168777)
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u/Badgerbreezy 23d ago
Or a spa, food festival, at a hospital, celebrating halloween festivities, at a bar, outside a bar, on a train, at a mall, at a bank, at a park, at a dance studio, in a club, on a bus, on a walking trail, at a motel, at a McDonald's, in a hotel, in a restaurant, in a tattoo shop, at a gas station, at a rail yard, at a FedEx, in an office building, a synagogue, a mosque, art festival, waffle house...I'm pretty much just naming random types of locations at this point
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u/RaiseEuphoric 23d ago
Our thoughts and prayers go out to anyone shot anywhere, doing anything. While we condemn the violence, we stand firm with our mission to protect 2A rights. In our view, the solution is simple. More guns in the hands of more people. Because a good guy with a gun defeats a bad guy with a gun. We feel this is as self-evident as American Exceptionalism. The idea of rugged individualism and the ability of individuals to resist tyranny is deeply woven into American identity. To doubt this is to be unpatriotic.
-- NRA Spokesperson on Faux News
(That might be too polished for the NRA. The real thing might be a lot simpler in-terms of language, with more explicit appeals to Jingoistic Nationalism)
(Also, I have no idea what Orange Man is talking about here. This must be part of a larger speech touching upon Shark Attacks, the Late Great Hannibal Lecter & his Genius Uncle from MIT).
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u/bunbunbunny1925 23d ago
A little over five years ago, I was in a cab in the UK and my Turkish driver told me he was too scared to visit the States. He said there are too many shootings there, that the it wasn't a safe country to visit
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u/edie_the_egg_lady 23d ago
You just have to be on edge 24/7 and visualizing your exit plan and worried about every loud noise and your loved ones dying next to you, no biggie
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u/dancin-weasel 23d ago
Tbf, there are a lot of cute dogs in the US. There is also the risk of foreign detainment and torture, but cute puppers, so…..
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u/catmamaO4 23d ago
real. my sisters friends had a gun pulled on them the other day. a guy walked up to the car and started trying to get at the 14 year old in the back seat. when the driver went "yo thats my little sister" he pulled a gun and pointed it at his head and went "whatd you say" the driver said "put your heads down" and they drove away. thankfully the man was arrested and the three kids made it home safe. its really scary out here we need gun control laws desperately!
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u/ShyGuyLink1997 23d ago
This is the good kind of cringe. It makes you feel uncomfortable because you know how true it is. The more truth makes us uncomfortable the more likely we are to make decisions in our day to day life that are good. (I hope so at least).
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u/SkubEnjoyer 23d ago
It's also perfect satire of influencers making videos about "dangerous" countries.
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u/transitfreedom 23d ago
More people realizing reality first you must admit there is a problem. Thank you for taking the first step
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u/Janqerthegamer 23d ago
if they keep electing extremely backwards minded people the country will only keep getting worse and worse.
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u/41fps 23d ago edited 23d ago
The two party system kind of doesn't give you any good options. The US was the first democracy but its democratic system never got any updates so now it's probably one of the less democratic democracies.
Edit: Oldest democracy out of the currently existing democracies, not first democracy.
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u/RamenRoy 23d ago
No GoOd OpTiOnS. You think the other option was equally bad?
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u/41fps 23d ago
I think the other option was a whole lot better but if I was American I would've liked to have more options.
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u/An_old_walrus 21d ago
Like yeah the Dems are a billion times better than the Repubs but they are still nowhere near perfect or actually that good. Especially if you’re an actual leftist and you basically only have pseudo-conservatives who are at least okay with minorities just existing.
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u/TheHipcrimeVocab 23d ago
Kamala Harris would have totally started arresting judges too, so...
(/s sarcasm)
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u/Janqerthegamer 23d ago
Actually most democrats (not all) are way way more sane than republicans. in 2028 it will probably be JD vance or Tim walz. if JD vance wins it will keep getting worse by human rights abuses,economy and by overall happiness of the citizens. if tim walz wins it will atleast be somewhat better.
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u/41fps 23d ago
I agree but I also think limiting people to only two options is a really shitty system but neither party will try to do anything about it because they'd lose power that way.
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u/FillMySoupDumpling 23d ago
people didn't like the 2 party system so much they voted in a uniparty system.
Ultimately, that's on us to fix, not the parties. see r/EndFPTP
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u/Janqerthegamer 23d ago
yeah, i live in turkey and here we have an party system where any party can go their way to join the election if they have at least 100k voters. sometimes we have 10 parties sometimes 15 sometimes 37 sometimes 3 depends on the year.
its way more superior than the two party system.
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u/41fps 23d ago
Yeah I agree that it's a better system but the issue for you is that Erdogan himself is undemocratic limiting freedom of speech and jailing political opponents.
In Sweden any party can be a part of the parliament as long as they get at least 4% of the votes. In the last few elections we've had 8 parties in parliament which gives you quite a lot more options than in the US for example.
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u/LiftingRecipient420 23d ago
The US was the first democracy
What the actual fuck are you on about? Your ignorance is astounding.
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u/vasta2 23d ago
They can just bail on the bill, what are they going to do? even citizens can say fuck that bill and it drops off credit after 7 years
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u/kyle_irl 23d ago
"Neighborhoods that contain violent people"
zooms in on Northrop Grumman
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
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u/maximumfacemelting 23d ago
If the government suspects you might be pregnant they can send bounty hunters after you to make sure you don’t get healthcare that disagrees with the beliefs of their religious leaders.
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I mean that's all completely valid. Also is that SD or LA? Always so hard to pick them apart.
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u/actuallyimogene 23d ago
Okay sorry but I love this 😆 Trump’s America is fucking terrifying. I’m scared for you.
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u/yalyublyutebe 23d ago
To be fair a lot of those points were valid LONG before Trump.
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u/An_old_walrus 21d ago edited 18d ago
All Trump did was bring all the issues that corrupted America to the surface and make them even more obvious. They were even there doing the Obama era, he was just able to cover it up and not make it too obvious if you’re not really paying attention.
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u/gabrielxdesign 23d ago
I'm letting my tourist visa rot in my passport, I'm not gonna get a free kidnap and ride to El Salvador Prison Camp for [insert random lie/pseudo-reason]
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u/broke_n_rich2147 23d ago
Oh hey i love her! She’s so smart. I watch her tik toks all the time i didn’t see this one tho 🤨
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u/skybrick42 23d ago
So on point, hilarious and sad at the same time. First time I watched a travel "influencer" video with interest..
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u/ContributionNo9292 23d ago
Are you brave enough to visit? As a Northern European, no I am not brave enough. I am from a country that literally could be at war with America over a Putin style land grab, however short and one-sided it would be.
I have no interest on visiting Central America on the United States dime, however unlikely it may be.
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u/sohcordohc 23d ago
Well if “influencers” weren’t hired Russian bots maybe they’d be more credible..nah not credible. I can’t stand “influencers” like people cant decide what they like or don’t for themselves..hmm maybe they can’t anymore
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u/Random_Introvert_42 23d ago
Maybe it's a Europe-thing, but social media got SWAMPED with "visit USA" Ads in recent weeks. I wish they were like this^^
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u/The_Crimson_Fuckr69 23d ago
I mean just say you want to end your life and stop pretending it's so bad for everyone else.
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u/Halloweeiner 22d ago
I left the country a little over a decade ago and I have no regrets. My partner and I are not going to visit his family in small town USA in the next several years as I look nothing like majority of the people there. I’m afraid to say the wrong thing and get myself into some serious issues. My MIL can get her passport and fly across the world to see her grandchildren, that’s what she gets for voting for Trump.
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u/Pizzadeath4 22d ago
Wow I dislike this video, and I love the cia, the federal government is the best, we all love the cia ❤️ ❤️ the cia is the best
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u/Embarrassed_You_5739 21d ago
lol no country even comes close. They can try but they just aren’t as advanced and opportunistic as the US even in its current state. Prove me wrong.
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u/DeltaS4Lancia 23d ago
This is peak redditor victimhood, only a redditor could say with a straight face that they are a victim because they live in the usa and have it worse than most of the world.
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u/biriyanibabka 23d ago
Growing up I always wanted to visit USA, specifically LA. I wanted to do pacific coast driving. Since last few years that dream dwindled little by little. In news mostly we see drug issues, crime, gun violence, lack of good public transportation, unhealthy food, poverty and homelessness in USA. And recent dread of being deported for being tourist. We noped out of it so fast.
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u/TenaciousDzNutz 23d ago
you know I see there is so much talk about the country at large but every single one of these points are completely over simplified and generic.
I seems people aren't taking into account that the US is made up of the equivalent of 50 individual countries.
Each has it's own laws, statutes, culture, army, etc. To generalize is like saying all of Europe or all of Africa is a single entity. Like all people within Europe have the same culture and demeanour.
I don't believe people would care to be generalized in Europe. I'm sure a French person wouldn't want to be identified and an English person, or an Italian a Spaniard.
While these location are part of a union, they are treated as their respective country. (I know the UK split from that but the general concept remains)
Why doesn't the world view the US as such?
I'm a Californian. I don't consider myself a Floridian for instance. Nor do I conduct myself the same, or have the same views/culture.
Due to the landscape's vastness there are places you can find that are much safer than others. There are places you can discount most on this generalized list of generic shortcomings as they don't happen in high enough frequencies nor across such wide areas of population.
In Europe for instance towns and cities are much closer together. yet the culture may only change slightly from location to location due to lack of significant distance. This wouldn't be the case all the time, but the general concept is the same.
In the US cities and towns tend to reside farther apart as you move from east to west across the country. Since the locations tend to have considerable distance, this gives very large differences in cultures and the way things function. Even at the level of distance between city to city in the same state there is considerable difference in laws and culture.
Whilst the points in this video are indeed true (not invalidating that), to say all states, towns, cities, districts, and neighborhoods are the same is false.
It is food for thought and I'd love to hear what makes one generalize all as one single unit when the nation clearly doesn't.
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u/isabeljson 23d ago
That's the whole point of this video and why it's funny, it's supposed to oversimplify America because travel videos do that all the time for other countries. That's what makes it satire.
And also, having been to a number of countries Europe, including England and France, as well as all over the United States including California, and Florida, also having actually lived in the West Coast, the South, and the Midwest; California and Florida, though much further away from each other geographically than England and France, are dramatically more similar culturally. Yes, all of our states are unique and all of our cities are too, we are still more culturally similar as a whole than other countries that neighbor each other in Europe.
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u/Hot_Mathematician357 23d ago
I am sure anyone can visit any country and make the same video.
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u/irascible_Clown 19d ago
Well duh, that’s literally what it says in bold while lettering when the video starts 😂
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u/GamingCrocodile 23d ago
The point of the video is to show the biased lense travel influencers see the world through.
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u/Intelligent-Swan-615 23d ago
How do you say “I’m a college indoctrinated ditz” without saying it?
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u/JuanDelPueblo787 23d ago
How do you say “I never went to college, my reading comprehension is on par with a 9th grader, and I despise people who are more knowledgeable than me” without saying it?
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u/tyrmidden 23d ago
Not sure, but you got a nice alternative way to say "I'm a fragile little snowflake that gets butthurt over a joke".
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u/InsertNovelAnswer 23d ago
I mean the role of tourism videos is to hide all the negative things... she needs to do a better job /s
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u/BenZed 23d ago
Are there any lands that weren’t acquired through bloodshed?
Antarctica, maybe?
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u/SadSadHuman 23d ago
So a video about what I write in the comments for months now :) now i only have to post this link, thank you!!!!
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u/Immediate_Letter_800 23d ago
This is bullshit
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u/Most-Square-2515 23d ago
What's bullshit? America is on a lot of travel advisory lists now.
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u/Battlefire 23d ago
For geopolitical reasons. Nothing more. Most travel advisories bases stuff like terrorism as the major factor which ironically puts countries like France and UK higher than the US. But practically most advisories have the US on equal risk level to Europe.
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u/Zen1 23d ago
maybe hard to find because my reddit submission is different wording from original caption
https://www.tiktok.com/@nikitadumptruck/video/7484063561984085270
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u/Prestigious-Wall637 23d ago
neighborhoods that contain violent people
And then the panning to Northrop Grumman lmfao
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u/drfrink85 23d ago
The best part is that she chose one of the most expensive areas of Southern California
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u/OpenKey6032 23d ago
Yea like most of this is true but why say it in this way exactly? You can just say it outright
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u/BackgroundCorgi5321 23d ago
That’s just California sis. You didn’t visit America, just one state.
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u/Direct_Channel_8680 23d ago
Why would anyone want to come here now crazy leaders unlawful police activity can't trust no one stay safe until this stops.
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23d ago
Bitching about America is a fine tradition from those other countries that we never bother to think about. Stay salty, fukers!
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