• postman@literature.cafe
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      I agree, this is posted as news when it’s likely anecdotal or even fabricated. It plays on the American self-image as John Wayne types, when everyone in Europe knows they’re usually not very streetwise and walk around with maps and cameras talking loudly.

      The other comments here are quick to jump in with opinions about how Americans don’t take any shit, implying European simps just roll over for these pesky pilferers.

      It’s a real Don’t Mess with Texas vibe based on another dodgy blog article.

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        24 hours ago

        Don’t Mess with Texas

        Not directly related to the content of your post, but I wanted to point out that “Don’t Mess With Texas” originated as an pro-environment slogan encouraging Texans to pack out their own trash instead of littering in the wilderness and from their cars.

        Somehow it got coopted into some kind of Texan tough guy mentality (probably George W. Bush’s fault). But at the beginning it was an environmental protection slogan.

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        Americans have revealed themselves to be the biggest simps on the planet by rolling over for the Tangerine Turd. They are literally waiting for someone else to rescue them at this point, even while their own citizens are being thrown off cargo planes and into concentration camps.