A two hour commute in an electric car is still two hours in crushing, soul destroying traffic. People ask me why I take a train and a freeway bus for my two days on campus, and I ask them why not? My drive is three minutes from my house to the train.

But in suburban Southern California, public transit is “for freaks and losers.” That was deliberate marketing.

Besides, teh Poorz and Brown Peepulz are getting their faces eaten also too!

At The Leopard BBQ:

“Damn Steve, this is delicious face! What did you do?”

“Well, you have to start with prime MAGA face. Fat is flavor!”

One-half a Darth Vader.

Make those poors pay for Frank Freeway’s car commute!

I live in the San Diego area, and both our public transit agencies have the bus side privatized. Same shitty service and poor security for years. Meanwhile, the media labels public transit as something for freaks and losers, which provides a great reason not to improve it.

I agree with the general consensus, there is no “white” culture per se, uness you’re talking about the bad craziness of nationalism.

What I think OP means is “plain vanilla American culture.” And that’s the thing. The US is so huge, so comparatively young as a nation, that it’s hard to even have a culture.

Furthermore, anywhere you go in the states, you have pretty much the same TV, same radio from central locations, news anchors from the same school, holding the same rip ‘n’ read newscast. The corporate world has skin in this game. Keep us homogenized and you keep us focused on the consumer culture they want us to have.

That said, we Americans who don’t identify with any ethnicity do have cultures, but it’s based more in what we do. Bikers, goths, snowboarders, rail fans, Trekkies, and then some. Those are all cultures.

Then too, when we try to do culture, because of our media obsession, it often becomes a parody. Case in point, I once went to an Oktoberfest here in California. I saw people wearing stereotypical “German” costume, playing a Polish-American wedding game (Chicken Dance) and singing an Italian children’s song (Rooki-Zooki). That’s about as all-American as it gets.

And now Pooters has the photographs, eh? Could be taken on holiday? Wink wink, say no more, nudge nudge?

Technical, but no mention of the social, psychological, or emotional aspects of sexuality.

Female orgasm was literally never discussed or even spoken of. This was in the very conservative city of Anaheim, in very conservative Orange County, California.

Was the wine list mostly Trump wine?

Vastly underrated comment.

I’m on the autism spectrum, with very low support needs. My health care provider has that in my medical records. Now I’m worried that I’m going to disappear into some camp, and my wife will never know what happened.

A sense of community, at least in the states. We have become a nation of de facto sovereign citizens, everyone competing with everyone. A society can’t last long without social responsibility.

Man up, MAGAs. I’m sure your son will be needed for the war with Iran.

This is the inevitable progression of fascism. As dissenters are purged and our institutions closed, the standard of purity will, by definition, narrow. A fascist dictatorship has to have someone to punish. Even that, they’ll be arresting people for not wearing a flag pin.

Well said. But what I haven’t seen mentioned, is that this system will require a high degree of social control. Religion and racism will be used to keep these multigenerational factory drones angry at each other. Otherwise, they may begin to resent the fact that their wealthy masters have health care and leisure.

The real struggle is the class struggle. For capitalism to function, the average low-info worker can’t be allowed to see that.

And the Company Store is Walmart.

And they’re all voting Republican anyway, because Gunz ‘n’ Jeezus!