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Give Me Any American City over Moscow Any Day
National Review ^ | 2/13/2024 | Charles C. W. Cooke

Posted on 02/13/2024 11:21:25 AM PST by marcusmaximus

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My brother in law said Moscow smelled of vodka and vomit.


61 posted on 02/13/2024 12:22:53 PM PST by Fuzz
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To: marcusmaximus

This Cooke guy must not have visited many US metropolitan areas today. I live in the Atlanta metropolitan area and it’s not safe at all. Let’s just say that killings are not rare there; and I know that Atlanta is not even the worst of US cities.


62 posted on 02/13/2024 12:23:42 PM PST by Bishop_Malachi (Liberal Socialism - A philosophy which advocates spreading a low standard of living equally.)
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To: nopardons

I freeely admit to being an outlier in the scatterplot of life, but I see towns and cities only as a place to procure goods and supplies and then escape from as quickly as possible.

With regard to major media, social media, and news personalities, They are not there to look out for you . Their reason for being is to sell soap. Beyond getting advertising they have about as much actual concern for anything as does a an unattended self service gas pump.


63 posted on 02/13/2024 12:24:37 PM PST by FrozenAssets (You don't have to be crazy to live here, but it helps)
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To: Danie_2023
Please, for the love of GOD, learn some FACTUAL history!

Whilst Hitler and Stalin were both SOCIALISTS ( one a Nazi, the other a Commie ) they were NOT "on the same side"! Hitler and the Nazis were always against Commies, as they wanted to be the ones in charge! The Nazis saw the Commies in the same way that they saw Jews, blacks, Gypsies, the old, infirm, cripples, etc.; the list is endless.

Your comment is the ne plus ultra of the uneducated who only imagines that they are stating something of value/factual.

64 posted on 02/13/2024 12:25:16 PM PST by nopardons
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To: nopardons

Are you a Russian? If not why are you soooo butthurt over my tagline?

And why do you care that I like Boise, Idaho over some frozen craphole infested with vodka swilling droolers who pine away for the glory days of the Soviet Empire?


65 posted on 02/13/2024 12:29:03 PM PST by MeganC (Ruzzians aren't people. )
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To: marcusmaximus; All

The Shark has officially been jumped. Notify Fonzie he’s second fiddle now.


66 posted on 02/13/2024 12:30:30 PM PST by SaxxonWoods (Are you ready for Black Lives MAGA? It's coming.)
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To: FrozenAssets
Historically, the old as time "CITY V.COUNTRY" just screams from your post. Have you ever read "Aesop's Tales"? If not, I suggest you read THE CITY MOUSE AND THE COUNTRY MOUSE. It's a story 1,000s of years old, but alive and well in your comment.

It's really just each to his or her own and there's no "one size fits all", even though we are living in a time when far too many idiots wish to impose what they "think" best for one and all; "15 minute cities", for example.

But the point of it all ( Tucker's visit to Moscow and the many reactions to it, here ) is one man's view of what he saw. THAT'S IT!

Sadly that is NOT how it has been seen by many here, nor those lefties in our MSM.

I've never been to Moscow, never want to go there, but I have been to other nation's capitals, know quit a few of American MAJOR cities well, and also know what our cities were once like and what Moscow has been like throughout its history, through books, documentaries, and newsreels.

67 posted on 02/13/2024 12:36:44 PM PST by nopardons
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To: dead

I got lost in Camden coming from Philadelphia once. It was like Port au Prince. A line of geese slowly ambled across the street in front of my car.


68 posted on 02/13/2024 12:41:04 PM PST by Orosius (Wake America Up Again )
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To: packagingguy

“He could be trying to warn us.”

“There’s been a remarkable deterioration of many American cities recently. I have seen the same in Europe except Switzerland and Eastern Europe.”

Could be, but why the vague hints? I might have some respect for Tucker if he just came out and clearly stated what we all know to be true....

that the Marxist Democrats that have run and ruined most large cities and governments in the US for the past generation are solely to blame for that deterioration. And it is all quite deliberate on their part. Their pattern... screw things up and then, as “big Government”, swoop in and promise to “”fix”” things if the American people keep voting them into power and keep shelling out their hard-earned $$$. They never deliver on those promises, of course... because that would end their game if anything actually ever got fixed.


69 posted on 02/13/2024 12:42:14 PM PST by Danie_2023
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To: marcusmaximus

But he’s besties with Vlad, so that makes him A-OK ...


70 posted on 02/13/2024 12:43:05 PM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: marcusmaximus

On these threads all the Russia/Chicom operatives check in for roll call.

Lol.


71 posted on 02/13/2024 12:43:39 PM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: Danie_2023

I went to Warsaw last year, it is probably the cleanest big city I’ve ever been to.


72 posted on 02/13/2024 12:43:43 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: MeganC
No, I am not Russian, have NO blood relatives, going back many hundreds of years, who came from Russian and am NOT "butthurt" at all. So your are 100% wrong about all of that.

I care that you consider Boise to be a MAJOR city! It isn't, never was one, and probably never shall be one. I care because FACTS MATTER and your comparing Boise to ANY/ALL MAJOR world cities is lame; but not as "lame" as claiming that "Russians aren't human"!

Do you call people from any other nation "non-human"? How about Mexicans, Chinese, and Germans?

American journalists have interviewed foreign heads of state for 100s of years. Some were honest, some such as that POS Will Durant, wrote glowing propaganda and won Pulitzers for it.

73 posted on 02/13/2024 12:46:33 PM PST by nopardons
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Actually, Stalin and Hitler were partners from the signing of their nonaggression pact in 1939 right up until June 22, 1941 when Germany invaded the Soviet Union.


74 posted on 02/13/2024 12:47:21 PM PST by Orosius (Wake America Up Again )
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To: nopardons

“Please, for the love of GOD, learn some FACTUAL history!
Whilst Hitler and Stalin were both SOCIALISTS ( one a Nazi, the other a Commie ) they were NOT “on the same side”! Hitler and the Nazis were always against Commies, as they wanted to be the ones in charge! The Nazis saw the Commies in the same way that they saw Jews, blacks, Gypsies, the old, infirm, cripples, etc.; the list is endless.

Your comment is the ne plus ultra of the uneducated who only imagines that they are stating something of value/factual.”

Lol... your over-emotionalism is hilarious. But yeah, Hitler and Stalin WERE on the same side. The side of evil. And Nazis were just another side of that same evil coin. That reality and fact seems to have whooshed right over your head, eh? Too funny.


75 posted on 02/13/2024 12:47:22 PM PST by Danie_2023
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To: dfwgator

Actually he lives fairly rural in Maine mostly though I think he just bought a summer home in Boca

Tucker and his wife are independently rich


76 posted on 02/13/2024 12:47:58 PM PST by wardaddy (I have seen true anti semitism is more common in USA than I imagined. A disease in the public mind)
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To: Danie_2023

Nazis and Communists were two rabid dogs fighting over the same bone.


77 posted on 02/13/2024 12:48:02 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: wardaddy

I was referring to the writer of this slop.


78 posted on 02/13/2024 12:48:44 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Orosius
True to a point!

But then, WE were GREAT "FRIENDS" of the USSR after that, until WW II ended.

OTOH...when Hitler and the Nazi began they were 100% fighting the German Commies for power. Which IS what I stated and which IS 100% factual.

79 posted on 02/13/2024 12:49:46 PM PST by nopardons
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To: marcusmaximus

Most subways are cleaner and safer than ours even in countries we’d think not

I live in a very rich safe county

But most US cities have issues

Demographics

But neos and protocons here will blame only democrats

Race realism is a third rail for them


80 posted on 02/13/2024 12:50:08 PM PST by wardaddy (I have seen true anti semitism is more common in USA than I imagined. A disease in the public mind)
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