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re: Comparing Malls from Manila to Alabama and Minnesota
Posted on 1/30/23 at 7:02 am to Tigerhalen
Posted on 1/30/23 at 7:02 am to Tigerhalen
Crime is actually punished in Manila
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Posted on 1/30/23 at 7:05 am to Toomer Deplorable
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You mean you can actually go shopping in the Philippines without worrying about being car-jacked or hit by a stray bullet in gang-related shootout? What a bunch of backwards rubes.
You were more likely to get shot in the 80s in the US than today, just FWIW
Posted on 1/30/23 at 7:44 am to RogerTheShrubber
By reset, I think you mean something else.
Posted on 1/30/23 at 7:47 am to tarzana
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Malls are meaningless today in the US as they're dangerous crime hotbeds, and furthermore it's much safer and easier to shop online nowadays.
Lol. Yay, let’s never leave our house because it’s just too unsafe in America to go shopping.
Dude, I know you and your ilk think this is fine, but frick you.
Posted on 1/30/23 at 7:50 am to RogerTheShrubber
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American society needs a reset, badly.
The entire world is about to be reset. Prepare and pray.
Posted on 1/30/23 at 7:58 am to Tigerhalen
Conceding the truth about everything everyone has said and posted about the nefarious crap going on at malls and shopping centers today, are folks not here familiar with the data that says ASIDE FROM THAT, malls in the US are declining and disappearing because the majority of people here do not prefer that shopping experience anymore, and still would not even if the experience could be made, with metaphysical certitude, safe and non-problematic?
The rise in online shopping is only partly to blame as well. Again, people in the 21st century simply do not prefer that shopping experience anymore ... there's a certain amount of Boomers (and I am one so I can rag on them) who haven't gotten the message, and the nostalgia for malls appears to be greater in the South ... but on the whole people in the US in the 21st century prefer things like the Summit in B'ham.
If they're having safety issues at places like that now, that's a different discussion, but it's not all "people are scared to go there."
The rise in online shopping is only partly to blame as well. Again, people in the 21st century simply do not prefer that shopping experience anymore ... there's a certain amount of Boomers (and I am one so I can rag on them) who haven't gotten the message, and the nostalgia for malls appears to be greater in the South ... but on the whole people in the US in the 21st century prefer things like the Summit in B'ham.
If they're having safety issues at places like that now, that's a different discussion, but it's not all "people are scared to go there."
Posted on 1/30/23 at 8:37 am to Toomer Deplorable
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What would you most like about living in the Philippines?
Pace of life, culture, those silly outdated notions that family and religion are still the most important underpinning of society.
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What would you most miss from the United States?
The everyday modern conveniences of living in the US. Having virtually anything you need within a 15 minute drive or a 2 day delivery schedule. But I also know I could adjust to not having that very quickly.
I suspect in some important ways, life in the Philippines could be akin to life in the US in the '40s and '50s. Culturally, it is just a much more cohesive and functional society than ours currently is.
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Your other post, not directed at me:
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You mean you can actually go shopping in the Philippines without worrying about being car-jacked or hit by a stray bullet in gang-related shootout? What a bunch of backwards rubes.
This is wholly inaccurate. I've walked the slums of Manila and felt far safer than I would walking through the Desire Projects in NOLA. I've also walked dirt roads in the smallest villages in the interior of Luzon with kids who probably had never seen a white guy before. I've never had even the smallest issue.
This post was edited on 1/30/23 at 8:47 am
Posted on 1/30/23 at 9:51 am to BamaScoop
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Feral Democrats ruined the Galleria in Birmingham. I grew up in Hoover and it was nice but thugs have ruined the malls in Hoover. The last time I was in the Galleria the thugs were walking around with pit bulls on leashes inside the mall. My wife and daughter were in there and there was a shooting. They frick up everything!
Obama’s dream for America. Nowhere will be safe or comfortable for the backbone f this country. Elite’s will distance themselves from the chaos and we will deal with it daily. Now they want laws to make it illegal to defend yourself and somehow this is a better society.
Posted on 1/30/23 at 11:02 am to Tigerhalen
Savages....They were that way when they were brought over and will forever be that way
Posted on 1/30/23 at 5:36 pm to BengalOnTheBay
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Culturally, it is just a much more cohesive and functional society than ours currently is.
Sounds wonderful.
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This is wholly inaccurate. I've walked the slums of Manila and felt far safer than I would walking through the Desire Projects in NOLA.
I think you misinterpreted my intentions in that post. My comment was tongue in cheek — I was responding to the post above which seemed to indicate that the Philippines were retrogrades because it was not as “culturally advanced” as the United States.
Posted on 1/30/23 at 5:38 pm to Tigerhalen
The designer of the original mall modeled it on central Vienna, and wanted it to include apartments, schools, clinics, etc., along with stores.
Posted on 1/30/23 at 5:39 pm to Tigerhalen
You can take the ____ out of the jungle, but you can't take the jungle out of the ____.
There's just something different about those cultures... I can't put my finger on it.
There's just something different about those cultures... I can't put my finger on it.
Posted on 1/30/23 at 7:04 pm to CAPEX
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Of course America has negatives.
Every country does.
But I hear far, far more complaints about America than praises for it on this board.
It's fair to note the trajectory and the trajectory should be concerning to everyone.
Posted on 1/30/23 at 7:29 pm to Toomer Deplorable
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Sounds wonderful.
It is. I cannot disagree that America reached a pinnacle of human civilization such that almost every person on Earth wants to come here, but at the same time being in a "third world" country that is not inundated by every other third world migrant keeps the society strong and healthy.
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I think you misinterpreted my intentions in that post. My comment was tongue in cheek — I was responding to the post above which seemed to indicate that the Philippines were retrogrades because it was not as “culturally advanced” as the United States.
My apologies... I was confused because you are always such an astute poster... most of our erudite liberals cannot understand the "health" of a nation as it pertains to its cultural cohesion vs. economic/technological advancement. One is far more important than the other.
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