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Posted on 12/9/25 at 12:19 pm to 4cubbies
Too bad it wasn’t a ninja cop in Dennys huh cubs, then you wouldn’t get so smart, but that’s Different
Posted on 12/9/25 at 12:27 pm to 4cubbies
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“Should” is such a loaded and presumptuous word. It assumes someone is entitled to decide who belongs and who doesn’t based on their personal comfort level. That's not how things work here - and, ironically, speaks to the OP. You seem to have a problem with the store owners deciding who doesn't belong in their store based on their own values.
Your second paragraph is basically saying you don’t want your tax dollars pooled with people who aren’t culturally identical to you. But that’s how collective governance works. You want an ethnostate, which has never described America.
You comparing this to marriage compatibility is bizarre. Marriage is a voluntary one-on-one relationship. Nations are millions of people, all contributing and coexisting, none of whom get to handpick everyone else who lives near them. Your analogy actually proves the opposite of what you think it does.
Much ranting
No answering the question at hand
Posted on 12/9/25 at 12:29 pm to Mid Iowa Tiger
Such a shame... hopefully that DOES not happen... 
This post was edited on 12/9/25 at 12:30 pm
Posted on 12/9/25 at 12:35 pm to Pettifogger
I did answer. You just don’t like it.
My answer is that no one gets to gatekeep citizenship or visas based on personal preferences about religion, child-rearing, or aesthetics. That is the answer.
“Should people who aren’t like me be allowed here?” is such a ridiculous, intellectually vacant question anyway. You’re smarter than that.
My answer is that no one gets to gatekeep citizenship or visas based on personal preferences about religion, child-rearing, or aesthetics. That is the answer.
“Should people who aren’t like me be allowed here?” is such a ridiculous, intellectually vacant question anyway. You’re smarter than that.
Posted on 12/9/25 at 12:40 pm to TheFonz
Muslims own or lease most of the gas stations here. It started in the ‘80’s when the EPA cracked down on the old “full service” stations over oil and chemical disposal and forced many to put new tanks in the ground. Those people said “frick it” and either sold out or leased out the property. After 9/11 I wondered what would happen if they all got the message one day and lit fire to all of them. Kinda hard to get to work if there are no gas stations. Just speculation. Later they formed associations forcing vendors to negotiate pricing and incentives. All the while respecting no franchise rights and shipping in cheaper products from family across the country. You’d walk in and find a huge pile of your product from somewhere else. Most companies don’t have the balls to pull all of their equipment on site and quit them. I’ve seen them pull some stuff
Posted on 12/9/25 at 12:42 pm to 4cubbies
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My answer is that no one gets to gatekeep citizenship or visas based on personal preferences about religion, child-rearing, or aesthetics. That is the answer.
You didn't answer it. And most of the world has done this for most of world history, and continues to do so.
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“Should people who aren’t like me be allowed here?” is such a ridiculous, intellectually vacant question anyway. You’re smarter than that.
This sort of proves the point about you. It's such a knee-jerk, absurd reaction to a question posed everywhere, all the time, in every circumstance.
I don't know if it's ideological ferocity that leads to it, or you really just can't comprehend that almost every society and every group an every nation behaves exactly like this - determining who comes in, how they serve the group and how they'll fit in with the population of said group.
The question was, more or less, does it make sense. To simplify:
- Why should America allow the importation of people from the other side of the world who don't really have any intention of adopting any prevailing set of American values - be it mine/Traditional America's, or some more modernized variant of those. For clarity, I would suggest that Pakistanis and Somalis living in enclaves are well outside of any mainstream American value-set, even if that value-set is not the same as mine/traditional American WASP values
Posted on 12/9/25 at 12:42 pm to jrobic4
Straw owners to get started
Posted on 12/9/25 at 12:46 pm to Crappieman
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Pull their liquor licenses.
This is the easiest one. They locked the doors on law enforcement. That in itself is enough probable cause to jerk it. It could be done quickly.
Then let THEM show that the reason they locked the door was innocent and innocuous.
Posted on 12/9/25 at 1:14 pm to 4cubbies
"I'm knighting for a business to have the ability to refuse service to people they are legally able to refuse service to."
Just curious, but did you also advocate for the bakery that was sued and forced to make a wedding cake for the gay couple?
Just curious, but did you also advocate for the bakery that was sued and forced to make a wedding cake for the gay couple?
Posted on 12/9/25 at 2:01 pm to Night Vision
The last couple of times I had Brother's the chicken tasted like crap. I used to love their fried chicken...grease and all. Haven't been in a long time.
Posted on 12/9/25 at 2:27 pm to Pettifogger
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You didn't answer it. And most of the world has done this for most of world history, and continues to do so.
You keep insisting that I haven’t answered the question, but you framed the question in a way that already assumes your conclusion is true. It's not.
America has never been culturally uniform. There has never been a single value set, single religion, single lifestyle. You can’t retroactively manufacture a homogeneity that never existed.
You keep saying “most countries do this.” Most countries also have dramatically different histories, sizes, economies, and conceptions of citizenship. Japan is not the United States. Pakistan is not the United States. Hungary is not the United States.
Your enclave argument ignores the basic fact that enclaves have always been a feature of American life. Little Italy. Chinatown. Irish wards. Polish neighborhoods. Cajun country. German settlements. The idea that Somalis or Pakistanis are uniquely incompatible is just a modern version of the same anxieties Americans had about Catholics, Jews, Eastern Europeans, Vietnamese, Haitians, and basically every immigrant group that arrived before you started complaining about them.
Yes, people who are different from you can live here. Does it “make sense” to allow people in who don’t share your exact template of values? Yes. It does.
Posted on 12/9/25 at 2:35 pm to RetiredSaintsLsuFan
So a business in your mind should have the right to refuse service to anyone, except when they agree with you. If they do it to someone you agree with, you are for government bullying to make them pay.
The amazing hypocrisy of republicans and MAGA is always astounding to me.
The amazing hypocrisy of republicans and MAGA is always astounding to me.
Posted on 12/9/25 at 2:53 pm to Night Vision
Well they just put themselves on the radar. Bunch of smart boys
Posted on 12/9/25 at 3:39 pm to 4cubbies
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You keep insisting that I haven’t answered the question, but you framed the question in a way that already assumes your conclusion is true. It's not.
Of course it is. You're skipping the question because you don't have an answer.
You know that fostering widely varying cultures in one geographic footprint is unsustainable and an aberration both here and elsewhere. It's why you're going to laughably compare Somali enclaves where the emphasis is on pridefully not assimilating and instead taking over the existing culture to European ones from 125 years ago where the exact opposite was true.
This tired, rote arguments have been blown up time and time again but they're still trotted out not because you believe them, but because it's the only wall between you and having to admit the ridiculousness of a worldview that says it's wrong to suggest a population pull in the same direction or face dysfunction.
America has been pretty culturally homogenous for the majority of her existence. The concept of government offices acknowledging Islamic holidays or Diwali or renaming streets for Islamic fighters would have been beyond comprehension when you and I were born. Pretty much your entire concept of America is post-war, and the values of that post-war concept were still completely foreign to the overwhelming majority of Americans until the last 2-3 decades.
Even if we accepted the myth of the melting pot - to what end? What's to stop a country from deciding to end a practice that is no longer working and isn't helpful? The reality is that you'll selectively pick (or in this case, invent) foundational tenets of the country that are untouchable while pretending others (like that the country was explicitly founded on the notion of Christian virtue) do not exist.
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Yes, people who are different from you can live here. Does it “make sense” to allow people in who don’t share your exact template of values? Yes. It does.
This is more conclusory than the imagined framing you attribute to me
How does a Somali-led city government in an American city shouting down an American man for objecting to naming streets after a terrorist "make sense"?
Posted on 12/9/25 at 4:43 pm to Pettifogger
Bump
Posted on 12/9/25 at 4:45 pm to Night Vision
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Imad Hamdan and Ziad Mousa
Found the problem.
Posted on 12/9/25 at 4:56 pm to Statestreet
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1227 Veterans Memorial Blvd, Kenner, LA 70062
This the one?
There's this one at the Sunoco station that I know of on Loyola across from Popeyes.
3049 Loyola Ave, Kenner, La
Posted on 12/9/25 at 5:44 pm to Night Vision
Sounds like it’s time for DOTD to do some road work right in front of the entrances.
Posted on 12/9/25 at 6:48 pm to Night Vision
Which brothers? Frick them , I want to go in there tell them kiss Americas arse.
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