Lived near the US-Mexico border for a while. License plates stolen twice. Apparently it's a big thing there: slap them on a stolen car and drive into Mexico before anyone realizes.
this post was submitted on 18 Jun 2026
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Can't have shit in Detroit
Or wherever they are apparently
Georgia
Yeah that tracks too
Honestly, anywhere would track. Have you seen this country? We are a dumpster fire.
yeah saw a YouTube vid the other day two lesbians having a breakup fight really tearing into each other ripping chunks of hair out and shit and the cop pepper sprays them trying to get them to at least break it up before they kill each other and both of them just. keep. going.
So I do inpatient Psych violence management in particular and yeah girl fights are waaay worse (9/10 w men you just have to break eye contact / line of sight) but like. The actual scientific term is hysterical strength (#dadreflexes or mom lifting a car off a baby) but to get that from a domestic relationship breakup...
when you're getting hysterical strength over nothing like that it's because the adrenaline system is getting activated too much without a proper cooldown. every time that system gets activated it gets a little easier to activate again for a while.
so maybe their relationship is just that awful idk. but I bet even if it is it's not just the relationship. they're in an environment where violence isn't just a social norm: it's getting hardwired into them so deep they can get fucking pepper sprayed and keep trying to kill their domestic partner. Shits fucked y'all.
Someone tried to steal my plate in 2013, and I'm sure people have been doing it forever. I'm not sure plate stealing is the barometer for how the US is faring, although I don't disagree that it's a dumpster fire.
the land of methtasia
Yup 😔
Why they speak english then??
They translated it for us, real considerate.
"smh dang"
"i hate that for you frfr"
Did people genuinely began using these out of casual conversation and will use it even on serious topics?
I do agree with you, but I also realize that maybe the vernacular is fluid and I'm getting left behind. I'm also okay with it. I'm a millennial, all my peers have used "lol" and the like for the past quarter century, so who am I to judge.
But I do judge. I also think the Internet has given people phrases ("my brother in Christ" comes to mind first) that people glom onto, and those drive me nuts too. Social Media seems to have become a dialect of the spoken language, and so you can tell who's constantly connected and maybe who isn't.
A stolen license plate isn't super serious though. Definitely annoying, but I'd expect my group chat to have some jokes sprinkled it. Shit, I'd probably joke myself, but I joke about anything, because if you're not laughing you're dying.
Its that uncomfortable funny because license plates are made in prisons and everybody lives in a prison state.
I can’t think of a more worthless thing to steal. What’s this guy gonna try to take next? The judges gavel?
A plate that is not marked to be from a stolen car is quite handy if you happen to be in possession of a stolen car.
Just have to hope the plate's owner doesn't notice it missing for a while.
Textbook example ass conversation