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Some have suggested it's because of puritanical upbringing. Girls learn how to do their makeup and the like by experimenting etc, but many puritanical families may act like a teen doing so is "dressing like a whore" or something. So they grow up it having the experience,and don't know what to do so just imitate what they think they should look like instead of finding the look that looks good on them.

That might be because of all the nondocile Japanese invaders they've had to deal with up to WWII.

Either just coincidence, or I may have found a GAM listener in the wild.

It was right outside the courtroom. Since there are breaks and sometimes multi day trials, there are ways a defendant could be "in the middle of a trial" and not be in the actual courtroom, where the bailiff would be.

I love raw onions on salad and some burgers/sandwiches. Usually red.

Denmark and Greenland. Both mentioned in the meme.

There are definitely some like that. The American system has a number of tricks to try to force people to do what they like as well though. Poverty, over policing of minorities, lack of social safety nets etc can cause people who grew up barely avoiding prison choosing military thinking the only choices they have are death or military, shoved at them when they're too young to really know the world. Add education that specifically avoids or lies about what US actually does overseas, plus a bunch of jingoistic propaganda making being a soldier appear to be a respectable profession.

I grew up in a cult that avoided military so I never had those feelings myself, so I got to watch it from the outside, and even the pledge of allegiance every morning was weird jingoistic programming from early ages. It can be difficult to see past that at 17. I'm not saying they don't deserve any punishment, but I do disagree with the idea that every single one wanted to kill people.

Honestly most do not. Plenty of parking lots I go to (mostly supermarkets) don't have these and people park fine, 90% of the time. People do take advantage and drive across when leaving and entering sometimes, but usually that isn't an issue either

On the other hand,I still remember trying to go to the movies with friends in a busy shopping plaza and some asshole with huge tires on his truck parked in a way that took up 4 whole parking spaces. I wanted to key up the truck. I wanted super powers that would let me move it to the lake, upside-down. That was like 12-15 years ago and it still makes me irrationally angry a bit.

I doubt these would have stopped that particular truck, but like many seemingly dumb rules, they aren't for the majority. They're for the occasional asshole who refuses to abide by the social construct. America certainly panders to those with the whole focus on individualism, but it hardly has a monopoly.

That works much less in an interconnected world (part of why they hate globalism). There are other countries keeping tabs as well. It's also why we know of the many atrocities committed by the US worldwide. They can try and hide what they can, but it's much harder these days.

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Sir/madam/???, this is a community called Reddit. This specifically is where people would care(though I agree with the sentiment).

One person's immature bullshit is another person's funny. I don't really care for it either, but I don't see a point of gatekeeping it. It'll always happen, probably easier to learn to ignore it.