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Americans have a moral obligation to resist Donald Trump and project 2025 at every turn.
America is a flawed democracy currently being ruled by oligarchs. Stop the backslide! Dont let America become the next Hungary.
America needs to challenge the court rulings of citizens united v. fec and shelby county v. holder, protect the media, implement independent district drawing, and the single transferable vote so they don't end up having people stay home in life-changing elections because they cannot vote for their favourite candidate.
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Which drugs is he on?
Cocaine is my bet.
Edit: Oh no, I just realized I vanquished my chance to visit the USA as a tourist with that comment. They won't let me in now :(
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oops, me neither
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OH ME TOO! didn't wanna go to such a shitstain country anyway.
just medical cocacine
For ADHD, surely?
I mean it depends how connected your account is to you. Also as an American I promise you aren't missing anything.
I know you're being funny but anyone who genuinely thinks this needs to go outside more. America literally has multiple natural wonders.
until the nazis sell'em off to the highest bidder
Nah, they'll sell them at a cut rate to their cronies.
It appears things are going to get very ugly here. You haven't seen anything yet.
Do we though?
This is obviously not a comprehensive list, but the main big ones that come to mind are The Grand Canyon, Mt Rushmore, Niagara Falls, and Yosemite.
The Grand Canyon is kind of cool, I guess. I went there once, said "Yep that sure is a big fuckin' hole in the ground" and then continued the rest of my vacation. Maybe I'm just not the target audience but I don't see GC being something that someone comes from, say, France to come look at, unless you're a geologist.
Mt Rushmore is stolen holy land that we carved the faces of a bunch of old white men into. Go America. It's kind of cool to look at I guess but the history behind it does not paint us as good people, and this also isn't a natural wonder, it's man-made.
I believe Niagara Falls is technically property of Canada but I may be incorrect on that.
Yosemite is actually great and I highly recommend it to everyone. However Trump is defunding the parks & rec divisions and trying to sell off national park land to development contractors, so the one actually really cool natural wonder that we have is in danger of becoming a parking lot.
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There are plenty of neat places in the wilderness in America, because despite our hyper-capitalist-industrialism, the US is still like 40% wilderness or open land. But I wouldn't consider e.g. Appalachia to be a "natural wonder". Nice place to have a beer and go fishing, sure, but it's not unique or special.
I look forward to other people telling me other American natural wonders that I've missed in the replies here, because I can't really think of any other big ones off the top of my head. You'll have some small local attractions sometimes - the Bottomless Pools and the titular bat cave of Bat Cave, NC were neat and fun as an example, and things like local caves or beaches or whatever, but you go one state over and ask people about them and they've never heard of them. Hardly a notable attraction.
I live in America, so I can't say what people in other countries know about us as far as like, vacation destinations. I'm actually interested to hear what big natural wonders America has that are commonly known to the rest of the world.
Yellowstone is the most active geothermal area in the world, with over half of the entire world's known geysers in a single park and you left that out for Mt Rushmore...? Yosemite the "one national park we have"? Are you trolling? This comment and seeing it getting upvoted makes me irrationally angry because our wilderness is the best thing we have going for us and is basically what is keeping me in the country. People need to know how great it is so we can remember we need to protect it!
The vastness of the US west is something special. And in all that space if you just wander you're bound to find something beautiful by accident. I've lived in the west for 15 years and I'm not even close to being bored and always find new places. Are there analogues elsewhere? Sure. That doesn't make it not special.
As for specific natural wonders... There's the redwoods and sequoias. Joshua trees. Saguaro National Park is incredibly unique, although saguaros exist in Mexico too. Hell cacti only exist natively in the Americas, and many species only in the US deserts. Devil's Tower is awesome. The entirely of Yosemite is amazing. The entire state of Utah might as well be a national park. Seriously. Those landscapes are amazing. The Great Interior Seaway going through the US made it amazing for fossils, tons of dinosaurs in particular. All the volcanic activity on the west coast and Hawaii is fascinating. I just recently learned about the Driftless Zone and how cool is that! I could go on and on.
I've even had a great time with people from France in these places. Can you even believe it? Real non-geologist French people! Coming to the USA!
The world is full of beautiful natural wonders, and the US is just another part of the world and it has them too!
Yellowstone. Arches. Zion. Carlsbad. Denali. Petrified Forest. Not a national park, but one of my favourites was actually Lava Beds National Monument. Beyond these popular ones, there are so many other great natural landmarks, both protected by designation and not. Then there are the historic or notably cultural areas, like DC or Manhattan. You’re really missing out if you aren’t even aware of how many significant places you have in your country.
Also it may be as pretty as you want but I'm not traveling somewhere that I can be deported to a torcure camp for just existing mostly or supporting that kind of economy.
You think he got into Junior's stash?
Must have. I don't think these fascist types know the meaning of sharing.
You are posting on a non centralized app, so it is not paying Trump so they do not even know it exists.
Your loss
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Yes.
couch stuffing, or the chemicals use to treat couches.
Bitchadol forte with coke.