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las61918 t1_j6e9bwp wrote

I’m not offended.

But you are using a picture from a Belgian cemetery to judge America, and then using a system developed in Europe to judge America.

Seems like you’re either working from bad info, or have a conclusion already decided and trying to make the points fit your desired end results. Either way it is disingenuous.

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[deleted] t1_j6e7vd6 wrote

You’re equating a coin deposit of a watering can in a country that isn’t the US (look at the sign) to the prison industrial complex in the US?

Reddit moment

It has nothing to do with treating anyone like a criminal. Have you ever been to a grocery store? People routinely don’t put carts back which is why Aldi’s does the same thing in the pic to get a shopping cart. It’s amazing how many people will walk their ass back up to the store just to get their quarter back.

Not everything is a dark dystopian conspiracy…

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Cajus t1_j6e7o0q wrote

I’m not even shittalking or judging, why are you so offended? If the scenario I described doesn’t happen in the Us the better. I just said this form of distrust in everyday live makes me sad and thankfully I haven’t experienced it in my country, doesn’t matter which country it happens.

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las61918 t1_j6e7bih wrote

Shit talking US about a photo not taken in the US… crazy.

Anyway pretty sure those cart-quarter machines started in Europe. Know for a fact my German teacher 20 years ago explained the concept, long before anyone here had been to Aldi’s for the first time. Y’all literally invented the practice than judge others for using it? Hypocrite.

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