How did they steal a flashlight out of your car, do you not lock it and keep valuable items out of view?
Yes a 2 for 3 buck harbor freight flashlight is a valuable item.
Anybody who's ever lived in a car knows not to display anything that draws attention. Former car liver telling you that here.
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Ukraine bumper sticker doesn't do shit for anyone in Ukraine anyway. Stay grayman and stop drawing unnecessary attention.
The EU has been hesitant (to put it nicely) to bring in former eastern bloc/Warsaw pact "nations" for a reason. One of those reasons is at least some of those nations aren't/weren't nations at all but just lines drawn on a map dating back to 1918. Left to their own devices they'd fall back into ethnic/tribal internal skirmishes and divisions akin to 19th century mindset.
Ukraine is one of those today. It's a region, not a cohesive unified country. It's basically like if east texas, central texas, and west Texas all fought it out to be individual little areas.
There's enough of them that could put aside enough differences to still amount to something called "Ukraine" but it could and will be something less than the "Ukraine" other colonial powers drew on a map for them saying "within these physical boundaries is Ukraine"
If anything it makes you appreciate what the United States is, warts and all. Yep we got growing pains and bad shit happened and it still ain't just right but we keep it together and learn as we go and spread equality to more and more people and because of that someday maybe it will be right. There's at least enough hope in the idea there to keep working towards that ideal. Lot of places around the world don't even have that.
We do. We might not always agree on what that looks like but the vast majority of us (save for a few weirds, they're free to be weird after all too) at least put in effort to make this place better, whatever that means to us.
"Small but vocal" types easily grab attention and headlines. They also don't represent the vast majority of Americans. They just give good shock value.