I will add something I haven’t seen here that may help.

First off, you’re in the right.

It’s possible that the wording and tone you used were different than this person usually deals with. Eastern Europeans in my experience are much more direct, in a way that can come off as aggressive- to Americans. Many if not most Americans are not used to this, they’re much more passive-aggressive, are used to changing up their word choice and tone with different audiences and subject matters, often trying to avoid confrontation. So saying your thoughts clearly to them may have actually seemed like you were attacking their beliefs. Challenging someone’s thought processes, especially around politics, is something Americans often don’t deal with outside of confrontation. You’re not supposed to think about that, you feel right or wrong. Interrogating what you believe to attempt to come up with a better political view is never spoken of here in the mainstream, that’s a very foreign concept I usually only see in leftists, go figure. Of course there are still many Americans that aren’t like this, but I thought I’d offer this up as a possibility.

I’ll need a nixie tube sign to tell me to be happy

I hate the “EAT” sign. I came here for food please don’t be so demanding about it

Been working summers up here last couple years. Highs never quite hit 70. 50s pretty frequent, sudden to 40s or high 30s at night. Though I rarely see that because the sun is still up when I tend to go to sleep. So blackout curtains are a must. Rains a lot. A lot of fishing and hunting, charter boats, cruises, excursions. All expensive if you’re not doing it yourself, which without experience your can’t or shouldn’t. Need to keep a lookout for moose while outside. I’m in a small tourist town, locals range from hippies to chuds, tourists suck but where I make my money. Lots of cars have a plug sticking out the grill to hookup a heater in winter. I can’t imagine doing winter here. Incredibly beautiful, huge mountains next to ocean, vast wilderness and wildlife, but I don’t much care for the culture here, I don’t think I’ll be back but to visit in the future. Oh, and mosquitos. I’m lucky where I am but they are a plague elsewhere. I just get hit with dead fish smells all the time. Older buildings (rare to see things more than 50 years old) are charming wood structures. New ones surprisingly boxy and seem like they’d accumulate so much snow. A lot of Trump flags.

Some buddies and I once spent an evening passing around a bug zapper and having a go at it, to the concern of the one girl present. We were like 22 tbf

Dudes shock

Hate to crowdsource appointees in my democracy

I worked at Amazon over a decade ago, when these were new, it was the first time I saw these things and all I could think was how ugly they were and why would anyone buy them. I’m still thinking that but stricken with the fact that they still exist against all rational thought

Vonnegut was a POW in Dresden when the bombing happened, and recounts how he survived after he and others huddled in a slaughterhouse to survive, then coming out, witnessing the massive fires and seeing American planes strafing the survivors, including American POWs

Without doing any research my memory will have to serve, but as a poor breakaway state of a poor former SSR, they seem to have kept all the old soviet institutions and aesthetic, but with a fraction of the funding. I don’t think they’re doing well but it would be very interesting to see firsthand.

Transnistria maybe?

Thank you!

May Stalin fuck you

Please share how to say this

Sidewalks would interrupt my precious lawn!

Time for a car gulag. Garage gulag? Garlag? Gulage?