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A true hero of the Union, a good Atlanta boy! (thelemmy.club)
submitted 4 months ago by to c/politicalmemes@lemmy.world
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cross-posted from: https://piefed.social/c/shermanposting/p/1862271/a-true-hero-of-the-union-a-good-atlanta-boy

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[–] 99 points 4 months ago (18 children)

The fact he walked three hours being notable enough to make the headline is possibly the most American thing I've ever seen

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  • [–] 108 points 4 months ago (17 children)

    I'm reasonably sure that's a 3 hour long drive. America is big.

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  • [–] 61 points 4 months ago (15 children)

    Ahh sorry, to me a trek means a walk

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  • [–] 52 points 4 months ago (11 children)

    America is so car centric they're eliminating walking from the vocabulary

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  • [–] 38 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    Star Trek but it’s just guys walking through space

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  • [–] 6 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    hitchhiking really

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Through the galaxy? Someone should write a book about that!

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  • [–] 17 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

    It's a fair point.

    My city's about to get a new baseball stadium, and people are actually whining that they might have to park their car somewhere other than the stadium and walk.

    And, mind you, we have a five-mile long, free passenger train that will take them right to the stadium. It's not gonna be hard to get there.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    From what I can tell about 90% of Americans respond to phrases like "passenger train" with sheer panic.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago

    True.

    And here, this conversation is kind of a re-tread of the past 10 years where we had to fight to get the passenger train, because all these drivers couldn't be bothered to give up a lane of traffic. Unfortunately that's just a fact of life in a sprawled American city, but luckily, the city fucking loves the train so it's that much harder for suburbanites to find support.

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