in a security guard uniform who tells me we live in an awful country. This while I'm on the phone with USAA seeing if the issue is my card or the machine at the facility. Older Hispanic lady, likely Puerto Rican, probably in her mid-40's.

This is how the conversation goes:

Her: we live in a horrible country with a horrible president.
Me: at least we get to vote for our president here. If it’s so horrible, why don’t you leave?
Her: we have no freedom of speech. My employer says I have to speak English at work.

At this point, there’s no sense in trying to talk sense into an idiot. Your employer sets their policies which you agreed to upon accepting employment, right? I just thought that, no sense in trying to win an argument with stupid.

Me: what you just said is freedom of speech, you also have the freedom to leave.

Her: maybe I will do that then.

I’m an immigrant myself and I’ve been around the world a couple times, seen real poverty and bled for my country. 8 years on active duty and currently a reservist. It upsets me when people come here from other countries and criticize us. If this place is so bad, why did you come here? Why don’t you go back to where you’re from?

I don't go to the coin operated laundry but I had to wash the dog bedding and our little washing machine at home wouldn't have been up to the task of washing such heavy items. Now I know the next time I go, it will be very early since they are open 24/7. That way I can likely get in/out before any stupid arrives.

Common misconception: the first amendment protects you from being restricted by the government, NOT private businessses or individuals. It is perfectly legal for an employer to require you to restrict your speech as a condition of employment. Can’t bitch out customers, etc.

- Bret

Fucking ingrate. Yes, do leave, please.

My half of that conversation would have been VERY brief:

"Not happy here? Get the fuck out."

My response would likely have been longer than PHPaul's. It probably would have started with something along the lines of, "What makes you think that your employer wants you harassing their customers with your opinion which at best they couldn't care less about? And for the record, I am deeply offended by your opinion. If you don't like it here you are more than welcome to vote with your feet. Perhaps you'd like it better wherever you came from. In any case, I'll be sure to let your employer know that I very much did not appreciate your unsolicited opinion and will consider taking my business elsewhere if this is what I have to put up with at his business. Have a nice day."

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"Not happy here? Get the fuck out."

And
"I love my President"

I don't talk to idiots on my own time. At work is another story.

People float through miles of shark infested waters on rafts made of trash to get here. It’s the only country in the world that’s so horrible that people refuse to leave it.

I’m not sure what it is about your mannerisms that would invite people to come up and bitch about this country.

Thankfully it’s nothing i’ve ever had. I wouldn’t have responded; just stared at her until she left.

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I’m not sure what it is about your mannerisms that would invite people to come up and bitch about this country.

Often it is not your mannerisms. Some people cannot read body language. It is funny to watch men approach women who do not have the slightest interest in them as conveyed by their body language. It usually ends badly.

I would have told her, "My Great Grandfather came to this country in 1847 on the three week trip to New Orleans he and his two sisters studied English when they stepped foot on America soil he said, "I'm in America now and from now on I will speak English". That's in our family History.

Virtue signalling, self-righteous, willfully ignorant, hostile, bubbling with hate and far from alone -- consider it a warning and watch your six.

You could have said; "And it is such a pity you have to work for a living, right?"

Since Obama I have lost all patience with this type and feel I must challenge these people.

If not challenged they assume they are right and I'm a idiot.

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Originally posted by Leemur:
People float through miles of shark infested waters on rafts made of trash to get here. It’s the only country in the world that’s so horrible that people refuse to leave it.

Well said!

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Originally posted by Edmond:....I’m an immigrant myself and I’ve been around the world a couple times, seen real poverty and bled for my country. 8 years on active duty and currently a reservist. It upsets me when people come here from other countries and criticize us. If this place is so bad, why did you come here? Why don’t you go back to where you’re from?...

Why don't you move to CA. tell them you are in this country illegaly. They will promise to give you free healthcare, education, a ticket on the gravy-train, and protect you from the feds.

On a serious note, my gripe is those who come to America seeking a better life, who want all the freedoms and benefits available here but none of the responsibilities. They want to escape the oppression of their homeland, but they bring with them, and demand we assimilate, the roots that spawn the oppression. And those who come here illegally usually ignore other laws in addition to immigration laws.

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Originally posted by ZSMICHAEL:

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I’m not sure what it is about your mannerisms that would invite people to come up and bitch about this country.

Often it is not your mannerisms. Some people cannot read body language. It is funny to watch men approach women who do not have the slightest interest in them as conveyed by their body language. It usually ends badly.

Okay, I get it and your explanation sounds plausible and funny as I've seen it before. But thinking a girl angling her body from you means she's got the hots for you is so far out for me from thinking that guy wants to have a deep conversation with me on the societal ills plaguing this country.