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patrice Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-19-10 12:50 PM
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73. You know what? FERAL is The. Perfect. Word. for what is happening, not only to people with problems,
but also to those whose future have been sign, sealed, and delivered to them by their slavish obedience to Mammon. People who "don't have a care in the world" are turning feral on U.S. and I know this for a fact, because they are some of the people whom I talk to.
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  -'My family is turning feral under my very eyes'... Subdivisions  Mar-18-10 12:45 PM   #0 
  - Wow  louis-t   Mar-18-10 12:50 PM   #1 
  - Whoa! Great description.  Joanne98   Mar-18-10 12:50 PM   #2 
  - Interesting...  WCGreen   Mar-18-10 01:00 PM   #3 
  - The author makes a good case for him to return to Russia. n/t  jody   Mar-18-10 01:01 PM   #4 
  - He's also making a good case that he's already there  kenny blankenship   Mar-18-10 01:27 PM   #13 
  - Or any other civilized country.  RaleighNCDUer   Mar-18-10 01:27 PM   #14 
  - This is what's going on in Arizona. eom  Hello_Kitty   Mar-18-10 01:01 PM   #5 
  - Could you share a bit more of details about that,Kitty?  dixiegrrrrl   Mar-18-10 01:03 PM   #6 
     - We got slammed by the housing bubble.  Hello_Kitty   Mar-18-10 01:26 PM   #12 
        - I think about the environmental degradation all that "development" cost.  arcadian   Mar-18-10 01:34 PM   #16 
           - Yup. We used to have great citrus orchards. Now most of them are gone.  Hello_Kitty   Mar-18-10 01:44 PM   #18 
           - I also live in Arizona  debunkthelies   Mar-19-10 09:10 PM   #81 
           - McMansions all over the country landscape  Wednesdays   Mar-18-10 05:34 PM   #32 
           - And the ones that aren't rotting...  JHB   Mar-19-10 11:43 AM   #69 
           - Not only that, but ...  surrealAmerican   Mar-19-10 10:19 AM   #66 
  - lol russian immigrants are NOT a blessing in the central valley of CA nt  msongs   Mar-18-10 01:04 PM   #7 
  - From my experience, in a political context,  Luminous Animal   Mar-18-10 09:44 PM   #41 
  - You have to realize, this is the new "America" and the rules immigrants learn  Go2Peace   Mar-19-10 02:25 AM   #55 
  - "The television is never turned off."  DemoTex   Mar-18-10 01:08 PM   #8 
  - I find where I live the television is always on Fox news and the people are eating it up!  eagertolearn   Mar-19-10 10:02 AM   #64 
  - He's right about the exurbs -- as the cost of energy goes up they are very unattactive  FarCenter   Mar-18-10 01:09 PM   #9 
  - On our property we have four generations and a minimum of eleven people under two roofs..  Fumesucker   Mar-18-10 01:22 PM   #10 
  - Are you unique in your area?  HCE SuiGeneris   Mar-19-10 12:29 AM   #44 
     - I really don't know for sure..  Fumesucker   Mar-19-10 07:23 AM   #59 
        - Many are grappling to make sense of this newly evolving America.  HCE SuiGeneris   Mar-20-10 12:48 AM   #83 
  - "all that's left for Americans to do is to play each other for the suckers that they have become."  Greyhound   Mar-18-10 01:23 PM   #11 
  - Job-Less America  branders seine   Mar-18-10 01:34 PM   #15 
  - Dimitry Orlov has a famous comparison of Russia vs America collapse  dixiegrrrrl   Mar-18-10 01:40 PM   #17 
  - Thanks for the sobering link  PufPuf23   Mar-18-10 02:18 PM   #19 
  - You and me both.  dixiegrrrrl   Mar-18-10 02:42 PM   #20 
     - I kept moving into the city.  boppers   Mar-19-10 01:50 AM   #52 
  - There are several factors there unspoken of...  YOY   Mar-19-10 07:21 AM   #58 
  - You left out guns We're no 1 in guns so we can demand stuff. We're OK.  pundaint   Mar-19-10 10:44 AM   #67 
  - There isn't anything wrong with housing three generations in a home. It's beneficial to all.  Maru Kitteh   Mar-18-10 02:53 PM   #21 
  - It depends a lot on the people involved..  Fumesucker   Mar-18-10 03:00 PM   #22 
  - Not all families are created equal.  Codeine   Mar-18-10 03:18 PM   #25 
  - Seriously.  Hello_Kitty   Mar-18-10 03:45 PM   #27 
     - Oh come on now  MattBaggins   Mar-18-10 03:56 PM   #29 
     - tossing ones family to the wind is a fairly new development. It's not about romanticizing.  KittyWampus   Mar-18-10 05:41 PM   #33 
        - Everybody in my family got the hell away from everyone else  The Green Manalishi   Mar-19-10 12:45 PM   #72 
  - But people have to have work and earn a living...  rfranklin   Mar-19-10 09:49 AM   #63 
  - I live in an exurb of Detroit ...  daggahead   Mar-18-10 03:10 PM   #23 
  - Deleted message  Name removed   Mar-18-10 03:13 PM   #24 
  - Yeah, his wife does sound like a douchenozzle...  Fumesucker   Mar-18-10 03:19 PM   #26 
  - Deleted message  Name removed   Mar-18-10 05:19 PM   #31 
     - You're right  Canuckistanian   Mar-18-10 09:10 PM   #38 
  - Yeah but he's criticizing AMERICA so it must be true!!!! Every word!!!!  WildEyedLiberal   Mar-18-10 08:18 PM   #35 
     - see my post #43; it doesn't feel genuine somehow  Hekate   Mar-19-10 12:34 AM   #45 
  - Community?  Lilith Velkor   Mar-18-10 03:55 PM   #28 
  - The problem is that..  butterfly77   Mar-18-10 04:03 PM   #30 
  - Not to make a sweeping generalization or anything, but  Brickbat   Mar-18-10 05:43 PM   #34 
  - LMAO!  ZenKitty   Mar-18-10 11:54 PM   #42 
     - I know, right?  Brickbat   Mar-19-10 06:04 PM   #78 
  - he's married to Orly  Blue_Tires   Mar-18-10 08:23 PM   #36 
  - I've Seen It Since the 80's  Demeter   Mar-18-10 08:57 PM   #37 
  - Don't miss the best parts  Tsiyu   Mar-18-10 09:24 PM   #39 
  - Yep, feral describes it  tavalon   Mar-18-10 09:36 PM   #40 
  - Hmmmm. This whole thing will go viral; it reads like RW spam, only post-Soviet.  Hekate   Mar-19-10 12:06 AM   #43 
  - I think you're right. The first two paragraphs seem contrived. But the third paragraph...  NYC_SKP   Mar-19-10 12:35 AM   #46 
  - You are right to be skeptical.  pa28   Mar-19-10 01:16 AM   #48 
  - It reads like well-composed "you-are-there" future-fiction. There's just enough realism to hook...  Hekate   Mar-19-10 01:50 AM   #51 
  - i had the same sense. & considering this guy's background, when he immigrated (long before the  Hannah Bell   Mar-19-10 01:56 AM   #54 
  - Well now. Perceptions. I'll admit, and not for the first time, that  Subdivisions   Mar-19-10 01:19 PM   #76 
  - I should answer considering I brought up Panarin.  pa28   Mar-21-10 01:07 AM   #87 
  - "Composed" is the word for it. I wonder if Orlov wrote this himself. n/t  gkhouston   Mar-19-10 06:27 PM   #80 
  - like a lick-on tattoo  upi402   Mar-19-10 12:43 AM   #47 
  - In many ways this seems like an exaggeration except for one point:  XemaSab   Mar-19-10 01:24 AM   #49 
  - I wonder if this is good translating, or good editing  REP   Mar-19-10 01:39 AM   #50 
  - how can his wife be a "pleasant" woman and rant like Rush?  sam kane   Mar-19-10 01:51 AM   #53 
  - She puts out.  PassingFair   Mar-19-10 07:35 AM   #60 
  - Looks like the U.S. and the Soviet Union ended up destroying each other. Only, Russia has rebuilt  leveymg   Mar-19-10 05:04 AM   #56 
  - Russia has huge problems. Many of their socialist systems have collapsed, there's an enormous heroin  Hekate   Mar-19-10 02:16 PM   #77 
     - Sounds like Detroit or Oakland  leveymg   Mar-20-10 06:46 AM   #84 
        - Rethink that comparison and scale it up to a country larger than ours, not just a city or two.  Hekate   Mar-20-10 02:07 PM   #85 
  - lol. the rhetoric in this- even accounting for this being the guy's second language  cali   Mar-19-10 06:39 AM   #57 
  - OMG.  Pooka Fey   Mar-19-10 07:35 AM   #61 
  - This guy nails it!  Pharaoh   Mar-19-10 08:31 AM   #62 
  - Seriously great writing and great point of view, we are feral game for wall street sociopaths -nt  scentopine   Mar-19-10 10:09 AM   #65 
  - "She is a good wife"? What the hell does that even mean in light of how he describes her?  GodlessBiker   Mar-19-10 11:30 AM   #68 
  - Perhaps she had huge...  Tesha   Mar-21-10 04:51 PM   #88 
  - Frightening  kenfrequed   Mar-19-10 12:27 PM   #70 
  - Thanks for sharing this story.  midnight   Mar-19-10 12:27 PM   #71 
  - WOW! Thanks to everyone for your recs and comments. I had no  Subdivisions   Mar-19-10 12:50 PM   #74 
  - You know what? FERAL is The. Perfect. Word. for what is happening, not only to people with problems,  patrice   Mar-19-10 12:50 PM   #73 
  - Not really seeing it too much.  Caliman73   Mar-19-10 12:58 PM   #75 
  - Actually Caliman  Pharaoh   Mar-20-10 04:52 PM   #86 
  - What a perspective  agent46   Mar-19-10 06:15 PM   #79 
  - God, it would be rough for anyone in Boston.  deaniac21   Mar-19-10 09:34 PM   #82 
 

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