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> Do you have any non-fictional examples

Probably not a good approach to take here because there are plenty of examples of everything he said. However there are simultaneously plenty of counterexamples. For example certain west coast cities where shop lifting has been de facto legalized due to non-enforcement rooted in the name of the social cause of the day.

Actually what he wrote appears to match a certain political stereotype in the US while being the opposite of the other one. So I guess it says more about his view of the US than anything else.

> > at least when they want any at all. It's not consistent.

This is because you are treating Americans as a monolithic group, failing to differentiate between various major clusters.

However I will say that at least

> > A lot of Americans are way too into punishment. It's seriously like a fetish for them.

matches what I see around me.

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