Strange how we still haven't heard directly from the city manager

"While liberal media and politicians dismiss concerns about missing pets, the truth is staring us in the face. Instead of addressing the reality of cultural practices that clash with American values, they prefer to mock and deflect. As long as this willful ignorance continues, ordinary Americans will be left to protect their pets and communities on their own. The silence from those in power speaks volumes, but the people know better—and they’re watching."

https://www.tiktok.com/@journeyofeverything/video/7413849544078806303

Several years ago while in Raleigh I was told that Vietnamese folks ate all the ducks in a city lake. When my grandmother was a child she used fishing hooks to catch songbirds in the winter to eat. This is not extraordinary. Americans have no idea how other people live. Why is this even a story?

In this case it would be like one of us going over to India, killing a cow, and cooking up some steaks and hamburgers. We'd be lucky to get tossed in jail instead of killed on the spot because of how Indians feel about cows.

While we don't hold cats and dogs in high regards like that, it's still wrong and probably illegal in some places to do that. What makes it worse in the US is that these are people's pets and not feral/wild cats and dogs that are being killed and eaten.

Turns out the story was debunked.
Bearing false witness is still a Top 10 sin?

Not if you do it for Jesus, and now apparently Orange Jesus.

People have murdered their own family members because of Trump, so no limits there.

In this case it would be like if an Indian killed a cow because she was mentally ill, and then a bunch of Modi supporters decided to blame it on Americans, (because everyone knows how Americans eat cows, right?) and he repeated that lie during a debate because it would appeal to the anti-American base.

And then when the whole thing was debunked, that base would continue to insist it was true, doubling and tripling down on the ridiculous nonsense.

The story was never "debunked." It was never "confirmed." Did it happen? JD Vance said people told him it was true. I assume all politicians are liars so I don't know. I don't understand why this is such a big deal. First-world meets third-world stuff. Not interesting to me. Dogs are regularly eaten in China and Korea.

It absolutely has been debunked, end-to-end, from the single instance of the mentally ill American citizen who ate a cat, to the police and city leadership who repeatedly explained there were no reports of it happening, to JD Vance who said it's perfectly fine “to create stories so that the American media actually pays attention."

The fact that it played into racist tropes is WHY it went up like a wildfire in the racist trope party.

A lot of people have missed the point on this...

The mayor took several trips to Haiti and owns the apartment complexes that the gov pays to house to them