Don’t forget parking lots! The suburban strip mall is dependent on them. And since they take up valuable real estate that isn’t providing any tax revenue, it gets subsidized by taxes from neighboring high-density urban areas.

WW2 taught the USA that war can lift you out of an economic depression and stimulate your economy. They have since embraced that fact, and are now parading to celebrate their money making machine, not the victory itself.

They have pills and alcohol for that. Or they don’t actually sleep and are on a coke binge instead.

If only Poland told Hitler ‘Stop’ during the blitzkrieg… I’m sure things would’ve turned out differently.

And from the drastic collapse of insect populations.

And from the fact that 2 stroke engines, most often used in leaf blowers, emit more pollution per hour than a semi truck.