Political Memes

Oh no now I'll have to get my gas at Mobile. Or BP. Or Shell. Or Thorntons, Marathon, Citgo, the big grocery store - hell, Phillips made a return nearby, I could go there. Am I forgetting anybody? Eh, it doesn't matter, it's not like I can't get gas at any of the dozens of gas stations in every direction.

Yeah, America is going the sh*^#er. And it’s all because of the communists complaining about minimum wages, bathroom breaks and company health insurance.

/s obviously

My first and last experience with one of these places was many years ago. I didn't know it was anything special, just assumed it was yet another random truck stop gas station deal and I needed to stop for gas while on a long trip.

BIG MISTAKE

The customers themselves driving through the massive parking lot, it was like Mad Fucking Max, and that was enough to let me know that I needed to move on to some place else and never go back. It was literal non-stop absolutely bat shit insane drivers, running stop signs, laying hands on their horns and just letting it blare for a minute+ because a pedestrian dared cross through a crosswalk. People driving every which way down the lanes as though it was all one way or something. Squealing tires because people are going several times faster than the posted speed limit and then have to suddenly slam on brakes ... IN A FUCKING PARKING LOT.

NEVER AGAIN

I suppose learning this bullshit philosophy of the owners / management it all sort of comes together and makes sense. The worst kind of people as customers, the worst kind of people running it.

It's my fault for thinking that buc-ees pay and benefits and seemingly positive attitude towards employment meant they werent shit fucks.

Bucee's sucks shit, no doubt

But I'm weary of this liberal notion that red States have nothing to offer the world. What the hell does it mean to "have actual cultural attractions"? Do red States not have culture?

Does Louisana not have a culture? Does the Black Belt, throughout the South not have a distinct culture? Does New Mexico, or Texas not have significant Hispanic population that heavily influence their respective cultures? How about South Dakota's heavy indigenous population? Or Oklahoma? How about Appalachia?

Whiteness in America is, admittedly, not unlike the Borg, wherein all cultural artifacts and language of the many white ethic groups which immigrated here, were assimilated. They gave up the lifeways of their homelands in exchange for a kind of security, and thus for their great grandchildren to be run over by a Ford F250 in a Bucee's parking lot.

But that doesn't mean these places are without rich, deep, and important cultures. The United States is a prisonhouse of nations. Oklahoma, alone, is where we shoved a significant portion of this continents indigenous people. The fact that they're state government is lorded over by the most unhinged gringos America has to offer doesn't make it a place worth ignoring or giving up on. Quite the opposite, in fact.

Isn't buc-ees doing the cultural barrier?

As someone in a blue state, am I missing anything from then not being here?

TN here - They don't have garbage cans or squeegees / window cleaners. The crap they sell is overpriced swill. The bathrooms are very clean. Food is fair and overpriced. I'd rather go to a Loves any day.

The intentional irony of my avatar while being on lemmy.ml is starting to become more obvious.

Bucees sucks. I hate going into them. There are 10000 gas pumps that are always occupied and trying to get around the parking lot is a hazard. Inside is even worse with 1,000,000 lumen fluorescent lights and being packed full of gawking people.

What do you mean? My red state has a giant horseshoe and.....a couple theme parks I think?

The more I read about Buc-ees, the more I hate them.

Good, don’t need those in WA. lawsuit happy fucks.

buccees is well known, not for its gas stations, but to sue other small businesses in the area as them.

actual cultural attactions and don't need to pretend their gas stations are one

Bro has never been to a Wawa. Or a Sheetz.

Strange how they only open in blue areas of red states.

I hate them for the same reason I hate Chick-Fil-A: they can't fucking spell and their mascots bother me on a fundamental level. Every other awful thing is just confirmation that I've made the right decision.