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Culture War Roundup for the week of October 28, 2024

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He shouldn't have said it (for optics/politics reasons), but he's 100% right (or at least 95% right; some, I assume, are good people). Just wish he would've said it after November 5th instead.

(But also, it's clear from his statement that what he meant is "the real garbage is the people saying Puerto Rico is garbage".)

We, in fact, hold posters here to a higher standard than presidential candidates. Don't do this.

( @corman, you too - I know you are just playing tit-for-tat, but don't do that. Report the post.)

Actually, Harris supporters are garbage.

And this is the level of discourse you're inviting here.

Go on. Make the case for Puerto Rico being better than the mainland, and for those who come to the mainland being better than the ones already here with regards to litter.

and for those who come to the mainland being better than the ones already here with regards to litter.

And now I'm reminded of a forum post I was once linked to — I think it was referenced by a commenter on a Steve Sailer post — by a puertoriqueño New Yorker complaining about how "the Jews" obviously control New York City, or at least its sanitation department. His argument? That the streets in the "Jewish neighborhoods" were always so much cleaner — free of litter, and especially empty/broken beer bottles — than those of his own, predominantly Puerto Rican neighborhood. This, he concluded, could only be because the Jews were using their control of the city government to have the sanitation department focus on constantly cleaning the litter and beer bottles from the streets of their own neighborhoods, and less on cleaning everyone else's streets. That maybe different groups litter at different rates, and that the inhabitants of predominantly-Jewish neighborhoods simply don't toss empty beer bottles into the street to begin with, never crossed his mind. (What's that old quote, from a Roman author IIRC, about people mistaking their particular cultural norms for universal laws?)

At least one news source reported it with an apostrophe and emphasized it: “The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporters’.”

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