Recent comments in /f/massachusetts

joeys4282 t1_j3p1orz wrote

lol it’s funny you call Florida and Texas shit holes when more people are leaving states like California and MASSACHUSETTS. For states like Florida and Texas. Why because the parties in power are doing things to make there state affordable unlike unaffordable Massachusetts.

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ThreeDogs2022 t1_j3oy6rz wrote

....but.....some of them are shitholes. And they're shitholes by CHOICE, which makes it our right, nay, our DUTY, to comment on the shitholiness. It's punching up when you observe for example that florida is a shithole. Or texas. You show up to the ballot box and keep desantis and abbott on their tin thrones, you choose shitholiness. And other people get to make fun of you for it.

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Tombstone_Shadow t1_j3oy5qb wrote

Austin is a shit show, makes Boston commute a joy. Rapid transit is a joke, where it even exists, in that state. Hoping for the best, but am flummoxed that there wasn’t someone with a better track record for us here.

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eightfingeredtypist t1_j3oxp3e wrote

I agree that it would be better if people saw themselves as fellow people first, and Americans second. Name calling is just tearing down a culture that might be a little different from ours. We won't come together when we are shouting, even in quiet conversation, like we have here on Reddit. I have seen the best minds of my generation degrade themselves by being better than citizens of other states. For example, Vermonters calling outsiders "flatlanders". We need to love each other, and that only happens when we want to be together. Let's try to respect other state's citizens better, try to understand them, and feel free to comingle our culture with theirs.

Except New Hampshire. Let's build a fucking border wall, with one way doors in it that let people go north, not south.

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mslashandrajohnson t1_j3owip2 wrote

Federal taxes go to Washington, D.C. and swoopidoop through the federal smoothifier of government to go pay for stuff in Alabama and Mississippi and other places more red than Massachusetts.

It’s the punishment for being functional.

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