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[โ€“] Doctor_Satan@lemm.ee 36 points 10 months ago (1 children)

What a stupid post. Each one of those European cities has areas that look just as bad, if not worse, than the cherry picked images of their American counterparts.

America fucking sucks right now, but not because the worst parts of our cities don't look like the best parts of European cities. This is some low effort bullshit.

[โ€“] MrFinnbean@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Woah. Calm down satan.

I agree with you, but i just wanted to say that.

This is especially dum because New York and New Orleans are both cities with intresting culture and nuanced history.

I havent ever heard about New Prague so cant say anything.

There are like 20 cities in states that start with "New" and op chose very poorly.

[โ€“] Doctor_Satan@lemm.ee 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

New Prague is a small town in Minnesota with less than 10k people and has only been around for 150 years, and OP is comparing it with a city of almost a million and a half that has been around for over 700 years. It's like watching Lebron James dunk on some middle school kid at the park and then mocking the kid for sucking at basketball.

[โ€“] MrFinnbean@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

So without shadows of a doubt New Praque is not as good as Praque.

[โ€“] Doctor_Satan@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Correct. Just like Orlovรก is without a doubt worse than San Diego, because it's an apples to oranges comparison.

[โ€“] MrFinnbean@lemmy.world -1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

And Orlovรก is not named after San Diego.

[โ€“] Doctor_Satan@lemm.ee 0 points 10 months ago

Then why you didn't ask if the kid in my previous comment was also named Labron?

[โ€“] Buffalox@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

This is decidedly against the rules:

Rule 2: This community is for discussing European products/services and news related to that.

Edit:
Headline was changed, so now it's actually relevant. ๐Ÿ‘

[โ€“] Blaze@feddit.nl -1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Isn't travelling to Europe supporting European services, especially tourism?

[โ€“] Buffalox@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

But that is in no way what this is inviting to. Maybe if your post had contained something like that?

A thread about nice European holiday trips would be different, what you did is not what you claim.

[โ€“] Blaze@feddit.nl 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Just updated the title to make the intent more clear

[โ€“] Buffalox@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

OK, that makes a huge difference. ๐Ÿ‘

[โ€“] Blaze@feddit.nl 3 points 10 months ago

Cheers ๐Ÿ‘

[โ€“] tiredofsametab@fedia.io 2 points 10 months ago

There is at least one New London as well, off the top of my head. And a New Braunfels (though I'm not sure there's an old one; I imagine there is, though).

[โ€“] gl38@feddit.uk 1 points 10 months ago

There's a "new" Prague?

[โ€“] Rozlif@feddit.uk 1 points 10 months ago
[โ€“] Pirata@lemm.ee 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

These are laughably bad. No culture, no style in any way. Kinda pathetic.

[โ€“] MrFinnbean@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Im not particulaly pro USA at the moment, but sayng New York city and New Orleans dont have culture or style is just stupid. Both cities have pretty intresting history, own architectural style, cultural significance and own culinary styles.

New Prague is just random town amd only one on that should be on this list.