this post was submitted on 21 Oct 2025
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No.
Tens of thousands of people and not a single scrap of litter accidentally strewn from the various people with their musical fanfare. I'm not even sure Japan is that good.
Why don't we just focus on the hard policies which are destroying people's livelihoods with provable statistics, instead of scrounging for wishful narratives focused around littering of all things
Tens of thousands of people who had a clear motivation to come across as upstanding citizens, and who generally had a political leaning towards environmentalism. I can believe they didn't leave trash behind.
See, that's the kind of thing that can happen when you value community and work together. You can have significant and nice shared resources. It's not a tragedy of the commons race to the bottom you get with rugged individualists and/or selfish children who see trash on the ground and say "that's bad, the person who did that needs to clean it up and be punished" and then it sits there and rots.
And yeah there are WAY more important things to worry about than how various groups do or do not litter. But it is an illustrative example of the different priorities and values of the groups. It seems like a topic for discussion as we live in a world where some people are still somehow just finding out that this Trump character might not a be all above board.
But for something so minor why are you so insistent upon pushing it away and disregarding it? That's two different justifications now for doing so (these are cherry picked, ok maybe not but it doesn't matter).
Because blindly believing a meme caption just reinforces the bubble. It's not great.
I would absolutely love for this to be true, but it weirds me out that the only image attribution is on one of the Charlie Kirk images. Literally any semblance of a source would be nice to reassure that this isn't an old shot from a movie shoot with the No Kings logo overlaid.
The community on my street is amazing, we check in on each other, we volunteer at the local park, and often host each other for big events. We pick up trash routinely, but due to the nature of wind and trash bags never being fully sealed, there is always something blowing around in a corner to pick up.
That photo is pristine. If that reflects an ideal for you, then power to us both. But if that reflects an actual reality to you, then I need to stop responding to comments in this sub.
Sure we could, but that wasn't you question.
How about I'll give you a headstart.