The highlights you chose struck me as strange. America is a pretty big place, in different cities/states I’ve seen those things be true. I’ve also seen many examples of quite the opposite.

Tap water quality varies widely, with many places effectively falsely reporting on water quality.

Bathroom availability varies widely also. You mentioned Starbucks. About half the Starbucks I’ve been to have rules about purchases being required, with most of those it.

Racism and I’ll expand to bigotry, is an interesting choice… We don’t have a caste society officially in place, but I don’t see how you could make that claim. Racism and bigotry are alive and well in America. There are wide political differences which people rarely engage across the gap on. It’s not a secret our more right leaning party has a racism problem and actively is attempting to dismantle rights for those individuals. Many places are friendly and welcoming, but there are plenty of heavily populated cities in which black or “asian” as example will greatly increase your chances of being abused by police and individuals.

There are many great places in America and many things we can take pride in, but your response seems specific to areas of America, very much not the whole.

Oh, I left a similar message some time ago when mods were originally selected, etc. Will send a write up.

Will toss a comment out again. Been around 196 and here for a while. Can provide more personal details privately.

Jessie, what the fuck are you talking about?

Copy writing about to make a real comeback.

Oh sorry.

Haha I hate my wife.

There we go.

c/boomerhumor

Haha arch meme funny

In fairness, IIRC the corporation already got caught using bots. Not really a conspiracy theory. But agreed it’s a moot point.

Wonder how many of those yes votes are bots. Also lame because a lot of people deleted accounts when they left.

I guess at the end of the day the community was going to be reopened by the corporation regardless.

Where is it stated r/196 is reopening? I could only find a poll that goblinhog posted, which is still open. I would be pretty disappointed if they reopened and have no plans to return. The poll is also kinda BS considering a lot of people who migrated deleted their accounts.

The current server (blahaj.zone) hosting this community has been welcoming, tolerant, and some core values of the 196 community. I think this seems like a good place to stay.