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Originally Posted by Reneeee
I'm the exact opposite. Would rather Olympics than any public art project or new community development that I will never use
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That might be a useful comparison if those other things cost billions and billions of dollars.
The government sometimes spends $10 mil or $100 mil on things I don't like. So they may as well spend $6 billion* on something which would be kinda cool.
Such a terrible argument.
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