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Well, you can either have human rights (non-authoritarian states who won't use the police to crack down on this behaviour) or clean public toilets. Of course Singapore for instance has the cleanest public toilets, but you can also pay a 2k fine for chewing gum.


You don’t need authoritarianism to have clean public facilities. Americans truly have a learned helplessness about what is achievable in this world.


I'm European mate. I haven't been to a single country over here that consistently (let's say 50%+ chance) had clean public bathrooms.

Singapore on the other hand was close to 100%.


Excuse me, I am a European and Czechia consistently has clean public bathrooms and baby changing rooms!

And we have human rights, and so does India

Why do you need to come up with wild excuses?

western-est west has decided they can’t be bothered to deal with some issues, like hygene, or, in case of UK, human waste in rivers




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