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Not coopted, privatized. There are surprisingly few places one can go in the US without the expectation of spending money

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People have a strong preference for privatized spaces because truly public spaces are unfit for purpose. A coffee shop has a right to kick out protesters that a town square is lacking, as one of many examples. People value that lack of disruption in a very noticeable way.

In most of the world, most of the time, people peacefully coexist in public places with little or no disruption.

If a person insists on zero disruption, they likely will avoid shared spaces all together, since even shared private spaces can't provide protection from all disruption all of the time.

Yep. California Courts ruled there is a right to defecate on the street in public. Why deal with that when coffee costs $5?

Most likely the person defecating in the street has no other place to do it, unfortunately. I don’t know what the answer is.

I spent a week touring Rome and didn't see a single public bathroom.

Every society makes its choices and some of those seem weird when you look on the other side of the fence. The US is unique, sure, but so are other countries.

That’s not what the GP is talking about. It’s some right wing talking point about how libraries have books about minorities.

In my area it is usually the right being disruptive but it isn't wholly unique to the right.

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