>>8578979Not the same, actually. The crack house is only a small minority of Detroit, a negligible percentage that no one would notice if it went missing. The pride parades are massive, a much more substantial part of the "gay population." Besides, let's not pretend the rest of the world doesn't have preconceptions about America based on what little information that's spoon fed to them, anyway. Foreigners love to tell me why my country sucks, and they're always wrong. I mean it does suck, just never for the reasons they say.