That sort of self-gratifying nonsense only works if the target is more successful than you.
Using it against a target that is less successful than you would be picking on people who can't defend themselves.
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So, what is it that California does (policy-wise) that people hate so much?
Consider the possibility that the "hate" is not an opinion being reached in good faith.
It's just because they don't put enough homeless people in concentration camps. That's the entire thing. Mind you, California, like the rest of the country, still treats homeless people like they're less than human, but the weather's nice and the housing prices have skyrocketed in the past decade, so there's a lot of homelessness, and therefore a greater call for mass executions.
It's endless soulless suburbia interspersed by twelve-lane traffic jams, what's there to like?
The fucking ridiculous natural beauty everywhere? I live in the most soulless of the soulless suburbs of Los Angeles and if I left my house right now and didn't stop for anything I could be standing beneath the biggest tree in the world in just 4 hours. Or if I want to see the oldest trees in the world I can go roughly the same distance and do that instead. I could be at the trailhead to climb the highest peak in the contiguous US in 3 hours and on my way there I would see an ancient basalt waterfall where obsidian litters the ground, the Grand Canyon of the Mojave where semiprecious gems flow out of the mountains, lakes, rivers, the Sierra Nevadas, Death Valley, it's ridiculous. Every fucking state has traffic and suburbs but I'll go to my grave arguing that we can't be beat for scenery.
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California's natural beauty is world-renowned and a major tourist draw.
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