Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Dimensional Traveler Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: The Gentrification Two-Step Date: Sat, 4 May 2024 09:11:24 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 33 Message-ID: References: <1232661064.736518595.509089.anim8rfsk-cox.net@news.easynews.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Sat, 04 May 2024 18:11:23 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="5e094896bd597afc41dadba0f8c43db2"; logging-data="1362470"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/KMLTRbXuIubYlAY7EwRuI" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:TFES+XU/A7B8Jne8g1y90ObngzA= In-Reply-To: <1232661064.736518595.509089.anim8rfsk-cox.net@news.easynews.com> Content-Language: en-US Bytes: 2586 On 5/4/2024 5:45 AM, anim8rfsk wrote: > BTR1701 wrote: >> "Fuck you, white people. Stop gentrifying our neighborhood. Get out." >> >> Wealthy neighborhood in Baton Rouge: "Fine. We'll just create our own town." >> >> "How dare you!! We need your taxes!!" >> >> > https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1786075355687665664/pu/vid/avc1/480x270/XAyNRKBR17qHysc2.mp4?tag=12 >> > > This is the same kind of crap that the city of Peoria tried to pull on > retirement community Sun City West when my dad was running it. They didn’t > like that a retirement community didn’t vote for school taxes so they tried > to set it up so Sun City West wouldn’t have a vote anymore but would still > have to pay the taxes Peoria voted for. The lying psychotic asshole > political cartoonist, Steve Benson, then depicted Sun City West people in > their golf carts, screaming kill all the children. We hate the children and > running them down in the streets because that’s a fair representation of > what was happening. (Note, sarcastic voice. > There a hubbub here in California because some billionaires have bought up a big chunk of undeveloped land and are planning a billionaires only city. I'm thinking "gated community" is soon going to refer to something like the medieval European walled and fortified city. -- I've done good in this world. Now I'm tired and just want to be a cranky dirty old man.