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From: Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net>
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Subject: Re: The Gentrification Two-Step
Date: Sat, 4 May 2024 09:11:24 -0700
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On 5/4/2024 5:45 AM, anim8rfsk wrote:
> BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> 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.