Trump retweets video of armed couple menacing protesters

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If only Canada built a wall eh?

I’m sure the likelihood of any given Canadian Jew will be assaulted, and the probability that any given Indigenous Canadian woman will be raped, would both fall dramatically.

Turns out “least racist country in the world” isn’t exactly a hard competition to win.

I do think it's weird that an assumption out there is that gated communities exclude black people. I believe that would be illegal in the U.S. Differing perspectives: What if people who live in gated communities do so because they have their own idea of what Utopia is and they want to spend their own money to live there?

If the argument against gated communities would be that they discriminate against people who can't afford to live in them and communities should be by all people, for all people and of all people equally, has anyone seen how members of politburos actually live in comparison to "the people" they're supposed to be living like? It's straight out of Animal Farm.

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I mean...don't all communities "discriminate against people who can't afford to live in them"?

^ Good point.

^&^^ Indeed.
Hence homelessness, shanty towns, squatting, sink estates... etc. etc.

All sorts of problems.

Additionally: I’m pretty sure the first closed communities (not exactly gated, but close enough: all sorts of rules) in this country were left wing people’s attempts to create egalitarian communities.

(Well, they were Christian Fundamentalists who thought what was, in effect, communism was God’s plan for the second coming.)

The whole idea of it reminds me of a perhaps more achievable version of a phalanstère, which is pretty cool.

Unfortunately we didn’t get to find out what Communism.0 was like in practice, because Cromwell.

I’m not entirely sure it would have worked out well: Jesus is king, and the General Secretary is his prophet?
That’s a lot of power to go to someone’s head.

I'm sure as soon as we find a morally perfect person who is incorruptible and also immortal to serve as the leader in a society with no hierarchy, Utopia will be achieved.


...


Any minute now.

Yeeeeah, except the USA created racially segregated communities on purpose by using govt demographic info to guide the banking system to make sure that white people could get mortgages in white areas and blacks/others were locked out:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redlining

Yes this is absolutely what happened. I know, I grew up in Baltimore.

I wanted to comment about how different real estate is in the Midwest when compared with the rest of the country.

In rural Kansas, one can buy large ranches and completely fence them in to keep others out. Land runs about $2,000 per acre for farm ground, less if it is not usable for planting. However it costs more than you think it would to build a good fence. So what you will see around the rich ones is very nice fences around the few acres nearest the ranch house and regular barbed wire fencing on the rest of the land.

Housing is very cheap in rural Kansas when compared to the coasts of the US. My mother’s house in town has an appraised market value of around $100,000. It is a five bedroom, three full sized bathroom (one on each floor), two full kitchen brick house with a separate 1 1/2 car garage. The basement is basically unfinished (it used to be a separate apartment that the previous owner would rent out to hunters), so we use it for storage. It has been renovated by us over the years but is far from perfect. That same house in other states would easily be over a million or more. One of the elderly neighbors died a few years ago and the two bedroom house with attached garage sold for $15,000 after a few months. The owner uses it to store parts for his cars in there now. Why so cheap? Who wants to live there is the answer. Location, location, location is the key to real estate values. If you want to live cheap, rural is the way to go.

The guy from the video is whining that his life has been ruined.

https://www.theroot.com/rambo-who-point ... 1844235131

He still hasn’t figured out that pointing guns at people was a dick move, or that he’s exaggerating saying they were terrorists. Also appears to be lying that he can’t figure out why trump tweeted the video.

Terrorism: intentional violence for a political purpose.

Yeah, none of that here...

No sane person or government would call protestors terrorists. So, trump might.

How big is the body count for this little "summer of love", again?

Cops have killed several.

Far right extremists (boogaloos) killed a cop and a security guard.

Have protestors killed anyone?