The last time I was in Amerikkka I noticed these types of signs (the unedited kind obvs) everywhere, and it's like half the houses with these signs were right next to the houses of some of the most Liberty Guns Beer Trump type far-right chuds and settler grannies out there. I don't remember who told me the term "luxury opinion" or "luxury belief", which I most often render using the Norwegian word "luksusmening", but that was basically what those signs made me think of. That the types of people who put up these signs can live side by side with people with the opposite signs because all of them are living in white suburbia and none of it actually impacts them in any meaningful way.
Its certainly the most "I'm an educated liberal" sign imaginable but I dont know what you want them to do about the neighbors. Do you think they're inviting each other to cook outs and saying "howdy neighbor" each morning? In my experience they often have intense personal hatred for each other. But since suburbia is so isolating they can just ignore each other untill the PTA meeting.
These signs are warnings of libs living there who will get rabidly angry if you doorknock them and try to organize them to actually participate in anything.
They are always the worst. "CAN'T YOU SEE I ALREADY PUT THE SIGN OUT?"
Big "Just vote" vibes.
Did you ask them what else they are doing? I can't imagine they actually think the sign is doing much.
Oh, they don't literally say that. I just mean they are purely performative and feel like they did their part and are on the right side of history because they just put up a sign and nothing more. They never want to get involved in anything.
I mean, that's kinda my point, that it shows how isolating suburbia is.
But how is it much different that a trump supporter being in the same apartment building as you? Its just isolation all the way down.
Maybe it's the image of a suburban neighborhood vs an apartment. Because if I lived in Amerika, I definitely could imagine myself being forced to live next to a Trump supporter in an apartment, because I literally couldn't afford to live anywhere else other than the barely-affordable cheapo apartments, in which case the next apartment over could have someone in a similar financial situation who ended up a lot more reactionary because of it. But if I could afford to live in suburbia, a nice big house with a nice big front lawn, then it sort of feels like my choice to live next to those types of people — and that's only a choice I'd make if I could on some level put up with those people even when I don't strictly need to, that is, if they don't scare me.
I guess that's how I feel.
That the types of people who put up these signs can live side by side with people with the opposite signs because all of them are living in white suburbia and none of it actually impacts them in any meaningful way.
It’s petty neighbor drama. Instead of complaining about how late/early their neighbors put their bins out or whether they mow their grass enough, they transfigure that conflict into political “differences”
In this house we believe
Meaningless tautologies are meaningless.
lol, gotta edit the rest of them as well. I'm sure Florida dems weren't the only dems voting for a cop in 2022. They abandoned science on covid and climate change, And women's rights aren't worth codifying, apparently.
Got a lot of these in my lib af neighborhood, been reading them like this since the unfortunate stutter event
In this house we believe
- Communism will win
- America Deserved 9/11
- MKULTRA Made Serial Killers
- Allan Dulles killed JFK
- Allah is most kind and merciful
