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    • UlyssesT
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      18 days ago

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    • Posadas [he/him, they/them]
      hexagon
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      2 years ago

      False sense of control that suburbanites were programed into desiring starting in the 50's

    • Frogmanfromlake [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      Because it shows that you're an upstanding citizen who cares about presenting themselves well. That's what I always heard from boomers in the suburbs who got furious anytime people allowed weeds to grow longer on their lawn.

      • crime [she/her, any]
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        2 years ago

        Weeds are a social construct. Except weed, which is a social lubricant

        • usernamesaredifficul [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          Weeds are a social construct

          well yeah a weed is a plant in the wrong place what counts as the wrong place obviously needs to be decided by society

    • Thomas_Dankara [any,comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      the truth is home owners associations are nazis and will force everyone in a community to do this even if they want gardens instead

        • usernamesaredifficul [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          well the vast majority of compaints to the Stasi were about people doing their laundry on the wrong day. On the other hand East Germany was an actually functional society unlike America

    • CheGueBeara [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      It began as conspicuous consumption and now it's considered essential to the maintenance of a higher-class, higher-economic status aesthetic.