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Unhappy neighbors. Vacant lots. North Carolina community for ‘Patriots’ off to a rocky start (www.charlotteobserver.com)
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[–] JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world 75 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Lol. Put together a bunch of armed, uninformed, unhealthy people with anger issues, a shortage of literacy and reasoning facilties and a propensity for individualistic, self centered motivations with delusions of grandeur under freedom of speech and self expression and what do you get? Color me surprised.

[–] Deello@lemm.ee 16 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Leopards, am I right

[–] JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Leopards nurture their young. Gun toting republicans? Not so sure.

[–] ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 10 points 7 months ago

No the leopards ate their faces

[–] madeinthebackseat@lemmy.world 11 points 7 months ago

We should likely do as much of this as possible.

Seems this could accelerate the problem taking care of itself.

[–] Susaga@sh.itjust.works 5 points 7 months ago

Add more water and you get Rapture.

[–] MushuChupacabra@lemmy.world 49 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The article points out how fucking absurd the product is. While it's clear who the target market is, the "patriotism" is forced, via restrictive home owners association rules.

It's patriotic, but more in a North Korean sense.

[–] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 45 points 7 months ago (4 children)

That’s not patriotism. It’s nationalism.

[–] MushuChupacabra@lemmy.world 29 points 7 months ago (1 children)

But also with HOA flavoring. How the fuck did they manage to make nationalism worse?

[–] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 24 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I think it’s hilarious. They build a community under the auspices of freedom and liberty, only to legally bind you to a freedom-restricting HOA agreement. Anybody who buys in that community deserves everything they get from it.

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)

They should set up cameras everywhere and turn it into a reality tv show.

[–] nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 7 months ago

The betting pool on who would end up in camera at the next insurrection, would be busy.

[–] JamesStallion@sh.itjust.works 13 points 7 months ago

Patriotism is what nationalists call their own nationalism

[–] Landsharkgun@midwest.social 12 points 7 months ago

They're the same picture.png

[–] Jakdracula@lemmy.world 28 points 7 months ago

Non paywall linky:

https://archive.ph/2LeZ2

[–] callouscomic@lemm.ee 13 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Reminds me of the Citadel in Idaho. Wonder how that experiment went. That place had mandatory firearms.

[–] JimboDHimbo@lemmy.ca 5 points 7 months ago

Lmfao, it's in Gastonia?!? Hahahahaha no wonder it's failing.

[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

So many semantically differing opinions you cant expect anything else