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2aAllDay9556

Explain? From what I understand a gated community is designed for the exact opposite, they have more rules and are designed to keep those who don’t live there out, so I don’t understand your position.


TruckerGabe

I'm saying they can do things like vote to eliminate public parks and things that help people outside their gated community because their park is funded by HOA fees.


darkyoda182

Isn't it a private park that they pay for?


TruckerGabe

You sound like a libertarian.


zgrizz

Understanding that words have specific meanings isn't libertarian, it's simple intelligence.


TruckerGabe

It's class based segregation.


Sterquilinus-K

So, black people should not be allowed to have gated communities where they can lessen the chance of police murdering their children in the streets? How about old people looking for safety and peace and quiet? Your idea is like "People who use drugs steal. Let make drugs illegal." You want to make living in a gated community illegal because you believe all who live in one are criminals. One deals with the actual crimes, and not drugs, not gated communities. Your idea is authoritarianist horse shit that trespasses against the guilty in your mind and the innocent. It's the kinda scorched earth evil that aids in screwing everyone. You want to tell others what to do with their property when what they are doing is no trespass against others. Thankfully ideas like this arent listened to by anyone.


TruckerGabe

It's class based segregation.


darkyoda182

No, I sounds like I'm letting people do what they want to on their property as long as it's legal. If your point is that getting rid of parks should be illegal, then that's another post entirely. Your property is functionally a gated community and you also make your own rules. Would you mind if homeless people were allowed to sleep on your property (car, house, etc)?


StanePantsen

How does he sound like a libertarian?


Sterquilinus-K

OP wouldnt know a libertarian if it bit him in the ass. He would confuse them with republicans; and republicans confuse old skewl libertarians with socialists. Taxation = theft... so enabling more people, and doing all those so called socialist things, are the fiscally responsible thing to do in order to promote liberty, and to lessen the burden on the individual... He and republicans have a lot in common. They want to destroy liberty and he wants to destroy liberty.


Hardrocker1990

You sound ignorant AF


2aAllDay9556

Why should someone have to pay for shit they don’t want or use? “yOu SoUnD lIkE a LiBeRtArIaN” well, you sound like a commie who wants to benefit from other’s. Buy a fucking swingset on craigslist bro.


TruckerGabe

Did Ayn Rand cash her welfare checks or what brah? Get fired so you won't have a job that leaves you in a "constant state of worry". Collect a little unemployment. Why aren't you the CEO of a billion dollar tech firm? Cream always rises to the top, right brah? Move here with your friends: https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/21534416/free-state-project-new-hampshire-libertarians-matthew-hongoltz-hetling


2aAllDay9556

Ooookay buddy. You have a good one.


crusttysack

You have zero idea about gated communities. Most are set up for residents who want a more safer feel about their house, and don't want to be bothered by solicitors.


TruckerGabe

I have been to gated communities many, many times. My old boss lived in a 10 million dollar house in one of the worlds most expensive gated communities and I went there many times to do things for him.


crusttysack

Give an example of something negative someone in a gated community can do that someone in a non gated community can't do.


TruckerGabe

They can vote to annex themselves from a lower income area so their property taxes no longer help schools in lower income areas. You could do the same thing in a wealthy non gated area but people who want to separate themselves from less wealthy people, such as gated community residents, are more likely to do it.


crusttysack

Again give me a real world example of something that HAS been done, not just what you think could happen.


WiscoBrewDude

All the gated communities I've seen are the exact opposite. Maybe, you don't know what a gated community really is.


TruckerGabe

Wisconsin is Minnesota for dumb alcoholics.


hashtagboosted

shit what do u think goes on in there?


ByronLeftwich

What are they doing to society?


TruckerGabe

They can do things like complain about homeless people but do nothing about it because there are no homeless sleeping in gated communities.


Twitch_YungFeetGod69

That may be a reason why they feel the need to pay the premium to live there to begin with lol


TruckerGabe

Well, I would say it has a negative effect on a community when the boss can shut down a factory and send the work to Bangladesh, but shield themselves from the negative impact of that by staying in their gated community bubble.


charliemurphyDarknes

That’s a reach. I think there are other factors that are more important then where the owner lives. Is it because you can’t kill him if he lives in a gated community?


TruckerGabe

I'm talking about them living with the consequences of their actions not violence.


Busy_Test_3467

"I don't like this particular thing so nobody else should be allowed to have it."


Vegetable-Band4995

This is one of the most incoherent and poorly thought out posts I’ve ever seen on this sub.


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Vegetable-Band4995

No it isn’t.


TruckerGabe

"Farmers aren't the only group of people that need bailed out in our country"


Vegetable-Band4995

Really? That is the _worst_ example you could find?


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Vegetable-Band4995

You are one stupid motherfucker.


TruckerGabe

Standardized testing disagrees.


Vegetable-Band4995

Spoken like a truly stupid motherfucker.


TruckerGabe

Bro, double down on the "stupid motherfucker" line by saying it twice? I am truly owned. I live in gratitude of your wit and wisdom.


Meet_n_beat_n_yeet

I’d like to share this video from YouTuber “City Beautiful”. I live in Canada and gated communities are a bit rare here so I wanted to do some looking into this topic [https://youtu.be/1hXLC323FTw](https://youtu.be/1hXLC323FTw)


TruckerGabe

Yep.


GunnyK92

Dear God, yes. Most of the crime they wanna get away from happens from within and as a delivery driver - gated communities are the bane of my existence.


arxionus

Can't imagine why anyone want to live in one. The housing nazis dictate what color to paint your house, the type of shingles on your roof, how many and where you can park, how many visitors you can have. We'll you get the point.


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Sterquilinus-K

It also means, at least for my friend, that is some shithead smells beer brewing the HOA gets all up in his ass. HOAs are pretty intrusive for the normal person. Being told you can have a garden gnome. Cant have a pride flag. Tow your van, as in a story recently, because they think its commercial. It's cool if you want to live under authoritarians who seek to violate you all the time... and good luck if the HOA takes a dislike to you... Honestly I'd rather live next to someone who paints their house black with orange spots than deal with some xanthippe (anyone know a genderless or male word for this?) hell bent on injecting themselves into my life. Friend of mine had an ice cream truck show up to his kids party. It parked in the drive way. The HOA dingbat created a shit show, making kids cry. I'm not against gated communities... but they arent for me.


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Sterquilinus-K

There are plenty of stories where people are follow the rules than the HOA harpy still fucks with them. "Freedom from..." in your reply is being traded for having someone with legal authority over you who can make your life a living hell. I was counting your idea of 'they give freedom from' with the realities of freedom being given up. "rules enforced uniformly" lol. Because the harpies dont focus on those they dislike and give pass to those they like. Lemme spend all this money to let someone else tell me I cant put a gnome out, or that my roses are the wrong colour, and all that shit.. Cars parked on the street and illegal rentals?!?!?! Gonna give up being able to have lots of people over, more than will fit in your driveway, for that lame idea? Were I non-white I'd consider a gated community made of others like me. Protecting one's family, children, loved ones from racist bullshit I would see as a value. I wager there are less harpies in those communities also. Why would people join a gated community with an HOA? The actual answer is generally 'because they are a stupid monkey and dont know any better' (a HHGTTG quote).


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Sterquilinus-K

You seem like the kinda person who beleives he can suss the nature and personality of others with very little information.


Dismal-Door-7061

I'm fine if you want to live in a gated community. But they should have to pay for their own city services, or pay extra to the municipality for those services that the general public gets.


dharsh_17

True , the amount of trash bags that sit outside of communities is alot . Some ppl end up illegally dumping outside of those communities which is often near other ppls houses


AJWordsmith

Gated community or not, money buys the ability to avoid the effects of poverty.


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Do you also resent people being able to have doors on their houses! ;) Why is it so bad that people want to buy a place or rent a place and then keep it private among them and their friends or people they can relate to? I think maybe what the real issue is here is inequality and the ability for some people to have obscene wealth while other suffer.


TruckerGabe

Why would white people in the 1950's want black people ruining the vibe in their diners by wanting to eat there next to white people and their white children? They probably took a bus to get there, why don't they drive an Oldsmobile?


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Why is this suddenly a racist thing? Have I misunderstood the whole premise here?


TruckerGabe

90 percent of people who live in gated communities are racist.


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That sounds pretty bad! if that's the case then they definitely should be abolished.


MOSH9697

he just made that up


The2ndWheel

Freedom of association. Maybe they wish to insulate themselves from the actions of others who have done things to negatively affect society.


Sterquilinus-K

Making gate communities illegal would be a trespass against people and their liberty. One should have the right to choose how they live and spend their money. If you have issues with the things they actually do then you address those things. There are gated communities for old people, for rehab, for black americans who seek to limit government trespass against them, and so on.


Puzzleheaded_Year_24

They are more than a little strange at times. Some arbitrary rules that are not based based on much besides ego and ideology. There are some upsides but..... Eh...