Re:Forest kindergarten
by 9nGQluzmnq3M on Sunday July 07, 2019 @06:51AM
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A neighborhood I lived in had a virulent social media & flyers campaign against a planned "24/7 commercial facility" (the ads never said what it was) that would cause gridlock, lower property prices and generally bring on the Apocalypse.
Turns out said facility was a small privately run aged-care home (the horror!), and the campaign was largely bankrolled by some local developers who would much have preferred to turn the waterfront lot in question into condos.
In their own narrative, of course, they're just good people trying to protect children/live their live in peace/etc.
Yeah but freedom is about tolerating what you don't like because it's none of your concern. I don't understand how the "land of the free" could favour a small group so much. It's unthinkable in my post-socialist country.
"Land of the free" is propaganda, plain and simple.
I've always wondered what these people get out of it.