Death to America

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snuck their mowers over to destroy my carefully cultivated and legal native plants as well as my edible gardens overnight under smug smirking plausibly deniable pretenses of “someone helping you out”

💀2️⃣🇺🇸

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if that happened to me, I’d be placing some steel rods in the fucking grass next time to ding up the blades

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14 points

This country is absolutely irredeemable.

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8 points

shoulda put up a wall like you live in europe or something.

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one of the weirdest fucking things about america, seriously. the lack of fences.

a people whose brains have been entirely cooked by “my house my castle” individualism bullshit, who live and breathe pRivAte ProPErtY, yet they dont put fences up?!

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My best guess is that since lawns are bourgeois / aristocratic imitation, it’s more about giving the appearance that your land has no limits. Going for this:

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Landlord won’t let me replace the backyard with native ferns and forbs.

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But what if it effects the property value??

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Same, I hate it here (it’s my parents house so I don’t have much of a choice).

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19 points

My landlord had a lawn but at some point become obsessed with astroturf with big rubber mats under it, so whenever it rains we get enormous puddles of weirdly clear water

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I feel you but mainly because I get to hear a lawn mower almost every day since different people outside my apartment are mowing on different days. The noise pollution is unbearable sometimes.

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Two-stroke engines need to be banned for most applications. Electric equipment only. And honestly even then I feel like you should need a permit to make that amount of noise, and it should be like the rules for animal research, you need a plan to replace or minimize where possible.

Do you really need to be weed whacking along that fence? Is it actually gonna be a problem? If so, do you really need to be doing it weekly? Would monthly suffice?

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the fucking lawn machines are so loud and just constant. the suburbs are unironically louder than the city because of dipshits growing a crop of fucking grass

Death to America

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