Current Events > homeowners associations are arguably the most socialist things ever created

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they allow homeowners to have a directly democratic influence in their community

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Agreed, they end up doing more harm than good.

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Imagine paying money to have someone tell you how to run your house. No thanks.

MrPeppers posted...

Agreed, they end up doing more harm than good.

SauI_Goodman posted...

Imagine paying money to have someone tell you how to run your house. No thanks.

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SauI_Goodman posted...

Imagine paying money to have someone tell you how to run your house. No thanks.

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They fucking suck. Period, full stop.

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But the greater good...

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Lmao not sure this is the defense of socialism you think it is

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Reminder that TC thinks it's okay to execute the children of aristocrats.

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ive come to find many neighborhoods in the US have HOA's

its almost unavoidable
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Mine is pretty dope. 300 bucks a year and I get access to a pool and tennis courts.
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I will literally never live where there is an HoA.

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MacadamianNut3 posted...

But the greater good...

Crusty jugglers

Bad take, imo
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What were you hoping to accomplish with this topic
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y'all are really bad at recognizing shitposts, you know that?

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averagejoel posted...

y'all are really bad at recognizing shitposts, you know that?

It's not really any more ridiculous than many of the things you say.

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averagejoel posted...

y'all are really bad at recognizing shitposts, you know that?

Do you blame us for not expecting better from Mr. "The Holodomor is a myth/the farmers deserved it"?

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I live one street from an HOA. They wont even let you park in the street.

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RebelElite791 posted...

Do you blame us for not expecting better from Mr. "The Holodomor is a myth/the farmers deserved it"?

I don't know who you're quoting there, but it isn't me

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Usually they end up being managed an outside corporation. Now tenant's unions on the other hand, there is some actual power there.

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averagejoel posted...

y'all are really bad at recognizing shitposts, you know that?

When you're entire existence is a shitpost, we just assume these are your actual opinions as you've never shown yourself capable of anything else.

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averagejoel posted...

I don't know who you're quoting there, but it isn't me

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I dunno, I couldn't pay a kid to do the snow removal and lawn care for $60 a month. Pretty sure mine is worth paying

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PleaseClap posted...

feel free to point out where I said it was "a myth", or that the farmers "deserved it"

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averagejoel posted...

feel free to point out where I said it was "a myth", or that the farmers "deserved it"

averagejoel
11/29/18 7:32:59 PM
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admittedly I don't know much about China, but records from the soviet union are readily available.

there's a great book about it called Fraud, Famine and Fascism by Douglas Tottle. a lot of it is about the famine in the Ukraine often called the "Holodomor", but it addresses many of the issues that are being parroted in this topic

Fraud, Famine, and Fascism: The Ukrainian Genocide Myth from Hitler to Harvard. Tottle asserts that fraudulent "famine-genocide" propaganda has been spread by former Nazis, anti-communists and Ukrainian nationalists, sometimes posing as academics in Canadian universities.[2] Tottle's critics regard him as a "Soviet apologist",[3] or a "denunciator" of the famine.[4] Tottle has been defended by the Stalin Society, author Jeff Coplon, and the Swedish Communist Party, who insist that his book is valid historical research that exposed the "myth of the famine-genocide ... once and for all".[5]

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RebelElite791 posted...

for those keeping up: please notice that I did not, in fact, call it a myth, or say that the farmers deserved it

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averagejoel posted...

for those keeping up: please notice that I did not, in fact, call it a myth, or say that the farmers deserved it

This ain't it, chief
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PleaseClap posted...

This ain't it, chief

again:

averagejoel posted...

feel free to point out where I said it was "a myth", or that the farmers "deserved it"

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averagejoel posted...

for those keeping up: please notice that I did not, in fact, call it a myth, or say that the farmers deserved it

No, you merely cited a source that calls it a myth. And in another post that isn't on that site you did indeed imply that farmers deserved it for defying the USSR

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Mines $100/mo and every year they send out a breakdown of where all the money goes and every year I get mad at the $250,000 line item for community landscaping.

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A lot of them suck.

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RebelElite791 posted...

No, you merely cited a source that calls it a myth.

first of all, I did not cite it as a source -- I said that it was a good book. if you're trying to prove a point, it's probably a good idea to get your facts straight first.

second, I'm not entirely sure you understand the argument being made. can you please explain, precisely, what is being called a "myth", so that I know you understand it?

And in another post that isn't on that site you did indeed imply that farmers deserved it for defying the USSR

you seem to have a very tenuous relationship with the truth

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lilORANG posted...

Mine is pretty dope. 300 bucks a year and I get access to a pool and tennis courts.

Same here

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averagejoel posted...

first of all, I did not cite it as a source -- I said that it was a good book. if you're trying to prove a point, it's probably a good idea to get your facts straight first.

Ah yes, I regularly read and recommend books that I don't agree with, which posit disgusting conspiracy theories about genocides.

averagejoel posted...

second, I'm not entirely sure you understand the argument being made. can you please explain, precisely, what is being called a "myth", so that I know you understand it?

Yes, you believe the Holodomor was not a man-made intentional genocide. Which it was.

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RebelElite791 posted...

Ah yes, I regularly read and recommend books that I don't agree with, which posit disgusting conspiracy theories about genocides.

your initial claim was that I said it was a myth, and that the farmers deserved it.

your evidence to support this claim did not show that I said this, so you moved the goalposts to "you cited a source that calls it a myth", which was also false.

this is yet another move of the goalposts. if there were a referee you would have been disqualified and your team given a penalty by now

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"This is a good book that clears up misconceptions. Ignore that it called the Holodomor Nazi propaganda."

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It's very telling how you didn't address the other part of rebel's post
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PleaseClap posted...

It's very telling how you didn't address the other part of rebel's post

that's his teams penalty

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As a non-American their very existence absolutely baffles me.

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averagejoel posted...

that's his teams penalty

Really, because it seems like you just don't want to admit that he's right about how shitty your views are about this
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Stalolin posted...

As a non-American their very existence absolutely baffles me.

I think it may have started with good intentions but it's clearly a net negative.

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DevsBro posted...

I will literally never live where there is an HoA.

This

It was the number one thing on our list for our realtor.

It's my property, if I want to paint the house like a rainbow and throw up a jolly roger flag and park a rusted out Camaro in the yard, I should be able to because I own it, not some crusty old bitches who couldn't get into real politics.

Not that I'd actually do any of that stuff but I should be able to, damn it

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Sometimes I wish we had a homeowner's association here, to deal with people who let their dogs run free and shit on people's porches
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berlyman101 posted...

I think it may have started with good intentions but it's clearly a net negative.

I thought it started with white people not wanting black people to move into their neighbourhood

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Last I checked, if you can't pay they kick you out.

That is not socialism.

This is why hoa favor the rich.

Socialism would be you pay the hoa and some homeless dude gets to use the pool all day.

Tired-Insomniac posted...

This

It was the number one thing on our list for our realtor.

It's my property, if I want to paint the house like a rainbow and throw up a jolly roger flag and park a rusted out Camaro in the yard, I should be able to because I own it, not some crusty old bitches who couldn't get into real politics.

Not that I'd actually do any of that stuff but I should be able to, damn it

I mean, I get the purpose and all but the juice ain't worth the squeeze.

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MarqueeSeries posted...

Sometimes I wish we had a homeowner's association here, to deal with people who let their dogs run free and shit on people's porches

That's what pellet guns are for.

Why do they even exist? I've heard nothing but bad things about them.

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