Interesting how this starts out as some sort of half assed public health concern and then seamlessly transitions to "Such trucks are forbidden [ in ] Hoffman Estates." So many elite concerns are like this. "This is bad for XYZ, ...and by that, I mean my property values".https://twitter.com/tvbrad/status/1258558771363799040 …
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3/ ...but that's hard for them. They've built their self image around being non judgemental & LOVING the poor. So when some blue collar immigrant guy drives a tacky icecream truck up their block, they struggle with the hate-that-date-not-speak-its-name ...and invent fig leafs
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4/ "it's not that I have anything against gays, or sex workers, or immigrants - I think it's GREAT that Pedro the gay male prostitute is working the corner. That's the kind of vibrant diversity we need. It's just that it's not appropriate for THIS neighborhood, because ... "
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6/ ice cream trucks are bad actually they emit noise pollution / pollute the commons ...and they also charge way too much, training vulnerable kids into high time preference https://twitter.com/tim_ber_wind/status/1258776578860830721 …
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7/ yeah, I'm just making a formalism argument: dude, you're classist. The lower classes are tacky, their aesthetics are bad, the crap they do is gross and has negative externalities, and we don't want them around us. AGREED. now ... just ... SAY IT.https://twitter.com/TheClarksTale/status/1258810946539016193 …
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Harbouring personal dislike for things is profane, whereas a just higher authority prohibiting the thing is not profane.
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One thing I found interesting when I was looking to buy a house was how often properties were encumbered with chafey covenants, but when you dug in, they weren't actually valid anymore because nobody had bothered paying to keep them up.
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