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  • KingGimpicus@sh.itjust.works
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    13 hours ago

    Am I missing something here? It looks like the roses are still there and he just paved over the big useless lawn.

    Anyone else see this? Those rose bushes are still clearly there on the right side of the image. Ifball were talking about is the replacement of some shit grass anyways, who gives a fuck?

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      9 hours ago

      Lawns are bad, yes, replacing lawn with hard impermeable surface, worse.

      It’s as if someone turned their whole front yard in to a parking lot.

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        11 hours ago

        So does a fucking lawn. Actually, imo, lawns are worse. It’s a perfect representation of the toxicity of the “American dream”. It’s an unnatural landscape that’s inhospitable to life, sort of like the concrete, costs resources to maintain, unlike the concrete, but it gets some weird psychological pass because it’s green. It’s shit either way.

        Talking about “he ripped out the rose garden” is just more sensationalism horseshit when the roses are right there, just fuckin dandy. He tore out a lawn that was equally as shit.

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          7 hours ago

          If we’re talking ChemLawn, I’ll agree with you. But mulch mowing the yard is IMO categorically better than paving (or ChemLawning)

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          8 hours ago

          Ow wee… Your opinion isn’t going to be well received. He’s clearly making the white house tacky and gross like he’s tacky and gross. It’s going to take so long to get his skid marks and farts out of the white house. So much industrial cleaner. Just like the US is going to need some industrial cleaner to get rid of the fascists.

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      11 hours ago

      Agreed, the whole clutching of pearls over the rose garden is ridiculous. It’s widely accepted that lawns are an unnecessary flex. This area is used for seating so nothing but some grass that was probably in need of constant repair because of all the traffic. This is a big nothing sandwich.

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      12 hours ago

      Grass looked greener than a par 4, and many people give a fuck. Did you want one?

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        11 hours ago

        A lawn? Absolutely not. It’s a resource sink for no other reason that vanity. If they weren’t going to put in something useful, like clover or any actual productive plant life, then I’d rather see it capped off and no longer watered. Golf courses too for that matter. Pave them over entirely and build dense urban housing instead on a national scale.

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          7 hours ago

          There are many reasons for a lawn and cement or tiles is much more pompous, but you sound like you just want attention.

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      Yeah that grass square always seemed strange to me even as a kid, since they hosted outdoor parties for visiting foreign dignitaries and grass isn’t the best surface for fancy shoes, especially women’s heels. My brothers and I would sometimes wonder if it opened up to reveal a secret missile base or Aurora landing pad.