Obviously not apartments. Renters. A lot of home owners aren’t any more financially solvent than renters these days so chickens might help. Naturally, this idea doesn’t apply to everyone but may help some people all the same.

You can grow a plant in a Home Depot bucket. DuckDG the details. Dwarf fig is a doable patio tree. If it’s too heavy keep it on a variation of this dolly.

Tomato plants pay for themselves. Cucumbers and Brussel sprouts are also low maintenance and doable.

My closest genetic link on the planet is a conservative. I feel like the MAGA part is as committed as simply staying conservative. They’re my 1.

Everyone else can go to Hell, granted, I speak to many people in the course of my job. Since these people discuss all manner of things with me, invited or otherwise, I do my job and listen, always.

Whatever your urban locale, look it up. The code may surprise you. Another one is backyard meat rabbits, but that one makes more people squeamish.

Either way, this and the 0-1939 is exactly the kind of public art we need that is effective. It fits with the landscape and makes it look like anything but a “fringe” idea. Social trends pay attention to this sort of thing, and buy into it, just like effective political campaign slogans.

Bonus: it beats him at his own game with all that American PAC phone spam in swing states pre 2024 election. There’s beauty in that.

How much does this sort of ad space cost?

Please tell me this is actually out there in the wild and not a photoshop.

Backyard chickens.

They’re not for everyone. They function at about the level of a 4yo. 50lbs of feed will run you $20. If you’re fenced and let them roam, you use less feed. Straw. Mite prevention, which is food grade diatomaceous earth/powder. Water bowl heater for winter months.

Most municipalities allow for backyard chickens, 3-4. Roosters are another thing. They crow whenever they like and may hop/fly up where you don’t like them to be just to crow. I haven’t had issues with aggression, but they can be aggressive such that a posted beware of rooster sign will probably be believed.

So, who is going to offer themselves up as bait to find out what her scam angle is?

Scammers don’t spam unless it “sticks”.

I too received this.

Check your DMs. You’ll probably get one eventually.

The question that remains is: what does she want?

Exactly. And part of that infrastructure is the same person filing the paperwork, making sure it’s done right.

Wow.

Tesla is the new Trump Bible.

It seems like ever since the DOGE kids were posted on Reddit and Elon got mad the ban hammer has been out en force.

Talked to my MAGA blood again yesterday. Apparently, the conservative talk radio is telling listeners Europe and Canada have had tariffs on us from day one and trump is just trying to level the playing field. America is always paying for them and now it’s their turn to pay.

In addition, firings are “political reward” jobs being removed, because that’s not fair. (Injustice and not fair resonates with everyone.) And a caller apparently called in to talk about his government employee buddy upset that his job credit card he normally uses to buy lunch was cut off, discovered when he tried to buy subway. Again with the “not fair” because most jobs don’t buy you lunch.

They still haven’t told me what show they heard this is on, because I invariably listen and pick it apart and they find my “over-analysis” upsetting.

Fair. But I’m in a field that tends to know what’s up with the body, people discuss being in transition and such. Region likely factors in.

I can’t say I pay that much attention after seeing his face on it, gold and or silver colored.

He’s never stopped. Bibles, those weird digital fantasy representations of himself, coins…

I love browsing estate auctions. Maybe that makes me a voyeur of sorts, either way, the amount of Trump coins that show up, consistently, since 2021 or so shows how much they’re buying.

Trump is very clearly there to line his own pockets with these tariffs. Do they really need to cut all these federal jobs with all that new federal income?

It’s not a claim to not existing, never, ever that.

My point is MAGA wielded a cruel, focused campaign and it was effective because so many people don’t know a single trans, personally. You can adore ContraPoints but if you don’t know her personally, the impact on your daily resonance here will be marginal at best. I speak to middle of the bell curve here, ofc there are people sitting on the tails of that same bell curve.

The truth is, MAGA tried regarding gay marriage and it did not stick. The number of people with a gay friend or relative is much, much higher. They didn’t run with those attack ads because it didn’t stick.

Don’t forget the community factor with social circles. Once you’re friends with a community-reliant individual, you’ll meet more.

Love it. I’m sick to death of the political focus of MAGA brandishing a community for their own dark reasons. And most of the people buying it don’t have your experience. They know no one.

You’re also on Lemmy, which is kinda fringe. Out there, amongst most of the voter base, how’s it rate? Boomers? The apathetic pay no attention types of all ages laser focused on their job grinds?

Even at work, with a steady, high flow of strangers, 1-3 a year, for me.

Online, sure, love Contra over on YouTube, etc. We talk to Germany too on the daily, here, even if you happen to be in rural Iowa and have never ventured further than 50miles from your house.

I was talking in bell curve broad strokes physical, real life, can touch hands, friends and family. Still, personal circles can expand not just by individual people but by community. Once you’re in with a community-reliant individual, the community factor will often trigger and you will meet more such individuals. I experienced this with what was the more obscure gay scene back in the 90s where you’d go from having one gay friend to suddenly having an entire friend group. Or, if you live in an ethnically or racially self-segregated area, you may experience the same thing with those communities. You have your friend, who gives you a “nod” of sorts, and then you find yourself socializing with a community and maybe making new friends who might not have spoken to you at all without that “nod”. Community vetting, for safety.