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Staffist [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-06 7:21:18 PM  
Long, angering, sad and very interesting read.
 
Irving Maimway [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-06 7:40:42 PM  
Jeebus Fark man. Florida is like farking Barter Town at this point.
 
dstanley [TotalFark]
2023-02-06 7:48:53 PM  
TFL;DR
 
EvilEgg [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-06 9:17:22 PM  
You forgot Nelson. Haha!  Welcome to your libertarian paradise.
 
edmo [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-06 9:41:49 PM  
They may convert some of these people into liberals yet.

Nah, who am I kidding. They'd vote for the same idiots and go through it all again.
 
Sexy Jesus [recently expired TotalFark]
2023-02-06 9:42:47 PM  
Tim Dorsey is not meant to be instructional. Can't the Fed do something about Boss Hogg et al?
 
jaylectricity [TotalFark]
2023-02-06 10:16:04 PM  
My father-in-law and his wife moved down there. I doubt the FIL cares about all the right-wingers as his family is all right wing. But his wife is a democrat and he seems to agree with her most of the time. They came to visit and both times I came home from work when they were visiting they were watching CNN during their increasingly rare liberal slant coverage of what was going on.

I would love to hear a couple of common conversations with neighbors when they get in to politics. Do they shut up because they know they're outnumbered? Or do they push back?
 
Phil McKraken [OhFark]
2023-02-06 10:35:48 PM  
Best I can do, subby.

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andrewagill [TotalFark]
2023-02-06 10:38:01 PM  
You guessed it

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olorin604
2023-02-06 10:41:44 PM  
"socialist ideology necessitates a concentration of power that has time and time again collapsed into Communist regimes, totalitarian rule, and brutal dictatorships."

House socialism resolution. Passed by the people that are perfectly happy with power being concentrated in the hands of their patrons.

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/3841636-house-passes-resolution-denouncing-socialism-vote-splits-democrats/
 
NM Volunteer [TotalFark]
2023-02-06 10:44:32 PM  
I wish some smarmy asshole would say "I'm bigger than you, I could squash you" to me.  So I could respond with "you're tiny and I'm 260, I could suffocate you by sitting on you".  So they can either find a more creative way to threaten me, or stare at me for a moment and walk away.
 
iheartscotch
2023-02-06 10:49:09 PM  
Who could have possibly predicted that an expensive community based around retirement would be a front for an obscenely rich family to get even richer.....
 
New Rising Sun
2023-02-06 10:50:07 PM  
"I said, is that a threat? And he said no, it's a promise." Search was later asked about his charge in a deposition and reaffirmed under oath that it happened.

I'm not sure I could have kept a straight face if someone actually tried to use a movie cliche as a serious statement.
 
fatalvenom
2023-02-06 10:50:13 PM  

Irving Maimway: Jeebus Fark man. Florida is like farking Barter Town at this point.


No. That section of FL is pure "boomer paradise". They get what they deserve.

/Also notice it's not near the coast
//Those poor farks could afford to live here
 
fatalvenom
2023-02-06 10:50:30 PM  
*couldn't
 
blastoh
2023-02-06 10:51:38 PM  
Ahhh yes, lets get Texas man and Florida Man together.
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DannyBrandt [TotalFark]
2023-02-06 10:55:34 PM  
When other states are sending their old people to Florida, they're not sending their best. They're sending the old, the cantankerous. The crotchety. Some of whom I assume are good people.
 
iheartscotch
2023-02-06 10:58:28 PM  

NM Volunteer: I wish some smarmy asshole would say "I'm bigger than you, I could squash you" to me.  So I could respond with "you're tiny and I'm 260, I could suffocate you by sitting on you".  So they can either find a more creative way to threaten me, or stare at me for a moment and walk away.


I would suggest not getting into a dick measuring contest.

However....I'd also point out that the Daisy model 880 is a pump pneumatic BB gun with an effective range of 291 yards for $60.

/ with a linkity, in case someone thinks I'm full of shiat. https://www.daisy.com/product/daisy-powerline-880-multi-pump-pneumatic-with-scope/
 
iron de havilland [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-06 11:00:41 PM  
needs moar ripley
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EJ25T
2023-02-06 11:01:12 PM  
I find it very hard to have any sympathy for anyone who lives in the Villages.

Scum and villainy and all that.
 
cashdaddy
2023-02-06 11:02:09 PM  
Me, watching everyone involved in this story:


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fragMasterFlash [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-06 11:02:09 PM  
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Reap what ye have sewn, Florida man.
 
DannyBrandt [TotalFark]
2023-02-06 11:02:28 PM  

iheartscotch: However....I'd also point out that the Daisy model 880 is a pump pneumatic BB gun with an effective range of 291 yards for $60.


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cashdaddy
2023-02-06 11:04:19 PM  
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moothemagiccow
2023-02-06 11:04:36 PM  
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BMulligan
2023-02-06 11:06:26 PM  

jaylectricity: My father-in-law and his wife moved down there. I doubt the FIL cares about all the right-wingers as his family is all right wing. But his wife is a democrat and he seems to agree with her most of the time. They came to visit and both times I came home from work when they were visiting they were watching CNN during their increasingly rare liberal slant coverage of what was going on.

I would love to hear a couple of common conversations with neighbors when they get in to politics. Do they shut up because they know they're outnumbered? Or do they push back?


A friend's mom lives in the Villages and loves everything about it except for the politics - she's fairly liberal. She says she enjoys the company of her neighbors but never, ever discusses politics. Apparently, the neighbors she chooses to interact with are the ones who will respect her boundaries in this regard. She doesn't bring the subject up, and if someone else does she excuses herself. I wouldn't want to live that way, but it seems to work for her.
 
vrax
2023-02-06 11:06:28 PM  
OK, I read that as "leatherfight".  Now that I know it's The Villages, I still wouldn't be surprised.
 
leviosaurus [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-06 11:11:17 PM  
I'm sure that article is fascinating, but there's only so much time I can spend reading about the Villages. Subby, you have my respect for making it through.
 
Naido [TotalFark]
2023-02-06 11:12:30 PM  

NM Volunteer: I wish some smarmy asshole would say "I'm bigger than you, I could squash you" to me.  So I could respond with "you're tiny and I'm 260, I could suffocate you by sitting on you".  So they can either find a more creative way to threaten me, or stare at me for a moment and walk away.


I'm a thin guy with a 36 inch inseam, I think I'd just call you names while walking briskly.
 
JAYoung
2023-02-06 11:12:59 PM  
This would be a great sub-plot for "Cocoon -- the Sequel."
Get some aliens involved for the revenge finale.
 
seamonster
2023-02-06 11:13:21 PM  
Tell me that I am not the only one who mis-read this as "f'ed-up?"

But a group of fed-up Villagers decided to fight back...

It makes sense either way, right?
 
iheartscotch
2023-02-06 11:14:20 PM  

leviosaurus: I'm sure that article is fascinating, but there's only so much time I can spend reading about the Villages. Subby, you have my respect for making it through.


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vrax
2023-02-06 11:16:04 PM  

Naido: NM Volunteer: I wish some smarmy asshole would say "I'm bigger than you, I could squash you" to me.  So I could respond with "you're tiny and I'm 260, I could suffocate you by sitting on you".  So they can either find a more creative way to threaten me, or stare at me for a moment and walk away.

I'm a thin guy with a 36 inch inseam, I think I'd just call you names while walking briskly.


Geez dude, that huge.  Do you step on it?
 
ongbok
2023-02-06 11:19:37 PM  

Irving Maimway: Jeebus Fark man. Florida is like farking Barter Boomer Town at this point.
 
one of Ripley's Bad Guys
2023-02-06 11:21:26 PM  

iron de havilland: needs moar ripley
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you can go away.
 
batrachoseps
2023-02-06 11:23:53 PM  

EvilEgg: You forgot Nelson. Haha!  Welcome to your libertarian paradise.


Conservative paradise.  Not always the same.
 
iron de havilland [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-06 11:24:12 PM  

one of Ripley's Bad Guys: iron de havilland: needs moar ripley
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you can go away.


I will go away.

mostly
 
mysha
2023-02-06 11:34:12 PM  
Back in the courtroom, (Judge Anthony) Tatti decided to add 200 hours of community service to Miller's sentence, too, but he had a problem: How to punish a man with forced service who gives the bulk of his time in service to the community already? The judge's solution: On top of going above the sentencing recommendation to give him 36 months of probation, Tatti ordered him to perform his community service at the local landfill.

... that there is not a bodacious Tatti
 
jaylectricity [TotalFark]
2023-02-06 11:34:52 PM  

BMulligan: jaylectricity: My father-in-law and his wife moved down there. I doubt the FIL cares about all the right-wingers as his family is all right wing. But his wife is a democrat and he seems to agree with her most of the time. They came to visit and both times I came home from work when they were visiting they were watching CNN during their increasingly rare liberal slant coverage of what was going on.

I would love to hear a couple of common conversations with neighbors when they get in to politics. Do they shut up because they know they're outnumbered? Or do they push back?

A friend's mom lives in the Villages and loves everything about it except for the politics - she's fairly liberal. She says she enjoys the company of her neighbors but never, ever discusses politics. Apparently, the neighbors she chooses to interact with are the ones who will respect her boundaries in this regard. She doesn't bring the subject up, and if someone else does she excuses herself. I wouldn't want to live that way, but it seems to work for her.


I sidestep most political conversations out in the world. Most of them instigated by my customers. Occasionally I can tell the person is speaking in good faith and maybe I'll entertain them. But I have two strategies for idiots on either side. I just mean the people that want to be on that team, but haven't really thought about it much further than that.

Republicans: Ignore the comment, walk away, change the subject
Democrats: Agree with their overall point, but when they go deeper than I know their intelligence allows, refer to my strategy with Republicans.
 
Stile4aly [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-06 11:35:10 PM  
I'm shocked that Florida Republicans are power abusing, tax dodging, corrupt, fascist assholes.
 
Brandi Morgan
2023-02-06 11:35:34 PM  
Florida is a Carl Hiassen novel.
 
sinner4ever
2023-02-06 11:37:02 PM  
Oh wow! What I am getting here is that the residents are upset that their taxes are being raised while the wealthy get huge tax cuts.
It is almost like they don't know what a Republican is.
 
willwall
2023-02-06 11:38:42 PM  
If I were a man in my mid seventies with health conditions and you took everything from me, I suppose I might be thinking that I had nothing to lose and persue "alternative" forms of justice.

Courts and laws exist to provide for safe forms of justice. If you take legal protections away from people through corruption than you're no longer entitled to those same legal protections yourself.
 
Telephone Sanitizer Second Class
2023-02-06 11:54:05 PM  

Brandi Morgan: Florida is a Carl Hiassen novel.


Florida is every Carl Hiaasen novel being read simultaneously through multiple bullhorns while Morbid Angel plays in the background.
 
shpritz
2023-02-06 11:57:19 PM  
So I guess in Florida a legislator can work for a private company, pass a law that benefits said company, and then get a huge raise from that company. And I'm sure it's all completely legal.

I guess I should commend them for removing the pretense of bribing politicians through PAC donations or the effort of having a "blind" trust buy stock in the companies your legislation benefits.
 
krispos42 [BareFark]
2023-02-07 12:00:50 AM  
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2023-02-07 12:12:14 AM  

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Brandi Morgan
2023-02-07 12:29:35 AM  

Telephone Sanitizer Second Class: Brandi Morgan: Florida is a Carl Hiassen novel.

Florida is every Carl Hiaasen novel being read simultaneously through multiple bullhorns while Morbid Angel plays in the background.


Where is Skink when you need him?
 
HighOnCraic
2023-02-07 12:29:56 AM  

New Rising Sun: "I said, is that a threat? And he said no, it's a promise." Search was later asked about his charge in a deposition and reaffirmed under oath that it happened.

I'm not sure I could have kept a straight face if someone actually tried to use a movie cliche as a serious statement.


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Make the gas face!
 
austerity101
2023-02-07 12:35:03 AM  

New Rising Sun: "I said, is that a threat? And he said no, it's a promise." Search was later asked about his charge in a deposition and reaffirmed under oath that it happened.

I'm not sure I could have kept a straight face if someone actually tried to use a movie cliche as a serious statement.


So you've never spoken to an incel online? Because this is a standard-issue turn of phrase at this point among a particularly insecure corner of the internet.
 
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