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Honestly he wasn’t wealthy before

  • huf [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    8 days ago

    love how even the rich have to have huge clearcut swathes of lawn ruining their huge yards. that priceless feeling of privacy, sitting in a coastal wind tunnel.

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    I wouldn’t mind the head of the Executive having an ugly ass lake house if it wasn’t paid by the bankers and Wall Street vultures he bailed out. And if he wasn’t a war criminal POS.

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      I wouldn’t mind the head of state to be a democratically elected person who meritocratically rose from the rank and file of the communist party through action and showing complete devotion for making peoples’ lives better and fighting for the rights of the less fortunate (i.e. Lenin/Stalin/Mao) and this person getting a nice dacha to live in. But as you say, that’s not the case.

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    Makes me wonder what kind of psychopath wants to live on a barren swath of land completely devoid of people.

    There’s no way I could own a monstrocity like this without also inviting my closest friends and their families to rent-free living on a beautiful estate. There’s no realistic way to turn something this remote into anything useful to workings class people.

    • Saeculum [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      Makes me wonder what kind of psychopath wants to live on a barren swath of land completely devoid of people.

      Nothing wrong with a bit of solitude. There’s something almost cozy about being the only human for miles in any direction.

      Obviously doing it this extravagantly is wrong, but a house out in the middle of the woods away from everyone else isn’t something that’s bad to want.

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        My point is less that wanting a large plot of land or solitude is weird and more that having a massive McMansion in a place remote enough to make it a challenge to have guests is some psychopath shit.

        Like how hard do you have to hate your family to put 4 reasonable sized houses of distance between you? Normal people have a finished basement and a pool table or a garage for this.

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      Yeah at least the windows match, the roof is the same material, and there aren’t these weird ass protrusions in the wrong places.

      My first summer out of high school, I worked construction. You have no idea how many pet peeves I picked up working on a doctor’s house. It was supervised by his new wife that was only a few years older than me, but half his age.

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      Those protrusions are always because they want specific rooms to have specific dimensions. So you get the floorplan all drawn out then have to find out how to put a roof on it, which is all ass backwards

  • infuziSporg [e/em/eir]@hexbear.net
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    Mild, tbh.

    Not even twice the size of a typical exurban family home. If it were some random moderately rich fuck’s house instead of Obama’s, the land itself would be worth more than the construction.