Comment on The White House Rose Garden was replaced by pavement

KingGimpicus@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• barnaclebutt@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  It looks tacky and shitty. Like something a child rapist with no taste would like.

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  • KingGimpicus@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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, 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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    • nymnympseudonym@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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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    • barnaclebutt@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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.

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• megopie@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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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• Darleys_Brew@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  And that looks good to you?

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  • KingGimpicus@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I mean i would’ve preferred clover instead but the concrete is precisely as useful to bugs as that grass was.

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  • AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Think of the savings in lawnmower fuel, it’s so ecological!

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• Elaine@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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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  • Draedron@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Right, a marble floor is not a flex at all

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• betanumerus@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Many people give a fuck. You want one?

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  • KingGimpicus@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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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    • betanumerus@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      There are many reasons for a lawn and cement is much more pompous, but you look like you just want to get attention.

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• quid_pro_joe@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  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.

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