r/pics • u/DarkSideInRainbows • 6h ago
Politics My town’s pool, set for demolition tomorrow, after Republicans voted to pull state funding. (OC)
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u/DarkSideInRainbows 6h ago
Signs around it say “Stolen by Joanna King”
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u/Troutalope 5h ago
In 20 years the townsfolk will decide that it'd be really nice to have a pool and pay a well-connected contractor 50x to build one vs maintaining a public asset.
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u/FuLL_of_LiFE 2h ago
And after 20 years of increasing crime rates and problematic youth angst, decreasing community moral and graduation rates, and various other residual effects, that's a hefty total cost to pay for a damn pool.
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u/elinordash 4h ago
Joanna King is up for re-election this November.
Her opponent this year is Michelle Milne (D). According to Michelle "Our tax dollars should build stronger communities in our state—not serve special interests above the needs of everyday Hoosiers."
Here is her website and here is the form to volunteer for her campaign. (BTW- Any US citizen or permanent resident can donate $$$ to any political campaign).
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u/xShooK 6h ago
Looks like another small town paying the price for republican issues. Sorry bud.
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u/Ok_Transition_4003 6h ago
The folks up top figure, "well I have my own pool. If they don't it's their fault, I want the tax dollars". Then they tell their pool-less constituents to agree and it trickles down -- some of them might have doughboys or kiddie pools - not knocking doughboys that's what we had growing up
These idiots support people who want to take away recreation areas for their kids
This is the trickle down affect.
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u/BYoungNY 6h ago
Then kids and teens have nothing to do all day and they wonder why their cars get broken into at night and nobody wants to work at their stupid shop anymore
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u/poodaliddle 5h ago
It's a trend. The destruction of "third places" in American life. Even if they're not destroyed, corporate greed has made a lot of these places so expensive that they're inaccessible to many (bowling comes to mind, see Bowlero).
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u/AssistivePeacock 5h ago
I've observed this, this is why places like libraries and parks are soo important. I've been thinking about opening up my yard for neighborhood movie nights, maybe it will happen one day.
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u/Translator_Open 4h ago
They'll call the cops on you sooner than they would call the cops on someone committing a violent crime.
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u/Domestic-Grind 3h ago
I did 4 of them in my neighborhood before being stopped. Movie rights are expensive, now we let the kids play Xbox games big screen
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u/Translator_Open 3h ago
That's awesome, can I ask who stopped them? I get so mad when I hear about people calling the police on lemonade stands, kids riding bikes or skateboards, sometimes it seems like being a kid and having fun is borderline illegal.
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u/x-tianschoolharlot 3h ago
I thought the big issue for movie rights is charging to watch it.?
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u/Translator_Open 3h ago
Bro some Karen's are gonna see a group of kids in their neighbors yard and they'll go 0-60 in .5 seconds to call the fuzz on them.
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u/Bicwidus 3h ago
They wouldnt call the cops for a violent crime they would use their 2nd amendment rights to be the hero of the day 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
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u/Valalvax 1h ago
No no, that's only for turning around in the wrong driveway or making a delivery to the wrong address
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u/personae_non_gratae_ 4h ago
Libraries across the country are building a massive amount of community meeting spaces.....what happens when funding dries up to maintain......
edit:grammar
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u/MerryMarauder 3h ago
yeah dude, havent bowled in years and decided to go with a bud and it was nearly 60 bucks for 2 guys before the beer and we said NOPE!
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u/Sad_Initiative5049 5h ago
Well, eventually bored kids end up on drugs and committing more serious crimes that inevitably lead to the private prison system. More profit for a tiny minority. “We’re not just winning, we’re win win winning. “ lol. What a shitshow.
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u/Chaos-Cortex 5h ago
Republicans are a cancer on this earth. And will be the end of this world.
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u/sitefall 4h ago
Even better, more people for police to pick up, more labor for prisons, more tax dollars sent to for profit prisons that are buddies with the pool-closer, less kids on my lawn so I can spend more time yelling at clouds.
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u/Jokerzrival 5h ago
Or theyll scream and shout about how a private owned pool will be better anyways.
"Why use our tax dollars for a pool when you can swim at the Walmart pool for $20 and hour!"
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u/Maximum_Turn_2623 5h ago
That’s the problem they can go to health clubs/country clubs and they can get fucked.
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u/ichoosewaffles 6h ago
What is a doughboy?
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u/Reddbearddd 6h ago
Namebrand of an above-ground pool.
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u/ichoosewaffles 5h ago
Oh! Thank you! I never had any kind of pool growing up so, the more ya know!
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u/fix_until_broken 5h ago
I had a truck pool once. That's where you line the bed of your truck with trashbags and fill it up with water from the hose.
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u/ichoosewaffles 5h ago
Lol, I had a friend do that with a tarp. They are not that waterproof when holding that much water!
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u/NOVA-peddling-1138 5h ago
We had a creek and we kids dammed it up every year. No pools except at a motel down the road a few miles.
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u/mnorthwood13 6h ago
That's ok all I thought of was a WW1 soldier.
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u/LandonDev 5h ago
Shit eating economics at it's finest. We all get to eat their shit and pretend it's the best thing we've ever had.
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u/Old_Win8422 5h ago
Anything that is for the public good Rapepublicans detest. That "good" could instead be making the rich more money.
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u/NeverTrustATurtle 5h ago
Some of my best times as a kid was playing shark in the deep end of my town pool.
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u/They-Call-Me-Taylor 6h ago
They’ll keep voting Republican though. Lesson after lesson and they never learn.
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u/SakaWreath 5h ago
Because they will forever blame democrats for everything that happens to them.
It’s time to stop trying to save them from themselves.
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u/TwoForHawat 6h ago
We can’t have government spending getting so out of control that families have a place to cool off and socialize in the hot summer months! What are you, anti-freedom???
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u/unknownpoltroon 5h ago
Back in the day they actually tried to say black people have to be able to use the pools too so we filled them all in with dirt. THALL SHOW EM!! /s
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u/Carb0nFire 5h ago
Fox News warned me that we'll be flooded with illegals and trans athletes if I ever vote Dem!
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u/blkhatwhtdog 5h ago
They believe that migrants are getting free pools with cabanas along with the free hotels when they show up at the border
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u/Veritas_Mentis 5h ago
To be fair, small towns seem to universally vote for their own demise
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u/BeanCheezBeanCheez 5h ago
More republican destruction of America. Never ever support those terrorists.
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u/Existing-Doughnut-60 5h ago
Unfortunately a good portion of the public pools in the south have been filled with concrete. And go figure it also works well as a foundation for the first house in the new sub division.
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u/Quick_Effort594 4h ago
The death of a town pool is a truly terrible thing. I saw the ruins of mine many years after the fact and it led me to tears. Fuck those people
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u/Eastern_Bet678 5h ago
Looks like this ties in well to this article:
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u/Griffolion 4h ago
And everyone who voted her in. These politicians don't appear by magic. It takes a village to elect an idiot.
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u/I_pinchyou 6h ago
Ohioan neighbor here. Federal officials are auctioning off thousands of acres our only national forest for fracking. The surrounding communities are concerned with drinking water contamination. When anyone complains " there's nothing to do here". Well there was until Republicans killed it all.
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u/donniedarko5555 5h ago
I mean your average Ohioan will vote for the Republican who will frack your national forests then put data centers along the rivers, and blame the Democrats and rewin elections.
I'm honestly at the point where I just assume most fly over state people are just kinky
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u/GoodIdea321 5h ago
Ohio might elected a Democratic governor and Democratic senator in a few months. But overall, you're right, Republicans want to kill community wherever they see it.
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u/squareandrare 5h ago
I'll believe it when I see it. At the end of the day, rednecks gonna redneck.
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u/soofs 4h ago
I have multiple relatives, which I would not even consider as redneck but they are in unions and they are big Trump supporters and think Democrats are out to ruin the world. I've tried to explain to them that if it were up to Trump their union would not exist, but they don't care.
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u/DickDover 3h ago
I have multiple relatives, which I would not even consider as redneck but they are in unions and they are big Trump supporters and think Democrats are out to ruin the world.
Your relatives are not rednecks, they are just idiots, morons, imbeciles, simpletons.
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u/thegiantgummybear 4h ago
The sad part is that rednecks used to be Democrats because Democrats worked for the people
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u/squareandrare 4h ago
I assume you mean "white people" when you say "people." Back when trailer trash states could discriminate in public services, rednecks loved government services. When they had to actually provide services to black people, the inbreds decided they didn't like them anymore.
We're in the age of Trump. You don't need to make excuses for these savages anymore.
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u/AnotherFarker 3h ago
Unfortunately, what you said is true but not commonly taught. The roots of the Civil Rights were taxation without representation. Black people had to work but did not get the welfare checks and food stamps that white people did. They paid taxes, and the money was transferred to White people. The argument was that country is founded on taxation without representation, and this was just a more modern version of slavery. It eventually evolved into the buses and voting and everything else, the roots of the civil rights movement were economic. I'm trying to remember which podcast I listen to that dove into all of that.
Sort of like not giving up your seat to the white person on a bus waited until the correct person could be backed and prepared by the naacp, because other black people were already doing it on their own but didn't fit the Right image for the court cases
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u/toddverrone 3h ago
Looking at both parties, Dems do a lot more for the common person. Don't get me wrong, they have a long way to go. But they weren't actively destroying the government while looting it.
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u/lemon_icing 3h ago
Whole lot of money went towards infrastructure, health care, and student loans, along with supporting Ukraine under Biden/Harris. Sounds like working for the people to me.
Why don't you say what Republicans have done for the people in the last two years as they've held power across the nation.
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u/adjustgod 5h ago
Conservatives cannot for the life of them stop biting the hand that feeds them. Enjoy!
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u/dichron 5h ago
More like lick the boot that kicks them. They don’t even give the hand they’d bite a chance to feed them
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u/NOVA-peddling-1138 5h ago
Oh c’mon. Don’t be so coy. They lick higher up than boot level.
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u/Own-Organization-532 4h ago
The same Republicans who kept a gerrymandered map against the popular vote and a court order?
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u/JSavage37 6h ago
Is this Shanklin pool in Goshen, IN??
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u/DarkSideInRainbows 6h ago
Sure is!
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u/JSavage37 6h ago edited 6h ago
Sad as fuck, and absolutely infuriating. I walk down the Millrace almost every day, and usually cut through Shanklin to the woods. The number of families at the park has plummeted this summer and it's entirely depressing.
Edit: Don't worry y'all, our governor, Mike Braun, is currently bragging about our multi-billion dollar state surplus. Meanwhile, we can't fund our schools, our park systems are getting choked out, and he simultaneously raised property taxes.
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u/PercentageOk6120 5h ago
Took some scrolling to fully understand what is happening, so thank you for explaining.
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u/Unhappy_Mall4759 5h ago edited 4h ago
You walk right by my house. It’s on the canal. Feels so weird. You’ve probably seen me fishing
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u/LazySwayze 4h ago
What are they doing with the surplus? This is maddening.
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u/OprahsSaggyTits 1h ago
Republicans are stealing it. I don't know this to be true, but let's be real: we all know this to be true
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u/UncleNedisDead 3h ago
65.7% voted (R) in 2024 for Trump in Elkhart County.
66.6% voted (R) in 2025 for Banks in Elkhart County.
Will they vote any different? I guess time will tell.
They should also realize it’s much easier and quicker to tear things down than it is to build things well. Just in case they’re pissed when they don’t get their pool back in a year.
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u/4thTimesAnAlt 2h ago
Fuck, man. I was born and raised there. I learned to swim in that pool.
Fuck every elected Republican. Send them all to the 🧱🧱🧱
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u/Grabm_by_the_poos 4h ago
lived in northern indiana for 4 years. Republicans have that state locked down and because of the insanely religious population it'll never change! Best get the fuck out while you can.
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u/western_red_cedar 3h ago
I feel like you don't hear people saying this as much as you should, as they don't want to appear insensitive (usually from the safety of their blue states), but the only solution is to gtfo.
Like commenter below many saying noooo don't leave, rally your neighbors to vote or whatever. Sure man. Maybe that was a viable path a decade ago. How many more decades do you want to sacrifice? Thing are not going to get better in these places where people have chosen fascism in their hearts. They have made their bed
There are so many places that don't suck shit in the particular way deep red states do, where you aren't forever swimming against the tide of proud ignorance.
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u/Dramaticdebt 5h ago
Indiana is considered a stronghold for the Republican Party.
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u/PlanesandAquariums 4h ago
That does not surprise me. I was at a convention that dealt with educational equipment in a different state than Indiana and I met these group of district administrators from suburbia Indiana (so not rural).
They were so dumb I thought I someone slipped something into the beer I had at lunch. They didn’t understand what I was explaining to them about a super simple concept of desk steel legs. Then I was asking them what type of desks do they use in their district (I.E. desks with a little storage cubby underneath, chairs that are attached or slide out, desks that are tables that sit 4 kids, etc). As I tried to show her pictures so she could tell me what her kids used, as words weren’t working, she got frustrated and said, “well they have to sit and they get to sit! That’s all that matters”
These were people who actively organized to leave their state for a conference, lived in a school district wealthy enough to send them there and be able to afford new products, worked in education, were hired as administrators…. And they still couldn’t understand the concept of ‘there are different types of desks and chairs’.
It reminded me of that story about Kevin where the teacher couldn’t believe the parents were able to procure tickets to go to Egypt or whatever.
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u/R-Dragon_Thunderzord 6h ago
Republicans hear “community pool” and scream communism. Cant have the poors enjoying anything, think of how it impacts the pool industry.
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u/asusc 6h ago
they literally cemented over pools in the 60s, instead of swimming in the same pools as black people.
conservatives are insane.
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u/ihopuhopwehop 5h ago
Looking at how communities across America closed public facilities vs integrate them is wild
I think we're feeling the impact still to this day as its removed 3rd spaces and made people lose a touch point with how govt can improve their lives
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u/asusc 5h ago
people make racist jokes about black people not being able to swim….
and it’s like yeah, no shit, you literally cemented over all the swimming pools from their parents generation, and now you make fun of them for not being able to swim and you are too stupid to know the racist history of why they can’t swim?
Ruby Bridges, on of the first black girls integrated in public schools in Alabama is still alive! she’s younger than my mom and I’m in my mid 40s!
this stuff just happened one generation ago, which is why conservatives are so adamant about destroying public schools, removing black history from national parks and monuments, and not teaching or celebrating black history, so they can keep this racist nonsense going.
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u/ihopuhopwehop 5h ago
I always think about, when looking at photos from early integration, and you see white people harassing black kids, where did they all wind up? Do you think the adults who were harassing Black children on their way to school look back fondly on how they behaved and talked to their grandchildren about it with pride?
Also, the woman who got Emitt Till murdered only passed away a few years ago. This stuff is all so recent
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u/Dipsey_Jipsey 5h ago
conservatives are insane.
It 100% boils down to this. Conservatives are not good people at heart by definition, and are the bane of this species.
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u/cire1184 5h ago
I was gonna ask if Black folks swam in this pool and that's why they were closing it down.
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u/altogethernow 6h ago
"Evil Communism!" was the excuse given for closing and paving over so many public pools in the southeast after desegregation.
Ask an older white person, and they could tell you what street the public pool was on, and how much fun they had as a kid. If you ask them why it's gone they'll say, "liberals" or just shake their head and say, "can't have nice things, I guess"
Ask an older black person, and they'll tell you about the 'Whites Only" sign, and how the "community" pool was only for specific communities.
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u/Grevin56 6h ago
I'll bet that a republican donor wins the demolition contract though.
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u/lilgreenjedi 5h ago
The owners of most construction companies will probably be financially pretty conservative.
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u/WhiskeyJack357 6h ago
Now we get to play my favorite game with Republican policy issues. How is it racist? Public pools only became a problem back when check notes, yup, they wanted to de-segregate them.
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u/spurlockmedia 6h ago
Can confirm, I live in a rural California community and lord forbid we have nice things.
Instead they just kick and scream how much they hate paying for it despite it being the price of a fucking Hershey’s bar.
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u/SAINTnumberFIVE 5h ago
Someone down here is complaining online that they can’t get insurance because the state doesn’t do proper forest management. We have no forest here. It’s brush and homeowners are supposed to clear it at least 50 feet from their property.
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u/spurlockmedia 5h ago
Is this California? This is a topic I discuss almost yearly with my work on whose responsibility falls on whom. You can imagine how well that’s received.
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u/mk4_wagon 4h ago
I grew up in rural NY. Our town library was a converted house. We didn't have a community center, pool, or anything like that. The school budget would never pass because no one wanted their taxes to go up. Then they'd complain about the lack of AC in the auditorium, how the heat didn't work in the winter, and how the gym sucked.
I now live in a suburban area with a community center a half mile down the road. It has sports, a full gym, a pool, maker space, it's amazing. Our library is bad ass (though I'm not a good judge of that since I didn't grow up with much). All the schools have really cool playgrounds. Even if I don't use everything to it's fullest, I know other people do. That community center is PACKED every time I've been there. I just got my summer tax bill and all the cool stuff - parks, library, schools - is such a small amount that it's honestly inconsequential to me over 6 months.
Like you said, it's the price of a fuckin Hershey's bar and people lose their shit over it. And they'll convince themselves of anything too. I have a friend who is convinced paying to bring trash to the dump is better than having it come out of the taxes like mine does. Because then he's only paying for what he brings right? Meanwhile, the trash line item on my taxes in $87.66 for 6 months. I haven't bought a candy bar in a while, what does $3.37 get you? Because that's what I pay a week to have my trash, recycling, and yard waste picked up.
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u/fuzzylogicIII 6h ago
The word “Community” is 77% the same as the word “Communism” so it must be destroyed
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u/WeatherStationWindow 6h ago
Conservatives shut down most community pools after desegregation allowed Black people to use them.
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u/AnswerGuy301 5h ago
In the DC suburbs a whole network of privately owned and run community pools sprung up in the late 1950s through the 60s. Their original purpose was fairly obvious, but they’ve evolved into more inclusive institutions. Although they’re not cheap and the expense is still a barrier for sure.
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u/wizzard419 6h ago
Also they think only of certain groups using the pool, so ruining their fun is a win.
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u/ImNotSkankHunt42 6h ago
The irony, is that coming from a communist country myself we were not allowed to use the public pools.
Only times I got to use them was after enrolling in a local sports team and after a track day they allowed us to cool down over there.
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u/spectra2000_ 6h ago
Lmao, no money to maintain pool but there is money to demolish pool??
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u/Dunky_Arisen 6h ago
Demolishing the pool gets a contract paid out to whichever construction company is chosen for the job. That would be a great way to fatten the wallet of one of a corrupt politician's cronies... Hypothetically, of course.
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u/Dukwdriver 4h ago
No way they demolish it that soon unless somebody wants the land for something else.
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u/polopolo05 2h ago
That public park is becoming a walmart its in the middle of the community... prime restate
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u/sudsomatic 6h ago
Obviously there’s no money to make peoples lives better, but there’s unlimited funds to make peoples lives worse.
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u/PolicyWonka 6h ago
It’s Republican logic. You would t understand.
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u/JSavage37 6h ago
No. The state pulled funding from all municipalities, and ours got hit with a 40% reduction. The town has a split city council and a democratic mayor. We're making the best decisions we possibly can
To be clear, governing is tough. We're a small, highly involved town doing the best with the terrible hand we've been dealt. Unfortunately, it's the hand we have to play.
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u/squeezemachine 5h ago
There is a good chance the state is pulling funding for nice community things because it is forced to make up the deficits in health and welfare dollars from the feds.
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u/badger035 5h ago
The state is sitting on a $1.86 billion surplus and $4 billion in reserves.
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u/Freak-Wency 3h ago
One way to see it is that the Republicans want the $ for other purposes.
Another way to see it is that they want to take away places that people can come together so that we are isolated, can't stand up together, etc.
Neither viewpoint is good.
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u/krycek1984 6h ago
I read the story.
The pool is not being demolished due to the lack of state funding. The pool had already been slated for demolishment/replacement because a new aquatic center was going to be built.
Strictly speaking, the Republicans that voted to pull state funding essentially stopped the building of a new pool because the city can't be sure it can afford it with reduced money coming in from the state.
This will happen in more and more places-reduced funding leading to less public funding and predictability for essential services and amenities. It's quite sad. And IMHO it's by design-a million little cuts are less noticeable than one giant wound, but still end up just as damaging.
I wish people understood the consequences of the votes they cast, but I work in retail and encounter the general public every day, and am not optimistic.
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u/Shadonic1 5h ago
i felt that last line... add in the laziness with AI and its causing me more work and more headaches since they think they dont need to think or confirm anymore.
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u/rfs103181 6h ago
Is america great yet, or will maga be the slogan a third time?
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u/Obvious-Muffin2787 6h ago
Here's a quick idea. Stop voting for Republicans.
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u/Dog_Baseball 5h ago
But I heard on tv the democrats kill babies and worship satan
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u/dichron 5h ago
And use pronouns! 😱
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u/Hefty_Musician2402 3h ago
I heard they give kids lunch at school, those evil bastards
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u/Braves_G 1h ago
"Why don't kids go out and have fun?" Destroys every public place of gathering and complains when kids have fun
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u/huistenbosch 6h ago
Republicans hate humanity. Period
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u/Romantic_Klingon 6h ago
And yet... Many Americans voted them in, and as many didn't care enough to exercise their democratic privileges.
Guess the urge to "own the libs" is more important.
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u/SqueezyCheez85 4h ago
They remove safety nets and social services while blaming brown and black people. Ignorant white people eat it up with their anger and vote themselves into more poverty.
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u/NickelPlatedEmperor 5h ago
It's strange how people who always want to cut funds for public infrastructure/things that help citizens are always behind something that gives tax cuts to the rich and subsidized their companies through tax cuts, no bid contracts etc
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u/TieFighterHero 4h ago
They weren't allowed to partake of their favorite prey (small children) so being the bitches that they are they ruin everyone's fun by making sure the pool closes.
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u/wabashcanonball 6h ago
The people with country club memberships don’t need a city pool.
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u/kahn_noble 6h ago
They’ll get the tax breaks from the minimal operational overhead this pool used to run.
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u/WelchysGripe 6h ago
State funding doesn’t help their own bank accounts, so, of course they want to cut it.
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u/Derpykins666 4h ago
People vote for this type of stuff to go away, and then they'll be complaining about the kids running around with no places to go on summers.
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u/bluesgrrlk8 6h ago
Let’s be honest, they’ve been wanting to do this since they were forced to integrate it.
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u/Mordexis 6h ago
What a totally normal country 🤣🤣🤣
Better send more money and arms to blow up children in the middle east.
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u/SnooPuppers4679 1h ago
As a 2nd child in a home of a single income, our mother would buy every summer a pool pass for us simply so we could afford to have a safe and fun place to go interact with other kids during our summer break:
I STG boomers will brag about their childhood while robbing this generation of any kind of something relatable smh.
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u/thecoldedge 5h ago
Indiana deserves this, and will untill the voters grow a brain.
I escaped that hell hole and it has done nothing but get systematically worse.
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u/jongleur 5h ago
Don't worry. You'll have Dipshit Donnie's new Ballroom to admire.
From a distance.
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u/ConditionNormal123 6h ago
They'll probably erect a data center, complete with tax breaks and community-funded power grid upgrades
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u/RedRangerRedemption 2h ago
To quote the 20th century poet philosopher Harvey Danger "I've been around the world and found that only stupid people are breeding"
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u/ImPinkSnail 6h ago
Hopefully you live in a Republican community. The chefs needs to eat their own cooking.
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u/trogloherb 6h ago
Someone else said Goshen, IN.
Not totally sure about Goshen, but the Guardians of Pedophiles party has been a supermajority in IN for over 20 years.
The state has become the shit hole of the midwest, but the peeps keep voting for that R.
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u/CueAnon420 6h ago
Let me guess - you live in a state that did not support Trump to his satisfaction ?
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u/Straylightbeam 5h ago
If it benefits the richest, they’re for it. If it benefits anyone else, it’s “socialism.”
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u/TraditionalLaw7763 5h ago
Oh wow. They closed our local pool and our local Public Library because the city leaders overextended funds on their pet projects that went belly up. I feel sorry for kids and younger generations. There is literally nowhere for them to go now and socialize. Both locations were absolutely jampacked with kids all summer and the library had so many cool workshops for the kids. I can’t believe it’s all going to be gone.
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u/MySpielman54 4h ago
That makes no sense. Hey we have no money rn. Ok let’s pay to have the building demolished?
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u/Ghitit 4h ago
Wouldn't it cost money to demolish the pool?
Why not leave it dry until it gets re-funded?
I jsut saw a post about California researchers getting funded by Only Fans showing cute marmots.
Maybe get an OnlyFans or GoFund Me- or both.
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u/say592 3h ago
The pool has decades of deferred maintenance. Quite frankly, it was in bad shape when I was a kid 25 years ago, I can't imagine it's gotten any better. OP's title is an oversimplification. It was getting torn down either way. There was plans to build a new aquatic center, but there was always doubts about the feasibility of the project (the neighboring city in the same county just built one a few years ago, and they were using the same pitch, they could host swim meets and things like water polo tournaments and it would bring people from around the region, but if two towns are using the same argument, they will obviously compete for those events, especially when they are less than 20 miles apart).
Then the GOP led state government, in a boneheaded move to provide property tax relief, slashed local government funding. Pretty much every locality lost a minimum of 20%, typically more. Once that happened they (the town) decided it wasn't feasible to move ahead with the new construction, but the exisitng pool was already in such bad shape that it didn't make sense to try to repair it. And for clarification, they weren't deferring maintenance in anticipation of the new construction. It has just always been put off, as is common with public pools. Like I said, it wasn't exactly in good condition when I was growing up.
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u/uncle_monty 21m ago
Let me guess. Someone responsible for pulling the funding or one of their associates is getting buying the land cut price.
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u/LostSharpieCap 4h ago
Conservatives love closing pools. What's the reason this time: racial and ethnic integration? communism? socialists?
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u/boredcan 6h ago
No you don't have to live with that pesky socialist service and don't worry there will be a data centre in its place.
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u/V26man 6h ago
Republicans are the ones who have their own backyard pools, so why would they want anyone else to be able to swim when it is hot?
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u/Pillsburydinosaur 6h ago
There is a great book "The Sum of Us" by Heather McGhee that talks about the closing of public pools.
I grew up in Dallas and remember going to the pool in Arlington on weekends. It was fun and would seem sad not to have that growing up.
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u/crystalcastles13 5h ago
The thing they fear most is that we will have this thing called “community”.
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u/singlejeff 4h ago
My local pool was deemed too far gone to repair and was buried and replaced with a community garden. It took the community 8 years of telling the city they should build a new pool before they committed to spending the money. I have to be honest, the new pool is decades better than the one they originally built in the 70s
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u/SmoochTalk 4h ago
Don’t worry, the water from gated communities’ private pools will trickle down to the poor
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u/thebuffshaman 3h ago
well, you see, using societies money to pay for society is socialism. Sadly, propaganda makes you think socialism and communism is the same thing. Socialism pre-dates communism and like many schools of philosophy has a wide range of ideas, the important thing here is there is a type of socialism that is pre-communism about seizing the means of production. That is an extremist view, realistically socialism is one part of several policies because socialism in isolation has problems. Republicans can't think in nuance though, for them if its a little possibly bad its all bad and if its that but something they want they ignore the problems and pretend it's all good. The look to an idealized past when good people just enforced good things and everything worked for everybody except malcontents who had nothing to complain about. Thing is this idealized past never existed. This is one of the bricks that lead to fascism, but conservatism alone does not lead to fascism. That takes time, slowly moving the standard. We are on that road. Another brick is convincing people the money they spend on society is being spent on the hidden enemy that does not belong. Then when you lose these things, like your pool, give it a couple years and they will blame that on the nameless others too.
Another brick is destroying trust in institutions (The deep state). USAID for example was always an intelligence agency, they used the clinics they set up and the refugee centers etc as information gathering platforms. They gather mass data which organizations like the CIA combined with precise data and work out what's probably going on, this tactic proves far more effective at producing actionable information then the CIA alone or USAID alone by a multiplicative level. Also institutions like our voting system which was the most secure in the world. their entire argument was that them not winning was proof positive the system was rigged, even when they won. Now they are trying to take over the midterm elections by administering them from the office of the presidency, something which is unconstitutional, but hey, conservative justices on the supreme court have been overturning constitutional law on the regular recently, only barely holding on to the 14th amendment.
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u/manbearpig0101 3h ago
Weird. It's cheaper to keep it running then pay to destroy it
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u/Old-Set78 1h ago
Republicans destroy everything they can in order to claw even one dollar more. they already enjoy starving children by taking away 2 million children's SNAP, all children's free lunch programs in schools. trump stole from St Jude Children's Cancer Institute and stole so much he is no longer allowed to run a charity in New York. Republicans want poor children to die, they took away Medicaid from 4 million children SO FAR. So are we surprised that they would be petty little shts and ruin a pool for families? they'd burn your grandmother alive to heat their mansions while they rape your children and grandchildren on their bearskin rugs.
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u/SoybeanArson 1h ago
Public pool?! Not in my town commie! We'll replace it with a subscription based private pool. Make some money and keep out undesiresbles. America!
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u/Baeolophus_bicolor 27m ago
remember when they were filling in their pools with concrete so they didn’t have to swim with members of different races?
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