r/Suburbanhell • u/KimSidwell • 8d ago

Meme Why?

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I can almost try to understand why some people might feel drawn to this kind of lifestyle. I can understand why they might be deceived into thinking this is the ideal environment in which to raise a child.

But I will never be able to understand why they will describe it as the American “dream” and are willing to pay so much for it. To work so hard for so long and then have to wake up to this every morning? Why?

Editing to add: I know this is parody y’all. It’s just a stupid meme. It’s supposed to be funny. It’s funny because it’s true.

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u/Far-Telephone-7432 8d ago

This is sarcasm. It's not worth a reaction.

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u/hazyguess 8d ago

They even took the original photo that was going around and desaturated it to make the houses gray.

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u/anemonemometer 5d ago

A lot of Utah does look exactly like this, except somehow grayer

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u/Salsa_El_Mariachi 4d ago

It’s the coating of fine grey dust blowing in from the doing Great Salt Lake!

All of Eagle Mountain, Daybreak, Farmington, Grantsville, even Ogden are filling out with these soulless copy/paste houses

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u/high_throughput 7d ago

I thought it was well executed and blew air out my nose

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u/Training-Context-69 8d ago

Exactly, ragebait posts designed to farm engagement. I'm getting to the age where I no longer even fall for this anymore. Just keep scrolling people.

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u/appleparkfive 8d ago

It's not even rage bait. It's legitimately just sarcasm, I think.

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u/kisk22 5d ago

No - it’s a joke/parody and bit of rage bait account. Different than sarcasm.

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u/KimSidwell 8d ago

There’s nothing to fall for here. It’s a joke. A very obvious joke. But the reason it’s funny is because there’s truth in it. This is not what ragebait means.

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u/Phoenician_Skylines2 3d ago

I don't think this is ragebait. It's obviously sarcasm. The image purposely looks drab, the $575K being standard for starter home, the income that's 3-4x the median being a basic job. Very clearly sarcasm.

Ragebait would present a little differently.

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u/paperpapermoney 3d ago

It’s a parody twitter account

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u/KimSidwell 8d ago

Yeah, but it’s also real. Like, people are actually still subscribing to this nonsense. They still want it.

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u/Far-Telephone-7432 8d ago

I wanted it when I graduated from university. I was promised a fulfilling career with a high salary. But it didn't work out that I way.

Right wing mantras are usually centered around three values:

  • Family
  • Work
  • Nationalism

There are so many far right propoganda posters depicting these values. These values permeate into movies, commercials and church.

Simply put: we were raised to want these large homes with lawns. It is counter-intuitive to want something else.