Mr. Harris is quick to point out that Golden Valley may not be the perfect model for the rest of the country. “This is a wealthy community with very little crime,” he said. “We can afford to go through this change. I realize that may not be the case in other places.”

tl;dr: Rich town with low crime rate does wacky changes, doesn’t really mean much, but still interesting

this is just the status quo. businesses, especially ones operated online, can really reject you for whatever reason they want. you can go full paranoia, and feed into political extremism, or just see this is as what it is; America being at crossroads for what “freedom” really means. Is freedom the ability to shop wherever, or the freedom for business owners to reject whomever they want, no matter the petty-ness of it?

reddit finds out that telling people they don’t actually own their own communities is… counter-productive??/!!! 😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱