This feels like a joke GTA would have made 10-15 years ago.

    • TankieTanuki [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      the United States is in some ways becoming a medieval society, in which people live and work in the modern equivalent of castles—gated communities, apartment building with doormen and office building with guards—and try to shield themselves while traveling between them. They do this by riding in sport utility vehicles, which look armored, and by trying to appear as intimidating as possible to potential attackers.

      :geordi-yes:

        • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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          Yes 100%.

          The new place I moved into has exactly what you said, burglar bars on the windows (even though it’s a couple stories up) and barbed wire fencing. And it looks minimal compared to all the electric fencing and alarm systems around it on other properties and apartment buildings

          Basically every rich suburb is a gated community now, though you’re still allowed to drive though, just get stopped at the gates for a few seconds. The poorer suburbs can’t really have that, so they have community watch/policing forums and stuff.