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That’s basically one of the two tenants of conservatism, really; that the Natural Order of society is a pyramid, and everyone needs to ‘stay in their place’ to keep the pyramid stable, or society will collapse.

The second tenant of course is Wilholt’s Law.

What those two combine into is an almost religious obsession with a tiered in-group out-group layering system, with each level lower down the pyramid Out of the higher groups but In the same-tier or lower ones.

Until you get to the bottom, which are the ones everyone gets to grind under their heels because they’re in the Lowest Tier and thus the Wicked Useless Dregs of Society only good for slave labor and kissing the feet of their ‘betters’.

In fact I’m about three-quarters convinced it is their actual religion, as I’ve noticed that if their so-called ‘religious teachings’ or ‘beliefs’ countermand either the Order Pyramid or their/other people’s place in it, they will abandon or twist the teachings of their religion rather than abandon the pyramid.

Because they are allowed to punch down on children and brown people. Often, as long as a person has someone to punch down on, they can tell themselves they have it good. For some reason.

But also they’re taught from birth that Order and Structure is Very Important; everyone has their specific place and level in society that they need to stay in, or all society will collapse into anarchy and no matter how bad they have it now, things will be infinitely worse.

So they support that structure with absolute fervor, telling themselves that they’re Saving Society, themselves, and even all those other ungrateful women from the horrors of socioeconomic collapse.

I believe so yes

Hope you feel better soon! And I hope the heat isn’t bothering Sandy too much.

But paying attention to other people’s houses is how they avoid looking at their own.

Have you heard of the concept of company towns?

I mean, he’s a Nazi presiding over a Nazi government doing Nazi things.

He isn’t as bad as Hitler yet; but Hitler wasn’t as bad as Hitler in the first part of his reign either.

Depends on who you talk to. Seems the more rabid members of fuckcars want to ban cars completely, and jail anyone who resists lol

Japanese Holly actually gets small purple-black berries (assuming a male nearby). Still good for birds though.

The peashrub can set a sort of tan fruit; but after flowering what people usually enjoy is the weeping form, pruning it to be more open to show that off (it’ll end up looking sort of like a snuffleupagus if you don’t prune). ‘Walker’ is a variety with more delicate foliage so it shows the weeping habit better.

Oooh you should post this in abandonedporn too

I mean, if you want color, scent, and a long bloom time, you could go with a rebooming rose, like Scentimental or one of the Knock Out types. Most good rebloomers aren’t quite as tall as you were hoping for, although sometimes you can find them grown as standards.

There’s also lilacs, which even though you’d get only a short bloom, you could prune to whatever look you wanted.

If you want to just do a green dramatic accent, Ilex ‘Sky Pencil’ fits every other one of your requirements.

Probably the best tree that roughly fits what you want is Caragana arborescens ‘Pendula’. Not a rebloomer, but pretty flowers, a nice weeping habit, and a pretty yellow fall color do give it year-round interest.