Some of the local facebook groups are just as fun, complaining about the police helos overhead at all hours of the day, while complaining about slow police response times.... or about the local Indian reservation hosting late night concerts on the REZ and wondering why the city council is not doing anything about it
Classic stuff.
We have at least two “local” Facebook groups owned and run by top level county political party people but made to look like they’re open groups for anyone in the County. Innocuous titles like “Elbert County Citizens”.
However if you post anything against their political agenda they’ll a) tell everyone you’re “argumentative” (anyone posting their stuff isn’t) and remove the comment b) if you contact them privately to discuss it, they’ll fake like you’re “threatening” them and block you. If you post any more to the county group, they’ll ban you and remove all comments you made on anything.
It’s all quite cozy. Makes it look like the county is all in happy harmony with their politics and what not, because there’s nobody who disagrees with them on the page. LOL. Even if you’re not interested in either political cult and just posting sane mathematics, you’ll get banned. They don’t like math.
Even funnier, they don’t know everyone makes fun of them on other forums, including Nextdoor.com which might be the best reason to have a site based on geography and not really owned by anyone. On any other social media site or forum you’ll find a post that warns people these are shill groups on Facebook. You do have to look and many people don’t, but it’s well documented.
I got kicked off for telling some dreamer that posted they wanted a rec center built, that we don’t even pay our firefighters yet, so good luck on finding a rec center budget. I pointed out the county to our west in the suburbs that has a rec center has six times the housing density and the houses are all worth about double the rural houses, thus, a massive tax base. Oh and they pay their firefighters even.
LOL. Damn that logic and stuff. They don’t want facts like that posted in a comment when the original purpose of the post was just to whine about the current county board members.
Those terrible people can’t even build us a rec center!!... don’t ya know? ;-) Vote for us. We’ll build it!
Nobody knows where the money will come from, maybe the cows on the ranches will get part time jobs “mooooooooo-n lighting.” Hahaha. They don’t want to talk about that. Of course.
One of their moderators told me when I sent a PM asking what she meant by her babble about me threatening her, that she was “in a meeting and to stop sending messages”. Well sheesh lady, you know you can turn Facebook notifications OFF when you’re doing like, real life stuff. It’ll happily store your PMs until later. I think I understand why she feels “threatened”. Either her phone is smarter than she is, or she makes sure that FB page is monitored 24/7 by someone with the ability to delete stuff. Either/or, it’s hilarious. Talk about having no life.
I guess I’d call it “classic stuff” too, if classic really is code for stupid. Like “can’t do basic math” levels of stupid...
