Go walking for long enough in any place that has yards and you'll see these yard signs. At least where I live.
You have to parse them carefully. Take the tautology that "Love is love," It doesn't say that love is particularly important, does it? Surely not, which is why you're free to undermine every form of familial love and agape ever known. Linguists are still trying to determine the definition of this word "kindness" but the word self-evidently isn't being used in the previously accepted manner.
Really, though, you can ignore everything after "house." The underlying message is, "We belong to the property-owning class." You don't see them in apartment windows.
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Empty slogans on a signboard is a pretty shabby way of demonstrating one's moral superioity. These useless platitudes look to be designed to act as a dissociation tactic from supposedly benighted fellow Americans who apparently don’t believe those things. I'm not surprised you don't see them in apartment windows (as they'd likely block too much light).
We haven't seen this type of sign around here but it was tiresome enough seeing all the 'Thank you' ones and 'Be kind, be safe, wear a mask' banalities posted everywhere, never mind the Canadian flags with a heart instead of the maple leaf. Boring irritating clichés aren't made more effective by overuse.
If I had a lawn I'd definitely post that second sign. :)
The response to any one of these assertions could be "What do you want, a medal?" Yeah, your embrace of the "right" slogans is helping no one, and is only being deployed against a strawman. Your--the actual you this time--point about blocking the light is spot-on, and seems like the perfect metaphor.
The signs I was talking about do seem primed more for a USian market. Maybe it's a good thing that the two countries have at least produced two slightly different ways of being insufferable. I'd like to see the "Be kind, be safe, wear a mask" one with a picture of, say, Jason Voorhees and his machete.
There are a few good parodies, but I felt I should choose one.
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