aepps20
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Scumbag. Why does my state keep having this happen.
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elpablo21
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Crisis at the border, deficit and they're gonna take our guns away
Two months into Biden's term and Rethugs are only two stones away from the Fragility Gauntlet
Two months into Biden's term and Rethugs are only two stones away from the Fragility Gauntlet
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Housing in urban areas has become an increasingly heterogeneous good. Which means that if a rich person vacates a luxury property rental, you can’t have two middle income or four low income people rent and share the newly vacated luxury property. Landlords and/or the property owners would rather do increasingly stringent credit checks, income checks, employment history checks and forbid roommates sharing rent in those luxury properties, and therefore leave units vacant. The reason is because they’d rather keep rents very high, only rent to rich people and maintain the property’s image or rather its property value for future sale.
Building a bunch of luxury condos don’t solve the housing crisis in big cities. We need good social housing units built or at minimum, use rent control to drive out financial speculators and impose a vacancy tax to punish property owners who simply let units in their luxury properties stay vacant. Also, imposing income maximums on certain properties would also help.
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No one suggests building luxury condos will solve any housing crisis anywhere.
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There are some who out there, not you, who do have a just build, never ask questions attitude. And then they conflate blatant attempts by real NIMBYs with anyone and everyone who asks questions or has even the mildest critique of most or all building permits going to luxury units in downtown or gentrifying neighborhoods.
It’s largely astroturfed but it still muddies the waters and its cynical as hell.
edit: anyone who asks real questions about affordability. Obviously, we agree that anyone, who asks “questions” about a low income housing development being susceptible to residents being eaten by wildlife, can *****.
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What is up with Colorado??
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Ben Garrison’s post Trump descent even further into madness has been an interesting development post Trump.
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elpablo21
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We love our St. Louis Queen
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gry60
thanks for posting the vox podcast. Heather McGhee is great and she’s totally right to emphasize how self destructive white supremacy is for most whites.Too much of the discourse among leftist, progressive, liberals is dominated by affluent whites who can afford to give up some wealth and power for the sake of social justice. That’s morally a good thing, better than the affluent conservative’s view, but social justice as affluent charity and penance isn’t scalable, politically.
For most whites, not living at the commanding heights of the economy, racial justice is ultimately, to their benefit. The people at the very top hoard so much wealth and opportunity and under that framework, it’s rational for any individual white person to oppose affirmative action or more integrated schools or affordable housing near their home, or anything that would make their households less able to stay out of poverty.
Collectively, though, if working class and middle class whites could work with other working and middle class people, who are not white, and everyone can have plenty. There’s so much to go around and whites are being foolish by accepting so much less because of a refusal to see POC have even a little more.
The few “losers” under a multiracial working class coalition, the super rich, still win because a far more equitable and solidaristic society, purged of racial and class domination, is far better equipped to avoid extinction causing wars and climate change.
So White people can save themselves from poverty and death by doing what is morally correct.
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Sir, I'm going to ask you one final time, do you want us to stop by McDonalds or Burger King?Terrorist.
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I think the story of the public pool is a great counter, from a messaging perspective, to the story of prosperity through segregation peddled by the Right. She has a great point when she says that this is what the Left should focus on to promote and defend their vision for the country. In politics, it is far better to strategically appeal to one's self-interest than to appeal to one's altruism.
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I don't even know how i'd live with myself having the most money that's ever money'd and still not take care of my employees. Literally the bare minimum, automated decent thing you could do.
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it's easy to forget that after the Industrial Revolution we immediately had problems like "company owns town" and "toddler in gears."
unchecked greed has no limits.
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If it makes you feel better, he's just a guest host. They haven't picked a permanent host yet.
