enndubs.bsky.social
Will remain here as long as it's silly nonsense
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Not sure how the Whig parallel fits? There were significant numbers of pro- and anti-slavery Whigs, just as there were pro- and anti-slavery Democrats. The issue cut across the Whig/Dem party system, and ended up destroying it in the realignment of the 1850's.
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that is the dream
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Because if Chicago had this weather year-round it would be more expensive than California
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That is 100% true, plus very weird and uncomfortable layouts due to the structure of the towers themselves. Great value for such an incredible location though - 250k for a downtown condo in an iconic building.
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A surprisingly cheap place to live!
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I've soured on mass engagement platforms in general, Discord / Slack / etc. are so much more conducive to conversation because of how little reward you get from point-scoring
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ALL HAIL POPE GIARDINIERA THE FIRST
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It’s @abundanthousingil.bsky.social volunteer advocates with the coach house lover himself, JB Pritzker, just moments ago.
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I'm going to tell my kids this is what 70's cruising culture looked like
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I can't tell if this is an April Fool
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"cotton candy poutine" is a phrase I never dreamt I would hear
that is a Lovecraftian level of horror. it forces one to confront the futility of all things
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Oh really, you work on that? I love the Transit Explorer.
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That's uncomfortably accurate to the group so far. Any advice on how to become a true citywide org?
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Brand new org, I actually just joined because they're the only local urbanist group that's doing direct advocacy on governance reform. Chicago's aldermanic system is so broken that it's effectively impossible to do anything citywide when it comes to land use.
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I always thought it was more of an ideological position, "this is the ideal way to do things because incremental change is less disruptive."
It's more politically feasible too - much easier to argue for ADU's and duplexes in an SFH neighborhood than high-rises.
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Hmm, most of us weren't around for Daley 2, so I won't strike it but I'll probably move it from the shortlist to the longlist.
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I have that book on the shortlist for my Chicago History book club - is the whole thing that biased in his favor? I read the intro and the gist I got was "Daley Jr. was great when I worked for him but got bad and corrupt after I left."
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The new political alignment really is whiny adolescent manbabies vs. the grown-ups, huh.
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In theory. I voted for BCH and even still I couldn't come up with a good answer to "how do we know this is actually going to be spent productively"
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there are so many people this could refer to
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Oh, South Carolina senators. Sigh. Two generations later and they were electing a man who proudly boasted of all the Black voters he killed during Reconstruction.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjami...
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I see it as a victory for the idea - "build more housing" has become popular enough that politicians have decided it's an important mouth noise they need to make.
That means the actual building is still years away, though.
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Case in point, this gentleman literally can't imagine any improvements resulting from this policy and assumes without evidence that the congestion fares will be used to hurt people:
bsky.app/profile/cost...
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Feels like a lot of the Mangione discourse was informed by this - if nothing can change for the better, then politics becomes more about directing harm to people you dislike (healthcare executives) than fixing things (the healthcare system).
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It's also part of a broader loss of faith that things can ever get better. If nothing can get better, then all change is to be rejected (since it will inevitably cause harm).
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Definitely felt this way reading Dem reactions to the election too. Immediate response was unthinking reaffirmation of existing beliefs. Nobody changed their minds, only doubled down on their priors, "Bernie would have won" vs. "the left sabotaged us"
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I assume it's because they started terminating blue line trains at Illinois Medical District when they were short on drivers the past two years. Doom spiral - fewer trains because fewer riders, fewer riders because fewer trains.
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hell yeah
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Reminds me of the famous Robert Caro quote on power:
"Power doesn't always corrupt. What power always does is reveal. When a guy gets into a position where he doesn't have to worry anymore, then you see what he wanted to do all along."
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This breaks my brain. This is someone so obscenely wealthy that there is effectively no material limit to his will. . . and he's arguing with randos on 4chan. I profoundly do not understand.
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If you want to see a Willem Defoe movie, you have two options:
1. See Willem Defoe's penis
2. Spider-man
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The entirety of the journey from Troy is not only just 1/6 of the text, it's all narrated by Odysseus himself, "the lord of lies". You can plausibly read it as a shaggy dog story.
The Cyclops chapter slaps though.
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Should I get a chance to comment I will say "I think one thing that everyone, both for and against this project, can agree on is that 9 meetings is enough so please make a decision already."
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Now that you've been to most of them, do you have a ranking?
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Giving people the ability to turn their phones into literal casinos is an appallingly bad idea