riotingpacifist.bsky.social
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Who? But also abolish ICE now & borders eventually!
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I think you're just making assumptions of people because of their signs. Making a funny sign isn't necessarily the be all and end all of their political activity.
Yesterday I saw a bunch of no kings march liberal signs show up at an action shutting an ice processing center.
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So firstly, fuck you nobody deserves this no matter how people of their race voted.
Secondly the majority of Latinos voted for Kamala
navigatorresearch.org/2024-post-el...
Thirdly ICE is a bipartisan effort
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I really wish world "leaders" would settle this shit directly, just go back to the days of assassination, stop hurting the civilians trapped in your states!
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Quit trying to rehabilitate Biden, until you accept that he lost, in no small part because he backed a genocide & a violent border policy, the Democrats are going to stay losing.
If Democrats want to win, they need to be meaningfully different to Republicans!
Mr Crime Bill wasn't!
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Nah the products are the problem too:
* Suspension is whack
* Buttons to get in/out of the car is stupid (& dangerous)
* Cybertruck looks like ass and has no carry capacity
* Using a touchscreen to control important functions is bad.
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We are so cooked if Reddit is our best source of info, I got banned for suggesting LAPD & LASD officers breaking the law by assisting ICE be arrested.
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Anyone got any Marbles for my donut?
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WTF? Yeah let's get him to impose his insane tarrifs so we can fumble the midterms, even if millions suffer as a result 🙄
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His love of eugenics as a plot device makes sense.
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If what you think is irrelevant why post?
I think it's bad to justify horrific actions because they are legal, the US has long used selective enforcement of laws as a tool to oppress minorities.
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Just putting it out there but I don't think you should be deported for speeding.
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Many see **this** as the end of unfettered capitalism they just disagree on if it's good or not.
Many Republicans will see this as a worthwhile sacrifice to bring jobs lost to unfettered capitalism back.
While Dems will see the damage as a result of fettering capitalism.
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So much radicalization & hate was peddled ironically, using schrodinger's jokes (e.g say sometime outrageous, then if people get mad say "jk, jk, ... unless...")
Plus a bunch of outragebait was based on context collapse of "obvious" jokes.
It's a feature not a bug that most on here are earnest
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How am I going to not print things‽
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When their own charts show GPAs & SATs to be flawed metrics, I think we aren't dealing with the smartest racists.
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1. Declare Bankruptcy
2. Start Limepeace
3. Claim not to know anything about Greenpeace when debt collectors come
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Vienna doesn't rely entirely on markets and has strict regulations on what can be built, something you libertarians cry about all the time.
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What explains what about them?
fred.stlouisfed.org/series/WABPP...
fred.stlouisfed.org/series/ORBPP...
fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MINN4...
With the exception of Texas all follow more or less the same trend.
Tokyo's market is much less distorted by landlords because the economy never recovered
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It is made worse because CA, the US & the west in general has abdicated responsibility for housing production, but it's happening everywhere that markets are the pretty much the only way of getting housing built.
It's not happening in Singapore or Vienna where the state hasn't abandoned renters.
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I already said markets are not good at producing housing.
What explanation do you have? There was no zoning law of 1988 or 2008, currently laws are changing to be **more** favorable for development, yet markets are failing to produce more units.
This isn't a CA or US specific problem.
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Doesn't match with reality LMAO.
Housing production fell between 2006 & 2010, what zoning did that? What law was passed in 1989 to cripple housing production for the next 3 years?
We recently passed SB9, yet housing production declines even as SFZ has been eliminated, what zoning did that?
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The trouble with libertarianism is you never run out of excuses to pretend that True libertarianism has never been tried, even when the bears are in town.
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We have anemic housing production because the private market isn't good at building a lot of homes, instead it builds whatever brings in the most profit, be it McMansion or Luxury flats that often sit empty.
Where on the graph can you point to and say "zoning did this"?
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I don't know what your point is, NIMBYs exist, that doesn't make them a significant reason why we haven't been able to build enough housing since the 70s, let alone the primary factor fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CABPP...
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Once again, do you have the funds to build an apartment building be cause the primary factor in housing production is the economy fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CABPP...
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But that's irrelevant because you don't.
Which is why when CA got rid of SFZ it had almost no impact, just because libertarianism ignores reality and blames regulation at every turn doesn't make it a useful framework to look at housing production through.
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Do you have the finances to do that?
Because housing construction is mostly dictated by market factors not regulations.
CA housing production: fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CABPP...
US housing production: fred.stlouisfed.org/series/HOUST
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Especially given that cities that have maintained or even increased their capacity of non market housing has increased, meanwhile trends in market housing production don't really correlate to regulation as much as they do market factors.
fred.stlouisfed.org/series/HOUST
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House prices began to skyrocket as alternatives to market housing were reduced, and this was a global phenom affecting every major Western city, so I'm not sure where this libertarian logic of overly-constricted markets comes from, DAVOS didn't do zoning reform!
Sounds like a really DOGEy position.
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Ironic that MercuryNews are publishing that as if the increased housing prices aren't the result of a free market approach to housing combined with the inequality that comes from valorizing non-productive sectors of the economy such as Tech & Finance, which are things they vehemently support!
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Lol, guess nobody told Trump why the IS developed advanced weather prediction technology or why much of it remains somewhat secretive.
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I think this is a chilling insight into the ultra-liberal mind.
Defending the institutions and norms of the US is more important than defending the people who live here.
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Pure insecurity.
Told lack of self-worth meaning they can only define themselves in terms of matching an unachievable imagined gender role, they're determined to live life as a preprogrammed NPC with no originality.
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I don't think that is at all true, especially because most code that can be generated by a statistical model should not be needed in the first place.
AI generated code sounds a lot like the latest iteration of no-code development, a lot of business hype, yet to see a useful meaningful use case.
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This seems bad, the protocols for stabilizing high energy reactions should be right 100% of the time not most of the time except when they unexpectedly hallucinate something.
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Curious what you mean by nation-state involvement?
I know nation-states are involved in disinfo but what do they gain from annoying bots mostly posing as sex workers?
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Trump is pretty determined to destroy US agriculture & trade with our biggest source of food, now is a very good time to stock up on tinned food.
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I'm not sure how effective targeted sanctions are, but it will be funny to see them turned on US oligarchs.
Canada needs a total ban on WWE until there is a full investigation into what happened in Montreal.