thatgarthguy.bsky.social
The same one you know from that other (formerly) Blue app
"Why not be bolder if the political price is likely to be the same?"
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I mean, defecit number goes up
And numbers going up is ALWAYS good
Therefore it's improving the defecit
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Ah, sí
Bollocks
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No tengo un gato
Puedo spoil el todo del juego sin problema! 😉
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Well, we're actually going to have 25% tariffs on steel and aluminium
Despite Starmer and co. parading around that they managed to get 0% tariffs on steel and aluminium in the US trade deal
Masterful move, once again
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It already happened once before (about a week ago, YouGov poll)
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Maybe Trump was truly cooking all along and the manufacturers could really move all their factories to Ohio in 3 months
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banger flag
I'd use it, only way I'd improve it is by quadding the Ace section to be ace/aro, like the bi/pan quad in the top right of that shield
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Cutting medical research to fund more tax cuts for the rich is the sort of thing that historians used to use terms like "decadence" and "moral degeneracy" for. We do genuinely have profligate and immoral elites that are ruining the country for their own sake.
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Ah, the guiri hat
A white version of it, but the guiri hat nonetheless
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Blue Labour are honestly some of the dumbest people I've met, it's Glasman's views being applied when it doesn't necessarily apply, and MPs saying stuff like "DEIs the issue!" And "I don't care if universities collapse"
And this is coming from someone who once subscribed to that ideology
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The racecourse isn't even in the seat!!
I'd understand if it was in the seat, but it's not, so this just makes it worse
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And on top of this, all this does is make Reform less and less toxic for the average voter
"Well, Farage can't be THAT bad! Labour are saying and doing the same things he wants! And they're progressive, right?"
So Farage gets less toxic, and more go to him as Labour aren't actually fixing problems
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Nuts nuts
If she was being performatively nuts, she'd be more like Farage
This feels even more extreme then him
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Yes, and the results are going to be same as that one
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Honestly I prefer the look it got due to that redesign
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The toll is quite pricey (£10) but it's convenient for some people as it means you can basically barrel down through the whole Motorway without stopping
While the M6 around Birmingham is choc-a-bloc for most of the day
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M6/M6 Toll road
M6 is basically like the 401 for Birmingham, it's near to the city centre and runs through the inner suburbs of the city
M6 Toll was a road built by a private company (like the 407 IIRC) and goes around the outer suburbs of the city, and unsurprisingly is usually VERY empty
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Yea, honestly it's odd that both the UK and Canada have done the same mistake
Create a bypass road to the main road, and then toll said bypass, it's insanity!
Toll the road closer to the city, and have the other one be free, as there will now be different incentives for each (cheaper or shorter)
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Like yea, biking in the winter isn't as fun as in the summer (at least in Quebec and such), but it's still certainly possible! Especially if there's infrastructure for it.
Trying to stop any improvement for infrastructure because of "usability for half the year" would open up a HUGE can of worms
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I'd love to see this logic applied elsewhere, and see how these people react
You can only really "use" Montreal's parks for half the year, should we get rid of all the parks?
Likewise schools are only used for half the year (albeit not in one big block) should we get rid of them as well?
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Well, I have been to the US before, but it was when I was 10, and it was Central Florida (so I didn't exactly interact with a lot of people/had the opportunity to learn a lot of differences)
I do want to go back some day, but not for a while tbf.
Hope you visit the UK soon! Though we're just aight
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By Autumn (Fall) it's not too surprising if the Madrid Metro floods due to the amount of rainfall they then get
At least in that time period, more trees could absorb some of that water before it seeps into the tunnels
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True, but it's planted A LOT of trees in rural places (like, if you look at the Sistema Central near Madrid, it's basically just a forest), so I think a lot of cities could still have a decent number of trees
Spain is dry, but not Sahara or Atacama dry, the cities can certainly have more trees!
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Ah, I see
Yea here, it's very much split, if you said "Movie Theatre" people would know you're talking about the Cinema, but if you just say "Theatre" they'd think Theatre
Interesting to know! If I go to the US, it's nice to know that (since I do quite like musicals and such lol)
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We do, they're quite common here, although sometimes they're removed for another lane or more parking
For me, I've been to Spain quite often, and one thing that always stuck out to me is that the cities have a surprisingly few number of trees along roads, even in more "open" areas
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no
Cinemas are called "movie theatres" in American English
But here, if you said "I'm going to the theatre" we'd think you're going to watch a play or musical, rather than a film
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Yea, honestly if I was in charge of building cities, I'd add trees on the roads and dedicate 1 of every 9 blocks for a park as a minimum
Like, density doesn't necessarily mean you can't have greenspaces, they can work together
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Tbf, you can also build stuff that people need outside of the city centre!
Like, you might not be able to build theatres, but shops, restaurants, cafes, hell even cinemas can be built in new builds!
I find it wild that a lot of services just...don't exist in a lot of urban expansions
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Yea, like at most, houses should have "built in" wardrobes, where there's a dip in the wall that is built as the wardrobe
if you can walk in it, it's too big
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True, although I was thinking moreso Fujimori and PRI Mexican politics
I could see a Peron-like figure appear out of nowhere and maybe do decently, like Teddy Roosevelt did when he ran separately, but they might not win
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Like pre-Cold War (well, pre-Bull Moose) US democracy was basically elites fighting elites and using regular voters as pawns to win
And I think eventually the US would go back to that (kinda is rn), but would've gone back faster if it didn't need to set an example for others like they did in our TL
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Honestly I think it would've been worse for American democracy
Like, America seems to be like an odd mix of European and Latin American Politics, and if it wasn't as connected to Europe, I could see the Latin American aspects (populism, instability, self-coups etc) being much stronger
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Honestly yea
Close to 1/4 of our land (iirc) is protected currently in some way aside from being greenbelt
That land could've easily been labelled as such and people wouldn't bat an eye
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I mean, they are, but rents are dropping, or at least dropping relative to wages and/or inflation
Like yea, housing cost is expensive, and it's not going to be fixed overnight, but by allowing more construction, you can push them in the right direction
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And once again, no one in this thread is advocating for the abolition of rent controls, we've just pointed out that freezing the rents for rent control apartments is not a solution, and can only contribute to the problem
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The reality is that already happens on the private market, and liberalising zoning can help avoid that because the rich people wanting an apartment would go live in the new builds, and the existing homes would be available to lower income individuals
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Oh don't worry, there's already a lot of working class and elderly people who ARE being kicked out on the street
It's just that they don't have the privileged, or hadn't lived in New York long enough to get access to a rent controlled apartment
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...extremely expensive to replace the private market on that model (it can compliment the private market and provide a broader bottom base for the sandwich class) but it can't practically replace the private industry in that model
You can only replicate the soviets if you completely rebuild areas
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Because if you significantly liberalise zoning and allow for like 20+ storey highrises in any New York community, the occasional lot that DOES go up for sale can be rebuilt to meet that new standard
The thing is the government CAN do the same, build one plot at a time, but it would be...
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...have to do at a higher extent currently, including low/middle income earners in the city that have to rent the private market, as there's no mobility in the rent control market
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Except they wouldn't be able to hike rents that much, since the private rental market supply would've basically doubled in size
Most units would see a slight increase, but likely enough for the VAST VAST majority of households to eat the cost
Like what households in the private market...
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I mean, they're mostly great as they were built near to the central city, which can't work for New York
Unless you want to do a Robert Moses, rip up and entire community and build a new one in its place, that model won't work for New York
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Also, being realistic, if rent control was abolished tomorrow (which btw no one advocated for in this thread btw) the people currently in rent controlled homes wouldn't suddenly have their leases cut and go homeless tomorrow
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...and then building on vacant land...oh wait....demolishing historical neighbourhoods to rebuild them at a significantly higher density (to partly cover the cost of rebuilding it) to increase housing supply
Which would NOT be popular with a lot of the "anti-gentrification" lot