still thinking about the NIMBY in the $450 balenciaga cap complaining about luxury apartments - ThreadSky

moskov.goodventures.org•12 days ago

it’s precisely because of $450 hats like this that some people have to go without any hat at all

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sysfin.bsky.social•12 days ago

I would believe that he is wearing a knock off but that makes it a wierder choice.

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tiredgenerally.bsky.social•12 days ago

while i wish yimby’s a totalizing political victory, i also hope it doesn’t discourage nimby’s from producing content

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boomies-n-zoomies.bsky.social•12 days ago

North face jackets, famously a working class, non-luxury brand too.

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vaguepariah.bsky.social•12 days ago

Crazy that the jacket is less expensive than the hat.

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roosefella.bsky.social•12 days ago

bet there are some from the exact same factory for $25 on canal

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voteless.bsky.social•12 days ago

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spencerheckwolf.bsky.social•12 days ago

Gotta by a psyop!

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daddyweasel.bsky.social•12 days ago

anyone who buys a $450 hat that only has text on it should actually be deported

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cnbecker14.bsky.social•12 days ago

But you can see that the hat has seen better days so clearly $450 for a new one is too expensive for this man. Which basically means the only explanation is he is a man of the people.

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cnbecker14.bsky.social•12 days ago

(Ignore that the jacket he is wearing also costs $400)

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tstaub.bsky.social•12 days ago

I don't think I've worn a collective outfit worth $1000 outside of a major event involving a suit.

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kathleenweldon.bsky.social•12 days ago

I don't think I wore a collective outfit worth $1000 even when I got married.

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kwokying.bsky.social•12 days ago

280 now, not red though

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brooklynxman.bsky.social•11 days ago

All I can think of whenever balenciaga is brought up (and all that should be thought of, that is a regular ass baseball cap w/ the word balenciaga on it for $450 American)

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brooklynxman.bsky.social•11 days ago

Hat better give me oomox to cost that much. Damn ass Ferengi pricing.

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kernunno.bsky.social•12 days ago

Country is in the middle of a fascist coup and the yimbies are still going on about their white, pro-capitalist bullshit.

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natalie.is-extremely.gay•12 days ago

The astroturfing job pays well excluding the cost of your soul

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botsnack.bsky.social•12 days ago

So yoinkable

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thedrummer.bsky.social•11 days ago

You can probably get the coat and hat somewhere on or near Canal Street for under $25.

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sensitivepapi.bsky.social•12 days ago

What if he bought it off the sidewalk for $20

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baro.bsky.social•12 days ago

Rarely do I see people with anti-yimby gentrification as their main personality being poorer long time residents of an area. It's always the actual gentrifiers who moved in like 2-5 years ago.

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natalie.is-extremely.gay•12 days ago

It’s like internal rejection that they may have played a role in broader social trends

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tstaub.bsky.social•12 days ago

You joke but https://bsky.app/profile/3underscores.bsky.social/post/3lkvu7rrh4c2l

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megaweapon5.bsky.social•11 days ago

The story of the last 25 years of Williamsburg

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maxtropolitan.bsky.social•12 days ago

Actually the gentrifiers began arriving three weeks after I signed my lease.

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mikal-el.com•12 days ago

He got it off canal street

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about-tacoma.bsky.social•12 days ago

It’s a fun snarky point, but that hat is such an obvious knockoff it’s sad.

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pushtheneedle.bsky.social•11 days ago

And a $300 coat

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ishfery.bsky.social•11 days ago

A good coat is worth what it costs. There's no baseball cap worth more than like $40

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chickenfilet.bsky.social•12 days ago

Mets caps are like $20 but they couldn't be bothered to even pretend

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jspell-art.bsky.social•12 days ago

It's artisanally distressed and he found it at a thrift store for $150!

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goosname.bsky.social•12 days ago

you know anybody complaining about “luxury” apartments hasn’t had to shop for an apartment in the last 20 years, or they’d know it’s just a marketing buzzword for “not uninhabitable”

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davidwoolf.me•12 days ago

Luxury in cost only

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kernunno.bsky.social•12 days ago

You are not a socialist, yimby. You aren't fighting for housing.

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anhkhoido.bsky.social•12 days ago

"But, but, but tenements built in NYC before the 1910s are livable!!!! What are you complaining about!?!" 🤣

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ryanwithcupcake.bsky.social•11 days ago

I wonder if New York City's notoriously ridiculous high price/poorly renovated apartments has poisoned their brains into thinking that having a non-horrible design is a luxury.

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