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Urban/environmental policy guy, YIMBY, sci-fi/fantasy writer, liberal. 🏳️‍🌈. Californian in the DC area. All posts represent my views, not those of my employer. where are they painted that were drowned after their vows?
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It’s time to get tough on car crime. Operating a vehicle that can kill someone is a privilege, not a right. People who abuse that privilege should lose it, and I’m sorry, but the economic necessity of having a car in most of this country is no excuse.

submitted 19 hours ago • 0 comments

The language of “national purpose” really creeps me out, and I think it’s important to state that no, “our culture” hasn’t “fallen into shallow consumerism”. What looks like consumerism may be deeply meaningful to the person doing the consuming, and you don’t get to decide that for someone else.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

when I first heard the phrase “dark enlightenment” before it was explained to me my first guess for what it meant was “a fantasy universe about an 18th-century movement to bring scientific rationality to magic and the occult” and I really wish it were actually that instead of what it is

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

We don’t need to debate the morality of letting people suffer so they associate fascism with suffering, when the proposal at hand is just bad policy. There is no next-best policy to repealing the tariffs; the tariffs are stupid, harmful and unpopular and the correct counterproposal is “none of this”

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

if you are a leftist who has used the “we don’t need new apartments because there are seven phlebtillion apartments just out of frame, being kept vacant by mustache-twirling speculators” argument, you should be aware who your fellow-travelers are on this!

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

they won’t let you change gender, but they will deny you your birth gender if they want. they demand you have kids, but not too many. you must have sex, but not *want* sex, but not identify as asexual, that’s made up. the only thing that ties it all together is they oppose your freedom to choose!

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

jon bon jovi in “living on a prayer” had a better class analysis than 90% of people who call for a politics centered on the working class, because bon jovi at least attempted to describe a working class that isn’t entirely male

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

a guy named Bloomberg leveraging his last name to generate news-shaped utterances that people treat as information is a) a sign of a deeply degraded news environment and b) tempting me to see if I can try to post my way into shaping editorial policy for the New York Times (no relation)

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

one possible silver lining of all of this is we stand a chance of putting an end to golf once and for all. its cultural cachet has been in decline for a while but this could be the era that finally puts it to bed

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

pov: you were cursed to have made two posts about “abundance” that succinctly summarize your thinking and repost one of them every time more Discourse erupts about it

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

the onion’s stock photo for the concept of poverty is basically just Somerville, MA for some reason

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

I hope this causes a backlash among left of center folks to understanding the importance of free trade not only as an economic policy but as a civil rights and freedom issue. Increasing barriers to trade is an assault on our autonomy. It’s an assault on their autonomy.

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

it’s been very frustrating to watch the politicians who are supposed to represent me abandon both economics and political efficacy because they’re embarrassed that people like me are the ones they represent!

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

I feel like I should follow more leftists and liberals from other countries so I can see the equivalent posts that are like “dammit, [politician hailed internationally as a hero of the left], is there any political maneuver you won’t bungle, you useless sellout”

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

Would you believe me if I told you the epicenter of state-level reform to land use and zoning law this year is… Utah?! No? Well, you shouldn’t, because it’s not. I wrote a summary of what Utah did do and how the “Montana Miracle” doesn’t seem to be spreading to other red Western states:

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

I wrote up something that brings together the most important resources about legalizing single-stair midrise buildings, and talks through the case for them:

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments