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Granger retired in 2024.
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enbies stay winning
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You cannot honestly claim that things would be just as bad under Harris. Be for real here.
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That doesn't mean having a coherent policy agenda is meaningless!
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I supported this by saying it was bad? Interesting definition of "support".
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Yes, I'm personally responsible for the current US political situation, even though they are implementing none of my preferred policies. You got me.
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Where does it promise that, and what part of it works against my class interests?
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Abundance isn't "we should give huge subsidies to billionaires"; I'm not sure where you even got the idea.
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What "exact strategy" are you talking about? Abundance is not the status quo, and hasn't been implemented as policy. Certainly wasn't policy a decade or two ago!
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What in the world are you talking about?
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No? That just... isn't what Abundance is.
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I feel like you don't quite understand what a policy agenda is.
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No? Have you actually listened to any of what Klein has said lately? He does not think this at all.
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The point you are making is in 100% agreement with what Ezra Klein has said.
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They do have an idea of it. Actually quite a good idea, if you actually listen to or read what they have to say!
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This is moronic. Shor talking to Silicon Valley is not some big "gotcha" (and your attacks on Abundance are similarly dumb).
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sorta wild that molasses could move at >30mph. like have you ever tried to pour it? that stuff does not move quickly.
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obviously
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mmmm wingstop
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no, I don't think this random anthro grad student is going to impose some kind of pol pot back to land regime at gunpoint. but that's kind of my point, "oh it's harmless" for a couple decades and then whoops, millions believe it and an essential oils guy is shitcanning biomedical research
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how is this guy actually our president
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i would've just ran this for you on my 4080 if you asked :P
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Okay but if these people existed within the modern context they'd obviously be on the liberal team.
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this is just called "enjoying arguing with people online"
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How would building sprawl or nothing be better???
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so true tho
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He also invented git.
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If all of NY looked like Manhattan, it wouldn't all be as expensive.
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This isn't an inherent fact of tall buildings, though. Single-family homes cost more per unit than large buildings. The problem is just that we don't build enough large buildings, so the only ones that *do* exist cost more because of higher demand.
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The problem is that when there's a massive shortage of housing, and particularly housing in dense, urban areas, then there will be some adjustment pain in getting from here to there. But letting that shortage get worse and worse isn't the solution.
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This just isn't true, though. Urbanism is all about making things better for the poor and middle class.
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I don't know exactly where you live/commute, so I can't comment on the specifics there. But in general the idea is to make it so driving isn't the *most* efficient way. Part of that is by making driving less desirable, and part of that is by making transit better.
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The "gentrification" here indicates a success -- the rail massively improved how desirable the place was to live. We need to be building far more places like that, and the costs would come down.
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TOD makes a place more desirable (because obviously; a walkable neighborhood with more nice things is more desirable). Obviously the solution is not to make places *less* desirable. It's to correct the massive undersupply of such desirable areas.
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The only reason they're "luxury" is that there's insufficient supply. The solution is to build more, not less.
(And these don't "push people out" -- we're talking about building on land like parking lots!)
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"The problem with building housing where people want to live is that people want to live there a lot." isn't a good reason to replace that housing with parking lots. It's a good reason to build more places people want to live (i.e. *more* transit oriented development)!
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I mean, it's money that he paid her on the condition of not talking. He didn't *have* to pay her the money or anything.
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Curious, could you do Plano? Have had some trouble finding details on the candidates.
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Make one! They are free and easy to create.
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I'm not a conservative. It was the conservatives attacking him on this originally! Just because leftists have decided to repeat it as it has become politically convenient for them does not make it any more true!
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The latter.
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No he didn't! This is a Republican lie that people on the left have decided to parrot because it's politically convenient.
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I mean more for districts that aren't close on the presidential level. Like MS-gov in 23 for example.