fixie.bsky.social
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đź“Ť Victoria BC
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That’s not really the most effective because it’ll take a long ass time and literally trillions of dollars.
The private market is just waiting to be allowed to build apartments and we’ve banned them from doing so. It’s an entirely manufactured shortage by local governments.
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Are these bollards or flex posts?
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Until like two years ago this was the near- consensus left wing position. You don’t even know what the people saying oppose actually think.
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“If 10 percent of working Americans were to use GPT-4 every week, that would require 435,235,476 liters per year—or about 353 acre-feet, or about 0.003 percent what Nebraskan farmers use.” prospect.org/environment/...
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The deputy premier went instead, the premier was on a trade mission to Asia
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What I mean is I had people accusing me of parroting Ezra Klein’s book before I’d even read it.
The association isn’t bad, but people are now acting like a ton of previously existing ideas came from it’d when it’s more of a summarizing manifesto of an existing group of ideas.
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Unlikely to see as much with so many fewer NDP MPs, which is real rough
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I’ve had people start calling being against exclusionary, segregationist zoning part of the “abundance agenda” when people have been building a movement against this for a decade. It’s weird
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Best I can tell you seem to be desperately searching for a way to claim that this wasn't an antisemitic attack. Are you doing something else, you think?
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That’s not what you’re doing. Try listening to the people you’re claiming to be fighting for when they tell you that you’re causing more harm. That’s usually accepted as best practice on the left, weird it isn’t in this one case.
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Totally, but it was a lot better than the movement as it is now. I found it really odd how all this energy instead of going into groups and supporting people who’ve been banging this drum for years went into forming new groups who’s purpose seems to be to step on rakes every day.
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I’ll try one last time;
If a Jew, who you have zero reason to believe is speaking in any kind of bad faith, is talking about antisemitism, do not randomly try and make the discussion about Israel. That is weird and antisemitic to do.
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Except you’re not, you are insisting on making any discussion of antisemitism be instead about Israel. You are the problem.
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If you try to make every discussion of bigotry against a diaspora group instead a discussion about the issues/crimes of the nation state of that group, you are doing bigotry.
I’m not going to handhold you through why and how you’re being racist if you can’t understand this simple idea.
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Yeah and people like you, doing exactly what you’re doing now, are a big part of why Israel’s crimes are being blamed on random Jews. You are very literally the problem being talked about.
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That’s really weird actually, people should be able to talk about anti-Asian racism without your zoomer ass, TikTok broken brain needing to play word association and start talking about China and Tibet or some shit.
This is a problem that you have and need to work on, not a behaviour to justify.
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There kind of used to be. The older BDS Campaign was pretty good about this.
Then when the most recent war started everybody completely ignored what they’ve been doing for decades and completely randomly started boycotting Starbucks.
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Aw shit this is a bot I’m replying to isn’t it
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You could easily have found all of this, but instead you saw a Jew talking about rising hatred and felt a burning need to distract and deflect from this; something I’m confident you’d do with no other group.
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And here’s a thread talking about how Pritzker absolutely is not being silent about Gaza, and has called out bad faith accusations of antisemitism:
bsky.app/profile/nber...
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Here’s a thread detailing a bunch of examples of rising antisemitism in America: bsky.app/profile/purp...
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Do you feel the need to ask every public figure from an ethnic minority about every detail of their diaspora’s politics, or is it just Jews that’s acceptable with?
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I think you’re being way too conciliatory. This behaviour needs to be called out as itself deeply antisemitic.
Nobody on the left would tolerate it being done with anti-Asian racism and China, or Islamophobia and Saudi Arabia. We all understand doing that as bigotry itself.
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If someone tries to talk about Islamophobia, do you insist on always trying to change the topic to the crimes committed by Saudi Arabia?
Or do you recognize that that itself would be Islamophobic and weird?
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You still don’t get it.
Pritzker didn’t bring up Israel. He’s condemned their actions. Somehow you freaks are feeling a need to distract from this issue by bringing up Israel.
Do you try and bring up China’s actions if anyone talks about anti-Asian racism, or Saudi Arabia with Islamophobia?
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Nice introspection about why you felt a need to make a post by a Hew about rising antisemitism somehow about discrimination against a different minority group. Definitely not weird and kinda antisemitic to do that.
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No it should actually be completely unnecessary, and it’s very weird and very antisemitic that you think Jews should have to preface everything they ever say about antisemitism with “I condemn Israel”.
That is insane, and you do not apply that standard to any other group
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Nah, faab’s point is that he’s one of the antisemites posting in Pritzker’s mentions that this entire thread is about.
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I don’t think you read the whole thread. This is in response to a bunch of left wing people being insanely antisemitic in response to JB Pritzker making a post about antisemitism, by somehow feeling the need to make it about Israel; a dynamic some on the left only seems to do with Jews.
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- about every single issue that the American Black community has?
Or do you just condemn that discrimination, and not try to distract from it with some other horseshit? Why is it only Jews that you do this with?
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- on the actions of conservative Muslim countries? Would you try and distract from a call to fight homophobic violence by bringing up some crime committed by a gay person that was becoming a moral panic? When cops kill a Black person in the US and someone condemns it, do you feel a need to talk -
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If someone posted about any other kind of hatred, any other kind of discrimination, would you ever have made a post like this?
If a US governor was talking about anti-Asian racism, would you tell them to condemn China to stop it? Would you proudly say that anti-Muslim racism can be just blamed -
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I think blaming the heritage foundation is a little bit of a cop out. These people have been weirdly obsessed with Israel for a long time, and I’ve seen this behaviour of bringing it up in random situations Jews are mentioned in long before recent events.
They’re just antisemites.
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Did he say anything about any of those topics here, or are you incapable of hearing someone talk about Jews and antisemitism without feeling a weird need to make it about Israel and yourself?
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No it’s actually very unreasonable and pretty damn antisemitic of you to do that.
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He didn’t say it was, he didn’t say anything about Israel, yet you feel a need to bring it up and somehow make this about yourself.
It sure seems pretty antisemitic that you’re trying to distract from the antisemitism that he’s talking about by bringing up Israel
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Yeah he did, you weird freak. Not everything is about you, and it’s kind of antisemitic seeming that you feel a need to try and distract from what he’s talking about to make it about yourself.
youtu.be/6jMdyl4qjXc?...
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You’re part of the problem.
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The governor didn’t say anything about Israel, and it’s extremely weird and kind of antisemitic seeming that you feel a need to do so.
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No it isn’t lol that’s what half of politics is about.
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Most of it is differing regulations on products and services, different licensing regimes and different safety requirements. Usually things that sound great at first and individually and over time have built to be an issue.
Most of it isn’t as explicit as with alcohol.
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I mean I also want him to overrule the city on this, but it’s a bit hard when there’s not a ton of clear public support for actions like that.
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If you dig deep enough sometimes people say it’s to pay for smuggled in goods.
Who is doing this smuggling is rarely asked
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If you’re talking about “deregulation” to mean both less financial oversight of banks and ending exclusionary zoning schemes that banned apartments for a century than I can’t really take you seriously.
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- about a thing before parroting someone else’s criticisms.
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If you’re going to have this many really strong opinions about a book and an idea, and read and listen to as much as you can, you’d probably be a lot better served by just reading the thing before prejudicing yourself against it. It’s a lot more intellectually healthy to have your own opinion -
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Did you read the book?
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The biggest obstacle to this changing isn’t corporate greed or individual landlords; it’s that wealthy homeowners vote for politicians who make zoning laws that keep it illegal to build apartments. It is a class war, but the lines are different than many leftists traditionally think of them being