querlvox.bsky.social
A man, a plan, a canal - Panama!
(All views and opinions are my own.)
2,113 posts
228 followers
243 following
Regular Contributor
Active Commenter
comment in response to
post
Trump is talking about forced mass expulsion and you're equating that to having a book for sale.
You're ridiculous.
comment in response to
post
I'd never buy that, but I'd 100% sample it.
comment in response to
post
Those leopards, they love faces.
comment in response to
post
Hur hur hur.
comment in response to
post
Being a responsible citizen in a democracy isn't some "Jiffy or Skippy peanut butter?" performance.
comment in response to
post
It's the "customer" model of politics, and it's HORRIBLE.
Parties aren't product-producing organizations, they're coalitions of like-minded citizens. Government isn't something external to the electorate, it is the expressed will of the people.
comment in response to
post
MOST acceptable word!
comment in response to
post
I suppose we could see some positive friction out of ultra-NIMBYs shutting down ADUs, and that being a galvanizing thing for the ADU-interested homeowners. But that seems like a still fairly niche thing to end up bearing real fruit.
comment in response to
post
Yeah, but the problem is that a good portion of the middle class that has gotten into the property-owning segment have been incentivized into NIMBYism because the passive financial benefits of escalating home worth thru supply-constraint are more appealing and viable than becoming micro-developers.
comment in response to
post
It's just geography: an arbitrary location between two ideological camps whose core defining feature is just to move to whichever place defines some current middle point between them.
The only value entailed within it is "I'm not exactly either of those two!"
comment in response to
post
In short, he's jelly.
comment in response to
post
Love the defense "I have to be correct, because I'm being attacked on all sides" when Occam's Razor is just screaming "no, that just means you're so completely wrong, everyone can see it."
comment in response to
post
This kind of supply-fixing CAN work in markets, but you have to have a near monopolistic control on the supply or a de facto one thru collusion of enough supply-providers.
But no investment blocs do in ANY market.
Who does are the individual homeowners blocking dev thru zoning and other tactics.
comment in response to
post
They believe they're all irretrievably greedy, but that some curiously aren't in just the specific way that they need them to be to maintain this incoherent narrative.
It's the level of dumb analysis that Kramer used on Seinfeld: "It's a write-off, Jerry! They just write it off!"
comment in response to
post
They want it, AND they also want to be mad at Dems/Liberals about it.
It's not about reconciling their desires, it's about sating both of them.
comment in response to
post
<-The same Harris who incarcerated parents when their kids were truant from school?->
This never happened and the fact that you're still repeating it as gospel 5+ years later is a huge tell that you live in a deeply propagandized bubble. Likely, by your own hand.
comment in response to
post
Wow, you're just quick marching thru all the discredited talking points like it's a revue in double time.
You have a single original thought in ur head, or is it 100% received spam? Can you say anything that a thousand other terminally online Murc's Lawed Leftists haven't already circle-jerked to?
comment in response to
post
I’ll have a large one for you.
comment in response to
post
Dallas Market Center!
comment in response to
post
open.spotify.com/track/3e0FzZ...
comment in response to
post
comment in response to
post
open.spotify.com/track/6LfYW2...
comment in response to
post
Standard fascist rhetoric is cast the opposition simultaneously as weak and ineffectual (unmasculine, unvirile) AND as all-powerful and conspiratorially running everything.
It's a wholly incongruous worldview, but it's not about logic, it's an emotional appeal.
comment in response to
post
What I've seen of him, his entire being is engaged in offloading responsibility to people/culture/circumstances around him.
The eternal conservative reflex to talk endlessly about responsibility as a psychological cover for the avoidance of it.
comment in response to
post
Skin so thin, it's like Ozempic taking Ozempic.
comment in response to
post
They always give the game away with stuff like this: what they want is re-segregation favoring white men as a baseline, and "merit" that works out to mean "individuals they favor."
comment in response to
post
There's a whole rhetorical framework of how one characterizes Dems and Repubs that is built up in American punditry that rests on provably false assumptions, but ppl shy from challenging them because then they would have to stop relying on lazy, pre-constructed narratives and instead do actual work.
comment in response to
post
"Is it bad faith, pure mendacity, or just regular incompetence?"
"Does it matter? It's Mattytown."
comment in response to
post
Loved you on Doctor Who!
comment in response to
post
Shocked, honestly, that [checks notes] "grateful42069" had such a poor understanding of, well, everything.
comment in response to
post
Basically, they'd be destroying Medicaid and throwing some of the money back at people. It's a shell game.
comment in response to
post
Everyone better get a wheelbarrow.
comment in response to
post
When we covered the Japanese Internment in my high school US history class, one of my classmates tried to defend it. To our teacher. Who was Japanese-American and had been interred as a young woman.
That was a clarifying moment when I realized some people are always gonna lean into the wrong thing.