@GaryHargis @AlecStapp For 10x the price that China can build it?
Why? So long as we never go to war, something trade is meant to prevent, we don't need to.
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UrbanAbundance
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6061-T6 is:
"6061 aluminum is used extensively as a construction material, most commonly in the manufacture of automotive components. The 6061 alloy is well-suited to the construction of yachts, motorcycles, bicycle frames, scuba tanks, camera lenses, fishing reels, electrical fittings, couplings and valves."
Shouldn't the US be able to make this domestically? Should the US depend on other countries to make this product?
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@jamandabop This was the consensus position for decades when describing any disparity that shows men outperforming women.
If it's ridiculous when describing anti-male structural disadvantage, do you also think it's ridiculous when describing similar past anti-female disadvantages?
Jamandabop⏹️🇺🇦🇵🇸🇹🇼@jamandabop
"Every system that advantages men just reflects their innate superiority, and anything that advantages women is a sexist cabal against men." lol
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@jamandabop Title IX and other programs intended to increase the proportion of women in education were created in response to women being a far smaller percentage of college students than men are today.
Do you not see any issue with education being dominated by women K-12-Uni?
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What you are asking for is called affirmative action.
eigenrobot@eigenrobot
yeah its actually sexist that we dont have a rotation section on the SAT i think selection on GPA rather than pure SAT is also pretty sexist results predictable
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@shinboson @LittleKeegs0 "No no, while I do vote for the kill-all-people-with-AIDS party, I vote for them because they also lower my tax rate. No I am not open to persuasion; I vote my personal best interest."
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@rpphotovideo @PhilSustainable That happened. Remember the SoHo upzoning?
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The "NYC housing crisis isn't caused by lack of supply" crowd is the economic equivalent of flat-earthers. NYC added 800k people since 2000 but just 200k housing units. Even an 8-year-old understands this math doesn't work.
sam@sam_d_1995
incredible video of gentrifiers complaining about gentrification
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@CoreyWriting @steamyporkbuns The Austin example is a little dicey because it’s mainly the result of local developers over-estimating demand during the COVID / WFH era.
Then all those properties came online after RTO slowed that or made some move back.
Less a function of a prescriptive policy..
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Rent has literally fallen by 20% in Austin, one of the most desired cities in America. How can you even argue about this?
richard@richard_normal
democrats need to stop trying to appeal to the radical left. they need common sense policies that appeal to everyone, like letting market forces build more housing which will hopefully cause a 1% decrease in rent over five years. thats a much more inspiring message.
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@ForagingForever @TomIsInTexas @Mike_Godek01 @thehonestlypod @ezraklein “If we don’t stack ourselves on top of each other like China, then China wins!”
Live however you like, but don't force me and everyone else to live your lifestyle and pay most of our income for the privilege.
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@BobsU22448 @TomIsInTexas @Mike_Godek01 @thehonestlypod @ezraklein “If we don’t stack ourselves on top of each other like China, then China wins!”
There’s plenty of housing in small towns across the US, but none of you have the imagination or guts to make a life in those places.
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“You are not the party of working families if the places you govern are not places working families can afford to live.
If you have the lawn sign that ‘kindness is everything’ and ‘no human being is illegal’ in front of a house in an area zoned for single families, then no, you do not actually believe any of that. You just like the lawn sign.
Your politics are symbolic but not operational.”
@EzraKlein on the liberal hypocrisy that so often surrounds the affordable housing crisis in progressive cities—and how to fix it.
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@ForagingForever @TomIsInTexas @Mike_Godek01 @thehonestlypod @ezraklein The small Texas town I grew up in, population 1,100, now has double-wides going for $200k. Actual built-in-place houses? $350k.
This is in spite of having half the jobs:people ratio of the US.
There is not plenty of housing, anywhere.
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@sam_d_1995 Anyone who says we don't need to spend millions of dollars and spend several months to gather community input to determine whether we should do (unambiguously good policy) is clearly a (racist/classist/bigot) and hates (protected group).
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I simply want the government to do good things like build more housing, transit, and clean energy
too many in my party focus more on process than outcomes, and I think “abundance” is simply a helpful framework to shift the focus back to “how can we actually get stuff done”
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@SmithPert @StatisticUrban "Abundance" in most cases means preventing governments from interfering with the free market producing enough goods for everyone.
We don't have a shortage of housing because developers don't know how to build enough housing.
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This idea turned China into the world's economic powerhouse btw
Max Dubler 🏳️🌈@maxdubler
RE: Abundance Discourse Some regulations are bad and should be reformed. Markets sometimes serve poor and working people's interests. We should judge policies by their outcomes, not their proponents' stated intentions. Good things are good. Bad things are bad.
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@ForagingForever @TomIsInTexas @Mike_Godek01 @thehonestlypod @ezraklein Sounds like you support the US Birth rate continuing to collapse, and the youth continuing to pay exorbitant rents just to support your weird aesthetic concerns.
People like you are the reason why China is beating us.
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@TomIsInTexas @Mike_Godek01 @thehonestlypod @ezraklein A town should have the right to determine and maintain its own character, aesthetics, and values.
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@PolicyMulti @sbwnhtx @ArmandDoma Sounds like every city should build a million so they can profit off of this.
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@sbwnhtx @ArmandDoma It attracts more and more wealthy landlords and rich people from overseas. Banks lend more and more and drive up prices faster than inflation. Hey, have you seen the way the world really works? or are you going to draw me supply-demand charts?
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this whole “uh your abundance ideas are so obvious man, there must be a secret agenda” from people who have never so much as attended a single fucking hearing where 500 rich homeowners show up to scream that building a duplex would destroy their lives is so fucking irritating
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@WCreekerE @StatisticUrban Incremental changes reduce opposition. People fight new buildings in their neighborhood or such a strong drop in property prices that they lose equity in their homes.
Stopping the bleeding isn't perfect, but it's better than nothing.
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@StatisticUrban Is this really that great a change? Seems like it allows small lot development sprawl but doesn't do anything for infill in existing 'hoods. Also you form an HOA and you get an out. How do they define a 'new neighborhood?' Just empty patches of dirt?
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UrbanAbundance retweetledi
Republicans want their states to grow.
The same cannot be said for many Democrats. This must change.
Office of the Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick@LtGovTX
My Statement on the Bipartisan Passage of Senate Bill 15 – Removing Barriers to Affordable Housing: ow.ly/LYlw50Vl95y #txlege
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@willmduff @StatisticUrban Republicans simply have better political instincts and recognize that this achieves many of their goals:
Reduce property taxes
Increase population => more electoral votes
Meanwhile democrats waste time trying and failing to please everyone.
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@LanceCashion @LtGovTX Lowering housing prices also lowers your property taxes.
You need local tax revenue to pay for policemen dude.
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@LtGovTX Now end state property rental, I mean property taxes.
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My Statement on the Bipartisan Passage of Senate Bill 15 – Removing Barriers to Affordable Housing:
ow.ly/LYlw50Vl95y
#txlege
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@leftcoastist @EmmaVigeland @texasrunnerDFW That took me a while to parse too.
"They're not wrong on housing"
"They're not!"
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@EmmaVigeland @texasrunnerDFW she was agreeing with you. chew a gummy FFS
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Wow. No wonder so many Zoomers have slipped into irony, post-truth, and nihilism. Dark times.
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@FrankBraconi @AlexanderMcCoy4 Families don't need a detached house, and given the current rates of building, it's not too much of an exaggeration to say that New York doesn't allow developers to build upward (or at all).
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@BobsU22448 @AlexanderMcCoy4 It's a bit of an overstatement to say that NYC doesn't allow developers to build upward. Whether more liberalized zoning would produce enough multi-family housing to affect single-family home prices in the boroughs is an open question; I don't think it would have much effect.
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@OnKnockers @AlexanderMcCoy4 So you agree that building more would fix the problem, as it did in literally every city that built a lot of housing?
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@BobsU22448 @AlexanderMcCoy4 Who said "infinite"? Oh, that was you.
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