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Tommy

@algorerhythm_

Unhealthily obsessed with US politics, which basically means I just swear a fucking lot. Social democrat, music nerd. (he/him)

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Scru🇳🇬@scrufacejean·
He ain’t wanna kick puff while he was down… Meanwhile: Puff when Cassie was down Smh. WHY are there still men who defend this nigga? Like WHAT? This nigga even damn near tryna makin DIDDY sound like the victim. This is EXACTLY my problem with this nigga Cole sometimes man. STAND FOR/ON SOMETHING! Even if its uncomfortable or might hurt a relationship. This Larusell levels of misreading the room.
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J Cole says he can’t tell the story of the fight with Diddy because he dnt wanna kick him while he down “I was gone put it out because me & Puff was cool we was in a good spot but when everything happened I’m like nah” “I don’t wanna give the world more ammo”

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Tommy@algorerhythm_·
@urbanjerry2 I'm primarily talking about California. (But as I understand it, most of NYC's density is also old.)
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@urbanjerry2 It's that, but it's also because of excessive single family home zoning.
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UrbanBeachBum@urbanjerry2·
@algorerhythm_ Because NONE of the States on this list have ridiculous rent regulation laws.
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@jerryc15theman LA and SF are not that densely populated. They barely look like metros, just endless seas of single family home suburbia. There absolutely is a refusal to allow dense housing.
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Jerry c@jerryc15theman·
@algorerhythm_ I don’t think it’s a refusal to build. Those places are so densely populated that housing costs are higher. When Covid happened and people had options to work from home, many naturally left the very expensive states and I don’t blame them
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@jerryc15theman But blue states are doing a lot wrong with housing. California and New York are growing much slower than Texas and Florida, for example. Democrats will lose a bunch of electoral college votes just between those four states because of their high housing costs and refusal to build.
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Jerry c@jerryc15theman·
@algorerhythm_ You were framing this as a good thing as if the blue states did something wrong and red states did something right. In reality this was about real estate developers doing what they always do which is rushing in and creating an oversupply and falling for narratives
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@jerryc15theman Ok but still, rents decreased in large part because of an increase in housing supply. Which is something that NIMBYs and degrowthers on the left pretend doesn't happen because "developers are greedy" or whatever.
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Jerry c@jerryc15theman·
@algorerhythm_ I’m not saying they haven’t grown still. The problem was that they had massive booms during Covid and developers assumed that would continue. They then overdeveloped all of the cities and population growth stabilized
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@jerryc15theman Can you point to a single city on this list that has had a decrease in population over the last 2-3 years? I compared 2020 census numbers to the most recent census estimates I could find, and every city grew at least a little.
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Jerry c@jerryc15theman·
@algorerhythm_ lol. These were all the supposed untouchable high flying cities everyone was moving to. It didn’t quite last enough to keep up with all the new supply that went under construction there
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@joedinardo Yes, my point is that the NIMBYism and degrowth stuff is much more popular among blue state Democrats than among red/purple state Democrats, to the detriment of blue states and Democrats as a whole.
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Joe DiNardo@joedinardo·
@algorerhythm_ Local politics play a much bigger role than state politics. I count plenty of blue cities on that list.
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Tommy@algorerhythm_·
@spkanilo Then how do you explain the fact that all 15 cities on that list have had an increase in population since 2020, some by 10% or more? Most of these places are simply building a lot of new housing. More supply = developers/landlords have to lower their prices to compete.
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Sergiy Kanilo@spkanilo·
@algorerhythm_ rent dropping means that the people there either don't have money or don't want live there
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Tommy@algorerhythm_·
@SoCalCMH I'm counting the anti-capitalism and degrowth stuff as part of the NIMBY mindset x.com/algorerhythm_/…
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@Battledadd By "on the left" I just meant Democrats. NIMBYism, degrowth nonsense and other ideologies that are hostile to the basic truth of "increasing housing supply where there is demand helps to lower rents" are widespread among Democrats, particularly in blue states like CA.

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Tommy@algorerhythm_·
@Battledadd By "on the left" I just meant Democrats. NIMBYism, degrowth nonsense and other ideologies that are hostile to the basic truth of "increasing housing supply where there is demand helps to lower rents" are widespread among Democrats, particularly in blue states like CA.
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@BronxLaugher I know, but I'm contrasting blue cities (which is most cities) in red and purple states to cities in blue states like New York and the worst offender California, where Democrats can't seem to get their shit together when it comes to housing x.com/algorerhythm_/…
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@weare_theleft No, but local Democrats in purple red states are much better on housing than local and state Democrats in blue states. I don't know why but it's quite obviously the case to me.

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Tommy@algorerhythm_·
@CavDante28 @joecacola Prioritizing undocumented immigrants over American citizens would be a stupid thing for politicians to do because the former can't even vote, so this is not a thing that's actually happening. You're just a racist crank.
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D@CavDante28·
@joecacola @algorerhythm_ as a (deep-)blue stater (NJ), blue states suck ass. putting the wellness of foreign illegal aliens over American citizens is just one reason as to why.
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@NotADebacle Yes, places like California where they don't build enough.
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@weare_theleft No, but local Democrats in purple red states are much better on housing than local and state Democrats in blue states. I don't know why but it's quite obviously the case to me.
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We Are The Left@weare_theleft·
@algorerhythm_ Austin is super blue, but it's just the state that matters in local building choice?
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@stitchnstab yeah that's part of the NIMBYism I'm complaining about
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policy poo@stitchnstab·
@algorerhythm_ Is it? Dems overwhelmingly support excessive environmental regulations and zoning
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@xcollinm Not quickly enough though.
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Collin@xcollinm·
@algorerhythm_ Silver lining: a bunch of purple states getting bluer.
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Tommy@algorerhythm_·
@NotADebacle I checked, all of these cities have continued to grow since 2020. Some by 10% or more. If they are "shitholes nobody wants to live in", why are they growing?
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Monoculture Debatteur@NotADebacle·
@algorerhythm_ These are all shitholes nobody wants to live in, hence the red states. We still need to allow more housing but you may be drawing the wrong conclusion from this data
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Bill Bartley@RatAlt64·
@algorerhythm_ NIMBYism isn't really the fundamental problem. The problem is that too many liberals and progressives reject economics, which is to the benefit of NIMBYs, unions, etc.
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Tommy@algorerhythm_·
@jaketropolis That's the single blue state I alluded to in my tweet.
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Jaketropolis@jaketropolis·
@algorerhythm_ Colorado is a blue state, but you're right that the underrepresentation is embarassing.
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