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@combat1921
Bike Fascist. Software dev. Rabbit enthusiast. Vengeful suburbia escapee. Read The House in Fata Morgana
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They forgot what greed is again
Polymarket@Polymarket
BREAKING: Egg prices crash 97% from March 2025 all-time high, now at a 10-year low.
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@GrabbeJaco9153 @Grand_Ole_Evan direct.mit.edu/rest/article-a…
Market rate housing decreases surrounding housing costs, even after amenities.
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@combat1921 @Grand_Ole_Evan This luxury housing has two effects. 1 there is an immediate increase in the surrounding housing cost that can be temporary. 2 There is now increased desirability in that area which will up the cost of housing over time. Filtering only works ifthe older homes remain affordable.
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If I can’t afford somewhere, I don’t live there.
“Affordable housing” programs force productive people to pay for others to live places they can’t afford.
Living in highly desirable real estate isn’t a human right.
Everything Georgia@GAFollowers
Some Atlanta residents near the Beltline are paying less than $100 a month for housing. This is part of the city’s effort to provide more affordable, income-based homes along the corridor.
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@DCTalks1009 @xwanyex I would agree with that, but it's temporary.
And yea, it'd only be people who don't think either is deadly who would find anything mentioned here to be compelling.
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@combat1921 @xwanyex You’ll notice I didn’t use the 35 immigrants comparison. I just pointed out that decreasing immigration in drastic ways, if anything, increases the conversation.
Right. The people who got us into the stalemate and who are now unwilling to break it, because Chinese food is deadly
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Yes! Why do you think things are so bad?! We’re in a cultural stalemate, but somebody has to win, and in many cases there’s no “right” answer, only what people desire, on which we can’t agree.
NoErrinwright@NoErrinwright
@xwanyex But if this form of argument is legitimate, surely its legitimate for liberals to claim an experiential dislike of seeing cultural conservatism in their communities, and therefore legitimate for them to try to purge it?
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@GrabbeJaco9153 @Grand_Ole_Evan This..doesn't even contradict what I said. "Luxury" housing being built makes surrounding housing cheaper. Filtering is a real thing.
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@combat1921 @Grand_Ole_Evan Yet they are only building luxury housing and luxury rentals. Go figure.
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@DCTalks1009 @xwanyex No but I really wouldn't call this time period with a bunch of quick change "all else equal"
Crazies, Reagan, a lot of people who fit into the overton window and a lot who don't.
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@combat1921 @xwanyex Well our immigration rates have plummeted, self deportation rates are high, legal immigration is lower, our population shrunk for the first time ever. Has the amount of time we spend talking about immigration decreased?
But since you didn’t dispute the crazies got us here… well
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@DCTalks1009 @xwanyex Do you think a country that has 35 immigrants will ,all else equal, spend as much time arguing about immigration as a country with 35 million immigrants?
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@combat1921 @xwanyex Not really, because a normal person can see both sides continually escalating, if they’re indeed normal.
They do: they keep reacting very poorly to both sides of politics when one side takes power and makes extreme moves on immigration, because the views of normies are normal.
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@GrabbeJaco9153 @Grand_Ole_Evan All new housing makes surrounding housing cheaper. There is a finite number of elites that want to live anywhere. New housing will always come at a premium and takes demand off of older housing.
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@combat1921 @Grand_Ole_Evan It’s not just a lack of housing. It is the property tax hikes combined with a lack of affordable housing. Even if they built enough housing, the average American would not be able to afford to live there.
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@GrabbeJaco9153 @Grand_Ole_Evan You seem incapable of understanding that I understand your argument and just do not agree with it.
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@combat1921 @Grand_Ole_Evan Your bloviation is quite numerous at this point. You put two and two together that the city government wants tax hikes in order to increase amenities. What you cannot put together is that one of the results of this tax hike will be the removal the working class because ofpricing
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@DCTalks1009 @xwanyex If you insist. So do you agree that "which side would result in fewer of these dumb arguments" is a reasonable thing for a normal person to consider for these sorts of issues?
Normal people have views on immigration
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@combat1921 @xwanyex Probably because you misread the original posts.
It's people who are not normal, is my obvious implication. Normal people didn't get us here.
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@GrabbeJaco9153 @Grand_Ole_Evan Also, there are only so many elites, why are they all flocking to your town?
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@GrabbeJaco9153 @Grand_Ole_Evan I can agree at least in principle that your town is wastefully spending money. I do not buy for a second that working class people would be struggling to live in a place that was rural 10 years ago if America didn't make building housing such a massive pain in the ass though.
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@GrabbeJaco9153 @Grand_Ole_Evan "Everyone is acting in their self interest" is a base line assumption. Telling me that developers/real estate investors/farmers/people named Frank are "greedy" is like telling me that we breathe oxygen.
That is, in fact development
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@combat1921 @Grand_Ole_Evan “Greed is a worthless lens to view anything from.” Lol 😂 It’s the incentive for what has happened to where I live. And developers putting in a suburban nightmare on top of extremely fertile soil isn’t development. It’s stupidity.
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@GrabbeJaco9153 @Grand_Ole_Evan "Greater demand for housing", if the city wanted the same amount of revenue, would make property tax rates go down. The real "why" is that they are able to get more funds and provide more amenities (whether you like them or not)
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@combat1921 @Grand_Ole_Evan lol the “why” is that there is a greater demand for housing and a willingness to pay more for goods and services. Which drives out working class people. I personally do not care for the parks and shiny buildings they have built. These areas were far more beautiful as farmland.
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@DCTalks1009 @xwanyex And I am still lost why you ever thought this wasn't about normal people considering which side to take.
I see asking who is responsible for cultural conditions to be like asking which water molecules are responsible for a whirlpool. It just seems like the wrong scope.
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@combat1921 @xwanyex We're not talking broadest or narrowest sense: just who's responsible. Interestingly, your broad application exactly fit the unrelated argument you made about normies.
There are absolutely people responsible, and there is one, but no one wins a stalemate.
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@DCTalks1009 @xwanyex I'm not trying to redefine them, I have no idea why you think those are the boundaries of the topic.
If no one is "responsible" for a cultural stalemate does that mean there isn't one and that no one will win?
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@combat1921 @xwanyex If you don’t think of culture in those terms, why are you trying to redefine the boundaries of the topic so that an argument that didn’t initially apply to it will seemingly apply? This is a different conversation.
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@GrabbeJaco9153 @Grand_Ole_Evan No you just don't think about the mechanics behind things so you think it makes sense that rich people moving in would raise everyone else's tax burdens with no thought about "why".
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@combat1921 @Grand_Ole_Evan You’re talking about mechanisms but don’t even understand how a rising property tax would hurt working class people.
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@GrabbeJaco9153 @Grand_Ole_Evan I have no idea what your vacancy rate was 10 years ago but: yes, places change
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@combat1921 @Grand_Ole_Evan We had plenty of housing ten years ago. Lol
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@DCTalks1009 @xwanyex I kind of don't think of culture in those terms but:
In the broadest sense, everybody who isn't apolitical?
In a narrower sense I think one side is moreso the "aggressor" and I"m sure if I were to start ranking people for responsibility the top ones would be politicians
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@combat1921 @xwanyex Who is responsible for the cultural stalemate described?
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@DCTalks1009 @xwanyex That seems to be a tweet entirely about normal people? Normal people have desires and political inclinations that are related to those desires.
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@combat1921 @xwanyex Normal ish people aren’t what’s being discussed
wanye@xwanyex
Yes! Why do you think things are so bad?! We’re in a cultural stalemate, but somebody has to win, and in many cases there’s no “right” answer, only what people desire, on which we can’t agree.
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