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🇵🇸Land of Sky Blue Waters Socialist. CinemaLad“The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.”

It’s been years since anyone has cared about it, even Trump hardly even brings it up anymore, but it’s really stunning how much of a disaster the Russiagate saga was for liberals. Just the absolute worst thing for them to have centered in so many huge ways.

The wealthy 1500-member Musqueam tribe, which claims all of Vancouver, is building 11 towers (some 56 stories) on an 11.7-acre waterfront site. This density breaks all the rules, but when you’re a court-supported racial oligarchy, you can do anything.

The data shows rent control has the opposite effect you’d want (and for explicable reasons). Leftists deny it by focusing on intent over results. In this sense, tariffs are the “rent control” of the New Right. Same foolish dynamic. But before MAGA, tariffs were also leftwing.


This is great. I feel like a lot of the discourse has treated the recent Dem tax cut proposals as a new phenomenon, so it's useful to trace how this is very much a continuation of a decades long trend.

This is sad. I know as a politician these companies are going to spend a billion dollars against me for saying it but 🤷🏽♀️ Pervasive gambling is not good for society. It turns life into a casino, traps people in addiction & debt, surges domestic violence, and fosters manipulation.




We all know what some feel uncomfortable saying: Most taxes are WASTED. They are leaked and grifted into all kinds of programs that sound good on the surface. But that’s the lie that is told so politicians can take more of your earnings and dole it out to win votes and stay in power. But it also turns out that people aren’t stupid and know the game. So the states that admit this by breaking away from the hamster wheel of increased taxation are winning. While those who continue to try and sell the lie are losing. At the limit, those losing states are leaking so much revenue that they will eventually lose so much tax revenue as to be effectively insolvent. Remember this data is just from 2023…we are in mid 2026 so another two years of this trend is already in the books.

@goatpurple1 Bc they are governing as a separate local government. Its no different from West Hollywood governing themselves apart from LA They got that land after winning a court battle bc villages on there were illegally sold and destroyed in 1913


The backstory here is that the Squamish people of what is now Vancouver were illegally dispossessed of this land a century ago. They sued, got their land back, and used their sovereignty to ignore local zoning rules and build 6,000 new homes over the objections of nearby NIMBYs.


I know this is the BARE MINIMUM but gosh I'm liking this man more and more...

This is a clearer answer than TC’s



“urbanist slop” is apt. 🇨🇭has the ideal rail geography; Everyone lives along a single axis. Similar in 🇯🇵

Hasan says Cubans in Miami vs Cuba are “complete opposites” after experiencing it firsthand "All the good Cubans stayed here and the crazy ones flew up there [Miami].. It's just such a strange cognitive dissonance to experience in real time"



how it feels to be a rent control disliker online






@minalaifey Incredible how reading about the effects of rent control in the cities it was implemented in makes you inherently evil


