@Gritty20202
Feel like its somewhat dishonest to use national vacancy numbers without regard for the condition of the homes or where those homes are.
Sending the LA homeless to dilapidated shacks in Nebraska with no job prospects would be a death sentence
@rebeccarightnow
@SydSteyerhart
When people ask "why dont you just move where its cheaper?" alls i hear is "ive never struggled with finding working, getting around, having access to healthcare, or the social consequences of being a marginalized person so i dont understand that these are issues"
@UnderTheThunde2
even if we assume gender affirming care has no positive impacts, bodily mutilation is prefferable to being turned into a vegtable.
This person is not even a full step away from saying "just kill them"
@_wayneburkett
@peer_rich
GDP per capita is a bad metric. Instead use this, now the US is still doing pretty well, but then subtract healthcare costs, student loans and the fact you need a car, and its not as good a deal as it looks at first
@liz_love_lace
this isn't 4chan. It's which was founded after a bunch of people got kicked off of 4chan for constantly raiding other boards and doxing people.
@north0fnorth
72% of car crashes are caused by sober drivers but y'all aren't ready for that conversation because all you do is demonize alcohol to farm clicks.
@CollieYimby
I feel like the issue with this is that it just ignores the ways in which different countries are more to the left/right on different issues. The US has a lower tax/spending to GDP ratio than northern europe, but it's also a lot less deficit averse.
@binaryAegis
Ngl it seems like locking someone in an 8 by 10 room with a rapist at all is cruel and unusual.
If inmates are so dangerous they can't interact with non inmates, surely they should also room sperately from one another?
@peer_rich
Ive long summed up the difference between the US and europe, as follows: in america its cheaper to be rich, and more expensive to be poor.
what do i mean by this? well lets take 3 expenses that make up a majority of a persons costs: healthcare housing and transportation (1/?)
@IHateNYT
When public spaces tolerate antisocial behavior the result is that people retreat to private spaces. They move to sparse areas behind high fences and drive everywhere instead of use transit and those who cant afford to have to deal with the spaces going to shit.
@ericinellenwood
@ChrisMurphyCT
you still have to pay it because most people have to spend the vast majority of their money or even more than they have (through credit) to live.
This proposal is straight up class warfare against the poor.
@libhawkish
There are right wingers on both sides of the urbanism debate. There are reactionaries who include walkability as part of the world to which they wish to RETVRN.
@bugsmaytrix
Everyone I know who pays for a subscription does so because "ehhh I don't use it but everyone in my family does and it's only a few bucks".
If not for the free access for ppl not in the house they'd all cancel.
@ConservDepths
I realize everyone reading this already knows it, but republican is a noun and an adjective and democrat is only a noun, which is why the suffix -ic is added and thats consistent with what other parties with some variation of "democrat" in their name do around the world.
@peer_rich
healthcare. european healthcare is financed through progressive taxation. the more you make, the more you pay in taxes in absolute and relative terms. in america, being high on the income ladder often means getting a good company health plan that minimizes your expenses
@ctingstrange
@cloudy_girI
@dorofheya
I personally think "Im gonna kill all of YOU" in reaction to minor shit is more funny, but yeah, if youre always in a shit mood and talking about how much everything sucks "I wish i was dead" is a red flag not a red nose
@peer_rich
so if youre an american, and you have the skills to immigrate, chances are youre high enough on the income ladder to make the US the better place to live.
@thechosenberg
I mean if you have the skills and earnings potential to immigrate to europe from america, america is generally a better deal financially
Also the Massachusetts HDI is higher than every country in the world except norway iceland and switzerland.
@peepsaregood
@HannahPosted
@neildecrypt
Seriously, I bet she's the sort of person to clean a dress and wear it again instead of pawning it or throwing it away (after all middle class means your time is too valuable to drive to the pawn shop)
@vanillaopinions
@DeleteTheNats
What if I have a relative who will die if they walk 30 feet or board a subway and have to move a tv to and from My office every day
@sam_d_1995
its like west coast progressives believe in a crazy upside down version of communism where we make life hell for everyone but the landed gentry.
@GreenSnail_
and/or classist. whats the point of paying hundreds for drivers ed and taking the test if you arent going to be able to afford a car in the near future?
@LanceVader
@_wayneburkett
@peer_rich
while partially true, this ignores that outside of a handful of very expensive areas, thats the only lifestyle available.
most US cities dont have frequent or reliable transit and the vast majority of the land is kept as single family houses through local government zoning laws
@DrewDiceClay
@peer_rich
the median american spends more money out of pocket than the median european. this is a fact. its also a fact that public transportation in most us cities isnt fast or reliable enough to substitute for a car
@USA_Polling
In the movies the billionaire super villain is a mastermind who manipulates people by telling them what they want to hear, but unfortunately life is no movie, and our villain got blackout drunk on his own kool aid so he uses his power to push things nobody wants to no avail.
@peer_rich
housing: europe has a greater supply of and more rental assistance which makes housing on the low end cheaper, but if you want a detatched SFH with a yard its going to cost a lot, which is made more difficult by the flatter income curve. so at the high end, the us wins out
@redmannyao3
@Actually_Tina
Publicly bragging about shirking your responsibilities calls into question the idea that your inability to meet them is the fault of your condition.
@ProlePumpkin
@rebeccarightnow
@SydSteyerhart
I did mention "finding work" in my comment, but yeah. Houses being cheap means fuck all when the only employment in the area is ye olde general store.
@GeoffreyCoppin
@_wayneburkett
@peer_rich
I mean... not really. unless your only metric for the quality of a neighborhood is the square footage of homes and you ignore crime safety, infrastructure, and amenities within walking distance.
@LittleMammith
The way I look at reading children's books and mass market slop is the same way i look at watching (most) tv or playing video games. It's fine if that's a part of your media diet, but when it becomes all or a majority of how you're using your time then it's a problem
@EudaimoniaEsq
Damn bro thats crazy can you find some examples of this happening, because literally nobody on my feed thinks peoples right to a union is contingent on how they vote or think.
@BBC_dip
@sam_d_1995
Externalities are a measurable real economic phenomenon. There are disputes about how or if we ought to try to internalize or mitigate them but I see that your stance is that you in particular have a God given right to do whatever the hell you want regardless of who is impacted.
@magi_jay
I know i sound like a broken record but a majority of borrowers have less than 20k in debt. this is a majority of debt for a maority of borrowers, and the low balance borrowers are often the lowest earners. AOC and other progressives are just factually wrong here.
@SwannMarcus89
It's amazing how literally all of this is coming from right wingers. The "she locked people up for weed" is based on figures from when she was AG of california but the AG DIDNT PROSECUTE THOSE CASES
@peer_rich
transportation: in most european cities you can get by without a car, which is great if youre cash strapped, but once you earn enough youll probably wanna drive anyway, and the us has cheaper gas and cars as well as free parking.
@LittleMammith
and definitely not a virtue. Posts like this one in particular are really upsetting because you know her social media is probably an echo chamber, but she still felt the need to post this because "let me enojoy this" isnt enough. she wants a medal and a parade
@maxdubler
avg california city be like:
>founded on an indian graveyard as a whites only utopia
>incorporated in 1968 for no particular reason
>today it is a commuter suburb with a population of 8 million
@souljagoytellem
>GPA 5.09
Curious as to what scale is being used here. I know that a lot of high schools weight GPA by accounting for course difficulty, but if his score is 5.09 that's probably not where the scale tops out and it meant at best he had tough courses and mostly but not all As
@Richard_Vixen
Every evo psych take ever
>assume early humans were just modern humans with rocks
>find an example of a modern behavior difference
>work backwards and find a story that confirms your prior assumption
>get laughed out of academia
>accuse them of being brainwashed feminists
@iluminatibot
can confirm. in cities where most of my needs are located within a 15 minute walk or transit ride like nyc, paris, and vienna, I am legally confined to my borough, arrondissement, and bezirk respectively.
@SwannMarcus89
The lesson here is that you should write a constitution to benefeit your side, stick to altering the structure of the government, not stapling a 300 page policy wishlist to the document and declaring it the government's duty
@Mouthforwar5
@chip_byte
@stillgray
Yes. I think breaking people's stuff because they won't do what you told them to is unhinged.
It sends the message that that is an appropriate way to get what you want.
@SamHundley01
@north0fnorth
The constitution guarantees a right to free movement. not free movement "if you're sober"
From punitive taxes to bans on public drunkenness to literally being able to lose your livelihood for drinking in the wrong circumstances, it isn't a complex if it's really happening.
@Videogamehero
@shoe0nhead
@michaeljknowles
In their mind, the fathers job is to go to work every day, and then play catch with the kid on the weekends as well as teach them how to mow the lawn.
@idobadtakes
I don't mean to erase price increases, but it's kind of wild that the "inflation is way higher than everyone says" crowd bases their argument by cherry picking the sector with some of the highest price growth and a business that has explicitly shifted its business model
@BirdRespecter
@aluminumcuffs
The best way to engage with this is to ask them "if you lost your house today and were on the street, what would you do with your electronics"
If i sold literally all of them except my phone, that would give me less than half of one months rent on a one bedroom in LA.
@gaslightyourmom
im generally not a fan of "just move" arguments but if you insist on a large detached home at a low price, the only way that is going to happen is if you move to an economically depressed region like the rust belt.
@JakeAnbinder
Just ban discrimination on income, and if they come up with workarounds just make it first come first serve, and if they find ways to see to it rich tenants come first then just have the government sieze it, and if the government doesnt run it right just hire him to run it
@SentientPotato6
@DavidGAce1
@north0fnorth
People used to conceal their left handedness. Given how much more stigma exists around driving drunk, would it be unreasonable to assume drunks are undercounted by an order of magnitude or two?
@juliplanetearth
@RebeccaforWA
yeah there is, 93k vacant units (many of which are under renovation or are waiting on people to move in after signing a lease)
40k homeless
at least 143k in overcrowded housing
400k young adults living at home
countless more would be residents priced into adjacent markets.
@Ayasa_At_Twitte
@IDoTheThinking
There's a lot more that needs to be done, but they're starting to tackle it and I love to see it. More people should be able to live in our richest state and access its vast economic opportunity as well as it's natural beauty