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Abundance isn't going to happen unless politicians are scared of the status quo

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Re: Abundance isn't going to happen unless politicians are scared of the status quo

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Post by Gareth321 »

watwut wrote: post #360
lotsoweiners wrote: post #316

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Being anti woke/DEI does not mean you oppose civil rights. Plenty of African Americans and other minorities dislike woke/DEI. They don’t want to be thought of as a diversity hire but still enjoy their rights to vote and use the same bathrooms as their white peers.

Republicans use "being anti woke" as a comfortable excuse to be anti women in general and anti minorities in general. They complain about diversity hires in institutions that have no such policy - just seeing a woman on good position makes them assume it was DEI. There could theoretically be anti-DEI political party that is pro-equality, republicans are not that.

As someone on the outside of this fight (I am not American), there was only one side fighting to maintain racism and sexism in hiring, promotion, government assistance, and university entrance: the Democrats. The Republicans were and remain clearly resolute in creating a merit based society. It seems clear that the democrats were and continue to seek to expand racism and sexism under the banner of "DEI." Adherents like Ibram X Kendi aren't hiding the ball. They openly acknowledge that the use of racism is necessary to achieve equal outcomes.

Re: Abundance isn't going to happen unless politicians are scared of the status quo

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PaulHoule wrote: post #105
eddythompson80 wrote: post #69

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> This is what the Kamala campaign ran on, it didn’t work. It's what Obama ran on, and it worked for him. The fact that he achieved very little there is a different issue. Kamala's 2-month long campaign wasn't very convincing.

The odd trouble was that ordinary people saw the Harris campaign as being preoccupied with the issues of a lunatic fringe online plus what conservatives said Harris was preoccupied with. Harris would have had to kick the lunatic fringe to the curb but didn’t have the will to do so.

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Post by CivBase »

Braxton1980 wrote: post #370
CivBase wrote: post #201

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Is that what she ran on? My perception was that she ran on "more of the same but also different... nevermind, look at all these celebrities telling you to vote for me!" and something vague about protecting women's rights. It's almost like you need more than a couple months to run a serious presidential campaign. Despite being the VP for 4 years, most people didn't know what to expect from her. Almost nobody was enthu…

>My perception was that she ran on "more of the same but also different But >most people didn't know what to expect from her.

I do not see any conflicts between those statements.

Re: Abundance isn't going to happen unless politicians are scared of the status quo

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Post by itsoktocry »

buildsjets wrote: post #270
seryoiupfurds wrote: post #182

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As a YIMBY, ADUs are an introductory "first step" policy that should obviously be legal, but were never expected to have any real effect. True YIMBY policy would be zoning for six-story apartments by-right citywide, with density going up to 20 stories near rapid transit. But even policies that sound great on paper are often sabotaged by cities with unworkable affordability requirements that prevent anything from bein…

In 2007, my house was re-zoned from R-9600 (Single family residential, 9600 SF lots minimum) to a high-density transit oriented zoning (the acronym changes every other year, but was originally PCBTPV, Planned Community Business Transit Pedestrian Village), in expectation that a light rail station will be opening within 1/4 to 1/2 mile by 2035. The new zoning requirement is six story minimum, minimum of 50 dwelling un…

Two hours of daily commute to work, to live in a dense suburban hellscape is "good"?

Re: Abundance isn't going to happen unless politicians are scared of the status quo

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Post by gadflyinyoureye »

Tycho wrote: post #394

Doesn’t housing just solve itself. People and businesses move to lower cost areas.

It’s harder to do in a Western world. For example say that it’s cheaper to live in Indiana. The cost of moving from Texas, if you do it yourself, is about $4k. For many people that is considered too expensive. As a result they stay in place, which causes them to mentally collapse into anxiety or depression.

Another issue is the trend of return to office. There were people who moved to less expensive locations. They are now being required to come into the office. One guy with whom I work is spending about $1k a month on gas to do this. So now he is effectively losing $12k per year to keep his job. If he moves, he loses his lifestyle and his 3% mortgage. This puts him in a tight spot.

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Post by Loughla »

xboxnolifes wrote: post #80
knowknow wrote: post #47

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It’s amazing that this gets upvoted while it is completely uninformed about what liberal politicians actually run on. This is what the Kamala campaign ran on, it didn’t work. People love getting tangled on social issues as it’s the most provocative. This conception that most people actually care about rational policies is false and has been false for at least the past decade.

Kamala was too little too late. No candidate was going to work for democrats coming into the presidential race so close to the election.

Combined with more of the same from the Democrats where they pick the candidate and preordain them. These are the things that tanked her chances.

Hillary wasn't super popular, but what really killed her was being forced on us from the political Democratic establishment.

Biden only won because Trump is such a turd for many.

It's been since Obama that the Democrats actually had a candidate that people liked. I do not understand this strategy.

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Post by lesuorac »

steveBK123 wrote: post #221
seryoiupfurds wrote: post #194

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> Do people abuse the process? Sure, some do. They get away with it at most once, because...there's a record of it all in housing court and eviction proceedings are pretty much a deathblow with any landlord doing their homework. The problem is that for large corporate landlords this is a statistical risk that can be priced in and accounted for across hundreds of units. For small mom-and-pop landlords renting out thei…

It's an interesting problem I'm not sure what the solution is. Being a small-time landlord is unreasonably risky due to tenant friendly laws and backed up courts. Similarly, I've found renting from small-time landlords to be a worse experience. They tend to do things that a large corporation would eventually face lawsuits over - discrimination, demanding more money up front, keeping deposits, poor upkeep of units, et…

> It's an interesting problem I'm not sure what the solution is.

Actually funded court system?

Having to wait months to evict a tenant for legitimate reasons is a huge issue if it's affecting >50% of your rental units.

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Post by Gareth321 »

grumpy-de-sre wrote: post #203
RickS wrote: post #193

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This is the china of "let it rot"[1] and a housing market so f'd that people felt pressure to buy and pay for houses that didn't even exist yet, leading to a massive mortgage boycott[2] in protest of all the resultant shenanigans? They're already failing to keep up the growth[3], their population pyramid projections are pretty bleak going forward. I agree with you re the need to convince modern western voters of an (…

All of the above is completely true. But right now they are in the acute/fallout phase of a massive economic disruption (the deleveraging of a highly indebted real estate sector, no less severe than the GFC, they overbuilt to a massive degree). No matter what folks are going to be struggling bad atm. The trillion dollar question is what does this look like in ten years? It could go either way. A Japan style lost deca…

China's population is already declining, and that decline is accelerating. They are projected to lose 100M people by 2050, and 500M by 2075. Given their aversion to immigration, demand will continue to plummet for those unoccupied properties. This is clearly the end of their property boom. This was one of the last options left to ordinary Chinese to build wealth. Their stock market is little more than a slot machine.

It is encouraging what we see with their EV boom, but a car industry alone cannot sustain a nation with declining population levels. China has sold so few technological innovations over the decades that I do not see them innovating their way out of this.

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