Yo, have I got a deal for you! I think segregating by socio-economic factors is essential. I think we should have society funded housing and education. If we could create an alternative to the current work or starve paradigm, and protect this lifestyle from capitalist exploitation, then we could get some real change in this country. Imagine if we ensured the minimum standard of life as a human was a safe place to live, and education for your children.
That is an interesting alternative and at least it's at least more nuanced than just build everyone a home. I have enjoyed the talk although I disagree it will work. Have a great evening.
as a treat, the tax credit amount was used in the legislation to represent the amount of the bill designated for poor people!
We could call this new ideology, "Taking the orange pill." Then we can co-opt the Chuds and teach them class consciousness. We could help them realize that the most important thing for them to do is fight white racism. Without white racism, we can create real class solidarity and take power.
It’s not the builders that control the amount of housing, you simpleton. It’s the banks that finance them.
Cars? You went with CARS for this response? Something that itself is a luxury item was your response to that?
For what it’s worth this is a municipal ordinance that has been used repeatedly across the country in American history. Its origins are as a 19th century anti-brothel law explicitly banning more than 2 unrelated women from living together. It then moved to college towns in the middle of the 20th century as an ordinance to curtail student ghettos (usually codified as no more than 4 unrelated people). Now it’s being used as a NIMBY ordinance to curtail density.
The amount of crime that comes out of public housing is unreal. I think we are too lax at kicking bad actors out of public housing. It should be a gift to live there, not a right. We are moving some of our public housing to mixed income housing and hopefully that will be better for all.
Amazon provides very low interest loans to build mixed and low income housing in Nashville and they were vilified for it.
Or, and hear me out, we could work to a system that affords these people the basic things opportunities of life that lead to them not needing public housing. It’s amazing that your answer to generational racism is to keep not only oppressing them, but oppress the most in need even more. Once these people are kicked out, then what? Homelessness? More crime since they are now even more downtrodden?
I mean it's true to an extent. But the solution is not to kick them out of housing. It's to improve their material conditions to the point that crime is no longer worth the risk
More crime sometimes comes from places where there are more people. We should find a way to privatize density.
Who would have thought that pushing large segments of people into shitty areas in the 30s and 40s and given little to no real opportunities could long lasting ramifications on stuff. They probably should have thought that out during reconstruction, but they still didnt think of us as humans. They’ve only really gotten slightly better since.
guys can we just not engage nashville knight yet? there's other threads he's shitting up and this is getting unbearable
He wanted to shoot them. It’s from Axios and another asshole pimping a book, but still. https://www.axios.com/mark-esper-book-trump-protesters-24e93272-2af5-423d-be3b-164daab7b43d.html
there were so many wtf moments during his Presidency but the visuals of that day was when it sank in to me that he would try to be a Dictator if he could get away with it
If that mother fucker is back on this board, someone is going to have to ban me before I shove his ass back into a proverbial locker.
I hope this is around in 60 years. Seeing ppl wasting away with no quality of life us depressing. I don't want that. I recently watch my father die after my mom agreed to remove care. I'm not sure why it's a major distinction between letting some intentionally due vs ending care knowing they are about to die
Suicide being viewed as an acceptable choice is scary because then people are going to have to do some real introspection and make a choice to keep living.
good podcast on where we are with climate bill stuff in the run up to midterms. spoiler alert: we're fucked!
I don't agree with pure suicide. But end of life decisions are different. I'm 95, can walk, can talk, barely functioning in a wheel chair, just being a financial burden to my living family....
Ive said this before, but we’re spending about $70k a year to have my mom in her dementia center, and that’s on the low end based on where we are. We bled through her retirement and their insurance after my dad passed quick, and Medicare and his VA benefits cover about 2/3rds so my sister and I have to come up with roughly $2k a month. Imagine where we’d be if my dad never served. This is fucking crazy. We’re at about $300k spent just so we can give her the care she needs.
Emotional pain is every bit as real as physical pain. For some, continuing to exist is just being in pain. I get it.