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Re: political hobbyist thread
« Reply #200 on: March 05, 2021, 10:05:20 PM »
I think we probably already do too much to subsidize having kids.

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« Reply #201 on: March 05, 2021, 10:12:51 PM »
I think we probably already do too much to subsidize having kids.

one good thing about the stimulus bill child subsidy is that it's just an unpredictable one time thing so it shouldn't provide much of an incentive to create more children.
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« Reply #202 on: March 06, 2021, 05:22:22 PM »
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Re: political hobbyist thread
« Reply #203 on: March 07, 2021, 10:10:46 PM »
"experienced commanders will simply be smeared and will actually go to the meat."

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« Reply #204 on: March 08, 2021, 01:03:10 AM »
He was on meet the press today, talking himself in circles. I honestly respect Mitch McConnell more than I do Manchin. He and to a lesser extent Susan Collins are the poster people for term limits, which I actually don't believe in. They are professional politicians whose only goal is seemingly to do nothing but to get re-elected. It's too bad the voters tolerate this behavior.

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« Reply #205 on: March 10, 2021, 12:08:46 PM »
Also belongs in MAGA thread. “No one deserves a hand out but me” is peak MAGA.

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« Reply #206 on: March 10, 2021, 12:29:16 PM »
Also belongs in MAGA thread. “No one deserves a hand out but me” is peak MAGA.

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Re: political hobbyist thread
« Reply #207 on: March 10, 2021, 03:39:42 PM »
Maybe better in the post Trump GOP topic but interesting in regards to alignment and policy that the rest of the thread speaks towards

https://twitter.com/ThePlumLineGS/status/1369701889978343424

i'm almost certain that's correct.  it's a truism that is mostly true that voters don't punish lawmakers for voting against a bill that passes.
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« Reply #208 on: March 10, 2021, 05:33:27 PM »
Maybe better in the post Trump GOP topic but interesting in regards to alignment and policy that the rest of the thread speaks towards

https://twitter.com/ThePlumLineGS/status/1369701889978343424

https://twitter.com/Thom_Hartmann/status/1369784679805558785?s=19

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« Reply #209 on: March 10, 2021, 05:37:44 PM »
that's probably part of why voters don't tend to punish lawmakers for votes.
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Re: political hobbyist thread
« Reply #210 on: March 21, 2021, 04:29:05 PM »
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The Senate is separately working out an agreement to bring back earmarks. Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said he would defer on the issue to Alabama Sen. Richard Shelby, the top Republican on the Senate Appropriations Committee, and Shelby has said he's supportive. But Senate Republicans have been generally more receptive to earmarks than their House counterparts.


https://www.politico.com/news/2021/03/17/house-gop-ends-earmark-ban-476696

Honestly I think this is the most positive step towards the GOP saying they want to wheel and deal and be bipartisan in drafting legislation.

That's an acceptable cost to you?

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« Reply #211 on: March 21, 2021, 05:25:32 PM »
bringing back earmarks would be a positive step, but probably insufficient to much change the paradigm (partly because the earmarks to be allowed are pretty strictly limited).
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« Reply #212 on: March 22, 2021, 10:11:32 AM »
Earmarks aren't good governance, but they are certainly better than no governance. It's been all but impossible to fund major public works projects without them.

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« Reply #213 on: March 24, 2021, 12:22:57 PM »
Our democracy is a special kind of shitty. All of that is awful. Only in Washington could being forced to actually do your job could be wielded as a weapon.

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Re: political hobbyist thread
« Reply #214 on: March 28, 2021, 02:43:16 PM »
For some reason I'm enjoying the stupid twitter back and forth between Neolibs/libs with the DSA gov candidate in VA over housing affordability. California cats how long will this last before I hate it?
I'm numb to it but what side is each taking in VA?

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« Reply #215 on: March 28, 2021, 02:44:25 PM »
For some reason I'm enjoying the stupid twitter back and forth between Neolibs/libs with the DSA gov candidate in VA over housing affordability. California cats how long will this last before I hate it?

hmm, maybe 30 years?
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Re: political hobbyist thread
« Reply #216 on: March 29, 2021, 11:50:19 AM »
Zoning laws on their own, aren't an impediment to providing affordable housing, and I have no issue with zoning. How municipalities use zoning is very much problematic. Saying that you can't have affordable housing with zoning laws is like saying you can't have congressional districts without gerrymandering.

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« Reply #217 on: March 29, 2021, 12:27:48 PM »
I mean that's all kind of semantics to a degree imo.

I'm not in tune to this stuff all that much, but I don't get the idea that people want no, as in zero, regulation from zoning. What we have now is demonstratively bad if it makes it exceedingly difficult to build housing/apartments/whatever and denser housing in particular (I think with the idea that denser tends to give more relatively affordable options than mcmansions, plus potentially other social and environmental benefits).

yeah generally "no zoning" is really "no single family zoning". Single family zoning absolutely makes it more difficult to build affordable housing

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Re: political hobbyist thread
« Reply #218 on: March 30, 2021, 12:46:38 PM »
On continued observation got me thinking more about rent seeking/speculation and what personal property taxes or a LVT are. DSA guy believes very much that wealthy people are driving up prices by holding onto what is now valuable property and not allowing it to be put to use. Which is a thing that makes sense as being possible and I'm sure is occurring, but I have no idea of the magnitude or if this is another flavor of eating the rich as the simple solution/capitalism sux.
There is a lot of rich (and also foreign rich) money tied up in high rise condos that get little use in Chicago and NYC. I assume this is true in other large cities as well.
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« Reply #219 on: March 30, 2021, 12:49:36 PM »
On continued observation got me thinking more about rent seeking/speculation and what personal property taxes or a LVT are. DSA guy believes very much that wealthy people are driving up prices by holding onto what is now valuable property and not allowing it to be put to use. Which is a thing that makes sense as being possible and I'm sure is occurring, but I have no idea of the magnitude or if this is another flavor of eating the rich as the simple solution/capitalism sux.
There is a lot of rich (and also foreign rich) money tied up in high rise condos that get little use in Chicago and NYC. I assume this is true in other large cities as well.

you also see quite a few instances of ludicrous rent increase -> eviction -> property sits vacant for months for commercial storefronts in high-rent areas.

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« Reply #220 on: April 18, 2021, 08:03:18 PM »
The only thing standing between michigancat and a 5000 sq ft place in cow hollow is zoning laws

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Re: political hobbyist thread
« Reply #221 on: April 25, 2021, 03:00:44 PM »
i found this interesting.  i'm not wholly convinced on the sort of catholic right's providence from, or convergence with, puritanism, but the sort of instinctual, individualistic libertarianishness of trump's base strikes me as both accurate and consequential.

https://twitter.com/Scholars_Stage/status/1386386384123015174
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Re: political hobbyist thread
« Reply #223 on: April 26, 2021, 10:31:36 AM »
This has been brewing for a long time.  The influence of Moldbug et al is quite significant these days.

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