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Thanks, Godwin.The Republican Party is speed walking toward facism
Thanks, Godwin.The Republican Party is speed walking toward facism
Do you have a substantive argument in the other direction?Thanks, Godwin.![]()
Republicans are literally Hitler. Got it.I tend to believe people meant to do something when they literally tell me and then do it in plain sight in real time.
Again. Do you have a substantive argument in the other direction?Republicans are literally Hitler. Got it.![]()
Republicans are literally Hitler. Got it.![]()
No.And based on the responses here, the Capitol riots have nullified anything that a liberal has ever done.
Exactly. We need to root out and greatly diminish the destructiveness of all fanatical, blind extremism.The issue to me isn't liberals and conservatives. It's extremists on both sides. And for whatever reason they seem to be driving a lot of the conversation on both sides.
You're asking me to present arguments that the entire Republican party is not, in fact, literally Hitler. Really? I've got better things to do this glorious Friday morning, like organizing a mini-Laefest in Savannah on Christmas Eve.Again. Do you have a substantive argument in the other direction?
I didn't say they were literal Hitler...because that is literally impossible. Hitler is dead. No one can be literal Hitler.You're asking me to present arguments that the entire Republican party is not, in fact, literally Hitler. Really? I've got better things to do this glorious Friday morning, like organizing a mini-Laefest in Savannah on Christmas Eve.
As I said on Twitter,Well.
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Kyle Rittenhouse is acquitted of all charges in the trial over killing 2 in Kenosha
Rittenhouse was 17 years old and armed with an AR-15-style rifle when he fatally shot two protesters and wounded a third in August 2020. A jury found he acted in self-defense on a night of unrest.www.npr.org
Except this video opinion is full of spurious conflation of national, state and local platforms and policies.I found this interesting. It also contains aspects of urban planning and how liberal cities actively suppress affordable housing. =>
Well i see your point, but even if some of the things he says are wrong, overall i think he has a point. Now I can only look at the problem from the outside because I don't know the local situation in detail. But I've heard quite a bit about it already, so I'll give you my thoughts on it now.Except this video opinion full of spurious conflation of national, state and local platforms and policies.
For example, the State of California has approved SB9 and SB10 which effectively overrides some local control on housing density policies - https://sanjosespotlight.com/collins-what-does-sb-9-and-sb-10-really-mean-for-our-neighborhoods/ (Collins: What does SB 9 and SB 10 really mean for our neighborhoods? - San José Spotlight) He mentions this barely at the end of the video, but totally ignores the fact that the legislation negates most of the argument he's already made. The YIMBY movement in the US (mostly in traditionally liberal bastions) is a strong counter argument to the ideas in this poor opinion piece.
As for the discussion of school district boundaries and funding, this opinion piece is so infinitely wrong it's almost impossible to comprehend. ZIP Codes are not equal to municipal boundaries or school districts and the three are often, everywhere, seldom consistent with each other. This commentator has no fundamental understanding of the political and legal organization of what he's discussing to even warrant his opinion. None of the last 6 districts I've lived in since 2003 ever covered the entire county (in three states).
The evidentiary basis for this opinion piece is spuriously conflationary and fundamentally wrong in most of it's 'arguments'.
I hear what you're saying, but his conflation that statements from a national party political platform are direct lines to the hyper local level is irresponsibly shallow, at best.Well i see your point, but even if some of the things he says are wrong, overall i think he has a point. Now I can only look at the problem from the outside because I don't know the local situation in detail. But I've heard quite a bit about it already, so I'll give you my thoughts on it now.
Far too little is happening given the severity of the crisis. There has to be a lot more upzoning, but there is so much resistance to it that it is hardly enough to even come close to solving the problem. In the article you linked you can read about how slow and small the progress really is. I think that is simply not enough for such a liberal state and that liberal states have the most homeless people is simply a fact.
Regarding the School Districts, I have to say that you are right and that there is this extreme decentralization of government that reinforces inequality along state and local government lines in a way that is unknown in the rest of the developed world and he is probably wrong when he says or suggests that Democrats are responsible for it, but i also think he got a point in the sense that Democrats could just end this, but don't do it.
Johnny Harris isn't a Republican or an anti-Democrat. He is right to criticize the fact that Democrats are simply not doing enough. But that's just my opinion as an outsider. I just wanted to post the video because it brings politics and aspects of urban planning together.
Yes, but that's something that needs to be exposed. Hypocrisy does harm to good ideals. Republicans are completely irrational in my opinion, but if Democrats would do everything right, Republicans wouldn't exist as political party.But I will agree with one central thesis he implies: Humans are terrible at keeping ideals and actions regularly consistent. That's endemic to human nature.
He may have been found Not Guilty but he's still a killerWell.
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Kyle Rittenhouse is acquitted of all charges in the trial over killing 2 in Kenosha
Rittenhouse was 17 years old and armed with an AR-15-style rifle when he fatally shot two protesters and wounded a third in August 2020. A jury found he acted in self-defense on a night of unrest.www.npr.org
I don't always agree with everything you say, but in this case I agree and wouldn't be surprised if this decision serves to embolden some kooks out there who will intentionally place themselves in harm's way so that they can kill people and claim self defense.He may have been found Not Guilty but he's still a killer
The deeper implications is that this will basically give the far right a "permission slip" to kill by deliberately putting themselves in harm's way just to shoot someone. The is what they've been foaming at the mouth for for years.
He may have been found Not Guilty but he's still a killer
The deeper implications is that this will basically give the far right a "permission slip" to kill by deliberately putting themselves in harm's way just to shoot someone. This is what they've been foaming at the mouth for for years.
But this is going to be highly tempered by the jurisdiction in which such a stunt occurs.I don't always agree with everything you say, but in this case I agree and wouldn't be surprised if this decision serves to embolden some kooks out there who will intentionally place themselves in harm's way so that they can kill people and claim self defense.
That said, can't say I'm surprised.
I just can’t get into twitter…Interesting graph on how Twitter still favors Right Wing media.
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I found this interesting. It also contains aspects of urban planning and how liberal cities actively suppress affordable housing. =>
Wealth often transcends political party affiliations, no high income neighborhood/town/city will ever be convinced to willingly allow multifamily development or affordable housing-double negative points if it's affordable housing for families and not just seniors. Theoretically many (fake) progressives agree that affordable housing is needed and there should be more of it, but not int their backyard because it will change the "character" of the community and bring "those people" here. Rinse and repeat all across America. Scarcity is often one of the driving forces of the housing market price increases, so is cheap capital. Over the past 20 years there is an estimated shortfall of 5 million housing units. The foreclosure crisis and the economic meltdown contributed greatly to this, so has immigration reform, and more recently the pandemic.I found this interesting. It also contains aspects of urban planning and how liberal cities actively suppress affordable housing. =>
It's only a matter of time before the Proud Boys and other similar groups start showing up to protests and start shooting and to a lesser extent the reverse. All in all, it doesn't bode well when coupled with the contempt epidemic in our society.He may have been found Not Guilty but he's still a killer
The deeper implications is that this will basically give the far right a "permission slip" to kill by deliberately putting themselves in harm's way just to shoot someone. This is what they've been foaming at the mouth for for years.
I'd go further in that the total lack of real nuance in all his opinions coupled with a completely incorrect understanding of the political and cultural reason(s) for school districts' boundary organization in Cook County, IL (a specific micro-region I know well) undercuts the validity to all of his statements/opinions.I think there's a lot of nuance left out of the video. It wasn't bad, but basically it was a skim of several key issues that affect all people regardless of their political affiliation.
I agree 100%.I was catching up on my podcasts over the weekend while chopping up leaves and listened to a recent episode of Freakanomics. (Great podcast, btw)
It was a discussion of the epidemic of Contempt and how badly it bodes for our future. It's worth a listen. The TLR is basically this, contempt is the combination of anger and disgust. It dehumanizes and feeds on itself like an addiction cycle. It is dangerous and needs to be addressed.
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How Can We Break Our Addiction to Contempt? - Freakonomics
How Can We Break Our Addiction to Contempt? - Freakonomicsfreakonomics.com
I'd go further in that the total lack of real nuance in all his opinions coupled with a completely incorrect understanding of the political and cultural reason(s) for school districts' organization in Cook County, IL (a specific micro-region I know well) undercuts any validity to all of his statements/opinions.
If you're going to make blanket and pseudo-intellectual sounding knowledgeable statements about a very specific place/locality/circumstance, you lose all credibility if you get the fundamentals completely wrong by not actually understanding the specific how and what, thereby automatically invalidating your own augment.
But that's not really the point of the video's hyperbole. I get it, but it's also emblematic of the issues our society is having right now.
Especially when there's the matter of vastly misunderstanding scale.I agree. His example of Cook County and the school system does not work well either. For example, we have a county wide school system here and we have the exact same issue. The county spends money in the higher value areas instead of the lower value areas.
I also think you are on point with the perception of the issues of our society.
We have all the receipts. Does she not know how television and media reporting works?Same person on 2 networks - To Fox viewers, no vaccine needed & to CNN viewers, vaccines good - on the same day.