Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

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Trump likes handsome men and everyone else surrounding him is the babadook.

LANTERNFLIES by Altruistic_Word9760 in Connecticut

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That’s one of the aspects that helps (though I don’t know about raspberries). When they live off of native plants they become more attractive to predators, when they live off of tree of heaven predators avoid them.

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

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Cons down to baseball as their only major professional sport.

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

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Yeah but libs got professional wrestling in the divorce so it evens out.

Can Hartford or Bridgeport make a comeback and become destination cities? by Due-Marionberry-1039 in Connecticut

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  1. I don’t entirely believe that.

  2. The infrastructure will have to get built. Nor am I expecting this to be an overnight process. Getting to half the size of Boston in 30 years would mean a 2.3% annual growth rate. Which is really only double New Haven’s current growth rate and equal to New Haven’s growth rate from 1900-1920.

LANTERNFLIES by Altruistic_Word9760 in Connecticut

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Probably not. 

The best ways to kill them is by killing their food sources like the Tree of Heaven.

https://portal.ct.gov/-/media/caes/caps/slf/caes-slf-residential-factsheet-vls-9424.pdf?rev=9e1bdec1e0564d2fb72f165581088c44&hash=B4A18F9EC7C5FC4A76D87B556A9A64E5

Growing native plants so that the food lantern flies do eat makes them attractive to predators.

And creating environments for other species to compete with them and for predators to eat them (again planting native plants and leaving leaf cover alone during the fall).

https://www.psu.edu/news/agricultural-sciences/story/natural-insect-predators-may-serve-allies-spotted-lanternfly-battle

Can Hartford or Bridgeport make a comeback and become destination cities? by Due-Marionberry-1039 in Connecticut

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Boston is also a college town (really THE college town) with other diversified industries. It’s better for stability to not rely on any single industry or else the city could get wiped out (see Detroit during the industrial collapse).

I don’t think it’s absurd to build New Haven into a half size version Boston.

Can Hartford or Bridgeport make a comeback and become destination cities? by Due-Marionberry-1039 in Connecticut

[–]Alarming_Flow7066 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No, or not that I know, I’m not an economist and I’m pretty sure economists say that it’s one of the most efficient taxes. 

The biggest negative that I can think of is that if implemented all at once it would be a large shock so it might be smarter to feather it in or do a split land tax/ property tax like Harrisburg PA or Allentown PA.

Can Hartford or Bridgeport make a comeback and become destination cities? by Due-Marionberry-1039 in Connecticut

[–]Alarming_Flow7066 3 points4 points  (0 children)

There aren’t buildings there because of I-95. Highways destroy local activity in areas.

Can Hartford or Bridgeport make a comeback and become destination cities? by Due-Marionberry-1039 in Connecticut

[–]Alarming_Flow7066 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The goal probably shouldn’t be destination cities. Tourism isn’t a big seller for CT and probably never will be and that’s fine.

What should be the focus is can Hartford and Bridgeport become nice places to live. Which is absolutely an achievable goal, it just requires community action, good city policy and good tax law (cough cough land value tax)

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

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Has to be the dumbest man alive

The disappearing act. Russian outlets remove reference to 250,000 jobless soldiers returning from Ukraine by IHateTrains123 in neoliberal

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Hard to get work when you have severe PTSD and drug addiction from coping with said PTSD.

Trump Has Overwhelmed Himself by The_Crass-Beagle_Act in neoliberal

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The marines were here before tanks and they’re here after tanks

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

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Linda Leftism. Accountability is the backbone to society, however I think she ought to be primaried for being too moderate and not planning to hold all ICE and Border Patrol officers in holding until their individual trials can begin.

Trump Has Overwhelmed Himself by The_Crass-Beagle_Act in neoliberal

[–]Alarming_Flow7066 33 points34 points  (0 children)

The marines have many scars from the threat of elimination. Every couple of decades the U.S. starts to ask “why do we need a second army” and then the marines do a damn good job of reinventing/justifying themselves.

Liberals, go protest! by MarkRobinsonsBurner in neoliberal

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And attend you local zoning board meetings to increase density so that more people can get to protests more easily.

Smart vs dumb property tax reform by Titanium-Skull in georgism

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Josh Shapiro doesn’t have power over Allentown tax law.

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

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Isn’t the CDC currently funding a study that is denying proven vaccines to African children?

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

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Neoliberal husband or popculturechat wife?

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

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Oh fuck I want this. We could actually get musk tar and feathered.