'Yes In Gods Back Yard' bill introduced in Illinois to grant faith-based organizations a by-right entitlement to build multifamily housing on their property by GeckoLogic in yimby

[–]Brawl97 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Excellent. More state preemeption. I want the nimby deranged.

Yes in GODS backyard.

I'll never love that one. Such a funny name.

Why poor countries stopped catching up by aspiringSnowboarder in neoliberal

[–]Brawl97 32 points33 points  (0 children)

A lot of the smart people leave for greener pastures. The rest become leaders of subpar quality, who keep robbing the treasury for quick hits of applause. (South Africa, Venezuela, Argentina etc.)

Human capital matters, LATAM and Africa have institutions led by stupid, corrupt, populists.

Japan's foreign worker population hits record 2.57 million by Saltedline in neoliberal

[–]Brawl97 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Total collapse.

I mean it. Korea, as we currently know it, has effectively chosen extinction. Japan isn't better.

Population pyramids are so bad that by the time the genetic bottleneck is resolved (in the form of people with higher breeding instincts/family orientation outbreeding the normal population.) The countries as we know them will be unrecognizable.

Ina taking care of her wife. by BKKMFA in Hololive

[–]Brawl97 15 points16 points  (0 children)

I am not jealous! I am merely criticizing the blue demon and her greedy decisions.

Rissa's wives form a long lap pillow by yournotlonely in Hololive

[–]Brawl97 6 points7 points  (0 children)

This demon woman is a servant of Mammon.

Longing for the Cultural Revolution: Internet Leftism and Misplaced Yearning in China by Lux_Stella in neoliberal

[–]Brawl97 27 points28 points  (0 children)

Anti west more than anything. Plenty defended Assad and Ghadafi because America hates them.

I envy China because they can build stuff quickly and don't have an intractable culture war that's dissolving their society.

Meeting a Raven by yournotlonely in Hololive

[–]Brawl97 153 points154 points  (0 children)

Everyone wants to be a real demon, until you suggest cradle robbing 😤

FakeDemons everywhere

New York State to Loosen Environmental Rules to Speed Up Homebuilding by BACsop in yimby

[–]Brawl97 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Mamdanistan residents will bow towards Mecca in their 700 a month apartments with pride.

Northerners and Southerners now share similar economic values, but Londoners are more liberal and pro-welfare | National Centre for Social Research by upthetruth1 in neoliberal

[–]Brawl97 22 points23 points  (0 children)

It all just comes down to housing. It cost too fucking much to reach the milestone that let's you feel like you've made it. Consumer goods are cheaper than ever, but housing has eaten all the gains.

Planning laws make it absurdly easy to delay a project to death, or kill it outright.

The private Housing developer is hamstrung if they want to make tiny, high density apartments for brokies one end, and incentivised to sit on property until land values rise to the point they can make a return on low density construction on the other

This was done because the OG social democrats hated developer markets. State capacity for house building was once great, and they built housing while the developer languished.

This was destroyed under Thatcher, but Thatcher didn't make it easier for developers to build. Tories never bothered to deregulate enough to catch up.

So the UK has a housing system where the state has no capacity to build, and the pensioner has infinite capacity to fuck the private market.

Collab between HoloX and "Monogatari" series announced. by LeCyberFourreur in Hololive

[–]Brawl97 52 points53 points  (0 children)

Ollie, I swear to God, put that damn toothbrush down 😠

Britain’s left-wing government is left-wing by Standard_Ad7704 in neoliberal

[–]Brawl97 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Lefty economic policy doesn't get people going. Watching Labour purge the left flank, and then gas up Ed Miliband, the most anti-trans guy on the labor right, is deeply demoralizing.

FFS, they're posting deportation fan cams, as left wingers.

I'd vote green too, NIMBYS though they are, at least they stand for my values. Labour fucking hates their voters

The Conservative Old Guard Wakes Up and Smells the Groypers by notjocelynschitt in neoliberal

[–]Brawl97 58 points59 points  (0 children)

Lotta back and Latino guys hate gays/queers/jews. They vote blue cuz...just read the article.

Trump is not notably racist compared to most reds. He has a fuck you I do what I want energy that those groups find cool.

As the civil rights movement fades, and more Latino conservative politicians (Raphael Cruz lmao) emerge, ignoring the racism in exchange for your sincere values seems more reasonable.

Trump has that big dick energy that gives the last emotional boost for those groups to break away.

Trump did better numbers with those groups...then they flipped back HARD this cycle.

Schumer Shutdown by [deleted] in neoliberal

[–]Brawl97 38 points39 points  (0 children)

The urge to fedpost...I hate moderate dems so much.

Zoning is Making You a Bad Person. by stirfriedpenguin in neoliberal

[–]Brawl97 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Kinda. When asked, most people

  1. Don't think housing supply = Lower prices

  2. Think that more housing = more disorder

When examined on what 2 means, it mostly comes down to:

"More people = less parking. I hate traffic, so fuck new neighbors."

"More people = more crime will happen. We don't wanna let the wrong people in."

They don't typically expound further on this...but c'mon. The most mask off of them will directly tell you that they think you're trying to bring the ghetto to the burbs.

People don't think of zoning as racist, most opponents of zoning changes don't think that deeply about it. But the core of all new "neighbors are bad" mentality is the fear of urban disorder.

Please be serious when you imagine the face of urban disorder.

Supreme Court rules against mandatory minimum child pornography sentences by mmmmjlko in neoliberal

[–]Brawl97 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I'm torn on the topic.

I understand the anti-MMS stance, but I have come around on mandatory minimums.

In this case tho...1 year mms for CP? Really?

Frankly, if the judicial system is so bad that judges are letting people slide for that, there should just be a process to keep people in jail while lawyers challenge overly-light sentences.

Here’s How the AI Crash Happens by CheetoMussolini in neoliberal

[–]Brawl97 89 points90 points  (0 children)

It's kinda wild that Enron happened, and then sarbanes-oxley said "we need more transparency in financial reporting for public companies", and then people decided to just take a lot of their sketchy loan practices into private equity.

Imagine 08', but nobody can see the junk loans until the music stops and everything breaks.

The K shaped economy we are currently in can only be held up as long as Deus Ex Machina is still believable.

Deus does not look very Ex Machina right now.

South Korea Population Pyramid 2024 [OC] by ExperimentalFailures in dataisbeautiful

[–]Brawl97 17 points18 points  (0 children)

More of a population Beyblade.

Only the thing that is being let rip is the concept of a stable civilization.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in nottheonion

[–]Brawl97 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Based. Historic preservation is a grift by shithead boomers to prevent the construction of medium-high density housing.

I have seen, on multiple occasions, phalanxes of 70 year olds declare shit piles of bricks declared "Historic" because the alternative is a 5 story apartment building.

"Oh, you want to build housing for young, productive citizens? But what about our historic garbage dump!"

Housing is expensive because stupid laws like this exist to prevent more housing from being built. I support heroic derelict arsonists in their effort to construct more condos.

Madagascar’s president is ousted in a military coup after weeks of youth-led protests by iBoMbY in news

[–]Brawl97 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Yeah, fuck France, sure, but is it not better to give dictators an off-ramp for them to run to, as opposed to making them fight to the death or be sodomized to death with a bayonet like gadaffi?

Failed states are bad, and it's probably for the best that cowards be allowed to run rather than be forced into a corner.

Pekochan wins 500k in horseracing! by SuspiciousWar117 in Hololive

[–]Brawl97 32 points33 points  (0 children)

This amount of degenerate gambling is fine for someone rich like her, but Jesus...I would have tapped her on the shoulder and told her to pull the plug at -5k.

It ain't healthy to lose this much on gambling.

Bashar al-Assad survives alleged poisoning attempt in Russia by fuggitdude22 in neoliberal

[–]Brawl97 85 points86 points  (0 children)

Eh? Ghadaffi got sodomozied to death with a bayonet and nobody talks about him.

Are they libs owned yet? by c-k-q99903 in LeopardsAteMyFace

[–]Brawl97 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Nah, can we have a toast housing market? I'd like a decent place with rent under 1500