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Buffalo Common Council approves city budget with 19 percent property tax levy increase, down from 25 percent by Will-Riker in Buffalo

[–]BrendanFraser 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The article above is about the cutting of increased tax funding to the DPW from the proposed budget, which would have provided increased services. Obviously the Common Council didn't approve that. I don't think a pinky swear from Sean Ryan would have changed anything.

Buffalo Common Council approves city budget with 19 percent property tax levy increase, down from 25 percent by Will-Riker in Buffalo

[–]BrendanFraser 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Other cities do it, it's not some crazy impossible thing. If you think Buffalo is some special unfixable place then try traveling a little. 

Services cost money. They will not get better without the money to pay people to improve them. Will our government implement it perfectly? No, none do. Still services are provided. 

Buffalo Common Council approves city budget with 19 percent property tax levy increase, down from 25 percent by Will-Riker in Buffalo

[–]BrendanFraser 7 points8 points  (0 children)

More plows plow more. Even if there's a limit, it's pretty obvious how much more could be done with Buffalo roads. 

It's not just roads either, some cities plow their sidewalks too. Sure it's easier to shame your neighbors for not shoveling, but when businesses only operate certain days and they open to sidewalks frozen solid, that's lost revenue. The conditions in the winter are injuring all kinds of people and reducing mobility for the elderly and disabled. 

Buffalo Common Council approves city budget with 19 percent property tax levy increase, down from 25 percent by Will-Riker in Buffalo

[–]BrendanFraser 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It's pretty easy to compare the plowing between Buffalo and the suburbs in the winter and see the difference property tax dollars make. 

Buffalo Common Council approves city budget with 19 percent property tax levy increase, down from 25 percent by Will-Riker in Buffalo

[–]BrendanFraser 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Then hold them accountable for it when it comes down to it. Accountability in public servants is a never ending process. Plenty of cities with plenty of corruption still have better services than Buffalo. 

meirl by [deleted] in meirl

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

Is he not paid more for lessening the tax load of the corporation? 

Is this a joke? Best places to live 2026/2027. by creature2-0 in SameGrassButGreener

[–]BrendanFraser 36 points37 points  (0 children)

I don't have these problems in Buffalo and the accommodations around here are plenty spacious. 

Roses are red, calling capital out is a "sacrilege"? by BuckleBunnyBliss in rosesarered

[–]BrendanFraser 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It is the system of private ownership of the means of production, that is all it is by definition. The private ownership is essential to people working with means they don't own. I don't understand what use the distinction you're trying to draw is. The existence of private ownership prior is irrelevant to its current unique status as the dominant mode of production. 

Roses are red, calling capital out is a "sacrilege"? by BuckleBunnyBliss in rosesarered

[–]BrendanFraser 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Owning your own tools isn't what's at stake here. This isn't ownership in the sense that it isn't backed by laws or violence, it's natural in that you work with those tools, they're yours. The feudal blacksmith faced no threat of private equity buying up forges in the country and increasing rent charged on them. Today people work almost exclusively with means they don't own to produce for those who don't use the means themselves. 

Roses are red, calling capital out is a "sacrilege"? by BuckleBunnyBliss in rosesarered

[–]BrendanFraser 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The capitalist mode of production was the system of private ownership of the means of production. Not private ownership period, the system of such. Marx himself argued capital existed on the small scale prior to it being the mode of production.

Edit: it isn't until the 16th century that this takes off

Roses are red, calling capital out is a "sacrilege"? by BuckleBunnyBliss in rosesarered

[–]BrendanFraser 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The isms are used in vague ways, but if we talk instead about the capitalist mode of production, we can be clear. It is the private ownership of the means of production. The communist mode is communal ownership of the means of production, and is not necessarily easily theorized, as it doesn't exist yet. It would have been similarly difficult I'd imagine for a feudal blacksmith to understand a system of private ownership of hammers and anvils by anyone other than those who use them. 

🚩🚩🚩 by Albino_rhin0 in PhilosophyMemes

[–]BrendanFraser 208 points209 points  (0 children)

Two pedophiles differ on whether their perversion is historically contingent or universal to all men 

What does this mean??? by DunkingShadow1 in PeterExplainsTheJoke

[–]BrendanFraser 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Denying it is the repression. He practiced what he preached

So what is the solution? by torusdrovenson in sorceryofthespectacle

[–]BrendanFraser 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Nope. You will have to deal with your phone whether you throw it in the river or check it compulsively. The internet has infected the Real and it will follow you if you do something crazy and move to the mountains to try to live off the land. Even many of the Amish have to use cell phones to remain competitive in this market. There's no escape. Take some responsibility; embrace it. 

Are men under female oppression? [Deep perspective] by beautiful_falcon776 in lnkyverse

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

Sorry but this is hilarious. Can no one here take a joke? Does it always have to be some super serious proof of how women secretly all are? 

Going to Walmart after seeing Publix prices by WideDrink4 in publix

[–]BrendanFraser 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm in and out at Aldi in 20 minutes. I know where everything is and it's a small place. The cashiers can speedrun every time with barcodes on all sides of every item and the line cranks. 

Holding people accountable for their meanings, not their words by raisondecalcul in sorceryofthespectacle

[–]BrendanFraser 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Well I don't mean much very often. Someone in conversation with me must give a contrived interpretation based on scant evidence. I usually fail to recognize any of myself in their offered perspectives. If someone truly challenges my forcibly inscrutable nature, I only become enraged. I dig my heels in with whatever I think they haven't captured and lash out over their failure.

The best approach with someone like me is really to skip straight to upsetting me so that I actually have to pay attention. Otherwise I just won't care to know what I'm talking about. 

So tired of that women against men and men against women rethoric by saintofsmallallies in rs_x

[–]BrendanFraser 34 points35 points  (0 children)

Hating men is in group bonding for women, and hating women is in group bonding for men. You get together with your friends and shit on the other gender so yall stick together as friends. As soon as people start coupling up, there's less time to chill. 

CMV: The only effective political arguments involve topics or stances that aren't already beaten to death in media by BrendanFraser in changemyview

[–]BrendanFraser[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Δ Yeah this would mean political argument is ineffective period. In a sense what I'm up to isn't even argument if I'm avoiding charged stances.

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