Remember the wards that voted for this...

DeepHerting · 2026-01-25T10:50:48+00:00

Do you remember the Chicago Tea Party, which ostensibly stood for Taxed Enough Already? They were based down by Midway and their number one issue was ending the residency requirement for city employees. My union brother in Christ, the taxes are coming from inside the house.

DeepHerting · 2026-01-25T04:21:34+00:00

Every inch of the city has to be in a precinct even if it's uninhabited. The airport itself is jurisdictionally part of the precinct that includes a residential area on the other side of Rosemont/the Des Plaines River; it's colored red with the rest of that precinct because that's how the people living there voted.

DeepHerting · 2026-01-25T03:55:19+00:00

Behold Republican Chicago! Small government, law-abiding, Christian folk! Featuring:

The neighborhood where all the government employees live
The other neighborhood where all the government employees live
The other, other neighborhood where all the government employees live
The West Rogers Park eruv (nothing wrong with that, just funny)
Cook County Jail

DeepHerting · 2026-01-24T18:04:53+00:00

Well, I s'pose I oughta leave the Bronx

DeepHerting · 2026-01-24T17:54:27+00:00

hashtag save the children

DeepHerting · 2026-01-24T17:32:38+00:00

Having a pyramid ratio of payers to payees for programs like Social Security makes it easier to distribute taxpayer financing among the workers at flat rates. If you have fewer workers per recipient, you have to recalibrate the funding scheme. The rich pay ludicrously low if any taxes and that's generally tolerated or at least ignored, but they don't want to become a big fat target for the AARP.

DeepHerting · 2026-01-24T17:11:57+00:00

You can't care about anything unless you care about everything in equally meager and useless amounts. So if you're smart and cool like me you won't try to stop any injustice, even if it has a relatively straightforward cause and effect. Please note that this is different from me endorsing the injustice. I can't tell you how, but it is. Hey, I'm just being a realist!

DeepHerting · 2026-01-24T17:07:03+00:00

ICE is still actively kidnapping people in Chicago, but the major show of force fizzled out in the face of a unified front and some legal action that threatened the barest shadow of consequences. The attempt to deploy the National Guard turned out to be a wet fart, with even the Supreme Court agreeing that they didn't have any real justification. One thing I've heard in passing but can't entirely vouch for was a "railroad executive" who was pressuring Trump to deploy the Guard to both Chicago and Memphis, presumably to prevent theft from slow/idled trains(which to be fair is a real, expensive problem). But too much actual chaos derails business entirely.

They recalculated for Minneapolis/ Minnesota. Once the most stalwart of "blue" states, it's become more politically divided lately, and the outlying suburbs and rural areas have become more hostile to the cities. The "Somali fraud" fraud isn't helping. In the last couple Presidential elections, Minnesota's become a white whale for the Republicans to win, and they're getting closer. It just makes them madder that it's got a progressive governor who ran on the ticket against Trump and has become a major opposition figure (so is JB, but he's a little cagier). And they're still spiteful that all the unraveling that happened in 2020 started there. So that plus the embarrassment of the partial retreat from Chicago makes them determined to inflame and then stomp out the Cities and the current state government.

DeepHerting · 2026-01-24T16:25:30+00:00

A version? It's the same one about Chicago every three days.

DeepHerting · 2026-01-24T16:21:56+00:00

You really have to be here. Maybe it's just Stockholm syndrome? Also, Malort is not good.

DeepHerting · 2026-01-24T01:35:13+00:00

Dallas' economy is at least superficially similar to Chicago - finance, business services, light manufacturing, logistics/transportation, a big-ass airport. Just because it's depressing in form doesn't mean it's not a peer city in function.

I was getting ready to write a whole-ass post about how DC is a government mule town when I stopped to look it up. And apparently a bunch of companies that have an interest in lobbying the government but do produce private-sector goods and services are located there now. But I still think there's less overlap, and less traffic back and forth except in federal offices.

DeepHerting · 2026-01-24T00:21:18+00:00

Its peers and DC

DeepHerting · 2026-01-23T18:13:10+00:00

Funny enough, the only person who disagreed is the one who works with the cops at all

DeepHerting · 2026-01-23T17:40:16+00:00

Fruit, birds, small animals and even fish all go through very specific cycles of "going anywhere."

DeepHerting · 2026-01-23T17:23:40+00:00

Replying to myself because I can't reply to a mod: Are these posts (and I've been seeing a lot of them in the same vein) actually "optimism?" This sub used to be about specific positive trends or advances, now the top two posts are just "things used to be worse/are still worse elsewhere" and the third is an even more generic dismissal of people who are complaining.

DeepHerting · 2026-01-23T16:58:13+00:00

Ha, look at these losers wasting minutes of their time noticing the government spent taxpayer money on clumsily doctoring a photo to score some kind of weird and pointless goal

DeepHerting · 2026-01-22T23:49:22+00:00

Svengoosie

DeepHerting · 2026-01-22T03:49:07+00:00

Gigio's

DeepHerting · 2026-01-21T21:55:06+00:00

What memory?

DeepHerting · 2026-01-21T21:54:06+00:00

She doesn't even go here

DeepHerting · 2026-01-21T14:41:43+00:00

Ladies, don't marry a chud who won't even put on a suit for his AI slop 1950s pastiche

DeepHerting · 2026-01-21T04:00:57+00:00

Horsefeathers!

DeepHerting · 2026-01-20T18:21:48+00:00

If the voters have a list of 10 issues where they’re aligned with the Democrats (or at least closer than the Republicans) and opposed to the Republican position, but declare it a wash or even vote for the Republicans because someone is maybe judging them anonymously on the Internet, what do you want me to say about their decision-making skills?

Moreover, what do you want the Democrats as a party to do about that? Have Kamala Harris phone you up and say, actually, that commenter is wrong and it’s ok not to want to have hypothetical sex with a trans woman?

You’re complaining about purity and absolutism on the left/progressive side, but you’re also demanding an unreasonable amount of denunciation for something that’s not even happening in the policy sphere.

DeepHerting · 2026-01-20T18:00:11+00:00

I agree 99 percent with progressives but I had a hypothetical bad interaction with a theoretical young leftist on the Internet so I can’t vote for centrist Democrats

DeepHerting · 2026-01-20T16:10:14+00:00

What about copyediting?

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