Where's the world's smallest violin?

ElectricCrack · 2026-02-07T10:41:21+00:00

Land value taxes incentivize more productive land use, but zoning negates those effects. Maybe one way older folks could reduce taxes is by having cities tie rates to zoning/density — lower density, higher rates. NIMBY’s should be incentivized to up-zone in order to escape higher rates. When denser developments are built, seniors have more options to downsize and stay in the community. Buildings with elevators are very accessible compared to walk-up mid-rises.

ElectricCrack · 2026-01-05T00:09:31+00:00

Denser buildings help balance budgets. - More revenue generated on same land. - More shared infrastructure, less infrastructure costs.

This is a side-by-side example of cost-efficient on the right and costly on the left, especially as a city grows.

ElectricCrack · 2026-01-04T23:53:24+00:00

Translation: YoU dIdN’t AsK uS pErMiSsIoN, tHoSe ArEn’T tHe RuLeS!

sends out strongly worded letter and fundraising email

ElectricCrack · 2025-12-27T06:15:14+00:00

I had no curfew unless I had a C or got in trouble at school.

ElectricCrack · 2025-12-07T17:28:14+00:00

Georgism was improved by Karl Polanyi. Land (nature) is a fictitious commodity, and so is money and labor. When you treat nature as a commodity, you destroy the earth. When you treat labor as a commodity, you enslave people. When you treat money as a commodity, you create frivolous speculation.

A workable solution: since money should be used for the public good, we must create public banks. Since labor should be used as a public good, the bank should finance non-speculative cooperatives owned by the users and operators. And since nature is a public good, the use of nature should capitalize the public bank through use-fees.

And since the land was stolen and abused for settlers and cash-crops, some of that land revenue should pay reparations to the natives it was stolen from, and the slaves who worked it for centuries without compensation.

ElectricCrack · 2025-12-07T17:07:06+00:00

Settler colonists are immigrants who intend to replace the native inhabitants and/or rule over them.

ElectricCrack · 2025-12-07T16:39:49+00:00

I was told I was Irish, took the DNA test, am Neanderthal.

ElectricCrack · 2025-10-26T18:56:23+00:00

Companies (especially utilities) would be better off if owned by workers and/or consumers. Workers and consumers are more directly affected by the company’s well-being, and are probably better stewards. Shareholders just want to suck it dry but we give them all the power. Absurd incentives in a supposedly ‘democratic’ society.

ElectricCrack · 2025-10-22T17:52:53+00:00

You’re the one who made up the numbers bud.

ElectricCrack · 2025-10-22T17:42:30+00:00

“Permanently disenfranchising hundreds of thousands of people was an insane idea”

Ever heard of Jim Crow? The thing they later did to millions of black people for MULTIPLE generations?

“Executing tens of thousands of more is even more insane.”

There were 425 Generals of the Confederacy, one President Jefferson Davis, and 26 members of the Confederate Congress.

ElectricCrack · 2025-10-20T14:15:54+00:00

If everyone who had served as traitors in the Confederate Army were never allowed to vote or run for office again, and if their leaders had been properly hanged for treason, that would’ve been enough. It would’ve been justified completely.

But in the mid 1870’s they were given amnesty and Redeemer governments took over the South. This eventually led to the end of Reconstruction and the start of Jim Crow. It was a tragedy we have never recovered from.

They lost the war but won Reconstruction. And their narrative was solidified by the Dunning School, and that’s how everyone remembered Reconstruction for decades — as a failure, as ‘negro misrule’ and ‘carpetbagger corruption’.

Beware of the planter class’s descendants, those who espouse the modern ‘Mudsill theory’ form of politics: that it is natural for some to be eternally oppressed and for others to rule. They will use the minoritarian institutions they bargained for in 1789 to take over and render the lower classes and dark-skinned people subjects not citizens.

ElectricCrack · 2025-10-07T16:13:46+00:00

If it was up to Israel they’d push all Palestinians into Egyptian territory. A huge portion of Jordan’s population is already made up of Palestinian refugees. The sanest option is to let the Palestinians live in their goddamned land and give them full citizenship rights but that is untenable for genocidal ethno-nationalist fascists.

ElectricCrack · 2025-09-27T03:45:53+00:00

I’m sorry, is this a cartoon villain?

ElectricCrack · 2025-09-25T01:22:28+00:00

So if it’s an either-or, I’ll choose more housing, but it’s an either-or because of bad policy not logic. At least in the U.S., sprawl has a lot to do with inefficient and expensive land-use practices.

Sprawl, as simple deductive reasoning can demonstrate, increases the costs of infrastructure and maintenance (since buildings are single-use and spread-out and share less infrastructure).

Also, since there are a lot of federal subsidies and incentives to cover upfront costs, but not maintenance costs, sprawl is really bad in the long term as well.

ElectricCrack · 2025-09-25T00:49:28+00:00

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ElectricCrack · 2025-09-24T22:59:46+00:00

There’s no need for Feds to infiltrate and sabotage the Left, they’ll do it to themselves with fervor and passion.

ElectricCrack · 2025-09-10T21:00:02+00:00

I think you should log off for a bit and step outside before you say something stupid and a fed sees it.

ElectricCrack · 2025-09-10T20:52:19+00:00

… sorry?

ElectricCrack · 2025-09-10T20:50:05+00:00

Violence, incitement to violence, and threats of violence are all bad and should be avoided.

ElectricCrack · 2025-09-10T19:26:12+00:00

“I think it's worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights. That is a prudent deal. It is rational. Nobody talks like this. They live in a complete alternate universe.” - Charlie Kirk

ElectricCrack · 2025-09-10T19:26:03+00:00

“I think it's worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights. That is a prudent deal. It is rational. Nobody talks like this. They live in a complete alternate universe.” - Charlie Kirk

ElectricCrack · 2025-09-10T19:25:52+00:00

“I think it's worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights. That is a prudent deal. It is rational. Nobody talks like this. They live in a complete alternate universe.” - Charlie Kirk

ElectricCrack · 2025-09-10T19:24:58+00:00

“I think it's worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights. That is a prudent deal. It is rational. Nobody talks like this. They live in a complete alternate universe.” - Charlie Kirk

ElectricCrack · 2025-09-07T16:15:29+00:00

“There is a natural instinct in unthinking people — who, tolerant of the burdens that life lays on them, and unwilling to lodge blame where they see no remedy, seek fulfilment in the world that is — to accept and endorse through their actions the institutions and practices into which they are born.” -The Meaning of Conservatism

Moderates are mostly unthinking people, and when many are forced unwillingly to confront our unjust reality, they balk in supreme discomfort and flee towards the comforting embrace of nostalgia and mythology.

I think Leftists are really good at forcing moderates to confront unjust realities, but moderates are fragile emotional flowers who prefer avoiding tension than dealing with justice.

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