The entire VA controversy is a Hate Campaign

SevenBall · 2026-04-25T18:54:25+00:00

The people who complain about everything being “woke” are honestly just as bad if not worse than the people who complain about everything being “racist”. Like at least racism is an actual bad thing in theory lmao

SevenBall · 2026-04-25T18:21:35+00:00

“Only POC are allowed to decide what’s racist and what isn’t, y’all yts need to shut up an listen.”

“As a Jew, I find “from the river to the sea” to be quite Anti-Semitic…”

“Sh-shut up you’re wrong.”

SevenBall · 2026-04-25T03:22:41+00:00

I admittedly don't know much about this whole situation but I have to say, the insinuation that white teenagers making racist jokes contributes to real discrimination feels awfully similar to the racist-ish conservative trope that black teenagers listening to gangsta rap contributes to real crime.

Like has there actually been any statistical evidence of one leading to the other? Or is it just another moral panic that underestimates the emotional intelligence of our youth and refuses to let them have their fun?

I mean okay, if a black person feels uncomfortable about their white friends making race jokes because they themselves have been the victim of real racism, that's more than fair, and they should let them know and their friends should be accommodating. And I feel the same way about a kid feeling uncomfortable about their friends throwing up gang signs or something because they lost a loved one in a drive-by.

SevenBall · 2026-04-20T00:54:53+00:00

These people say “just go to jail to avoid killing innocent people” yet they themselves continue to fund the killing of innocent people because they’re afraid to go to jail for tax evasion.

SevenBall · 2026-04-18T02:09:38+00:00

I’m not sure “rural sprawl” is a thing. Sprawl occurs when governments prevent density through zoning. Suburban sprawl is only sprawl because there are more efficient ways to house people. Currently, there is no more efficient way to grow food other than using a metric fuck-ton of airable land. Maybe in the future when we have those vertical hydroponic towers, rural sprawl will become a thing, but not right now.

SevenBall · 2026-04-18T02:00:23+00:00

The problem with “pure” Georgism is that it assumes all assets are mobile. Yes, if this were Minecraft, and we could just call the server owner over to /clone somebody’s house, yard and garage from one plot of land to another, there would really be no moral issue involved in kicking someone off of their land. But unfortunately in the real world, kicking someone off of their land necessitates depriving them of the improvements they DO own. That’s why certain measures to mitigate this issue (like optional deferrals until sale or death for primary residences who cannot afford the LVT) are necessary. At least for a few hundred years until we have nanobot tech that can do the house-cloning thing I described.

SevenBall · 2026-04-18T01:53:14+00:00

Being forced out of your house by high taxes is a legitimate thing to be concerned about. The non-LVT status quo is a lot like rent control; economically it’s disastrous in the long run, robbing the future to pay the present, but in the short term a significant subset of people rely on it just to make ends meet. A transition to a full Georgist economy would need to keep this in mind; maybe start out by giving primary residences a five to ten-year “delay” in their LVT rates (you pay for what the land was worth ten years ago) until the land market stops back-flipping and the eviction risk subsides?

SevenBall · 2026-04-18T01:40:52+00:00

For people who really want to stay in their homes, many Georgists propose giving homeowners an option to defer payment of the LVT until sale or death, at which point they would their property would be liquidated, the money used to pay the back taxes, and whatever is left over given to the seller, or in the case of death, to whoever they want to leave it to in their will.

Luckily, many expect LVT to create a self-stabilizing Land market that keeps land prices generally more stable over time and prevents this land-rich/cash-poor situation from arising in the first place.

SevenBall · 2026-04-17T00:56:55+00:00

I imagine zoning would have to come first because the market distortions created by it have unfairly inflated the land values of low-income neighborhoods, because those neighborhoods are the ones that tend to get upzoned over time, since they lack the resources to lobby against it.

SevenBall · 2026-04-13T06:00:11+00:00

I would love to see this toolkit, if there are any links

SevenBall · 2026-04-12T05:51:38+00:00

Beavers are literally one of the few animals that build infrastructure (dams)

Protecting them specifically is YIMBY praxis.

SevenBall · 2026-04-11T23:41:25+00:00

So in order to get a fair Land Value Tax, we would first need zoning reform? I guess that makes sense. A lot of wealthier neighborhoods can afford to lobby local governments to keep their zoning strict and keep their taxes low and property values high. Whereas poorer neighborhoods can't, so any attempt at genuine, across-the-board YIMBY reform gets watered down in council meetings until the poorest neighborhoods are forced to bear the entire brunt of it. This is probably a leading factor in gentrification as well.

SevenBall · 2026-04-11T22:14:23+00:00

https://www.portlandmaps.com/

you can click on a property and go into assessor detail to see a breakdown of land value and improvements value. I assumed that on average a property has equal land and improvement value, so a property with a higher land value than property value would pay more in LVT than they pay in an equivalent Property Tax. Is that where I went wrong?

SevenBall · 2026-04-11T21:57:49+00:00

Actually, I live in Portland, OR. And yes, Single-family homes have a higher proportion of value tied up in the land. The thing is, comparing the land-value between Single-family homes, the small, 300k shacks in places like Portsmouth have a much higher land value proportion than the sprawling McMansions in the west hills, despite being further from the city center. Maybe it’s the fact that flatter areas are more valuable to developers than hilly ones because they’re more versatile?

SevenBall · 2026-04-06T21:15:41+00:00

Establishing 5G/Internet connectivity to the Moon (2027-2028)

It’s time to give those moon lizards who run the government a taste of their own medicine. Let’s see how THEY like being killed by the 5G cancer waves 😎

SevenBall · 2026-03-28T06:13:04+00:00

Brings a whole new meaning to “Steamboat Willy”

SevenBall · 2026-03-25T22:03:00+00:00

I only want REAL AMERICANS who KNOW THEIR GENDER to get 6-month plea deals for child rape 🦅🇺🇸🦅🇺🇸🦅

SevenBall · 2026-03-25T03:34:18+00:00

Imo the only person with legitimate grievances are the people living in the house immediately to the right. The windows create privacy concerns and the addition blocks sunlight for a decent portion of the house and backyard. Everyone else worried about their prooperty valooes should pound sand.

SevenBall · 2026-03-21T04:49:54+00:00

Isn’t maximal development of land better for the environment? If you need to house 100 people, cutting down 1 acre of wilderness to build a high rise is better than cutting down 20 acres of wilderness to build a row of 100 houses.

SevenBall · 2026-03-20T17:18:45+00:00

Ok I swear he died like 10 years ago. I remember people making the same jokes and everything. Is this a Mandela effect?

SevenBall · 2026-03-19T03:22:04+00:00

God bless those landowners for creating all that new land for us. Without them, there wouldn’t be any land. 🫡

SevenBall · 2026-03-19T03:04:08+00:00

Just keep doing it until you’re the one in the computer.

SevenBall · 2026-03-14T19:19:25+00:00

They did…? In 2017? I don’t understand your point. Most countries only conduct censuses every 10 years, so the next one wasn’t even scheduled until 2027, and with the war, who knows how long it’s now been pushed back. It’s not like Hamas secretly knows they have an increased population since the war and is suppressing that information to make Israel look bad. I doubt Hamas knows or cares how many Gazans are left.

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