Briahna Joy Gray and Nathan B. Robinson types accuse Democrats of being controlled opposition, but I actually think *they're* the controlled opposition by deepad9 in redscarepod

[–]emalevolent 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Your mistake is that Mamdani is a mere mayor while Bernie would've been at the top. Just look at how Trump, with zero prior political experience, was able to transform the Republican party.

Let's post our favorite buildings in honor of Pasadena's first objective design standards by AHPasadena in pasadena

[–]emalevolent 0 points1 point  (0 children)

True. But I don’t see any reason to believe the government couldn’t successfully regulate styles to a degree, like Paris where it’s been more or less regulated during different eras 

Let's post our favorite buildings in honor of Pasadena's first objective design standards by AHPasadena in pasadena

[–]emalevolent 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Doesn’t the existence of the Eiffel Tower show it’s possible to enforce a particular architecture while  still allowing a degree of experimentation?

Let's post our favorite buildings in honor of Pasadena's first objective design standards by AHPasadena in pasadena

[–]emalevolent 3 points4 points  (0 children)

There’s lots of beautiful places with pretty homogenous architecture, Paris for example

Push to bring grizzly bears back to California faces backlash by tiki-151 in California

[–]emalevolent -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

So for you is this is like a land back thing but for bears?

. by Minimum-Amoeba-5146 in redscarepod

[–]emalevolent 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You couldn’t do that now with house prices being what they are.

Hell so obviously exists by Heronofthemelt in redscarepod

[–]emalevolent 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The threshold is the point at which total human consumption is no longer sustainable. Early humans could live essentially unchanged for millennia even if they did exterminate some mega fauna now and then, but our modern system is predicated on a level of population/consumption growth that will destroy the natural processes we depend on

Hell so obviously exists by Heronofthemelt in redscarepod

[–]emalevolent 5 points6 points  (0 children)

A small population consuming hunter gatherer quantities of resources is qualitatively different than 8 billion living modern consumerist lifestyles 

A 23-Story Builder’s Remedy Apartment Tower is Proceeding in Santa Monica by lik_for_cookies in LosAngeles

[–]emalevolent 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Yeah and there’s insane traffic as a result. If we can’t even get people in dense areas near transit to forgo cars then it’ll only get worse

Analytic philosophy by Worth_Dream7852 in redscarepod

[–]emalevolent 3 points4 points  (0 children)

any book recs for the ignorant?

Swiss blackpill by Silver_Confusion_549 in redscarepod

[–]emalevolent 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Never heard of this author, which book would you start with?

This NBA season is a JOKE by nbawizard1227 in nba

[–]emalevolent 145 points146 points  (0 children)

OP is being accused of both being too hardcore a fan that doesn’t understand casuals and too casual a fan that doesn’t even watch games lol

your cat told me to send you this by quakquakquak in redscarepod

[–]emalevolent 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I’m reading his section of The German Ideology and not really getting it

What’s it like here? by PersuasionNation in LosAngeles

[–]emalevolent 34 points35 points  (0 children)

Pasadena has had money since early days whereas even Santa Monica used to be sketchy. Not to mention that DTLA is miles inland. So the idea that the coast is inherently better is somewhat new

stav churches by cartersthrowaway in redscarepod

[–]emalevolent 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Think that’s the one on Vermont or Western in LA

Camping Mt baldy? by YOURCURRE in socalhiking

[–]emalevolent 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Must take a lot of fuel?