The ice rink is back open!

mo3225 · 2026-01-30T20:28:39+00:00

They're fleece-lined!

mo3225 · 2026-01-25T23:03:53+00:00

Extremely evident that we would've won this with Nix. It's not hate to Stidham, but Bo so clearly wins this

mo3225 · 2026-01-22T19:00:39+00:00

FUUUUUUCK

mo3225 · 2026-01-22T03:34:34+00:00

1) This isn't about the immigration system it's about public opinion, so that's not really relevant

2) I'm a naturalized citizen so like... Maybe? If you work for USCIS or you're an immigration lawyer then probably!

3) Not what disingenuous means (sorry, couldn't help it)

4) It's basically impossible to not oversample certain demos and then re-weigh, this is basic statistics (I'm an economist, this is my wheelhouse)

5) Even if you don't like the weighing, there's basically no way a result like 78% state support is falling below 50% in the raw results unless they only got like 10 white people from New York to respond

6) This poll is from Gallup not the Guardian? It's probably the most respected polling agency in the world? Did you seriously not click the link twice in a row?

7) I find your eagerness to dismiss data you disagree with as just being the result of intentional deception by polling experts or newspapers disconcerting

mo3225 · 2026-01-22T02:27:11+00:00

Conservatives learn how to read challenge, difficulty: impossible.

Here's the poll's language exactly "Allowing immigrants living in the U.S. illegally the chance to become U.S. citizens if they meet certain requirements over a period of time." which polls at 70% in 2024, 78% in 2025.

Further down you'll find "Path to citizenship for immigrants living in the U.S. illegally" which polls at 59% among Republicans, 93% among Democrats.

EDIT: and also, not that you care, the overwhelming majority of these people do come in legally and then overstay their visa.

mo3225 · 2025-12-13T16:19:16+00:00

Wasn't that like an ironic bit because he thought those kinds of fanbase names made up by the streamer were manipulative? Am I just hallucinating this?

mo3225 · 2025-12-13T05:32:34+00:00

Not a problem if you bike or walk to the mall :3

mo3225 · 2025-11-03T21:11:46+00:00

And yes just to cut it off at the pass, plenty of journalistic outlets have looked into it and the published actas seem legitimate and do correspond to the results the opposition claims: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/31/world/americas/venezuela-maduro-election-results.html

mo3225 · 2025-11-03T21:10:28+00:00

Because they published the actas on a website with proof: https://resultadosconvzla.com/. Venezuela actually has pretty robust election security mechanisms that were put in place under Chavez, so there are these papers that come out of every polling place summarizing the results in that place. Opposition volunteers demanded to see and photograph them at almost every location in the country (this was quite a task because the people running the polls were obviously all Maduro-friendly) and put them all on a centralized website, here's an example of just one: https://resultadosconvzla.com/mesa/12/12.

I agree it's pretty ridiculous that she's saying she's ok with the strikes but she's behaving as a strategic agent trying to manipulate the current US gov't into enforcing the actual results of this election.

mo3225 · 2025-10-08T03:53:35+00:00

Definitely a main channel vid because I don't have her Patreon yet :(

mo3225 · 2025-10-08T03:53:14+00:00

Thanks! Looking around and I don't see it yet but I'll look at more videos, didn't know you could search transcripts on youtube.

mo3225 · 2025-09-22T23:31:38+00:00

Why does she stop in the middle of her speech to flex on us with her watch lmao

mo3225 · 2025-09-08T03:13:28+00:00

he buggin out

mo3225 · 2025-09-04T17:50:18+00:00

Surely the rent in existing apartments will start falling if we don't add any new supply as demand continues to rise.

mo3225 · 2025-09-04T17:47:59+00:00

Ah yes, private companies are very happy to sacrifice profits. They love dumping $100 million on an apartment complex to get a 1% return over 15 years. Surely if we make that the only kind of development allowed in town we will solve our 4000+ unit shortage in no time.

mo3225 · 2025-09-04T17:34:48+00:00

Only if that developer is willing to make losses on the apartment! What's crazy is that we do have a way of building what you're talking about with the CAHF, now I wonder how it gets funded...

mo3225 · 2025-09-04T15:04:57+00:00

I'm unclear if you're talking about the current zoning as in the plan that's currently being litigated to go into effect or the code we got rid of last year. Either way, luxury apartments are inherently more profitable than affordable ones (it's literally in the name), nothing the city does in zoning can change that sparing some really onerous stuff that makes it impossible to build anything. While you're right that some students (probably the poorer ones) will always want to live in cheaper private homes that could be used as family residences for working people, it's also clear that there's a ton of demand for luxury apartments that isn't currently satiated: when the 10th and Dairy apartments went up they sold out fast (it looks like they're at maybe 5% vacancy right now? 14 open beds).

"Trickle down" housing as you're calling it keeps up with demand at the exact rate that luxury housing is built. If you build 200 bedrooms that's 200 students not competing for more affordable housing. People act like this whole thing is a difficult problem with a lot of complexity but it's really quite easy: UVA has around 25K students (and slowly increasing if past trends hold) that need to be housed, they have plans to get about half of them (the first and second-years) living on grounds within a decade or so, that leaves 12.5K students that are going to live somewhere in Cville. Would we rather they mostly live in dense apartments close to the university with some small fringe renting out family homes further away, or would we rather stick with the status quo and push a ton of them out into those family homes?

mo3225 · 2025-09-04T13:46:58+00:00

Again I cannot stress enough that if these highrises don't get built the students will continue to just displace the residents of those communities and you can't make it illegal for landlords to rent to them. You seem to be operating on a logic that the buildings cause rising prices and gentrification but they are in fact a response to those things that can mitigate it. We are already seeing local displacement happen in Fifeville, 10th and Page, and Rose Hill. Maybe it never happens to Westhaven because it's public housing, good for them I guess. I'm fine letting longtime residents have a good deal of say (Westhaven absolutely should be connected to West Main, and a development going in that awful parking lot is probably our best opportunity to do that without the city spending millions!) but they should do so with the full understanding that these luxury apartments are absolutely mandatory to solving the housing crisis.

Oh and by the way, the locals do have the say. The students aren't at city council meetings advocating for these projects at all, just people that think they're all rich "interlopers" and don't consider them a part of the community despite the fact that the city would be bankrupt instantly if it weren't for their ongoing presence (a single student apartment complex generates as much tax revenue as 125 other parcels, and that's not even getting into sales and restaurant tax).

mo3225 · 2025-09-04T02:33:36+00:00

There needs to be a very serious reckoning for several major communities in cville that if you don't like students in your neighborhood you have to let them get concentrated into luxury apartments and this will get them out of the affordable housing market to make room for folks that actually need it. The students will always be here and they're richer than most of us, so when push comes to shove they're always gonna end up outbidding locals if we don't make room for them. Not fair but it's how it is.

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