Today I Learned...

OccultHawk · 06-04-2019, 05:59 PM

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Originally Posted by elphenor

reminds me of "muh it's expensive"

yeah that'll happen when your place is so amazing everyone is willing to pay 3X as much to live there

I think it’s 10X more expensive than where I’m at.

Putting an impenetrable pay wall around your city is pretty ****ing fascist

What Silicon Valley culture has done to the Bay Area is a lot ****tier than what the republicans have done around here

Anteater · 06-04-2019, 06:14 PM

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Originally Posted by elphenor

North Texas is Dallas and then miles and miles of **** all

Funniest thing I've read all year. You really need to get out more.

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Originally Posted by Frownland

Are you referring to the place with so much opportunity and so much to do that they can regulate business to the point of restriction and still be a desirable place to live? Ja, I guess that really disproves my point.

Womp womp.

**Frownland** · 06-04-2019, 06:19 PM

Whoa a business insider video? I can tell that you've really thought this through.

OccultHawk · 06-04-2019, 07:18 PM

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Originally Posted by elphenor

yeah it's shiet I'm just saying Texas Repubs should know their supply and demand when they boast a low cost of living

it's not the taxes, it's that Cali produced a culture that made everyone want to live there

I agree. It’s too bad they lacked the courage to produce a culture where everybody can live there. Silicon Valley generated the wealth to create cummunal living spaces, comfortable rent controlled or even rent free housing for the people who created the culture they love, they could have preserved the Hispanic and black diversity but all they did was buy it and wall it off. They talk about connectivity and bridges but in terms of practice they live exactly like Trump. I’m no more welcome there than I am in the Trump Tower or Mar a Lago and they use the exact same power structure to exclude me. You can’t hoard wealth and property and not be the problem. I respect the republicans in north Texas more than property owners in the Bay Area because in actual practice they’re less exclusionary. The Republicans around here may be misguided but they’re not part of an oligarchical ruling class that actively limits my mobility. The Bay Area is prohibitively expensive. That’s real tangible oppression not just a philosophy.

Anteater · 06-04-2019, 07:20 PM

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Originally Posted by Frownland

Whoa a business insider video? I can tell that you've really thought this through.

Freedom of the press my good man. What are you, some kind of fascist? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Originally Posted by OccultHawk

I agree. It’s too bad they lacked the courage to produce a culture where everybody can live there. Silicon Valley generated the wealth to create cummunal living spaces, comfortable rent controlled or even rent free housing for the people who created the culture they love, they could have preserved the Hispanic and black diversity but all they did was buy it and wall it off. They talk about connectivity and bridges but in terms of practice they live exactly like Trump. I’m no more welcome there than I am in the Trump Tower or Mar a Lago and they use the exact same power structure to exclude me. You can’t hoard wealth and property and not be the problem. I respect the republicans in north Texas more than property owners in the Bay Area because in actual practice they’re less exclusionary. The Republicans around here may be misguided but they’re not part of an oligarchical ruling class that actively limits my mobility. The Bay Area is prohibitively expensive. That’s real tangible oppression not just a philosophy.

Megachurch.

**Frownland** · 06-04-2019, 07:28 PM

Conclusion: America sucks from sea to shining sea.

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Originally Posted by Anteater

Freedom of the press my good man. What are you, some kind of fascist? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Pointing out your inability to support your own stances beyond regurgitating the culture war bull**** that you read on The Fedaralist is not a threat to freedom of the press.

OccultHawk · 06-04-2019, 07:42 PM

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Conclusion: America sucks from sea to shining sea.

Church

Anteater · 06-04-2019, 07:44 PM

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Originally Posted by Frownland

Pointing out your inability to support your own stances beyond regurgitating the culture war bull**** that you read on The Fedaralist is not a threat to freedom of the press.

Methinks the lady doth protest too much. Or maybe you just don't have the attention span to actually look at what's happening over there. OH distilled a fair amount of what that video actually goes over. It isn't "culture war bull****", it's that SF is no longer a place where the vast majority of people can make a sustainable living. It's exactly the kind of place that Republicans love to use as a prime example of why liberals shouldn't run cities without right-wing oversight at the state level.

My comments about "freedom of the press" were more directed to your idiotic dismissal of a legitimate story covering a real problem rather than whether or not San Francisco had any good points culturally.

The Batlord · 06-04-2019, 07:50 PM

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Originally Posted by Frownland

Conclusion: America sucks from sea to shining sea.

Conclusion: humans aren't capable of governing themselves in complex systems since they don't understand complex systems.

**Frownland** · 06-04-2019, 08:05 PM

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Originally Posted by Anteater

Methinks the lady doth protest too much. Or maybe you just don't have the attention span to actually look at what's happening over there. OH distilled a fair amount of what that video actually goes over. It isn't "culture war bull****", it's that SF is no longer a place where the vast majority of people can make a sustainable living. It's exactly the kind of place that Republicans love to use as a prime example of why liberals shouldn't run cities without right-wing oversight at the state level.

My comments about "freedom of the press" were more directed to your idiotic dismissal of a legitimate story covering a real problem rather than whether or not San Francisco had any good points culturally.

Did you really think that i dismissed the video itself? You don't think that linking up a video to respond to your ideas being challenged is a lazy copout? You genuinely don't believe that you're not participating in culture war bull**** by ****ting on the left and attempting to boost the right? Above all, Polly want a cracker?

Actually never mind all that, you're right: I lack the attention span required to watch a video to tell me what to think.

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