Numberone

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[–] Numberone@startrek.website -4 points 8 months ago

Purity test😂

You'd be better off yelling at the people who are pushing the worst possible candidate against Trump. Let's pretend you convince me to vote, congrats you've convinced 1 person in the interwebs. Write to your reps...ramp up the pressure and forget about me. Biden's losing with or without my vote, it's a good bet. When that happens you can blame people that didn't want to vote , or you can blame the party that's shooting itself in the dick...over...and over again. I know who will get blamed, and I don't give a fuck.

[–] Numberone@startrek.website 5 points 9 months ago

In the book "Highrisers", which is about the Cabrini-Greens housing developement in Chicago, there's a short section talking about how certain buildings were turned over to the tennents in a management capacity. It didn't fix all of the problems, and it didn't save Cabrini-Greens, but it did have some measure of success over beurocratic management by CHA, which was a joke. (FWIW I read this several years ago, so take it with a grain of salt)

That model has stuck out in my mind since. Why not have a simple budget for each building and let the work of maintenance be managed by the people who live there, with resources from the appropriate housing authority. The US is so fucking paternalistic about poverty and the people living in it. We build huge beurocracies incapable of truly scaling that then result in obsene waste like shown above. With some management some of that could be put on tennents, with them keeping some of benefits as well.

[–] Numberone@startrek.website 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Biden isn't the only one who could win, and seems to be worse off than a generic dem in swing States, by a long shot. They're choosing the candidate again, like they did with Hillary, from the ranks of the least popular people in the US. They're shooting themselves and blaming the left and Muslims in MI already.

[–] Numberone@startrek.website 33 points 9 months ago (48 children)

Does anyone have a link to this actual speech, whenever I hear something this damning, I assume something is wildly out of context.

[–] Numberone@startrek.website 3 points 9 months ago

I like how you add error bars to your statement. More people should post like that.

[–] Numberone@startrek.website 9 points 9 months ago

But it's cute and instagrammy when the israellis do it, not mean and warcrimey like when the Russians do it.

[–] Numberone@startrek.website 5 points 9 months ago

It seems like with that level of militancy they've got some pretty powerful class consciousness.

[–] Numberone@startrek.website 1 points 9 months ago

I can't have anything I want....ever. They're still a right wing party except on cultural issues.

[–] Numberone@startrek.website 2 points 9 months ago

My friend appreciates your friend. 🖖

[–] Numberone@startrek.website 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

A friend of mine wants to know how that works....

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