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[-] basmatii@lemm.ee 6 points 1 month ago

"destroy nature and ruins lives" vs "destroy nature, increase stock value, build three luxury chairs that no one is allowed to live in."

[-] Glitterbomb@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Is this more projection from the right? The idea of 'luxury chairs that no one is allowed to live in' very comfortably includes golf courses and expensive hotels. I haven't seen either of these things with Kamalas name plastered on the side. Trump makes this a part of his core identity. Figure it out.

[-] basmatii@lemm.ee 5 points 1 month ago

Nice straw man, I was talking about dem nimbys refusing to tear down pointless low density housing, remove sfh zoning, and refuse to introduce regulations preventing mcmansions developers from receiving the funds like the ones being proposed as they always seem to be the ones to actually get federal funding.

California's housing crisis is exclusively because of dem plans like Harris' that refuse to address the elephant of old white nimbys refusing to give up their wastes of space.

[-] tweeks@feddit.nl 6 points 1 month ago

I'd say the middle ground of learning from your mistakes and focussing on having less children in the future is perhaps something to consider.

In the meantime you should get enough chairs.

[-] njm1314@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

I still can't get over the other lack of journalistic integrity for CBS to put that up there. To concede that point. Like it's a fact. Utter bollocks.

[-] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Post-2016 Journalistic Integrity is a cruel joke.

With some few, rare, exceptions.

[-] flashgnash@lemm.ee 5 points 1 month ago

I feel like at the point you phrase what you're going to do as "mass" anything you're doing something wrong.

Can't think of a single sentence that starts with mass that ends well

[-] absentbird@lemm.ee 5 points 1 month ago

Wouldn't you want 5 more chairs, so the parents could sit too?

[-] Shapillon@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

I don't know how it is in the USA but here in France we kinda have the following issues:

  • People leave the countryside and small cities en masse
  • Houses rot empty anywhere that's more than a commute away from a big city
  • There's a huge shortage of housing in the cities

We need people coming back to the countryside and small cities but all the employment is bundled away in big cities...

[-] TrueStoryBob@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

I'm here in Georgia, USA. The small towns in my state, those well outside the major metro suburbs, are either emptying out OR the state is bringing in non-union factory and data center jobs to dominate the local economy with the promise of jobs and economic revitalization. These companies are given huge tax incentives to build (or relocate) and thus contribute nothing to local coffers directly (necessitating higher property and sales taxes on locals). Currently, there's a car plant being built near where I live. The locals in the rural areas were shocked to find out after construction began that their water wells might stop working as the factory and it's subsequent suppliers setting up in the area will be draining the county dry... the state said they could. They're out of pocket to drill deeper wells and the state doesn't care... at the state level, they've actually made it harder (legally through environmental review) for local municipalities to direct the development of water infrastructure but easier for private developers (who have fewer reviews to go through) to just build whatever water infrastructure they see fit. Meanwhile, back in town, a handful of out of state multibillion dollar corporations are buying up any and all real estate that isn't nailed down and renting it back to us at exorbitant prices.

[-] match@pawb.social 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

it's sorta like that but with way more opioid deaths

edit: and instead of rotting empty, megacorporations buy the empty homes and turn them into airBnBs to keep the house prices high. maybe that happens in france too?

[-] Shapillon@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Airbnb seems to be more of an issue in cities than here.

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[-] DrunkEngineer@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

This meme is extremely naive. For many American voters, the primary residence is their one major investment -- and will severely punish any elected official that reduces housing prices. The result is neither party will do much on this issue.

[-] orcrist@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago

I hope that you're right, because in 20 years that will no longer be true, and maybe we'll be able to make real progress on housing at that point.

[-] Alenalda@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

It's only going to get worse in the coming years as weather gets more extreme and entire towns and city's get swallowed up by the ocean.

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[-] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Broke: Kill three kids

Woke: Buy three chairs

Bespoke: Birth control 20 years ago

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