bigtex88

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by bigtex88 3y ago
So well. We've destroyed the planet but we have cheaper TV's, so that's a win in my book. /s
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by bigtex88 3y ago
Went through this exact same process recently with our apartment building. I went down with the intent to negotiate on price / months in our next lease and we were told there was no room to negotiate on anything. I think we maybe recei
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by bigtex88 3y ago
The issue is rent-seeking. This is the basest form of rent-seeking and the downstream effects are felt by the entire economy. So yes, there is something wrong with it. Instead of letting the prices float to the settling rate of the market,
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by bigtex88 3y ago
Awful, awful comparison. The market for rental units in a city is not even in the same sphere as the market for oil, WHICH IS WORLDWIDE.
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by bigtex88 3y ago
Idiots are driving this, literally and figuratively. Idiots who complain about inflation and the price of gas yet who also are spending gobs of money on vehicles that get awful MPG. You can't fix stupid. I have no sympathy for these pe
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by bigtex88 3y ago
You're missing the main point of Georgism. The main thing is that community-derived wealth (i.e. the value of land, not the value of the property on that land) should be redistributed to the community, as the community was the one that
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by bigtex88 3y ago
History says that #2 is where we are heading. That was Piketty's main thesis in Capital in the 21st Century. The era of relatively inequality we saw after WW2 was an aberattion. We are returning to the historical norm of high-inequalit
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by bigtex88 3y ago
An easy heuristic for anything coming from the right-wing in the US: if they are screaming about it, it means they are doing it. Pedophilia? They're the ones diddling kids. Censorship? The supposed "censorship" literally happ
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by bigtex88 3y ago
The Twitter Files were a gigantic nothing-burger, hence why it fell out of the news cycle so quickly and no one gave a crap about it. Please explain to me how anything in the Twitter Files shows government censorship. Did the government thr
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by bigtex88 3y ago
Which "true events" are you speaking about?
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by bigtex88 3y ago
Why do you believe the executives should be paid more in these situations? They take less personal health risk than the front-line workers and by your logic it seems that executive jobs aren't that difficult if the job can be acquired
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by bigtex88 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_AR_platform_cartridges... . For anyone that says "It's not an assault rifle!" - the AR platform comes off the shelf chambered for two different types of MILITARY ammu
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by bigtex88 3y ago
You're basically saying "we need SFH so that rich people can have room for all of their hobbies. Screw anyone else that wants to live in density!" That's not helpful and it's woefully ignorant of people's opin
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by bigtex88 3y ago
Can you provide proof of what you're saying? Respect does not equal authoritarianism. That's an extreme stance to take.
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by bigtex88 3y ago
Really wish they were tackling literally anything else in the world of HP. We have the movies, we have the books. We know need a TV show rehashing the same things? It just screams laziness and as a fan of the HP world it's a disappoint
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by bigtex88 3y ago
It was a legitimate question. I truly don't understand how anyone can imagine property crime as "not scary". I was trying to get a better understanding of the person so that I would not be rude if he actually was neurodiverge
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by bigtex88 3y ago
How would Chicago be safer with more guns? Please explain this logic.
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by bigtex88 3y ago
There's a lot of fascist-apologists on this site. It's truly bizarre.
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by bigtex88 3y ago
And Hitler was a vegetarian. No amount of supposed "good" outweighs the absolute evil of the man. The same applies to Trump. The man is out-and-out Anti-American and is almost literally the embodiment of the seven deadly sins. I d
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by bigtex88 4y ago
It's a lot harder to murder a large number of people with a knife than a gun.
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by bigtex88 4y ago
What an absolutely asinine thing to champion. How does that do any good to actually help with "policy" as your initial comment seems to intend? All you seem to be doing is acting like "I'm smarter than all of you!"
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by bigtex88 4y ago
I really don't understand your viewpoint here. You seem to be implying that property crime is fine and dandy and no one should really be worried about it because "having a child assaulted is worse!". Again, a bizarre world-vi
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by bigtex88 4y ago
Still seems like a good opportunity to me to bring up the general "whatever" nature in SF regarding crime. Perhaps this stabbing took place because the assailant felt more brazen knowing that the police in that city won't do
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by bigtex88 4y ago
That IS a less safe space. What are you actually talking about? An area with homeless, open drug use, and petty property crime is 100% a more dangerous area. No one would allow their children to go walking through an area like. Seriously wh
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by bigtex88 4y ago
You've got a really weird black and white view of these things. As long as people aren't literally murdering you then it's ok? The idea that "real crime" only happens AFTER the actual crime has taken place is super
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by bigtex88 4y ago
Or maybe they realize there's no benefit of being on Twitter anymore and they're not willing to take disrespect from a trollish man-child? It's a pit of right-wing extremism and some of the most fawning sycophancy I've e
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by bigtex88 4y ago
It's a direct attack on the reputation and credibility of the organization from a man-child. Musk is targeting certain orgs and people because "hurr durr lolz I'm funny!" He's a troll. I'm so glad that NPR is l
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by bigtex88 4y ago
Have you ever happened to think that maybe everything Trump did was awful and un-American, and hence it was reported on ACCURATELY? Truly amazing how Conservatives always claim bias instead of stopping and thinking "Are we the assholes
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by bigtex88 4y ago
Hunter Biden's laptop is a non-story unless you really care about penises for some reason. Or Russian disinformation. What exactly was the laptop supposed to prove?
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by bigtex88 4y ago
Going into public and throwing filth at people, accosting them, and generally endangering the safety of other citizens is implicitly a crime by virtue of "Every civilized society in the history of man has cleaned up this behavior"

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