Watching this story on CBS evening news. They did not show a pic of the victim (which is extremely telling) but did show the video with a sort of “what do you see” angle, but the reporting itself was fairly even handed. Fascinating stuff. Homan’s quote was “I’m not going to make a judgement call, I’m the border czar.” To his credit, Tony Doukopil gave it to him after that.
Sure. It sometimes devolves into slums, and it has never delivered broad based affordability in the United States, but it has also never resulted in millions of deaths, literally or figuratively, which was your main point.
My point is that you are being a hysterical doofus. You said “it’s been done before … it cost literally millions of lives.” It HAS been done before, in one form or another in virtually every state in the union since even before the founding of this Republic, but it didn’t cost any lives*, because “it” is not the same thing. *Native Americans would likely disagree with this.
We aren’t talking about a dorm room bullshit session or political mouth noises. -isms and metaphors are not real life. There are hundreds of community land trusts in the United States and there have been for decades, and if you want to talk about “rugged individualism” perhaps you are not aware that the kind of land ownership she’s talking about is rooted in both common law and the history of American settlers working and running livestock on common land, which they still do to this day, e.g. rugged individualist Ammon Bundy. Again, I don’t believe this approach delivers broad based affordability in cities, but rather produces a barbell distribution of low and high net worth people, with the middle class banished to suburbs. But that’s not rolling tanks, let alone millions of deaths
But this doesn’t even require a whatabout. Just because she uses silly language doesn’t transform a municipal land use concept into Maoist China. If @Incredulity needs examples of actual “socialism”, I would point to the government’s ownership stake in publicly traded semiconductor companies and putting their thumb on the scale in media mergers. But I don’t think he does. He’s just bugging out over branding.
Dude I’m a full-on professional capitalist and a free market-price-discovery absolutist. Likewise, I think real world experience demonstrates that the only housing affordability solution that works at the population level is to allow the market to respond to demand, which is not what we do in American cities. But, my man- she is talking about things like community land trusts like the ones in Vermont and the kind of long term lease holding they have in Vienna. I’m not a historian, can you illuminate me on how and when millions of lives were lost in Champlain? In other words, what in the fuck are you even talking about?