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  1. When you realize that the modern MAGA GQP is nothing but a mafia enterprise, it all checks out.
  2. And also, a part of me thinks that I'm going to get super freaky with Alexander Daddario this weekend. I mean, while we're doing the "a part of me thinks of absolutely insane fantastical shit" game, might as well go all-in.
  3. You think I wouldn't bang a hot 90 year old? You'd be wrong.
  4. Brisketexan

    NIMBYism

    I don't generally disagree with this. And I have a similar story, except it was my mom and her mother, fleeing an abusive alcoholic. In 1950, she had to find a way to survive, and gov't subsidized housing in S. Texas was key to that. Not forever, but for a few years. Once she could dig her way out, they moved on. And the thing is, society as a WHOLE actually benefited from my mom and grandma having that safety net. My mother was fed, sheltered, got an education, and went on to live a good life and raise a successful and productive son....who also posts on Surly (so that part is probably a wash). Yes, there are always the stories of people who take it all for granted, stay too long, etc. There are also counter-stories of deserving people who are just going through some shit and need an option for a time, and none is available. No system is perfect, and we should never let perfect be the enemy of good enough.
  5. We are not your wife, so we are not falling for your empty promises of inches that never arrive.
  6. Brisketexan

    NIMBYism

    There is, and always will be, a significant percentage of the population of ANY country that will not be able to afford decent housing without some sort of government intervention. Kind of like how in any country, some portion of old people would starve without social security or their country's equivalent. Your options for that group of people, if you eliminate "affordable housing provided by some measure of government action" is "homelessness." Which is counterproductive and stupid. The solutions don't have to be Park Avenue Penthouses. They also don't have to be complete shitholes. Again, plenty of countries do this, and do it just fine. E.g., in Finland, municipalities actually own land, and develop affordable housing on that land. It is rented out (so, the people there generally DID "get jobs" and work), but it's not done to maximize profit/revenue. It's done to compensate the government for its expense, while also providing affordable housing for the lowest-earning tiers of society. There's a reason that literally every functioning state has some version of this sort of approach.
  7. Seriously. Realizing that a 34 yr old naturalized immigrant democratic socialist with a net worth of less than you have invested in living room furniture just played a 100X more masterful hand of poker than you did against the same opponent.....jesus, how humiliating and emasculating.
  8. Brisketexan

    NIMBYism

    Yep. There is no "affordable housing" solution without significant government involvement/subsidy/regulation etc. It's not like it's unsolvable, you can look at how other developed nations have tried to deal with it, with varying degrees of success. See council housing in the UK, municipal land control and gov't subsidized mortgages (and related measures) in Finland, etc. It's not something that "the unfettered market" can or will ever solve, because that market says "maximize the dollars on every square foot of dirt." I'm not saying that's wrong or a bad thing, I'm just pointing out the obvious: a mechanism that works like that isn't going to deliver much affordable housing.
  9. Also, this bears quoting. Because....for real. I would suspect that most of my peers would give an answer along the lines of "I guess the technical answer is she's gotta be at least 18, but man....I'd feel creepy AF to be with a gal who wasn't at least out of college/in her mid 20s/is in her 30s even." For most of us, there's kind of a hard barrier that's tied into the age of our daughter, if we have one. My daughter is in her mid-20s. Make me single tomorrow, and I STILL couldn't imagine myself being with one of her friends. Dude. No. But Trump? Jesus. That his mind even went there. "I wouldn't go as low as 12" are words that should never come out of any non-sick fuck's mouth. The concepts of "sex" and "12 year olds" shouldn't ever exist in your brain at the same time.
  10. Man, I had a friend with this back in the day, and I was so jealous:
  11. Because there just aren't enough beeves to process?
  12. Don't tell me she puts beans in her chili....
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