• happybadger [he/him]
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    533 days ago

    Someone posted the cheapest house in the area recently. It’s $350k~, would require a $90k/year income to get a mortgage, is totally gutted, and has no legal road access. The NIMBYs around here are dead-set on never allowing development over 4 floors with only luxury apartments being built.

    No compassion, no compassion, no excuses shrug-outta-hecks

    • Beaver [he/him]
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      543 days ago

      Few things politically ACTIVATE suburban voters into a frothing rage like a proposed new apartment complex or light rail extension.

      • SuperZutsuki [they/them]
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        403 days ago

        It’s so bizarre they think some new transit means poor people are going to come rob them in the middle of the night. Nobody wants to be in your little shithole you fuckin weirdos. But they’ll torture themselves with hour long commutes for decades to make sure they never see a non-white person outside the safety of their suburban assault vehicle.

        • @grysbok
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          52 days ago

          I’ve heard similar arguments against sidewalks. Like, no, I just want to be able to walk my dog safely and maybe visit a neighbor without walking in the street.

        • miz [any, any]
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          163 days ago

          this is why Marin doesn’t have BART, they didn’t want poor people to be able to get there without a really long bus ride.

          • SuperZutsuki [they/them]
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            193 days ago

            And wtf are poor people going to do other than get profiled and arrested for existing? Poor people aren’t dumb, they’re not going to endanger themselves by entering enemy territory.

            • miz [any, any]
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              193 days ago

              be seen and make the Marin liberals have to deal with guilt over social murder

    • Parsani [love/loves, comrade/them]
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      42 days ago

      Every single time I look at real estate listing (as a masochistic practice I guess), I look at the demographics of the area, particularly the median and average wage, and without fail the overwhelming majority of people who live next to these houses could not afford them.

  • jack [he/him, comrade/them]
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    3 days ago

    The Marxist Revolution marx-doomer is getting absolutely STOMPED by Reactionary Settler Land Ownership settlers , this is a bloodbath, the class interest is simply too strong - and oh, lord have mercy, it’s Financial-Capital Landlords! capitalist-laugh They’re shoving Reactionary Settler Land Ownership aside so they can deliver their own sick and twisted punishment! They’ve bought off the referees! contextphobic Somebody throw in the towel before this goes too far! powercry-2

    Wait - can it be? It’s LAND REFORM landlord-spotted with the steel chair! chair-stomp