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How would immigration reform not written by Republicans hurt Biden politically? It's yet another win he can tout.

I do agree, though, that any form of immigration restrictions hurts the country.

You're not a victim if you cause your own problem.

Victim doesn't mean "bad thing happened." Victim means "bad thing happened that happened during to external factors you had no input on"

This is literally my ideal world.

You personally have sex maybe 20 times with various peers before you reach your 18th birthday.

But surely this is already the norm, yeah? Who is sexually active and has sex less than 20 times? Did you mean 20 partners?

They're not replicating OF, their advertising their OF, and there's nothing about twitch or these streams that explicitly advertises to children.

When you sell something to someone, you're not exploiting them. You've got some terms mixed up here.

You could make similar arguments about gambling being a moral panic and they shouldn’t ban that on the site.

I mean yeah, banning gambling is weird as fuck and just creates black markets

For further clarity on why this was a funny mixup, to anyone who sees this, Plex is also a thing, but it is a very different thing, just with a very similar name.

https://www.plex.tv/

I don't understand how any of this is a problem. Just, like, parent your fuckin kids.

This is one step from "take the books out of libraries" level of paternalism

It’s “how little can I tip before they tamper with my food”

Normal people never, ever think this.

This is specifically about Australia, but essentially all 3 parts of this piece (and related linked essays) sum up how to solve the housing crisis worldwide.

https://theemergentcity.substack.com/p/how-to-solve-housing-unaffordability

Boils down to:

1: change zoning laws to allow more multifamily construction

2: remove incentives for homeownership and generally disincentivize single family homes

3: build for density in ways that reinforce and support density

If you want more info, basically every mainstream economist in the world agrees this is the solution, and that this is a manufactured problem. It's a result of regulatory capture by homeowners, essentially. There are many, many papers about it.

Here's an easily-digestible article

https://www.businessinsider.com/economist-how-to-fix-america-housing-crisis-rural-cities-2022-10

And a well-cited study in an economic journal:

https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/mje/2022/12/30/the-economics-of-the-housing-shortage/

All these sources agree, because this is the solution. Realistically, the only bad solutions are subsidizing more demand via things like rent control - these will only make our problems worse, kind of like how adding more lanes to a highway doesn't fix traffic.

I don't think everyone here should leave. I think you, personally, would enjoy Hexbear more.

I don't know why you don't want to be happy.

Yes it is, because it significantly encourages investment over saving, as one of the many benefits.

Yeah it’s the common sense stuff we all know to be true.

If you knew how many people in America didn't have bank accounts I'm pretty sure you'd shit yourself, lol

There’s no cap to how much USD can be made, so noatter how much you have saved, it can be diluted down to nothing with enough time

This is a good thing, for many reasons.

Not agreeing with you does not imply support for genocide.

I mean Ohio Republicans literally want to change a law that was passed by referendum, just to be assholes, but weed being legal in Ohio is still pretty kickass.

Things can be good and also not good enough.

I assume you're getting downvoted because he meant the Indonesian RIDF, the Regional Infrastructure Development Fund (RIDF), set up by the Indonesian Ministry of Finance in partnership with the World Bank

This isn’t like “you shouldn’t have dressed like that” but rather “you shouldn’t have climbed into that gorilla enclosure”.

If I had my way, they'd be an American as soon as they expressed interest. I am a hardline radical for free movement of people and open borders. This specific instance is a no-brainer, though. This was a bad idea.

I can pretty much guarantee you do not hate Trump more than I do. We can trade anecdotes if you'd like, but I am extremely confident that my actions when Trump was elected were vastly more fucked up and violent than yours.

That being said, Trump voters should not lose the right to vote forever. Thats anger talking. That's letting authoritarianism win.

The only way to escape the poison of that kind of anger is to let it go, man. It doesn't serve you.