Disagreeing with someone saying there is a genocide happening, when there is indeed one happening

That’s your mistake.

So two ministers of the actual israelian governement are now “two random dudes”.

Yes, just like MYG, a literal representative, is not indicative of US policy.

Cool. I’m down with that.

No minimum parking, no height limit, no maximum FAR, no maximum unit count.

yeah get rid of these next and you’re set.

It’s gonna take a lot of work, man. The regulatory capture here is extreme.

Everyone wants to point to capitalism for this, but this is what happens when you kneecap any economic system. That’s why it’s all over the world.

The core group against Israel, always, is the Muslim bloc and I was stoned and didn’t click your link.

I own that. My bad dude.

Opinion is irrelevant against facts: they are trying to expell the palestinian population from Gaza

This is not accurate, as easily understood by how poorly they would be accomplishing this objective, were it true. They have absolute military superiority and it would be easy for them to achieve that goal.

they even said it out loud two days ago.

This is not accurate. Some random guy that works for the government, saying something which may or may not translate accurately (see the thread here on lemmy for that discussion), is not significant. MTG, a sitting US Representative, talking about Jewish Space Lasers is also not significant, for similar reasons.

These misconceptions, even if they were true, do not excuse supporting Hamas.

Yes, that’s why I think you’d prefer Hexbear. You want to self-isolate, and there’s nothing wrong with that. Go nuts man. Live the dream.

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.

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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.

Not agreeing with you does not imply support for genocide.

Unironically the answer is “shop less.”

Prices on goods rise when demand for goods stays sufficient to support the price going up. The less everyone buys, the less things will cost.

Prices for goods have almost nothing to do with the price of rent, but the mechanisms there are the same - it’s just that you have to encourage building rather than “live somewhere less” because the second option really isn’t tenable, for obvious reasons.

If you want rent to come down, campaign for, vote for, or even run for office to be the candidate that will change zoning laws and encourage building multifamily housing.

Don’t worry you can start your own server, just like everyone else who disagrees with you is supposed to.

I’m already on our server, Comrade.

You’re the one unhappy with new people

Nope. It was about as left-wing as Lemmy and if you said something that was demonstrably bullshit, 8 different people would tell you to fuck off

Early reddit was not left wing. It was techbro-libertarian. The famous Ron Paul “It’s Happening” gif comes from reddit lol.

I’d love for this place to be as openly welcoming as early reddit.

I understand you don’t like when normal people come into the frontiers, but that just means you’ll constantly need to find new frontiers.

Such is life for people who move to the frontier to be alone. You’re not unique, this has happened throughout all of human history, and it’ll happen to the fediverse too.

You’ll always have Hexbear tho. For want of a frontier, it’s easy to have an island.

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On lemmy.world? That’s fascinating to me. Would you mind sharing some community names?

Yes. Brainstorming how to “redpill” people is one of the far-rights favourite past times, right up there with using slurs and obsessing about strangers having the correct opinons about their own genitals.

Cool then yes, if I could tolerate those people as much as I tolerate leftists, and thus hang out with them, I would make these same posts. I struggle to do that because when they speak I want to put a hammer through my skull.

Have you forgotten which one of us was having a big teary about not feeling welcome because this thread right here was too left wing? I’m fine where I am thanks.

You still seem to think this is about me, and it is not.

Yep. Growth and growth only. The user count goes up by one and we can pretend “bigger number means better”

It literally does. I support the fediverse and thus want it to grow. If you need a place just for you, you can find one that aligns with you or create your own.

You can move within your country and your experience will be entirely different. You can’t in China, because it’s an authoritarian hellstate.

I agree that Republicans are authoritarians, and that sucks. I also acknowledge that you likely view hierarchies as inherently authoritarian and that we’ll likely not see eye to eye on where to draw lines. Also fine - that’s what liberal ideologies want, is that disagreement.

But to compare China positively with the US in terms of authoritarianism is, frankly, a bit silly.

Politics and News communities typically have to be heavily moderated

Strong agree, and I also agree that things will be tense and some leeway should be given. That’s not the line we’re walking here, though.

It’s not out of left field. Read the user names.

The dude who says “I’m not sure which one I am” has the username “Certified Black Guy” which is why the joke was made. They’re all replying to this

19-45 white male tech enthusiast and 19-45 white trans female tech enthusiast.

It’s a play on how the expectation was that the trans reference was between gender. Twist-on-expectation is a core conceit of many jokes.

You don’t have to think it’s a funny joke. It’s a hip shot, a shitpost.