Numberone

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

In the book "Highrisers", which is about the Cabrini-Greens housing developement in Chicago, there's a short section talking about how certain buildings were turned over to the tennents in a management capacity. It didn't fix all of the problems, and it didn't save Cabrini-Greens, but it did have some measure of success over beurocratic management by CHA, which was a joke. (FWIW I read this several years ago, so take it with a grain of salt)

That model has stuck out in my mind since. Why not have a simple budget for each building and let the work of maintenance be managed by the people who live there, with resources from the appropriate housing authority. The US is so fucking paternalistic about poverty and the people living in it. We build huge beurocracies incapable of truly scaling that then result in obsene waste like shown above. With some management some of that could be put on tennents, with them keeping some of benefits as well.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago (4 children)

FUCK YOU I WON'T DO WHAT YOU TELL ME!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Biden isn't the only one who could win, and seems to be worse off than a generic dem in swing States, by a long shot. They're choosing the candidate again, like they did with Hillary, from the ranks of the least popular people in the US. They're shooting themselves and blaming the left and Muslims in MI already.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 10 months ago (48 children)

Does anyone have a link to this actual speech, whenever I hear something this damning, I assume something is wildly out of context.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

I like how you add error bars to your statement. More people should post like that.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

People withholding their vote from a bad candidate. Yeah...THAT'S the problem with the US😂.

I mean, if there were a single issue to decide a vote, seems like entheusiastic genocide support would be high up there. But what do I know...

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

But it's cute and instagrammy when the israellis do it, not mean and warcrimey like when the Russians do it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

It seems like with that level of militancy they've got some pretty powerful class consciousness.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

I mean we had literally 9 kings to provide strong leadership. MAGA!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Oh sorry for the fake news then. I'm out of the loop. I've seen your username a lot in the past and assumed. I knew you'd left Risa, I didn't realize it was the whole startrek.website. Sorry it came to that, I appreciated your content! 😁

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