GarfieldYaoi [he/him]

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  • Sometimes I’m surprised very little of them are upset about climate change and capitalism because it threatens recreation.

    Oceans filled with plastic? Rent and house price alike are both too expensive to live anywhere near the beach? Hiking trails become littered with plastic? Hell, walkable cities are filled with amenities giving someone a lot of ways to spend their time. Granted, I don’t think neither nature nor architecture qualifies as “treats” let alone something burgerlanders care that much about.




  • How is rent-seeking any different than being a so-called “welfare queen”? No improvements are made but rent goes up for no reason, you’re quite literally giving someone ‘free stuff’ for no reason.

    grillman: “Buh…but…it’s my property!”

    And you use that property to leverage yourself into my wallet. So excuse me if I begin to respect your “property rights” a little less in return. I mean hey, in these uncertain times, We AlL hAvE tO mAkE sAcRiFiCeS fOr ThE eCoNoMy! I’ve done all the sacrificing so far, now it’s your turn.




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    On a more macro-level, look at the joke that is California’s high speed rail project. It probably won’t even be operational until 2030, and that’s assuming they don’t find yet another excuse to put off the project.

    At the risk of being a total LIB, many places in America would be so goated if this country wasn’t so corrupt, incompetent, and proud of it. Imagine sitting in a passenger rail with a book and a nice cup of tea as you’re watching the Cascadian country side pass you, interrupted by a couple villages here and there.


  • In theory, San Francisco. However it is literally inaccessible to anyone except the top .01% and anyone lucky enough to be a homeowner there before prop 13. Every city in the US that is even close to being worth a damn is like this and every day I pray to the great train in the sky that the Bay Area becomes Hong Kong 2.