“Through every diplomatic means possible”

I.e. he’s gonna ask nicely

Watching the Biden admin is wild. At one minute he’ll be escalating the wars in the Ukraine and Palestine, but the next he’ll be funding the NLRB and addressing the housing crisis in a way that improves walk-ability.

It’s like, he has two settings: “actually useful moderate” and “KILLKILLKILLKILL”

Unfortunately, this makes him the best US president since carter

Which should honestly only be built in times of hardship, but that’s capitalism for you

every couple blocks you take the block of grid out and put a park

This is not enough park. It should be hard to tell where the bike/foot paths end and the parks/managed foodscapes begin

It’s a regionalism. Terraces house is british, row home is east coast, townhouse is the rest of America

Or that you’re allowed to put embellishments on buildings and not everything has to be brutalism or corporate-bauhaus

The real reason they do it this way is so folks can have their own yard. It’s not an alternative form of high density, but an alternative to separated single family.

I would not advocate building stairs up the the door in modern building. I just think it’s pretty.

That said, yes, I regularly carry my bike up stairs. It’s just part of bike commuting in America.

Opening with “comrade” was a shorthand to reference a meme where someone wakes up after the revolution to find out that capitalist life was a nightmare. Im not actually advocating anyone haul lumber in a Bakfiets down the Katy Freeway in Huston.

I keep my bike by the front door. Where do you keep yours?

As for strollers, consider it anti-krotchgoblin-aktion

Garages? Comrade, cars have been obsolete for years now. There is a bakfiets shed though, if that’s what you mean.

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Row home appreciation picture:

I don’t think you got the joke

Moreover, the natural development of economic antagonisms, the waking consciousness of an important fraction of the proletariat, the constantly increasing number of unemployed, the blind resistance of the ruling classes, in short contemporary evolution as a whole, is conducting us inevitably towards the outbreak of a great revolution, which will overthrow everything by its violence, and the fore-running signs of which are already visible. This revolution will happen, with us or without us; and the existence of a revolutionary party, conscious of the end to be attained, will serve to give a useful direction to the violence, and to moderate its excesses by the influence of a lofty ideal.

–Ericco Malatesta, Anarchy and Violence

I was comparing more or less heavy handed ways of doing it. I’m advocating for as light a touch as possible. I’m trying to say that authority is a meaningful concept and that we should engage with it because it’s actually very important.

It’s like how some US cities put you on a payment plan for debts, while others put you in jail. They’re both situations of capitalist class rule, but it’s fair to call the latter authoritarian.

I mean, there’s pretty clearly a difference between the Cuban approach of letting capitalists leave vs the Russian approach of imprisoning them.

There’s also a difference between the Bolivian approach of arming and training the peasantry and the GDR approach of maintaining an armed military police into peace time.

There is a meaningful difference between methods of protecting working class power, and pretending there isn’t serves more heavy handed approaches.

For those of us who are abolitionists, this is a central question.

Yeah, but please don’t say that too much, we don’t want to carry water for the CCP

Oh thank God. This is a huge break for anti colonial movements in Africa