I can’t stop thinking about that big concrete beach condo that collapsed what seems like 5 years ago.

The people in that building are a microcosm of Americans more broadly. They had the ability to seek out experts, weigh the evidence, decide as a group… and they’re all dead.

Climate change, Covid, foreign policy, it’s all making me feel like, as an American, I live in that tower.

Actually it’s worse than that because it’s like Americans are bringing more weight into the building to reinforce their own rooms.

I’m just gonna watch the sunrise over the ocean and clap.

  • learntocod [they/them]
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    3 years ago

    So true.

    I imagine that, like national politics, there is a tension between residents wanting changes and board members fearing backlash from residents when they’re actually confronted with the cost of things.

    So, imagine you’re a resident and you can’t move out… what is to be done?