r/neoliberal is one of the most cringe subreddits in existence.
PPI has been around since 1989 and views itself as Bill Clinton's "idea mill" aka think tank. Why I call them a fossil fuel think tank is detailed here. They oppose climate action, defend fracking, and receive donations from Exxon Mobil.
it's safe to say that their upvotes are farmed, and their organic support is mostly bourgeois economics and political science majors and interns who hope to work for PPI or a similar think tank one day. It's basically a Neera Tanden farm.
The creator of r/neoliberal, Colin Mortimer, is the Director of the Center for New Liberalism at PPI, which seeks to "develop a salient identity around the center-left values that have increasingly come under fire in this age of populism."
Can we just make a bot do this? I think they're gonna nuke my pastebin for being too basedFucking Colin. Has anyone cool ever been named Colin other than maybe Colin Kaepernick?
Colin Mochrie, famous improv comedian and all around cool dude.
One might even say he makes a... MOCHRIE of all the other Colins in the world.
center-left
How are these feds less convincingly "center-left" than The Adam Friedland Show?
Nah bro just build more luxury housing rents will fall any day now. Landlords love lowering rents and acting logically
And no this is NOT trickle down economics for housing >:( I am a LIBERAL and that is REPUBLICAN >:(
Would be funny as hell if they just kept building luxury 3br apartments and the government actually decided to do their job and all of a sudden these palatial apartments costed like $550 a month with utilities.
a lot of the housing I saw in Havana was something like this. like all these baller ass homes for the elites were taken and converted into multi unit apartments. looking at old photos you can see how these neighborhoods were once palatial homes all crammed next to each other, likely a single occupant or two with a domestic staff that lived in a more destitute area with poor infrastructure, bad roads, no parks. now they are full of people, chillaxing in balconies watching telenovelas overlooking shared kitchen gardens. looking over the city, it's easy to contemplate the rage the elites had and have for losing the crown jewel of capitalist excess to a bunch of workers. very much "how dare you take the things we forced you to build for us!"
construction materials are difficult to acquire due to the embargo, so most places' exteriors could use a little plaster and a coat of paint. but even lacking that, the people and common housing in Cuba are in so much better shape than the US allied western Caribbean countries.
Everyone who visits Cuba should bring a can of paint and some spackle.
when i went, cooking oil was what was recommended to gift the people we stayed with because there was a shortage that season. i went with a bunch of big brained academics who brought like little silly bottles of Fancy Lad's extra virgin olive oil and other bougie BS. i checked a bag with two bulk containers of veg oil from a restaurant supply place (probably 1.5 gallons total). the lady whose place i stayed at was psyched lol and made us a baller breakfast every morning, which i thought the others on the trip were all getting. nope, lmao.
I fucking despise how Neolibs have almost completely monopolized Economics and Urban-Planning discourse on Reddit, Shit sucks
I fucking despise how Neolibs have almost completely monopolized Economics and Urban-Planning discourse, shit sucks
I fucking despise how Neolibs have almost completely monopolized Economics and Urban-Planning, shit sucks
Capitalists have monopolized everything, including discourse everywhere.
Muh Zoning
"Claims vast conspiracy between developers & govt."
Well, gee motherfucker, I do wonder how that happened.
What kind of childish FOOL would think developers are a big funder of local politicians??
One of the most toxic subs on :reddit-logo: and that's in the face of some stiff competition.
people will just ignore actual serious economic arguments
Economics is a soft science soft science soft science soft science stop thinking economics are akin to laws of physics
I mean, you can make a rigorous scientific argument that explains housing prices, both regionally and nationally, based on the availability of credit and the average annual rate of return on investment properties.
What you can't do is take the neoliberal argument for free markets and square it with their demand for high density housing linked by mass transit. They're trying to fit round pegs into square holes and reflexively blaming NIMBYism when it doesn't work.
As always, the neoliberal "solution" is deregulation and whining about the NIMBYs their ideology creates.
