@admitsWrongIfProven@qoto.org which is another way of saying the public requires governance, because absent governance there is only a brutal game of thrones to usurp power.
anarchists may wish we had a solution to this other than someone, or, better still, some set of responsive and permeable institutions, winning the prize.
we all may wish for a lot of things.
rather than respond to their noise, we must learn to sing our own song.
together our harmony can drown out their cacophony.
“We don’t mean ill, I’m sure. Could it be a bad line of code? Have we tried turning ourselves off and on again? It’s a hell of a time for us to go on the fritz, though, because while our government beeps and blinks and turns in circles, a decent world order built by our grandparents’ blood, toil, tears and sweat is being supplanted by a Hobbesian hell of war, terror, savagery, and starvation.” @claireberlinski https://open.substack.com/pub/claireberlinski/p/for-all-our-sakes-wake-up
a sequence:
(1) you let the plutocrats return (by repealing 90%+ top marginal tax rates)
(2) they become phenomenally wealthy and their interests diverge sharply from those of the broad public
(3) they fund industry upon industry — trad media, influencers, think tanks, politics consultants — to heighten conflict and stoke division in order to paralyze democratic governance
(cont’d)
(4) the only possible governance, then, becomes the plutocratic authoritarianism which they’d have no incentive to sabotage
(5) since the broad public requires a governed world even more than it requires governance in its interest, eventually it succumbs.
if you agree we are living out a pretty stupid timeline, it’s time to work on governance.
are they saying they prefer occupational sex to recreational sex?
“Denaturalization and Asylum in Interwar Europe” by #EdWalker https://www.emptywheel.net/2024/02/21/denaturalization-and-asylum-in-interwar-europe/
on the theory that the science of contemporary politics is maximally trolling the other side, i would point out that Hunter is not so old.
Biden ‘24
@admitsWrongIfProven@qoto.org it’s the imagined people shrieking at you that makes writing text so psychologically difficult, yes.
@scott the key is always when there’s a greenfield, near or far, find a way to build dense mixed-use. but that’s not what “the market” will do, for a variety of reasons, and SF’s municipal government has been reactive and risk-averse in destructive ways. (SOMA, such an opportunity, such miserable urbanism.) our problems in general are governance problems.
@exchgr often abusive ones...
@scott I'll disagree with you about de novo (although neighborhoods are as good as cities). i think you just don't get the scale of transformation that we need in any plausible (or desirable) infill only world. when tokyo was growing its fastest, it did it by "new towns". singapore does to this day.
i share skepticism abt the way they are planning. meritocratic professionals from afar are likely to do a flashy, bad job. (my #microcities linked in the followup explains my preferred approach.)
My sister #AdelleWaldman did an audio piece about her experience in part time retail. I can't claim, perhaps, to be entirely unbiased, but I think it's great. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/21/opinion/low-wage-workers.html
@Alon We'll see! (Or maybe we won't, they've generated some backlash the way they went about their plan, and there's a lot of well earned skepticism towards their investors. We will see in November if they can overcome that.)
@Alon At least the plan here is right: cars on the periphery, walkable and (very short line) transit in the interior. I think the jobs here are likely startups and remote. Given the location, there's not much of a risk of vacancies for lack of economic activity I think, if it is architecturally and socially attractive. Of course that's potentially a big if, but for better or for worse, the plutocratic buy-in probably helps.
@Alon are they dense?
#DevonZuegel on the new stealth-planned city, funded by tech barons, in Solano County CA. A continuing series of posts. https://devon.postach.io/post/the-new-city-in-california
// i have a lot of skepticism about some of the funders, but i also think dense de novo cities are our best way forward. i already wish they'd done some things differently, but i'd love to see a successful model that opens the door to more experiments, and i wish them well.
(here's my take on #microcities FWIW.)
@DocAtCDI three million files! https://github.com/search?q=fuck&type=code
as a psychological matter, writing software is so much easier than writing text.
the debunking of the op was itself an op, for which a counter-op is already underway.
