Washington Post posted:

Rudy Giulaiani does not exist.

Terrifying Effigies posted:

Injecting a little positivity, the kids are alright:

https://twitter.com/AP/status/1031733958512455680

Hremsfeld posted:

Nick Soapdish posted:

And here is a good thread on why the statue, like every other Confederate statue, is bullshit
https://twitter.com/craigcalcaterra/status/1031722853710880768

Terrifying Effigies posted:

Injecting a little positivity, the kids are alright:

https://twitter.com/AP/status/1031733958512455680

EBB posted:

at least put up a couple tall apartment buildings in the bay area

Duzzy Funlop posted:

Saw this video in one of the Musk threads, and my mind was blown. The last time I saw a video of the tesla factory floor was in 2015 or 2016, and it showed their previous model assembly lines. There seemed to be a pretty low degree of automation and process optimization, but this was perfectly fine for a low-volume, high quality product that was meant to establish Tesla's presence.

This video, however, shows their Model 3 assembly, and I don't even need to think I need to really comment on it. Just zip through the video and ask yourself "Is this how a assembly line / factory for a standardized, high-volume product in the automotive sector should look like"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mr9kK0_7x08

45 ACP CURES NAZIS posted:

i'd love to play paintball in a brutalism building.

Don Dongington posted:

So the Australian government is just about to implode, after a series of massive Self-Owns. Will be an entertaining week if you dabble in Auspol.

Vasudus posted:

is it because of racism? i bet it's because of racism

Immanentized posted:

got a quick primer for those of us in less exciting parts of the world?

Eej posted:

Doesn't fix anything cause they'll just put high end units up everywhere just like they do right now Vancouver, although maybe there's less money laundering in Bay Area real estate

Chiwie posted:

A literal fascist potato just tried to roll our current prime minister and has failed. He did this because our last prime minister (the one that eats raw onions) hates the current one and has been white ant-ing llhis own party like a mad man.

The potato is going to try to spill again for party leadership next week. Thanks to everyone and their dog background-ing to the media, we are literally watching one of our biggest political parties implode in real time.

Vincent Van Goatse posted:

Speaking of racists with funny accents, apparently most of the Apartheid South African government were pedophiles who got up to things Qanon loons would find hard to believe.

Terrifying Effigies posted:

Injecting a little positivity, the kids are alright:

https://twitter.com/AP/status/1031733958512455680

Julian Carr posted:

I trust I may be pardoned for one allusion, howbeit it is rather personal. One hundred yards from where we stand, less than ninety days perhaps after my return from Appomattox, I horse-whipped a negro wench until her skirts hung in shreds, because upon the streets of this quiet village she had publicly insulted and maligned a Southern lady, and then rushed for protection to these University buildings where was stationed a garrison of 100 Federal soldiers. I performed the pleasing duty in the immediate presence of the entire garrison, and for thirty nights afterwards slept with a double-barrel shot gun under my head.

SimonCat posted:

A quote from Julian Carr's speech at the dedication of the "Silent Sam" statue.

http://hgreen.people.ua.edu/transcription-carr-speech.html

quote:

The present generation, I am persuaded, scarcely takes note of what the Confederate soldier meant to the welfare of the Anglo Saxon race during the four years immediately succeeding the war, when the facts are, that their courage and steadfastness saved the very life of the Anglo Saxon race in the South – When “the bottom rail was on top” all over the Southern states, and to-day, as a consequence the purest strain of the Anglo Saxon is to be found in the 13 Southern States – Praise God.

Cugel the Clever posted:

Say upstart yuppies Tom, Dick, and Harry want a home in Vancouver, the Bay Area, or just about any of the dynamic metro areas across the world. Jokes on them: due to the lockin of single-family housing, the three of them are all competing for the same house. They're all rich little shits, but Dick is more willing or capable to outbid the other two and becomes the proud owner/renter of a $5,000,000, single-story 1950s ranch house a couple of miles from downtown.

Tom and Harry don't just vanish in a poof of smoke, of course, so they start looking elsewhere. Tom decides living in the city is important enough to him to mingle with the poors in historically disadvantaged neighborhoods, where he finds the number of homes just as limited as in the rich areas, but is easily able to compete against the scores of lower and middle class home-seekers, resulting in prices going up for everyone. Harry, on the other hand, decides that a 3-hour commute suits him just fine, so buys a giant house in the exurbs and contributes the the sprawl that plagues our cities.

We can and must implement renter protections and build massive new affordable housing to protect the disadvantaged from the consequences of this, but so too must we address the root of the problem by smashing the gently caress out of rich neighborhoods' ability to block any and all density near them. Worried offshore investors will inexplicably sit on vacant ultra-luxury condos and apartments rather than adjust their prices downward to get some takers? Make the city government tax the poo poo out of vacant homes and put all that money into a fund for new affordable developments and infrastructure improvements.

End rant. Sorry, I just read a Twitter thread covering a rich neighborhood making GBS threads all over a developer's proposal to build a 21-unit assisted living building near their mansions ("HOW OFTEN WILL AMBULANCES COME BLARING?"; "THEY'LL BE DEPENDENT ON MEDICARE, WON'T THEY? EWW"; and "WHERE WILL THE 78 GRAND CHILDREN PARK???") after shooting down a different multi-unit proposal for the same spot with the claim they'd prefer to see a senior living facility there. So I'm mildly incensed when I see someone attack potential solutions without offering alternatives.

Kuroyama posted:

All that and no link? For shame.

Cugel the Clever posted:

Think this is the whole thread. If not the rest is on his timeline:
https://twitter.com/WedgeLIVE/status/1031692314127880193?s=09

Don Dongington posted:

But mostly, racism.

Should we show them the Katter clip?

Edit: Found it.

so for context - A Senator for our far right party forgot he was a dual citizen, then pretended he wasn't, then the high court told him he was, so he got kicked out, and the next guy on the ballot from his party got in.Turns out he was even worse than that guy, who was a sov cit climate denier. He immediately is found to be too racist even for them, and ends up joining the Katter party, a one man show from far north QLD. This guy then used his debut speech in the senate to go on a massive rant about muslim immigration being literally worse than famine death and pestilence, then went on to say we need a "final solution" to the problem. Yep.

Here's his party leader doing a presser in response:

https://twitter.com/SBSNews/status/1029593526558973953

Godholio posted:

He looks like he's wearing a rubber mask.

EBB posted:

If you put an "empty house tax" on top of property taxes boomers will finally eat the politicians.

Eej posted:

We're doing this in Vancouver along with some other anti laundering things so we'll see how it goes, maybe I'll be able to get a house someday before I die

Vasudus posted:

To be able to reasonably afford a house in Fairfax County near a metro stop I have to DINK it up hardcore. Like uh, 250k/household to even really consider it. They just built about 60 townhouses down the road and they range from 1-1.25m a pop.

Johnny Five-Jaces posted:

who the gently caress is buying these? My wife and I are DINKs and I make good money and she makes medium money and... we're not even close.

Nostalgia4Infinity posted:

Failsons of Saudi/Chinese billionaires.

Cugel the Clever posted:

Say upstart yuppies Tom, Dick, and Harry want a home in Vancouver, the Bay Area, or just about any of the dynamic metro areas across the world. Jokes on them: due to the lockin of single-family housing, the three of them are all competing for the same house. They're all rich little shits, but Dick is more willing or capable to outbid the other two and becomes the proud owner/renter of a $5,000,000, single-story 1950s ranch house a couple of miles from downtown.

Tom and Harry don't just vanish in a poof of smoke, of course, so they start looking elsewhere. Tom decides living in the city is important enough to him to mingle with the poors in historically disadvantaged neighborhoods, where he finds the number of homes just as limited as in the rich areas, but is easily able to compete against the scores of lower and middle class home-seekers, resulting in prices going up for everyone. Harry, on the other hand, decides that a 3-hour commute suits him just fine, so buys a giant house in the exurbs and contributes the the sprawl that plagues our cities.

We can and must implement renter protections and build massive new affordable housing to protect the disadvantaged from the consequences of this, but so too must we address the root of the problem by smashing the gently caress out of rich neighborhoods' ability to block any and all density near them. Worried offshore investors will inexplicably sit on vacant ultra-luxury condos and apartments rather than adjust their prices downward to get some takers? Make the city government tax the poo poo out of vacant homes and put all that money into a fund for new affordable developments and infrastructure improvements.

End rant. Sorry, I just read a Twitter thread covering a rich neighborhood making GBS threads all over a developer's proposal to build a 21-unit assisted living building near their mansions ("HOW OFTEN WILL AMBULANCES COME BLARING?"; "THEY'LL BE DEPENDENT ON MEDICARE, WON'T THEY? EWW"; and "WHERE WILL THE 78 GRAND CHILDREN PARK???") after shooting down a different multi-unit proposal for the same spot with the claim they'd prefer to see a senior living facility there. So I'm mildly incensed when I see someone attack potential solutions without offering alternatives.

FAUXTON posted:

They'll need to do it in Toronto and Montreal as well to make a dent.