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small butter posted:I'm 100% sure that if it came down to Trump and Vivek and maybe some other guy, Trump will call him something racist and Vivek will not have any self-reflection about how he came to this point. You just know Trump is going to go with "Swami". And Vivek is just going to take it.
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KillHour posted:I'm down for this but only if we tie it to life expectancy based on demographics and zip code. Poor black person in Alabama? Enjoy your early retirement. Rich white person? You can collect social security when you're 90. Nah. True capitalism requires to work yourself into the grave or, at best, retire long after you're physically or mentally capable of enjoying that free time you earned.
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The main problem with the unreconstructed southern states is that all the white people vote Republican because Lyndon Johnson passed the civil rights act. If the white people get even a little more normal (like Georgia, whose white people are still more Republican than almost anywhere outside the south) they can be competitive, but I don't think there's much you can do when the state is 58% white and 58% Trump.FCKGW posted:Every single state blames Californians for coming in and ruining their state. Nothing is ever a local issue, it's always the people from California that are moving in and messing everything up. Usually it's Republicans complaining about California transplants, but north Idaho was the bluest part until LAPD officers moved there after the 1992 riots.
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FCKGW posted:Every single state blames Californians for coming in and ruining their state. Nothing is ever a local issue, it's always the people from California that are moving in and messing everything up. I think of it more as our native assholes are enough trouble without having to deal with all of the Galt wannabes moving out here and giving us Ted loving Cruz as a Senator.
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James Garfield posted:(like Georgia, whose white people are still more Republican than almost anywhere outside the south) you got data for this? feels like the dakotas, wyoming, montana, and a lot of other places would be way worse skewed republican since they dont have an Atlanta equivalent to balance things out
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Tatsuta Age posted:you got data for this? feels like the dakotas, wyoming, montana, and a lot of other places would be way worse skewed republican since they dont have an Atlanta equivalent to balance things out You can look at exit polls by state on foxnews.com (exit polls aren't perfect, but it's enough to compare 80% vs 60%). Georgia white people are 69% Republican, the Dakotas and Wyoming are about the same and Montana is 57%. The thing to remember is those kind of states are more or less all white so the final result and the white people vote are about the same, but Georgia is 33% black. If you just looked at Atlanta the white people would be more Democratic than Wyoming, but Atlanta is making up for the neo confederates in the rest of the state.
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Skex posted:I think of it more as our native assholes are enough trouble without having to deal with all of the Galt wannabes moving out here and giving us Ted loving Cruz as a Senator. This, but despite talking to so many assholes who call their home state Commiefornia, no one in California will ever believe that this is a real thing that happens and that’s why it keeps getting mentioned
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:This, but despite talking to so many assholes who call their home state Commiefornia, no one in California will ever believe that this is a real thing that happens and that’s why it keeps getting mentioned California's untenable housing policies are causing people to move from high-cost areas to low cost areas, that's a fact. However, the narrative is always simultaneously that people from California are moving to a state and turning it blue while they're also moving to a state and turning it red. Whatever swings in political demographics can always be blamed on those migrating Californians.
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Young Freud posted:And yet, there's only one Arby's within a 20-25 minute drive from where I live, but 8 Subway's within 10 minutes. There's a reason for that. Subway, unlike basically any other chain, will approve every single franchise, even if they're directly across the street from each other. FlamingLiberal posted:That’s really huge and I’m sure employers are going to sue Yeah it's going to get to SCOTUS and they're going to declare the NLRB unconstitutional, and in a rare doulbe-wammy decision, they're going to declare the rest of the regulatory state also unconstitutional
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Jaxyon posted:There's a reason for that. Subway, unlike basically any other chain, will approve every single franchise, even if they're directly across the street from each other.
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Young Freud posted:Like Jesus, I love me some Arby's but I'm not really seeing it. I always pictured Jesus as more of a Wendy's guy.
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Esplanade posted:I always pictured Jesus as more of a Wendy's guy. The Sermon on the
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Google Jeb Bush posted:my local mall is being turned, in cooperation with the rest of the city, into something less mall-like We had one traditional, in door, mall fail years back. The Florida Community College system took over ownership and turned it into a campus. It's both nice inside and slightly disconcerting since they couldn't get rid of all the mall vibes. FCKGW posted:Every single state blames Californians for coming in and ruining their state. Nothing is ever a local issue, it's always the people from California that are moving in and messing everything up. That's not true. We blame all 48 other Contiguous States, but mostly focus our hate in New England. Hawaii and Alaska are fine, and we recognize they're not sending their ancient invaders, unlike the rest of you assholes.
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Excellent work https://www.democracydocket.com/analysis/140-judges-later-senate-democrats-work-to-diversify-the-federal-judiciary/ quote:President Joe Biden, with the leadership of Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Senator Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), has already barreled past his most recent predecessors with 97 federal judicial confirmations in the first two years of his term.
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Charlz Guybon posted:Excellent work That's something that will have material consequences for years no matter what 2024 brings, even if it's only a start of unskewing the federal judiciary. Things like this are why no matter how lovely a Democrat Manchin is and what bills he blocked, I'm glad he didn't just caucus with the Republicans and be done with it. Or Sinema but less so since Arizona could have done better and she definitely isn't what she campaigned as.
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:The National Labor Relations Board just announced a major change in union law. If this survives the inevitable court challenge, it'll be a massive boon to the labor movement. Biden's long been seen as a union guy, but the kinds of stuff coming out of his NLRB are things I wouldn't ever have imagined - in a good way. Too bad it's going to be completely forgotten by politics-watchers everywhere within a week, because Biden doing good things is far less interesting for journalists and politics addicts than covering the Trump circus.
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Kinda lol that it seems like it's getting to the point where the return of the union movement is the only thing stopping a lot of american industries from completely destroying themselves. It's clear Hollywood desperately wanted to get rid of writers, actors and directors entirely if they could and were openly salivating over AI and the opportunity to cease producing creative works in favour of Content.
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Charlz Guybon posted:Excellent work Great! If Biden wins, and the Dems keep the Senate, maybe they can get another Supreme Court seat or two from the GOP
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Georgia still gonna Georgia https://twitter.com/nbcnews/status/1695398227086897495?s=46&t=JBd6ZXmGQ3LmWL-ineTnAA quote:Floyd, who's charged with racketeering, conspiracy and influencing a witness, turned himself in Thursday afternoon, ahead of Trump's 20-minute appearance at the jail that evening. Prosecutors allege that Floyd, the former leader of Black Voices for Trump and the only Black man among the defendants, was part of a scheme to pressure election worker Ruby Freeman into making false statements. Freeman had been falsely accused by Trump and his allies of election fraud.
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FizFashizzle posted:Georgia still gonna Georgia The judge was pretty clear that the reason he wasn’t released is because he refused to get a lawyer, didn’t post bond, and had attacked a federal agent.
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Ither posted:Great! How are they going to break the contracts with Mephistopheles?
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Google Jeb Bush posted:my local mall is being turned, in cooperation with the rest of the city, into something less mall-like Our malls are being either knocked down and turned into strip malls (I kid you not) or are having large sections of them being bought and rebuilt into health care labs and offices.
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A mall is one of those things that's surprisingly difficult to run, from all I gather, and very easy to gently caress up especially if you get greedy, sloppy or arbitrary. And guess what business owners are very prone to do?
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My wife got a tattoo last week at a mall in what was very obviously a converted Zales lol.
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is pepsi ok posted:My wife got a tattoo last week at a mall in what was very obviously a converted Zales lol. Either way you can get covered in diamonds.
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Google Jeb Bush posted:my local mall is being turned, in cooperation with the rest of the city, into something less mall-like I wouldn't be surprised if, and have been actively predicting, that malls will make a comeback in the not too distant future. The malls near me that aren't completely shut down are basically just small nothing stores like antiques (see: old lamps and toys missing 3/4 of their pieces) or cellphone repair, but I'm honestly convinced that before 2040, culture will swivel back around to them being big and popular again.
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FizFashizzle posted:Georgia still gonna Georgia The guy is competitively unhinged so this is not exactly a surprise
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Staluigi posted:The guy is competitively unhinged so this is not exactly a surprise I think I'll be using that to describe the current group running for the nomination. Only the most unhinged will win, there can be only one.
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the_steve posted:I wouldn't be surprised if, and have been actively predicting, that malls will make a comeback in the not too distant future. I gotta say, class of '02 is a pretty tough spot to feel much affection for malls. Like, we still went to the mall sometimes, in that teenagery "let's hang out" kind of way, but they were already falling apart both as social spaces and places to buy poo poo. Meanwhile, we had the legends of Malls of Old passed down by our older siblings and cool cousins and Kevin Smith, so we had to be acutely aware of how lame it was to have our fifteen-point security tags removed as we were asked about a rewards card membership while we paid $30 for a stupid album at FYE. I am in principle very anti-mall from a land use/transportation/urban planning perspective, but land use is already irrevocably hosed in 80% of the country anyway. And at least they're better than standalone big box poo poo. Mellow Seas fucked around with this message at 15:45 on Aug 26, 2023 |
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A couple months ago, progressive YouTuber Adam Something created a YouTube video titled "Why US Malls Are Dying (And Why European Malls Aren't)" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=586SO9-wWoA It's only ten minutes long and quite fascinating. The short version is, US malls are oversaturated, not as well integrated into where people live, and not easy to reach, which is in turn caused by bad urban planning in the US. Why drive around and spend 1-2 hours or more to buy something when you can probably get it cheaper, easier, and with a wider selection from an online store? Meanwhile, European malls can often be reached easily through walking or public transportation, and have stuff better curated to fill local needs, so it can be more convenient to just drop by and get something rather than put in a mail order and wait for delivery. Edit: added link Victar fucked around with this message at 16:44 on Aug 26, 2023 |
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Victar posted:A couple months ago, progressive YouTuber Adam Something created a YouTube video titled "Why US Malls Are Dying (And Why European Malls Aren't)" This has been my observation as well. People make a lot of hay over the death of retail in the US but it's a lot more nuanced than the average observer gives it credit for. People want to buy things in person, they prefer, generally, to see what they're buying before they get it and enjoy the instant gratification that comes with an immediate purchase. The problem is that most retail stores are a pain in the rear end to reach and navigate, and malls are like the elemental example of that problem.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:A mall is one of those things that's surprisingly difficult to run, from all I gather, and very easy to gently caress up especially if you get greedy, sloppy or arbitrary. And guess what business owners are very prone to do?
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FlamingLiberal posted:I watch a few YouTubers that are into the whole Dead Mall community, and there is one guy who owns a bunch of failing malls that they hate because he will just buy them and then let them rot, until the city or someone else takes them off of his hands. He always gets them way below market value and then just squats on them. I saw a headline the other day about Century 3 mall in Pittsburgh the other day, where the city is trying to tear it down since it's been completely shutdown and vacant for a number of years now, but whatever investment group that owns the building is fighting them on it, or something to that effect.
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Mendrian posted:This has been my observation as well. People make a lot of hay over the death of retail in the US but it's a lot more nuanced than the average observer gives it credit for. People want to buy things in person, they prefer, generally, to see what they're buying before they get it and enjoy the instant gratification that comes with an immediate purchase. The problem is that most retail stores are a pain in the rear end to reach and navigate, and malls are like the elemental example of that problem. It was compounded by states and cities giving tax breaks and discounts to build malls in the 70s and 80s. So, rural/exurban communities were building them consequences be damned. No thought as to whether it fit the community.
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Some malls are managing the transition. Crossroads in Bellevue WA is a good example. They basically became a (good) ethnic food court with music, ample seating, and a grocery store. Honestly it’s pretty great to goto the independent book store, get some kickass curry, and listen to some polka.
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OctaMurk posted:Turn the malls into apartments and condos please Malls don't work for being repurposed that way, they lack a lot of the wiring/piping for it to make sense, so you'd basically have to totally tear them down, which at that point, just build more 5-over-1s in a better location that isn't surrounding by Death Valley parking acreage. The best use for a dying mall I saw was what most people in this thread were lamenting the loss of - a Third Place. The mall had a small stage and TONS of seating to just hang out and constantly had events (chess tourneys, cultural festivals) and a library attached to it. It kept the lights on at enough places to be worth it. Bar Ran Dun posted:Some malls are managing the transition. Crossroads in Bellevue WA is a good example. They basically became a (good) ethnic food court with music, ample seating, and a grocery store. are you loving kidding me I got sniped about the same mall??!
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OctaMurk posted:Turn the malls into apartments and condos please  Less consumerism, more affordable housing.
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Shrecknet posted:Malls don't work for being repurposed that way, they lack a lot of the wiring/piping for it to make sense, so you'd basically have to totally tear them down, which at that point, just build more 5-over-1s in a better location that isn't surrounding by Death Valley parking acreage. I mean, I was literally about to post about the same mall. It's a good mall man
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Bar Ran Dun posted:Some malls are managing the transition. Crossroads in Bellevue WA is a good example. They basically became a (good) ethnic food court with music, ample seating, and a grocery store. A difficult act to follow for most malls. Crossroads was always a community space - novelty giant chess set, occasionally used stage, a library, and city hall office. Kinda difficult to be that sort of thing if you aren't already.
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