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SlimGoodbody posted:Reparations would be a nice start for sure but yeah, the actual scope of evil visited upon enslaved people and any descendant even remotely connected to the receiving end of slave society violence (and its renamed legacy systems) would in all likelihood exceed the capacity for quantification. Like how do you even calculate the monetary value of centuries of... that. It's also so baked into this country that it has been the off-screen suffering press that produces the oil which greases the machinery of America. The only justice I can think of that would come close to approaching a meaningful start would involve the total dismantling of this entire operation. Ya lots of people living under the brutal occupation of settler colonialism been saying this
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Bald Stalin posted:Ya lots of people living under the brutal occupation of settler colonialism been saying this Someone should write a book about this
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jokes posted:I was raised in the south and spent most of my life there so I'm not familiar with it, but does CA have much of a 'yikes' history with slavery? I know that Oregon was a sundown state, which is a yikes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_slavery_in_California#:~:text=White%20colonists%20from%20the%20Southern,Rush%20(1848%E2%80%931855). Also the Mission system was yikes Also the sundown towns and Klan were active here. I have a friend who got run out of Orange County with his family and he's not even that old...that was during the 80's. https://fullertonobserver.com/2019/01/07/a-brief-history-of-the-ku-klux-klan-in-orange-county-notes-on-the-banality-of-evil/ I'm told Pomona was pretty Klan heavy as well. Jaxyon fucked around with this message at 00:30 on Feb 9, 2024 |
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Jaxyon posted:Also the sundown towns and Klan were active here. I have a friend who got run out of Orange County with his family and he's not even that old...that was during the 80's. This doesn't surprise me one bit. Every time I go to Orange County there's a pretty strong whiff of Trump on the breeze
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jokes posted:This doesn't surprise me one bit. Every time I go to Orange County there's a pretty strong whiff of Trump on the breeze There was literally a nazi march there during his administration. Huntington Beach is a very pretty, very awful place.
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SlimGoodbody posted:I have lived in California for all my 40 years and it's never come up 🤷♂️ He's very commonly cited along with LOWV Anyhow Knock-LA is a No, and they're generally very good for left leaning voter guides: https://knock-la.com/knock-la-voter-guide-march-2024-primary/
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Jaxyon posted:There was literally a nazi march there during his administration. and San Clemente if not the bulk (but not quite all of) “South County” (south orange county)
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Jaxyon posted:Huntington Beach is a very pretty, very awful place. Can confirm. Spent the first 11 years of my life there plus regular visits to my grandmother there until she died 4 years ago.
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SlimGoodbody posted:I also read the Political Party Statements of Purpose pages, and why are Green and Peace & Freedom not just forming a bloc? They have the same agenda. Just call yourselves the Socialist Party or something, it's what you both say you're running on. They should also run for more offices than just the president. I don't see any green or p&f candidates for senator, or even local offices in my county. No new party ever gets the presidency the first time, but you can use the momentum to elect people in local positions. Otherwise it just seems like grift. E: I guess the DSA has taken all the momentum from those two parties, and they're husks of nostalgia now. America Inc. fucked around with this message at 07:29 on Feb 12, 2024 |
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Punkin Spunkin posted:The DSA has Joementum?
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Commie liberal scum https://twitter.com/peterbakernyt/status/1757406392715972904 https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-02-13/golden-state-loses-luster-half-of-americans-say-california-in-decline
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the implication being that it's a bad thing to not be labelled as American by republicans
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I wish liberals and their havens were half as communist as the dumb poo poo MAGA freaks believed they were.
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I wish I could be openly commie in California, but living in LA, I lack any sort of police, homeless people beat me up for my lunch money, and I have special "human feces" shoes to wear out whenever I leave my house, which is seldom.
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SlimGoodbody posted:I wish liberals and their havens were half as communist as the dumb poo poo MAGA freaks believed they were. I want a haven, poo poo sucks everywhere
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OgNar posted:Commie liberal scum Nothing new, people who don't live in California looooove bashing California
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I wish I could get paid to write a couple thousand words saying nothing.
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Cup Runneth Over posted:Nothing new, people who don't live in California looooove bashing California Californians in this thread spend most of the time bitching about how much they dislike it.
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SolarFire2 posted:Californians in this thread spend most of the time bitching about how much they dislike it. Everyone loves bashing California; however those who live there bash it much differently than those who don't.
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California is fine except welfare tax dollars don't seem to be very effective if you look at overall outcome in relation to how high income taxes are I have commentary on over regulation but I think we've hit the high water mark for regulation as the NIMBY voting bloc ages out of life
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Hadlock posted:California is fine except welfare tax dollars don't seem to be very effective if you look at overall outcome in relation to how high income taxes are Hadlock, you know that the NIMBY groups' kids inherit their landed advantages, right? The old NIMBYs will simply become young NIMBYs who want to retain the status quo to their own advantage.
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california sucks but it sucks a whole lot less than nearly every other state in this suckass country
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Sundae posted:Hadlock, you know that the NIMBY groups' kids inherit their landed advantages, right? The old NIMBYs will simply become young NIMBYs who want to retain the status quo to their own advantage. Seems like only about 1/3 of NIMBY kids don't sell their parents house. I'm genuinely impressed how many people flush their inheritance down the drain for a one time payout. Most paid off SFH can rent after taxes and maintenance (lol) here for like $40k in profit annually, easily double that on the peninsula. About 80% of the homes we looked at were "my parents died during covid, so we're selling the house" flips
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mikeycp posted:california sucks but it sucks a whole lot less than nearly every other state in this suckass country I have a daughter so I can't ever move back to Texas unless they roll back about 15 years worth of hostile laws
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jokes posted:What, and delete Orange County? we can turn it back into farmland or something
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It'd be cool if my property tax was reduced or eliminated, and that PG&E stopped killing and loving everyone over with their exorbitant prices because of said killing. But I guess that's just a pipe dream. And DMV renewal fees to not be silly. Between my 2018, 2016, and 2013 cars, I'm paying drat near close to $1000 each year on registration fees alone.
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guy who owns a house and three cars: buhh buh muh taxes e: but also, to be clear, gently caress pg&e. i miss smud Cactus Ghost fucked around with this message at 23:42 on Feb 14, 2024 |
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Hadlock posted:Seems like only about 1/3 of NIMBY kids don't sell their parents house. I'm genuinely impressed how many people flush their inheritance down the drain for a one time payout. Most paid off SFH can rent after taxes and maintenance (lol) here for like $40k in profit annually, easily double that on the peninsula. About 80% of the homes we looked at were "my parents died during covid, so we're selling the house" flips sell the inherited bay area house for $2 million, pay no capital gains tax. take $1 million and buy a nice house somewhere sane. put the other $1 million in the bank and get $50k in profit annually for doing nothing. now you still have a house, and you still have a million bucks, and you don't have to be a landlord!
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Cactus Ghost posted:guy who owns a house and three cars: buhh buh muh taxes Sorry I have kids? What a weird comment.
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Hadlock posted:Seems like only about 1/3 of NIMBY kids don't sell their parents house. I'm genuinely impressed how many people flush their inheritance down the drain for a one time payout. Most paid off SFH can rent after taxes and maintenance (lol) here for like $40k in profit annually, easily double that on the peninsula. About 80% of the homes we looked at were "my parents died during covid, so we're selling the house" flips Yeah but they're gonna act NIMBY right up until they sell that house (so they get max dollar), and then move away, removing themselves from the YIMBY side of the equation too. The new owner is a NIMBY, because he just spent $2M on a house so doesn't want it to go back to $500K either, etc etc. None of the sellers want cheap houses now, none of the buyers want cheap houses later, and none of the children want mom's estate to be cheap because they want to sell it when it's their turn. Repeat on loop until someone is forced to take a haircut. quote:sell the inherited bay area house for $2 million, pay no capital gains tax. take $1 million and buy a nice house somewhere sane. put the other $1 million in the bank and get $50k in profit annually for doing nothing. now you still have a house, and you still have a million bucks, and you don't have to be a landlord! Exactly, and proposing to fix the housing market eats into that $2M inherited value, so of course they're against it as a voting bloc.
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Sundae posted:Hadlock, you know that the NIMBY groups' kids inherit their landed advantages, right? The old NIMBYs will simply become young NIMBYs who want to retain the status quo to their own advantage. As if the parents won’t sell out to a foreign landlord conglomerate and spend all of the money on Alzheimer’s pills till they’re 90.
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I had a late 20's coworker who was constantly complaining about democrats from the left. The topic of Prop 13 came up and I said something negative about it, thinking he would agree. Surprisingly he liked prop 13, because apparently his parents are landlords. I wonder what his account name is.
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DELETE CASCADE posted:sell the inherited bay area house for $2 million, pay no capital gains tax. take $1 million and buy a nice house somewhere sane. put the other $1 million in the bank and get $50k in profit annually for doing nothing. now you still have a house, and you still have a million bucks, and you don't have to be a landlord! You'd still pay ~25% income tax so that's a cool half mil to uncle Sam. So now you can buy a 2 bedroom condo ten miles from the beach, and 2% interest on $750k is like $15k, 4%* is only $30k which is barely going to cover your PG&E bill by the end of the decade. Plus you've got HOA dues on top of that The rental property is $40k/year, inflation adjusted, forever. Plus since you're a full time real estate professional, all expenses are a tax write off There's a reason why 60% of SFH were purchased and converted to rental properties during covid *Generous return for money sitting in the bank I guess if you just put it in an index fund you'd get 7% which is 52k but you're paying 20% short term capital gains tax on that so it's $41k minus state taxes There exist some properties that aren't viable rentals. A two bedroom condo in a large healthy building in downtown SF is certainly a viable rental
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