Biden is doing his best which is the problem
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Good lord I fucking hate this cracker and his dipshit brother
I liked him in Mentopolis as The Fix. That is more or less all I know of him. Was he one of the vlogbrothers in days yore?
to be clear, twitter is bad, but not because it tells people when biden is lying without giving Hank enough Details and Context. I mean ffs this all happened ages ago and I could have told you exactly what he spent the whole video researching and whinging about how complicated it was. It's not that complicated.
hahahaha its the original soyjak who "fucking loves science"!!!
I remember he recently shat out a video about how the solution to homelessness is to build more houses because: "akkording to muh soyience, supply must be down because demand and price lines go up!"
Built by who? Owned by who? What's stoping those homes from immediatly being bought up by investment capital and being rented out at the "fair market rate"?
Fucks sake I'm sick of the "I don't understand why they don't just..." solutions
Fucks sake I'm sick of the "I don't understand why they don't just..." solutions
I don't understand why we don't just abolish the landlord class 
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They dont have solutions for housing or homelessness without abandoning their politics. They get very mad when you point out their Build More Housing No Matter What Kind is just trickle down economics from the 80s applied to an inelastic good.
rented out at the "fair market rate" *to aquaman FTFY
Fucks sake I'm sick of the "I don't understand why they don't just..." solutions
Liberals, naiive people who think they know the "cold hard truth about the reality(TM)".
I remember he recently shat out a video about how the solution to homelessness is to build more houses because
Hot take, I agree with the Libs on this one, we should be building more housing. The country is increasingly urbanizing, which should be a good thing, but local petite bourg real estate owners want to restrict supply to make their assets more valuable. Hence the affordability crisis. Throwing up more high rises in Cali would do a lot to help lower housing costs and reduce homelessness.
I don't agree with libs on this one. More housing doesn't directly relate to more affordable housing. If it was affordable high rises, sure. But the housing we're building is "market rates" and higher and that just doesn't push down prices, it drags prices up.
Housing is an inelastic good and landlords will charge whatever they "can" which is based off other available houses.
I should have prefaced, as a socialist I think we should build more PUBLIC housing. That would address the problem more quickly and directly.
However...
landlords will charge whatever they "can" which is based off other available houses.
Part of the reason they can charge so much is they don't have much competition, any open space is going to have a lot of people competing for it so you can Jack up prices, somebody will probably be able to pay. If there was more selection people could go for cheaper options and landlords wouldn't be able to ask exorbitant prices for subpar properties.
If it reaches the scale of Red Vienna then it definitely starts to have an effect
Yeah part of the reason the Karl Marx Hof worked is because private landlords now had to compete with this really nice, affordable, housing bloc. You can't charge exorbitant rents if your tenants have a decent affordable option on the plate.
That is until nobody can afford to pay, then all that land is overvalued and the bubble gets scary again
like making more housing is kinda of the solution, the problem is that you don't need to build houses as much as should retrofit existing buildings that are empty in dense urbans spaces into housing, as they would have access to much better infrastructure and would be cheaper and less damaging to de enviroment as building materials have such a fucked up carbon footprint due to their production, like i am from brazil and i think the best thing lula did was his proposal to use old federal buildings that have lost their use into housing (for example, a bunch of stuff in rio that is on the most valued land with a bunch of transportation and infrastructure already built in that lost their function when the capital moved to Brasilia) which is incredibly better than the other program that we already had from his first term that builds houses because those tend to be so far away from where people actually live on the areas that have the least job oportunities
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There's plenty of houses already. building houses doesn't work if the new house immediatly gets bought by an investment firm that rents it out for 1.5x the areas median income.
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Throwing up more high rises in Cali would do a lot to help lower housing costs and reduce homelessness.
Is there any example of this occurring, because these high rises in California are all exclusively going for 4-5k a month for a 1 bedroom, which im not sure is very helpful for a population thay struggles to pay any rent
The libs are not right because they do not agree with you on public housing, its all mArKeT bAsEd SoLuTiOns.
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tbf there are localized supply issues. But there's also a "rich fucks have lost their basic humanity and ability to live in a society" problem that requires fixing before any serious solutions can really be entertained :gui:
housing first does not mean we must jerk off to trickle down economics. also its projected half of all homes will be owned by corporations in 2030
half of all homes will be owned by corporations in 2030
We need him back 
Hank Green is just that guy from Mentopolis. You can’t convince me he’s a Youtuber.
Thesis: Biden is doing his best.
Antithesis: Biden is ethnically cleansing Palestinians.
Synthesis: Biden is doing his best ethnically cleansing Palestinians.
pokemon fascist red and lib green
I don't trust anyone who writes YA books for a few reasons.
weird take
I don’t trust Hank green, but it’s because he’s a lib
Are there any YA authors who aren't either Libs or weirdo midwest conservatives?
Ursula K Le Guin wrote Earthsea and has very cool politics.
KA Applegate is fine I think?
Okay forgot her, and Animorphs is good
Probably, yeah. There are a ton of different YA authors out there. Off the top of my head, the book Feed by M.T. Anderson is a great depiction of a techno-capitalist dystopia. In the book,
spoiler
a girl with an aftermarket brain chip is denied healthcare because her consumer spending patterns make her an unprofitable target for advertisers.
I’ve seen YA authors get derided a few times on this site (once, it was aimed at male YA authors in particular), and it comes across as reactionary to me. I just don’t understand.
Fair enough, it's just every well known YA author I can think of off the top of my head has shit politics. Also most examples of YA I know of have shit politics story wise too. Also I've found the whole existence of the genre kinda weird, what specifically about them makes them for "young adults"? People in that age range are generally mature enough they could just be reading regular literature, outside of them having younger protagonists (which there is plenty of non-YA literature with younger protags) idk what is specifically is "YA" about them besides maybe having a bit easier to digest prose?
young adult is misleading cause it sounds like it could apply to teens (who should probably be graduating to regualr 'adult' lit) but i think its reasonable for there to be something between learning-to-read baby prose and full hog literature
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every well known YA author I can think of off the top of my head has shit politics. Also most examples of YA I know of have shit politics story wise too.
This is true for books of all genres in the global north I think.
what specifically about them makes them for "young adults"?
That’s a good question, and I’m sure the definition is controversial (like all genre definitions). I haven’t read this too closely because I’m hexbearing at work, but I found this article which is probably a good starting place: https://www.tckpublishing.com/young-adult-fiction/
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our very own UlyssesT
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His brother is the YA writer
Wait there are 2 of them 😳
This is getting out of hand!
He ripped off his big bro and also wrote one himself.
I didn't expect this to generate a struggle session. I think they are just largely cringe from what I've seen. I'm not sure how that is reactionary? Also half the stuff I post in the comments is basically just steam of conscious stuff.
Hank is the platonic ideal of a lib who has some queer friends
what sucks is he has described having been a radlib or anarchist or something in the past when he was super focused on climate change, reading Andreas Malm, etc.
I still don't get what changed his mind. Success, I guess. And probably a lack of theory
Not an uncommon journey for a vibes based radlib, but I have no idea
Hank has investigated (as seen in the video), therefore he has the right to speak.
didn't stop him from being a fucking dolt about it but yea
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