Baritone BC 🔰🌐

State Capacity Libertarian. The rent is too damn high.

[Baritone BC 🔰🌐 @Baritone_BC]

Any building in the West End should be allowed to be built by right in Shaughnessy. If it’s good enough for the best neighbourhood in Canada, it’s good enough for Shaughnessy!

[OneCity Vancouver @OneCityVan]

In Vancouver, on the front line of Canada's housing crisis, one exclusive, expensive neighbourhood is protected by municipal land-use policy: Shaughnessy.

@christineeboyle has tabled a motion to unlock Shaughnessy, and add badly-needed housing.

[Basil🧡 @LinkofSunshine]

The United States of America's Government's official opening remarks for the 250th birthday of America included the word "libtard," and people are surprised that we haven't come together in unity to celebrate

[C.E. McEnerny @CE_McEnerny]

@Noahpinion The subtext to me in all of this a strain of green puritanism that seems to imply that if the people don't suffer enough in the heat because they have AC, they won't take climate change seriously enough. Reminds me of fundamentalists who oppose the HPV vaccine.

[Josh Barro @jbarro]

Credit where due: Europe is better than the US at elevators. They have way more of them because they allow small, cheap elevators, while we require huge ones that are impractical in small buildings. Some learning can go both ways!

[Baritone BC 🔰🌐 @Baritone_BC]

@AmusedCynic1982 @StatisticUrban masochists? they can’t be

[Gary Winslett 🌐🇺🇸 @GaryWinslett]

I’m not sure any politician could fix what ails the UK. You have:
1) a political culture that is hostile to growth,
2) local govt institutions that empower #1,
3) badly aging demographics such that any prime minister is going to be reliant on older voters,
4) those seniors are rabidly committed to the idea that their benefits always get to make the first claim on every pound in British society.
5) those same seniors are a big driver of #1 too.

So then what you get is this total denial by voters that what Britain needs is pro-growth politics and more means-testing of senior benefits, even though that’s obviously what the fix is.

No politician is going to be able to square that circle.

[M. Nolan Gray 🥑 @mnolangray]

Howard Jarvis has been at it for 48 years. California still has the highest taxes in the country. All they've accomplished has been to lower efficient taxes, i.e. property/parcel taxes, and raise inefficient taxes, i.e. income/capital gains taxes and impact fees.

[Michael Wiebe @michael_wiebe]

Why are FIFA prices so high? Because for a 50,000 person stadium, the 50,001st customer—who does not get a seat—is willing to pay $1800. The first rejected customer sets a price floor, meaning the price can't be any lower than $1800.

[Kareem Rifai 🌐 @KareemRifai]

Correct about Tulsi Gabbard all along award recipients:

[Cathy Young 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇮🇱 @CathyYoung63]

(1) There is (or at least was) a very real grooming gangs problem
(2) The grooming gangs discourse on the right is completely deranged

[Kareem Rifai 🌐 @KareemRifai]

The Washington Post article exposes how Tulsi's cult was instructing her to use her position to protect Bashar al-Assad's mass-murder regime.

Your father had recently returned from Syria, literally risking his life to support the Syrian people's effort to oust Assad.

[Ben @Financialtailor]

This is unfair, they're taxing my unrealized gainz.

[Richard Hanania @RichardHanania]

Absolutely insane revelations about Tulsi Gabbard.

Throughout her public life, she's been a puppet for a Hindu cult.

Washington Post got access to 25,000 pages of documents including directives from Tulsi Gabbard's cult leader telling her which policy positions to take and how to present herself throughout her career.

It matches her record in Congress. At one point, she was instructed to say "It’s not a ‘boohoo, I don’t get to go to the party’ situation, Wolf" during a CNN interview, and used that exact phrase. This is one of several examples of her taking direct orders about what to say on TV. They told her what to tweet about too.

The cult set up fake accounts to boost her on social media. Gabbard was aware, at one point telling them to add a photo to a profile.

An email records a phone call where she was yelled at, but Tulsi is reminded at the end that "we still love you."

This woman was always a freak, which is why she ended up in the MAGA coalition. Anti-vaxxers, criminals, racist, and a woman in a weird cult all end up as allies. Trumpism is Kakistocracy.

[Sharty Supreme (evil) @trashjuiceprism]

@ITARviolation These covid lunatics are so fucking annoying. I had one tell me, and I quote, that "covid vaccines do not reduce transmission rates." That's what they said. They've managed to arrive at the exact same position as anti-vaxxers. Insane.

[Basil🧡 @LinkofSunshine]

We let Squamish Nation build whatever they want on their land. They built skyscrapers. Total YIMBY victory

[Aella @Aella_Girl]

in the cowboy days, many issues arose from the westerners not understanding how non-centralized the native americans were. They'd make a pact with a tribe, and feel betrayed when a different tribe raided them. From the outside, all the strange native folk seemed like one big undifferentiated mass.
If you're coming from a homogeneous normietown into a wild west of unusual communities, it might be hard to comprehend the diversity within them. After all, from the outside, they seem like one mass of vaguely weird people, and if one group of them is terrible you might be tempted to be like 'ah yes, the weird people are all secretly bad even though some of them seem good'

[Baritone BC 🔰🌐 @Baritone_BC]

@reddit_lies

[Richard Hanania @RichardHanania]

“It has been previously established that, at the very least, 250,000 young white girls have been subjected to repeated rape, gang rape, trafficking, torture, pregnancy, forced Islamic conversion, and lifelong trauma.”

That would be something like 1 in 40 women of reproductive age. It’s not credible and makes you wonder what kinds of standards these people are applying to establish truth.

[Baritone BC 🔰🌐 @Baritone_BC]

@Prominent_Bryan Oh thank God I’m not the only one who can’t stand it when people call the World Cup of Soccer “Fifa”

[sean @_sn_n]

conservatives: Zohran Mamdani is bringing Sharia Law to NYC

also conservatives:

[Reece Martin @RM_Transit]

This is the kind of thing that needs to happen more if we want to reign in costs.