Harrison Lees 🇦🇶

Writer/Director with @antarctica_pics. QF: AFF, Shore, ScreenCraft. SF: Outstanding. Lynchian Eagle Scout. Steering @dsa_housing

[Harrison Lees 🇦🇶 @HarrisonLees]

IMDb listed my first writing credit: I won a contest to write a joke for @RiffTrax’s live version of my favorite MST3K episode. The best part was it was performed by the incomparable @BillCorbett. It was like making a childhood dream come true!

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@spencerforhire @rcmoya84 Youre serious about crushing dissent in the form of tenants’ democratic self-determination in the form of independent class organization. Don’t worry, I see exactly who you are

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@spencerforhire @rcmoya84 Your ideology places more property into the hands of landlords as a solution and exiles the rest of us to the periphery for the sake of your comfort and ease of movement. Your ideology is the same as the speculators and the police. And thats you being serious

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@spencerforhire @rcmoya84 Youre trying to gatekeeper now, appeal to some sense that you have more ownership of the city than I do but that isn’t the point. Frankly it shows the weakness of YIMBYism as an ideology

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@spencerforhire @rcmoya84 but you would stand by and lecture those same neighbors of yours that its actually good that their home is being demolished and them being pushed to the periphery to make room for development? You wouldnt fight their displacement, you would revel in it

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@spencerforhire @rcmoya84 Why should public housing come at the expense of tenants currently living in a given spot? Why not make their buildings public housing? Is that impossible? youre the one that seems evasive now. perhaps you should let the serious adults handle issues like this

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@spencerforhire @rcmoya84 you frame yourself as the adult in the room and yet you can’t think outside of the mentality of your extremely safe enclave

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@spencerforhire @rcmoya84 Youre hardly serious if your solution is to simply unleash the market to solve a crisis caused by the market and commodification. Again, you betray yourself as someone completely divorced from the human lives in the streets who would be affected by your pet projects

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@spencerforhire @rcmoya84 I would ask: why not make the housing that currently exists in that space, in your scenario, public housing? Why not start there instead of having to displace anybody? Because you personally have formulas on a spreadsheet that says thats not enough

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@spencerforhire @rcmoya84 I dont need to ask why you dont consider the collective will of the tenants because to you thats an obstacle. Their lives are simply there to be pushed around by market forces and property so you can feel better about moving to a new apartment every few years

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@spencerforhire @rcmoya84 The policies you propose would make the city more livable for people like yourself, not for the tenants you call privileged. You would banish them for the sake of the city “in your head”. We can have public housing anytime, but your pragmatism forecloses on it as a fantasy

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@spencerforhire @rcmoya84 Ultimately, its not about me its about the democratic will of the tenants in your scenario. I find it interesting that you consider this to be a matter of you or me deciding; once again, I find YIMBYism to be completely blind to democracy

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@spencerforhire @rcmoya84 Maybe you dont know: Chavez Ravine was cleared by the feds because it was seen as a “slum” and “blighted”, to make room for public housing. The government reneged on that and built Dodgers Stadium instead. This isn’t new

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@spencerforhire @rcmoya84 We shouldnt have landlords, and developers should be a public entity used to make public housing as a human right. Your affinity for landlords clearly betrays that you’re not interested in long term solutions, just more comfortably white, middle-upper class consumer enclaves

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@spencerforhire @rcmoya84 We just have to lay ourselves at the whims of landlords and developers to own more property and maybe that will make them less greedy. For YIMBYism, technocracy is the primary ruler of our lives and the democratically self-determined working class is the enemy in the way

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@spencerforhire @rcmoya84 Again, YIMBYism proves itself a dead end by starting with the foreclosure of politics and organization as an engine for change. To you, the market got us into this mess, along with those snooty RSO tenants, and the market will get us out of it