Green City

Resilience, autonomy, prosperity, sustainability

[Green City @greencitydon]

@rulesdisobeyer Hey now, be fair. It'd probably wind up killing at least into the low thousands.

[Green City @greencitydon]

@atxREpodcast These problems took a long time to address before, People must be using rose-tinted glasses.

[Green City @greencitydon]

@atxREpodcast City staff already have to do hybrid work schedules. It'd be absurd to implement RTO for one if the largest employers in Austin literally months before total reconstruction of I-35 starts for the next decade. How bas do you want traffic to get?

[Green City @greencitydon]

@ChrisKutalik You've got some clear issues to focus in at least. "Deeply felt, widely felt, sense of urgency" - check, check, triple check

[Green City @greencitydon]

@rulesdisobeyer NEPA does take a long time and more out of bureaucracy than the actual consideration of environmental impacts. Not a big deal on smaller projects but bug ones, it can be considerable.

[Green City @greencitydon]

@stylianos_k You can broaden the appeal, I think, by adding in large numbers of cheap, rent controlled studio apartments, as last rungs before facing homelessness. Large swaths of working class people who don't want to identify w homeless folks would feel direct benefit from that.

[Green City @greencitydon]

@matildae22 The cats have been there for thousands of years, I'm assuming the local ecosystems have adapted. Mixed bag in the states.

[Green City @greencitydon]

@rulesdisobeyer It's an idealized version of English yeomen farmers.

[Green City @greencitydon]

@gusbova This line is probably correct: "Gonzalez said Democrats focused too much on TV ads generally in Texas and should have spent more time door knocking and talking to voters."

[Green City @greencitydon]

@WithoutJudith I don't like or believe in any of the caucuses but there isn't a simple left/right schema for them, and that normally just seems to be a rhetorical cudgel one caucus uses against another. A lot of the differences are more on tactical focus or just historical contingency.

[Green City @greencitydon]

@MattBruenig That did make me wonder if socialist policies work better if they're rooted in a long-time practice of prior political economy. Not as some weird invocation of racialized "culture," but as a sort of material "socialist primitive accumulation."

[Green City @greencitydon]

@MattBruenig I think most of the critiques against the Nordic models are specious but awhile back I watched a minidoc that described the Norwegian social ownership policy as evolving from a long tradition of village/town level collective timber enterprises over the early modern period

[Green City @greencitydon]

@_ericblanc Very true but there also didn't seem to be any candidates who'd both have a shot and be willing to buck the president and party leadership. Assuming elections, 2028 will be wide open, which may help.

[Green City @greencitydon]

@ChaseMadar Personally given the context, I think both approaches are understandable and valid.

[Green City @greencitydon]

@ChaseMadar There's some arguable benefit to running up the anti-trump popular vote even if it doesn't translate into electoral college votes. Helps solidify a claim to victory given a hostile court etc. It's vague, and I don't think essential, but it does help the media narrative some.

[Green City @greencitydon]

@AnitaTrill64 Return to the Planet of the Kangaroos

[Green City @greencitydon]

@GaryWinslett @samth You started with a good argument and then weakened it here. People are concerned about general ecological fragility and collapse. Most people care at least a little bit about the natural world and don't want to break it. The farm impact is a huge concern but so is the rest.

[Green City @greencitydon]

@theemrhammer @juliogatx Let's do it

[Green City @greencitydon]

@thehousered This is a hilariously dumb headline.

[Green City @greencitydon]

@escargotpro_ @jaldy_ They've been quite explicit about it. This hasn't been subtle.