@theRockLizard@mattyglesias Some replies sound to me like people want the pandemic to get worse. Try telling them the vax will prevent hospitalization, and they’ll be like, not this time, buddy. And I don’t think these are anti-vax ppl. I think these are ppl who got jabbed right away.
@Le9814@BigEzy19@artistgardener@Berlidge@Amy_Siskind Whole problem with liberals and progressives reaching any non-college educated demographic is that we don’t realize how automatically condescending we sound when talking about pretty much anything
@roofusfirefly @samk_harris Was in a grad school discussion last week with a dude who called a video of frank sinatra singing “old man river” a lynching. I told him that was an unreasonable comparison and he wouldn’t hear it. Nobody in the room backed me up. It can get weird sometimes.
@mark2821@mattyglesias The problem is he’s not allowed to do this. And where in America could you buy land to place the kind of housing they seek? Zoning won’t allow it. This is literally the YIMBYs’ point.
@mark2821@mattyglesias He literally told you he would develop his garage. That’s property he actually owns and something he could actually afford to do presumably. So could loads of other people in his position. That could actually help the situation.