I love Mamdani leaning into the rent freeze. The Abundance Agenda folks must be fuming.

I'm prototypical generation Jones. Miss me with your moral superiority. Not because it'd hurt my feelings, but because it would embarrass you. Maybe my emotional problems were also social problems. I never leaned into greed is good, but it's not disqualifying either. youtu.be/KVo4Fazy6BY?...

Not one of the investor class YIMBYs understood the obvious implication that, like Prop13, SB79 disempowers local voters. I don’t care if you claim you want Medicare for all or freedom in Palestine, if you don’t want local democracy, then you are investor class, not worker class.

Monarchs are too pretty for us.

I think my corporate darwinism idea is perfectly compatible with concerns over renters rights and gun violence concerns. Guns make some marginalized groups more secure. It is when overprivileged bullies get ahold of guns that we have problems. By destroying the gun company favored by bullies,

We often say this heat wave is a glimpse of our future. That's true, but it's only part of the story. Conditions like these will become more common, but even more intense heat waves will then emerge, with worsening impacts on people and ecosystems. Graphic from climate.copernicus.eu/esotc/2025/t...

I knew the court was detached from the language and environment when Kavanaugh made that face in response to a question. youtu.be/xqQIQTBYI00?...

People whining about involuntarily supporting the trillionaire's company through their retirement investments must hit strange to Bill McKibben.

Fighting climate change is like spitting in the wind. Be lazy, like me. I'm car free for selfish reasons. Using less energy could be easy for you too. Simply destroy an oil major, and you'd get the same stuff for less work. Fine, you might have to tinker around the edges, but not as much.

Line goes down.

"The Reflecting Pool Is Green. Part of the Gulf Is Dying. Guess Which One Made the News" robverchick.substack.com/p/the-reflec...

Stop being such pushovers. You don't have to get in line behind big oil begging for hormooz to open. You don't have to get in line behind big oil blaming big tech for climate change. You don't have to get in line behind big oil enabling fascism. You could do what we did before to end fascism.

Wrt SB79, "if the project includes 10% affordability, it gets ministerial approval".... In SF, ... "the family zoning plan might only produce 8 to 14 thousand units" ... "Without financing and without the market cooperating, zoning alone does not build a single new unit." youtu.be/t2SFhrcm3pk?...

This isn't actually funny but I keep cackling to myself when people say we should blame consumers because it is the same as blaming oil companies. Like, I *know* it is semantics. ::pooh poohs Doughnut Economics to claim:: "demand" is real. reality: "language determines goals"

If someone chooses to live in a smaller home in the inner city in part to avoid a long commute, they generally don’t pressure society to build them a bigger house with more stuff. So if you choose a bigger stuff-filled house in the suburbs, don’t expect society to build you a fast car commute.

Newsom is to Trump what Reagan was to Carter, just more of the same.

I mean, Pritzker calling JD a weird couch lover is historic, but the be normal ship has sailed in the USofPetro$. Normal is car culture and police procedurals. Miss me with that. If you want to survive, you can't do the normal supply "demand" thing. Normal won't work. You have to destroy an oil co.

I refuse to fall over myself qualifying Musk's evil. His AI abundance is just like Ezra Klein's techno Abundance. His climate actions are mere window dressing for the keeling curve. He is as inevitable as human nature unless we destroy one of the oil companies that indirectly created him.

Long live the algae.

Find a hobby. youtu.be/Cb3fp5pMnfU?...

Since arguments on here have been so unimpressive, I have to argue against myself. The argument that oil companies would take up the means of production abandoned by companies we chose to destroy is bad, because investors are risk averse. The artument that we are addicted to fossil fuel is bad,

YIMBYs have even less ideology than Ezra Klein. And Ezra Klein's liberalism is that technology will save us. SpaceX scaling up the lunar lander to land on Earth aside, technology does not change anything. It is like art and science. It mirrors our lives. To improve our lives, delicense an oil major.

My problem with YIMBYs is they cannot apply basic arithmetic. They call buying below median a unit that appreciates below median improbable. I don't think that word improbable means what they think it means. The reason they call it improbable is because it violates their economicus-man beliefs.

YIMBYs accusing Abundance of being the wrong word is like environmentalists accusing degrowth of being the wrong word. Difference is, Abundance was an attempt to make YIMBYism into more than a slogan. But degrowth builds on and adds to environmentalism.

I dreamed hotels would remove Trump's name long ago. It's been a wild ride. We can't afford to make other things worse before making them better. We have to destroy an oil company now, not after doubling how much energy we use with renewables.

The fact that people treat yimby and abundance as genuine democratic expression and not elite astroturfing like the fossil fuel industry front groups is a little shocking to me. Not a lot but a little given the exact same mechanics at work, you'd think people would be able to do the pattern match.

Why do Bluesky YIMBYs pile on me instead of on Revolving Door Project? Scared? Is the moral bankruptcy of YIMBY obvious to me because I'm an anti-Reagan boomer, or because I identify with the nerds in Revenge Of The Nerds? I'm still the only one that realizes SB79 is just new and improved Prop13.

The leftist line is MTG should have done impeachment or whatever instead of opposing the Epstein class from the safety of retirement. Call me a retirement hypocrite, but I don’t think merica first bigotry is any different from Epsteinism. They both get off on hurting kids.

It would serve CA voters right for their subconscious to make the valid connection between Becerra and the heat.

Whoa. A simple comparison between EVs and AI earned a block by Brad Johnson? He really wants Elon Musk to be both good and bad, not all bad.

The reason Wiener and the Abundance YIMBYs, like Reagan, salivate over reducing local power, as opposed to local energy, is because local CA communities can destroy Chevron as easily as Texas could. Simply prohibit Chevron from refining or transporting fossil fuel in your community, and all is well.

Why does everyone say Trump looks worse now. Maybe I wasn't paying attention, but he has always looked disgusting. I guess it was the golden toilets and glamour that was ugly to me. Newsom is similar in that there is a picture of him with a Trump follower in luxury. I dislike Platner's look too.

People are complaining as if it is their choice whether AI exists or not. If people wanted to survive, they'd take responsibility and destroy an oil major. But they'd rather complain about what corporations produce, instead of destroying even one company that produces things they don't like.

Is it a Freudian slip for Platner haters to join in with Pattie Gonia haters?

Ok, so it's an AI bubble, but don't hope for it to burst. If you weren't so petro-brained, you'd realize there are plenty of ways to deflate it, ways that will not increase inequality. Simply take all the petro-$s away from the billionaires, and/or destroy an oil company, problem solved.

Katherine Hayhoe has me blocked on here, so I'll respond here. Let's compare Katherine Hayhoe to Kate Raworth. Raworth is skeptical of stick figures; Hayhoe cherry picks stick figures. Raworth does not reject selfishness as human nature; she appreciates that human nature is multi-faceted.

Traditional economics is obsolete. I lean into the systems part when I demand that we destroy an oil company. But my narrow focus does not do justice to Doughnut Economics. Kate Raworth's awareness of how economics fits into society, and how we fit into the world is great. youtu.be/xjfZGquvbek?...

The OPEC flex and Carter's deregulation did not dent the keeling curve. Reagan's deregulation gave it a wobble. But renewables Iraq covid Iran have not changed it. The only thing not tried yet is to directly destroy an oil company. Might as well give it a try. What's the worst that could happen?

I mean, atheists are a minority. If anything, religion is to blame for market fundamentalism and consumerism. I think we need to get off of our worship of corporations, and onto degrowth. Unfortunately, that is unpopular with both the left, that loves work, and the right, that loves corporations.

'Pattie Gonia’s name, by contrast, appears to be “part of artistic expression,” he said. “The name change is witty.”':

I mean I like the people that hate Platner; they are good people. But the whole Platner thing has disillusioned me about politics. Character is as much of a lie as lack of character is. Is it cheating when conservatives nominate immoral people? Might our answer be to win despite bigger scandals?

Creators are in peril because of AI, but the doodles that corporations defend with armies of lawyers are safe. I put down roots in Silicon Valley, so I think AI should be of service to creators. It needs to be more efficient. Voters not consumers need to decide which companies get to have AI.

Ostensibly, I switched to Steyer because he hedges less on CAHSR, but he might hedge less because he is given less slack. In fact, I probably switched because of leftist independent media. Ostensibly, they opposed Porter because they have better crystal balls, and knew she would be unpopular.

Neolibertarians appropriated abundance, so Mamdani appropriated affordability through worker strikes and such.

It can't be worse than Project Hail Mary.

This is why I think we should destroy an oil company. Fear of change is why I'm ignored. youtu.be/uCnaLf1l8Uk?...

capitalist space circus

MONTANA!!!!! www.youtube.com/live/c89f4fC...

Armchair lawyers disagree with me.

My professor dad told me to not be conservative, and that the reason was compassion. I had to make the conscious choice to think of others as equals. Now I understand his hesitancy when I decided to transfer to mainstream college. He knew I'd get recruited into a corporate hierarchy.