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There's a leftist talking point that claims there are more vacancies than homeless people, but that talking point is overly simplified and deceptive for a number of reasons.
We have more vacant units than homeless residents in virtually every metropolis and rural backwater in the country. I'll spot you its oversimplified, as there's more to housing than just the physical structure. But the YIMBY plan to just "build more build more build more" completely neglects this core truth. We build units to incentivize new consumption and new financial investment, not to shelter an existing homeless population.
The lesser problem of homelessness is pronounced and obvious. The greater problem of an opaque and adversarial internal economy is occluded.
More than 122 journalists and media workers have been killed in Gaza since the outbreak of the war.
I've had a great time with BG3 and my wife is completely entranced by Zelda: TotK.
Of course, these no longer have the raw masculine energy of Duke Nuke'm Forever or Daikatana. Truly, we live in a fallen world.
I am once again desperately yearning to live in the world Chuds think we live in.
China has a Christian population of around 23M even now. Taiwan has another million. And missionaries had been plying their trade, particularly in the coastal cities, for centuries prior. Famously so, as Christian theology sparked the Tiaping Rebellion of the 1850s. You're not going to get hanged for this in China. But then this is in a country where one could viably call oneself a Confucian and a Christian without significant cognitive dissonance.
Oh no! My fifth favorite actor in celebrated 2002 comedy cult classic Death to Smoochy! What have you done?!!!
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1057/9781403919755_9
Our greatest hope is to make the Bible and Christian education, as we have known it, the means of conveying to our countrymen what blessings may be in the way of just laws
~ Sun Yat-Sen, the founder of the Koumintang, during a speaking event in San Francisco in 1911
Like, its a funny story to recount in the abstract, but that kid's life was irrevocably fucked the Unification Church. I do not envy what he had to go through to end up where he did.
what is it with people shooting at rightwingers and not going to the range?
Talking about killing people is easy. Firing downrange at a black and white target is easy. Actually ending someone else's life is incredibly difficult, especially if you've never done it before.
Cops have practice that Civvies don't.
Because it implies a bunch of value added labor - investigations, peaceful civil arbitrations, equitable adjudications, amicable and fruitful conflict resolutions - that don't exist in the real world but seemingly should if liberal theories of social order are accepted.
It's a fairytale of civil justice, told by babies to babies, to soothe their own anxieties about the civil nature of the modern world.
You make a single phone call and everything sorts itself out.
Absolutely Utopian.