YouEssAyyy
11mo ago
Allowing individuals to built multi family on their private property is hardly demanding someone builds a house.
Happy for you that you have no desire to leave the land of your ancestors but many people do and we should have land use policies that allow for building.
YouEssAyyy
11mo ago
Some of us have children and growth is great for a nation.
Unless you were on the Mayflower there is a pretty good chance you were not the first person to live in your city.
YouEssAyyy
11mo ago
If Canada wants CoL to go down they should prioritize building a ton more housing. Seems like a very simple solution, but existing homeowners are a powerful bloc.
Not sure if Canada’s zoning problems are similar to the US but it legit takes years to get projects approved here. Certainly a big driver of lower housing supply.
YouEssAyyy
1yr ago
I feel like attacking polling methodology is a pretty bipartisan pastime and isn’t surprising at all to me that it’s happening in the comments section.
We had multiple threads on here with challenges to official inflation data so unsure why polling wouldn’t be challenged.
YouEssAyyy
1yr ago
Well it’s also weird that the statues were erected decades after the war ended. The Confederacy lost too fast to put up monuments to their glory while they existed.
YouEssAyyy
1yr ago
He was in a senior leadership position. This wasn’t some rank and file conscript grunt just following orders.
IMO it’s even worse that he could have chosen the Union but decided to fight to keep race based slavery alive as an institution in his home state. The man is the opposite of an American hero.
Ignoring the racism it’s interesting you consider literal traitors to America to be worthy of statues. Lee didn’t “consider himself to be apart of the same nation” if you recall a rather significant event in his history.
YouEssAyyy
1yr ago
Lee fought against America and the statue was put up 60 years after the end of the civil war.
Also very confusing to me how you see Robert E Lee as an American but a statue for “black people” is for foreigners? Calling this a step to genocide is baffling beyond belief.
YouEssAyyy
1yr ago
Well just this morning I was “told” about 22 more people killed in a mass shooting. The police and CCW holders may have stopped “plenty”, but I think the idea that US gun owners could stop a Hamas attack to be a pure fantasy.
YouEssAyyy
1yr ago
Even with the US armed to the teeth we unfortunately can’t seem to stop mass shooters. In fact the deadliest shooting in the US was one man firing into a music festival into the busiest tourist area in the country. Think this is a very hard problem to solve if the shooters are motivated enough.
YouEssAyyy
1yr ago
I would guess most of them (assuming US college kids) don’t know either the river or the sea they are talking about.
YouEssAyyy
1yr ago
Pax Americana has worked out really well for China so far. Maybe they like getting richer and richer in the current system.
YouEssAyyy
1yr ago
I am by no means an expert on healthcare or drug pricing but it feels strange to me that Medicare couldn’t negotiate prices in the first place. Given that Medicare is something like 11-13% of total federal government spending my thought is that I would absolutely want them to negotiate prices down.
YouEssAyyy
1yr ago
Agree 1 meal feels on the more extreme side of the spectrum. I’ve always gone with skipping breakfast and not snacking. In addition, supplement with protein shakes as my bigger issue is making sure I get enough protein to match amount of activity.
YouEssAyyy
1yr ago
Honestly doing nothing would be better than needless partisanship fights.
YouEssAyyy
1yr ago
Ugh, I know “Twitter isn’t real life” is commonly used to refer to liberals but this feels very much like a “Twitter isn’t real life” moment for republicans. Total waste of time.
YouEssAyyy
1yr ago
Wouldn’t this be like saying the incentives for a physical therapist is to keep you injured and thus coming back for treatment? Doesn’t make sense to me, and I think the incentives for online dating is to dominate the dating landscape to the point where it’s the de facto way people meet. Successfully pairing up couples who then speak highly of online dating lines up with that incentive.
YouEssAyyy
1yr ago
I feel like this mostly comes down to $. Oher seems to believe he was screwed out of $ from the movie but the family is saying they got paid very little.
From my understanding the family is independently very rich already so maybe they just settle.
I will say Hollywood is an interesting world where a movie about your life can make $300mm and you don’t see any of it. I wouldn’t be hyped about it either.
YouEssAyyy
1yr ago
It kills me that the fake outrage from Alden’s song worked. This reminds me of when GTA got blamed for all kinds of violence. It wouldn’t surprise me at all if the song was explicitly written in the hope of gaining outrage to get press.
YouEssAyyy
1yr ago
What’s funny is mainstream country is basically the same as mainstream rap just swap out the clinches. Trucks instead of cars, whiskey instead of drugs, bars instead of clubs, small town instead of hood and girls with big butts in both. Same formula different words.
YouEssAyyy
1yr ago
Great point, I wasn’t considering judge appointments in my response.
YouEssAyyy
1yr ago
Personally I think trump winning is the worst scenario for attacking D&I policies. With Trump as a target these groups will be united and will only get stronger. Even Biden winning would be better.
YouEssAyyy
1yr ago
Sounds much more plausible to me that a purple teletubby wearing a handbag caused this.
Kidding aside I also think the Gallop survey is picking up a big uptick in women who don’t identity as “straight”, but have only dated men. For example girl makes out with another girl at a bar would previously be considered straight still but now she checks bi.
YouEssAyyy
1yr ago
I’d imagine Tinky Winky was balanced out by Budweiser ads.
If I had to guess the boys who grew up gay did it because they were sexually attracted to men. Representation in media may make them more comfortable to “come out” and live as openly gay, but personally doubt it impacts their sexual preference.
I feel like military service for citizenship isn’t a bad trade at all. Presumably the military is a strong enough insinuation to integrate all types of people. Additionally, someone willing to spend years in the military is likely someone we would want to keep in the country.
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