Derek
@maximumderek1.bsky.social
Law student - YIMBY - Portland
Oh my god they REALLY hate him lol
November 6, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Oh my god they REALLY hate him lol
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honestly one of my firmer beliefs is a lowkey hostility to hyperlocalism, because it almost always end up with governing institutions dominated by a fixed, renting and transgressive majority that is extremely difficult to break up
there's a tendency in parts of the left to believe that 'community' is the answer to everything but communities are often horrendous!
did not realize that prisonculture's "abolitionism" consists of believing that lynchings would be better if they were conducted at lilith fair
September 28, 2025 at 10:13 PM
honestly one of my firmer beliefs is a lowkey hostility to hyperlocalism, because it almost always end up with governing institutions dominated by a fixed, renting and transgressive majority that is extremely difficult to break up
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Lawyer brain (laudatory) having deep qualitative knowledge of processes, and the relationship between processes and the outcomes they produce; Lawyer brain (derogatory) prizing process for it’s own sake, prioritizing process over outcomes
September 6, 2025 at 4:36 AM
Lawyer brain (laudatory) having deep qualitative knowledge of processes, and the relationship between processes and the outcomes they produce; Lawyer brain (derogatory) prizing process for it’s own sake, prioritizing process over outcomes
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"Private equity is causing the housing crisis" is a very common take that mixes up cause and effect. Single-family homes are an attractive investment vehicle for private equity because there's a shortage of them, not the other way around.
did a blackrock executive ai generate this article?
August 10, 2025 at 11:29 PM
"Private equity is causing the housing crisis" is a very common take that mixes up cause and effect. Single-family homes are an attractive investment vehicle for private equity because there's a shortage of them, not the other way around.
Obama is housing-pilled
July 15, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Obama is housing-pilled
John Stuart Mill is such a funny guy. “Everyone deserves proportional representation! Even women! But also some people should get multiple votes because they’re smarter!”
June 16, 2025 at 8:59 AM
John Stuart Mill is such a funny guy. “Everyone deserves proportional representation! Even women! But also some people should get multiple votes because they’re smarter!”
Entertaining as hell but it’s an absolute disaster that we’ve given these two dipshits so much power as a society
June 6, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Entertaining as hell but it’s an absolute disaster that we’ve given these two dipshits so much power as a society
Good rule of thumb is that if someone says, "I don't hate them," they do, in fact, hate them
“Social solidarity is destroyed when you have too much migration too quickly,” JD Vance tells our columnist Ross Douthat in this episode of “Interesting Times.” “That’s not because I hate the migrants or I’m motivated by grievance. That’s because I’m trying to preserve something in my own country.”
Opinion | JD Vance on His Faith and Trump’s Most Controversial Policies
The vice president joins Ross Douthat in Rome to discuss immigration, trade and the new pope.
www.nytimes.com
May 22, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Good rule of thumb is that if someone says, "I don't hate them," they do, in fact, hate them
Unbelievable how on the nose it is to campaign on ending asylum and then going “except for white South Africans”
May 11, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Unbelievable how on the nose it is to campaign on ending asylum and then going “except for white South Africans”
Every statement that this particular press secretary makes is the most evil thing I've ever heard in my entire life
April 18, 2025 at 5:40 AM
Every statement that this particular press secretary makes is the most evil thing I've ever heard in my entire life