Re: Alaska Make it illegal then. Also let’s ban gerrymandering. And get money out of politics. Why do Republicans only suddenly care about election shenanigans when they’re not the ones doing it?

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“King of the Hill” meme. “I’m a YIMBY but there are only 5 cities the whole world wants to move to so I can’t be bothered to look at a chart of rent inflation in Omaha.” is a sadly common point of view, shared by some leading putative YIMBYs.

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Having done small town economic development work throughout the Southeast, the story *everywhere* is lack of housing + housing affordability. To the point that local economic developers struggle to attract employers due to local housing challenges.

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the thing i come back to, over and over--which stuff like LOWER DECKS got, and so much other latter-day trek has forgotten--is that the whole idea of trek is that they exist in a genuinely horrifying universe, but *choose* to pursue peace and diplomacy anyways... and it works.

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"If you don't vote for Democrats then they simply won't pay attention to your issues" is a well-established poli-sci truism and idk because Republicans never vote for Democrats and Dems never stop paying attention to their issues, while most leftists pretty consistently do vote for them, and, well.

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