Then landowners will simply not sell their properties but rent them, thus retaining power.
You're just assuming that everyone will do what you say and not resist or take advantage in any way. This is the sort if thinking of leftist utopians who just assume everyone would follow the rules of their paradise.
Yeah its a difficult thing to counter, too. Because of course, how would it sound? We want to win an election, but when we dont, we say its a conspiracy. So we demand a recount, and when that doesn't go our way, we call that a conspiracy too. It really doesn't look good, and I know what I'd say if I was them. But everyone here knows the truth of what happened.
“The homeless man started charging after the elderly gentleman, saying things like, ‘If I ever see you around here again, I’m gonna beat your ass.’ And, ‘I’m just going to beat your ass right now,'” [a witness] recalled.
Hmm the word choice sounds indicative...
I'd have disagreed for a long time. I mean, all the great sitcoms and comedy I loved as a kid -- all from fucking liberals. They were funny! But two things: 1) most of those guys' values would place them on the right now 2) Things have changed, and most definitely contemporary liberals have no sense of humor.
A +20 swing is not a small minority share of Asians. And its not the point how large of a minority Asian voters are. The point is that it disproves any notion that Trump was somehow anti-Asian.
I'm not sure where you're getting this "wild celebration" in my objective comment. I flatly stated some figures and cited their sources. That's all. How would you like me to have phrased it instead if this is too celebratory for you?
Trump made huge gains among Asians.
In 2012, 26% of Asians voted Republican and 71% Democrat.
In 2016, they went 29% GOP to 65%, a +11 point swing.
In 2020, it was 34% to 61%, another +9 point swing.
And this is even according to the New York freakin' Times:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/11/08/us/politics/election-exit-polls.html
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/11/03/us/elections/exit-polls-president.html
The most armed person I know is Shiva the Destroyer
What is this optical effect? https://twitter.com/RyanOfKalamazoo/status/1372051723561353217
I'm willing to accept that there could just be a strange perspective here, but I keep asking people why you can see through a hole in his sleeve to the asphalt (and I think there's a sliver of green grass in the corner) on the other side, but nobody has given an answer. Not even a bad answer, just any old answer.
https://twitter.com/RyanOfKalamazoo/status/1372051723561353217
It's not the position of his hand that puzzles me, but the fact that you can see THROUGH his sleeve to the asphalt and grass behind him: https://twitter.com/RyanOfKalamazoo/status/1372051723561353217
Yuuup. Didn't see it then but sure do now. In fact everywhere. I'm Australian, I live in Korea, and it's in both these places too.
My conservative mum telling me the other day "oh well if they want to say that gender is fluid I guess that's the future and we should get used to it" and my super-political right-libertarian dad saying "it's not such a big deal to wear masks, better not to step out of line if that's what they want" is just fucking depressing. Those two were always the political ones and now as they see their last days coming they're just rolling over and not caring about the world they leave behind.
I completely agree, but cities do still exist and necessarily so unless you want to regress into a pre-industrial agrarian farm state. It wouldn't have the wealth or resources to defend itself and be quickly conquered. Recognizing that reality, it would be very naive to put cities into a position where all local politics is determined by a very few in concentrated power that would continue to cluster in fewer and fewer people. Then you have the cities, which direct the entire industrial sector, controlled by a very small oligopoly. (This is how fiefdoms formed in the late Roman empire that gave way to medieval feudalism. Learn history.)