MotteAnon12345
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MotteAnon12345
3yr ago
No. The location is also highly valuable. If a condo building stays completely unchanged but a major city springs up around it, the building values will massively appreciate. The low density of the condo building just implies slightly higher carrying costs.
Also, demolishing condos isn't that hard outside of CA. NYC rebuilds old skyscrapers all the time.
MotteAnon12345
3yr ago
Wait, what? So, if Saudi Arabia passed a law against Christians and then prosecuted them (after full "due process" of course!), they wouldn't be eligible for asylum in the US?
The definition of asylum can't be limited to just due process. It has to account for the laws that said due process is upholding!
MotteAnon12345
3yr ago
I don't really give a fuck what happens to the kind of scum that joins a criminal gang, to be perfectly honest.
Then execute them. There's precedent for this, even. After all, a gang is just an insurgency writ small. Corner them, and give them severe punishment followed by lifetime monitoring (and no association with their past gang members on penalty of death). Roger Trinquier perfected this system nearly half a century ago. The Israelis also have quite a bit of prior art to draw upon.
MotteAnon12345
3yr ago
Why use the blunt tool of mass deportations when we have a much more precise tool in criminal law?
MotteAnon12345
3yr ago
It's more useful than you might imagine. To get from Asia to the West, one needs to pay for the trip. The cost is high enough to serve as a sort of IQ filter.
MotteAnon12345
3yr ago
Post hoc ergo propter hoc?
A better comparison would be democratic Russia vs. non-democratic Russia. Do you think Yeltsin's regime was less corrupt than Putin's (or Gorbachev's)?
And of course it's easy to find countries that mostly aren't democratic and are also less corrupt than the US. Liechtenstein in Europe is an example. So is Singapore really or Hong Kong when it was still under the control of the English.
MotteAnon12345
3yr ago
Re. Condo owners: it depends on the legal structure. Some (many?) are set up so that the condo owners have a pro-rata share in the land the condo complex is built on.
MotteAnon12345
3yr ago
Here you go: https://gordianknotbook.com/download/why-nuclear-power-has-been-a-flop/.
The guy also runs a substack that has the same information in easier bite-sized pieces: https://jackdevanney.substack.com/.
Feels like splitting hairs. How is supporting a highly unpopular opinions not covered? Because it's outside the Overton window in this case?
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