Okay, but I’m not suggesting getting rid of all zoning policies, nor am I advocating any free market ideal to fix all housing problems. I am pointing out that a large lever of Biden’s housing plan, reducing zoning policies that restrict the building of multifamily housing that would tend to be more affordable, and so,…

I agree. I also don’t see the protests (or even the riots) as attempting to accomplish anything by force or threat of force, even despite the popular “no peace without justice” meme, which I take to just be particularly fiery (albeit hollow) rhetoric.

Lol, given that you just found out about the existence of zoning in Texas like, three hours ago, I’m going to go ahead and say you are nowhere near qualified to assess the impact of the hundreds of different zoning policies that exist across the all various municipalities, cities, towns, counties, etc. of Texas. 

And as I originally said- these sorts laws don’t seem to make much of a difference in what’s actually developed in the suburbs it’s lack of demand and NIMBY that are the real barriers to multi-family and high-density housing being viable in the suburbs.

I’m not advocating for any particular “free market” solution, I am pointing out that getting rid of restrictive zoning policies is pro free market. 

I never made any assertions about what any Texas county’s/town’s/city’s/municipality’s zoning policies were. All I said about Texas, in response to your idiotic assertion, was that, yes, Texas has zoning.

Texas has zoning. To take just one example from your list of cities: http://www.rockwall.com/planning/. So I’m not sure what you are talking about. 

So an interesting thing about my comment, which I’m not entirely sure actually read, is I never used the words “low-income housing.” I also never said that the market should be left to itself. What I did point out was that in a lot of places, zoning policies restricting the type of housing that can be built (not…

So, one of the major problems of housing, one specifically relevant to the suburbs, are zoning policies that restrict the ability to build sufficient housing to meet demand. In other words, a lot of places, especially the suburbs, have zoning policies that interfere with market forces that would otherwise build more…

No. You can figure it out by comparing details of the 5 kids who diedof COVID to publicly available reports of children who have been shot and killed. Even assuming that the medical examiner only listed COVID as the cause of death and didn’t mention that the child had been shot at all (which in itself strains…

I think it’s a pretty bad faith reading of rhetoric like “the time for talk is over” to assume that it is referring to initiating an armed military conflict, and even worse bad faith to then be dismissive of anyone who uses that rhetoric as not serious.  After all, “the time for talk is over” is pretty common activist…

I think “rhetorical persuasion” is part and parcel of what all protest and other grass roots movements are about—that’s why they all have slogans. But what does “having conversations” even mean? When has the anti-abortion movement ever engaged in “conversation”? Do you perceive the civil rights movement as having been…

Not that anyone here needs proof this is a lie but:

This is the same Eminem who routinely fantasized about torturing and killing his ex-wife and the mother of his child in his songs, right? If the worst thing that comes out about any of his relationships is that he is shitty in bed, you gotta consider that a win Marshall.

It’s not just because he’s of the opposite party. He’s not actually a RINO. He’s a conservative Republican whose values are directly antithetical to several key Democratic constituencies. That’s the downside. If John Kasich wants to vote for Biden (note: he couldn’t be bothered to vote for Hillary Clinton in 2016), he…

That point hadn’t been reached here. Both Grace and her mother testified that there had been no violent incidents during the period of probation. The only “bad behavior” cited by the probation officer to support the probation violation was Grace not doing her homework.

The judge may have said that “she wasn’t jailing Grace because of her missing homework but because of her violent behavior at home,” but from all the facts of the case, it sure seems like it was missing homework. The only probation violation cited by the probation officer was missing homework. Both Grace and her…

what really matters is: did you enjoy hearing yourself talk on this issue?

You actually think it’s unreasonable to think a conservative Republican shouldn’t be a featured speaker at the Democratic National Convention?

The strawman is that anyone is running around saying that Facebook “is the sole means....of shitty or crazy people getting onto a soap box.”  No one thinks that.