One of the left critiques of YIMBYism is that it uses growth to try and sidestep labor-capital conflict, but the thing is that stagflation broke a fragile labor/capital accord and then capital won the ensuing conflict. There's a lesson there for contemporary efforts to build working class power.

a recurring thread in our history. whites for one reason or another enter into close proximity with black people and come away with the distinct view that racism is bullshit

me, personally? i'd call it Reconstruction.

Cigarettes after sex got done incredibly dirty. apocalypse didn’t really blow up until COVID and then it got slopped