Derek
@maximumderek1.bsky.social
Law student - YIMBY - Portland
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If your town's economy would collapse the moment that the nearest large city instituted congestion pricing, you are just a suburb.
But then again a lot of suburban America gaslights itself into thinking they're in a rural small town when they're just in a suburb
December 25, 2025 at 11:09 PM
If your town's economy would collapse the moment that the nearest large city instituted congestion pricing, you are just a suburb.
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honestly one of my firmer beliefs is a lowkey hostility to hyperlocalism, because it almost always end up with governing institutions dominated by a fixed, renting and transgressive majority that is extremely difficult to break up
there's a tendency in parts of the left to believe that 'community' is the answer to everything but communities are often horrendous!
did not realize that prisonculture's "abolitionism" consists of believing that lynchings would be better if they were conducted at lilith fair
September 28, 2025 at 10:13 PM
honestly one of my firmer beliefs is a lowkey hostility to hyperlocalism, because it almost always end up with governing institutions dominated by a fixed, renting and transgressive majority that is extremely difficult to break up
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Lawyer brain (laudatory) having deep qualitative knowledge of processes, and the relationship between processes and the outcomes they produce; Lawyer brain (derogatory) prizing process for it’s own sake, prioritizing process over outcomes
September 6, 2025 at 4:36 AM
Lawyer brain (laudatory) having deep qualitative knowledge of processes, and the relationship between processes and the outcomes they produce; Lawyer brain (derogatory) prizing process for it’s own sake, prioritizing process over outcomes
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"Private equity is causing the housing crisis" is a very common take that mixes up cause and effect. Single-family homes are an attractive investment vehicle for private equity because there's a shortage of them, not the other way around.
August 10, 2025 at 11:29 PM
"Private equity is causing the housing crisis" is a very common take that mixes up cause and effect. Single-family homes are an attractive investment vehicle for private equity because there's a shortage of them, not the other way around.
Unbelievable how on the nose it is to campaign on ending asylum and then going “except for white South Africans”
May 11, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Unbelievable how on the nose it is to campaign on ending asylum and then going “except for white South Africans”
Every statement that this particular press secretary makes is the most evil thing I've ever heard in my entire life
April 18, 2025 at 5:40 AM
Every statement that this particular press secretary makes is the most evil thing I've ever heard in my entire life