And you've commented how many times?

1. that is a WILD claim for Brattleboro, a town full of white busybodies who hate seeing black people existing

2. still not germane to the OP

The Rockies are younger, so it makes sense they'd be steeper.

We tried that in Bratt. Devs wouldn't do it without an expiry date on the rent-controlled units. Now they're expired and downtown is riddled with empty luxury apartments holding out for $2k/mo.

Sorry if I can't find sympathy for the greedy bastards while shelters are full and people are freezing.

Oh buddy, not this year. Have fun in NYC.

So it's a new way to fleece tourists? Isn't that like 80% of our economy already tho

... really? oof.

>Many residents reported feeling intimidated when having to pass the motor home, Nulty said.

> “How is this beautifying the property by allowing this stuff to happen?” Wilder resident Doris Villandry asked during public comments, when describing the state of Robinson’s vehicle during a day of repairs.

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jesus christ. compassion really is dead.

Yes, it's so terrible when you have to look at poor people

Holy shit, I'd love Bratt to BDL.

Sure, and the big pharma companies pay some taxes to the states they sell weed in, too. Or rather, they charge sales tax, so their customers are really the ones paying taxes to the state.

Still rather have the shady indie.

Not quite what I'm asking, but that's certainly an answer. Let me try again: when you put money into DraftKings, where does it go? Looks like the CEO is a billionaire in Boston. Since one of the main objections in this post is that gambling drains money from a poor state and sticks it in rich people's pockets, it seems like "just bring in DK" isn't a great counter-argument.

Just like I'd rather have a shady weed dealer than a corporate dispensary run by some asshole pharma executive, I'd rather have the bookie in Burlington than the online monopoly run out of Boston.

Who owns DraftKings?

It's revealing! It's almost like there's nothing else they have in their toolbox anymore. There's one tool in there and it's: fuck 'em up.

Yo we are in the same boat! "Work from home (with baby)" is like.... "make jam (no fruit challenge)"

meanwhile daycare is impossible if you're immunocompromised, because it's basically paying for a new virus to come into your home every week

I do not know what that means and I suspect I'm happier for it.

yeah dude, that's... the whole game lol

I stopped supporting candidates who I saw as morally pure around 2006, 'cause that's when I figured out they literally cannot get anywhere. Welcome to capitalism!

Also on a more specific note, anybody who got grifted by the climate-destroying crypto scams in this year of our lord 2022 absolutely deserved it, I have no moral problems with seeing rich fools parted from their money

The way I see it, any politician is either independently wealthy or owes some policy debts to their big donors. (And often it's both!)

I was okay with FTX* being the big money behind Balint for one big reason. I didn't send Balint to the Senate for crypto regulation; I expect that to happen via the court system and the various finance regulatory bodies (see footnote.) Any crypto-bro trying to buy congresspeople has a power fantasy of getting a whole BUNCH of laws passed in their favor. It's not gonna happen. I'm happy to get progressive candidates in on their dimes, before all those dimes get fined out from under them. Now FTX is in the shitter and Balint's free to pursue the progressive agenda she campaigned on. It's win-win.

Who were Molly Gray's biggest donors? What policy debts did she owe? I don't actually know, and now I don't have to go researching to find out. I'm sure she owed some, because basically everyone does -- our campaign finance laws have been a godawful mess for so long, you can't get anywhere without SOME big money.

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*Short for 'Futures Exchange', this is the big crypto exchange that you're thinking of, the one that crashed recently. The FTC is the Federal Trade Commission, which collects data on crypto scams but isn't part of the ongoing investigations + prosecutions of FTX. That's the SEC (Securities and Exchange Commission) and the CFTC (Commodity Futures Trading Commission) along with federal prosecutors from the DoJ. Can't imagine why anyone would get these mixed up. ;)

That's 'cause the town refuses to deal with our shitty cops

SoVTer here to vouch for VSECU. Hope the merger doesn't fuck em up.

You hadn't heard? It's been all over this subreddit. They put signs up on other people's yards, in front of abandoned / empty houses, all over.

And yet we wonder why young people never stay

Had to night-drive with a starting migraine a couple months back. By the time I got safely home, that little starter was a full-blown, throw-up-in-my-own-bushes level pain in the skull. Seems like it's gotten worse over the years.

Why should I? You haven't answered a single question of mine in good faith.

Totally. The only tactics I've ever seen work have been swift, decisive, and usually illegal. Richard Spencer got cold-cocked on national television and it destroyed him forever.