The John Dule Organic Atlas Meme Archive

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The difference is that Republican donors (billionaire freaks, oil companies, etc) are bad and public-sector unions are good.

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The difference is that Republican donors (billionaire freaks, oil companies, etc) are bad and public-sector unions are good.

Public-sector unions are comprised of members whose salaries are paid by tax dollars, whom the union then collects dues from, which are then funneled towards candidates who promise to raise the salaries of the union members.

Yes; we refer to this as a "virtuous cycle."

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I thought the Dule comic about housing was fine. Not his funniest, but it does give some insight into municipal bureaucracy. Not sure why everyone's mad tbh

It reflects the libertarian impulse to simplify everything down to more government = bad. Many of the interventions of the government into the housing market are bad and produce bad results — I don't disagree with most of what the comic is pushing — but to put municipal height limits on par with, for instance, the requirement that landlords provide running water to all units is absurd. It's technically correct that there would be greater production of housing units if you deregulated it entirely, but avoiding the creation of large-scale favelas on the outskirts of San Francisco is probably also a worthwhile policy goal.

Also I had to zoom to read it and I don't appreciate that.