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G_Funk_Error t1_itl1wfi wrote

Reply to comment by bodhipooh in YOU, THE CITY COUNCIL. YOU COULD HAVE DEMANDED BETTER THAN THIS by Downtown-Prompt-6499

I am 100% right there with you. We were dismissed as “fulop haters” despite the fact I voted for him the first time. But you have these useful idiots like sound machine and others just vomiting spin on here. And the urban pacification graphics, ie murals keeping everyone distracted. You can’t help but enjoy the shrieking about things we knew would happen all along.

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bodhipooh t1_itl351b wrote

I got insulted by more than a handful of people in Nextdoor shortly after the reval for stating that people seeing an increase and whining about it were conveniently ignoring the fact they had been underpaying for years and benefitted from that in the form of increased property values. The best was the many people arguing and demanding that the reval be rolled back and phased in over a period of years to allow them to better adjust. They didn't like it when it was pointed out to them that doing so meant asking poorer residents to continue to subsidize them. The cognitive dissonance when it came to the reval, and realities it exposed, was nothing short of outstanding. Particularly considering the vast majority of those clamoring for the reval to be rolled back on Nextdoor would also self-identify as white liberals with a strong commitment to social justice and equality... until it hit their pockets.

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