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69FunnyNumberGuy420 t1_jaxzy4d wrote

Reply to comment by PGHNeil in What can Philadelphia do as PA’s sole Class 1 city that Pittsburgh PA’s sole Class 2 city can’t? by [deleted]

It's a called a "merger" instead of "annexation" for a reason.
 
The city has ~300K people, the county another 1m outside of city limits. If Pittsburgh were allowed to grow via annexation like any other city, it would have absorbed most of that million people a long time ago.
 
The second class city law of 1901 fucked Pittsburgh over bad and turned this county into a total mess. There is no reason to have 120 or so separate municipalities and 40 different school districts for 1.3m people.

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69FunnyNumberGuy420 t1_jad5z7z wrote

Reply to Viewing homes in the area by Ar30la

The shitty housing up for sale right now, and the shitty prices at the current high rates, has made me feel really thankful for the place I already own.
 
The entire thing with low interest rates over the past decade was that once rates went back up, housing prices would go back down (because people look at a monthly payment, not a total price). That hasn't happened at all.

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69FunnyNumberGuy420 t1_ja9hr69 wrote

Reply to comment by sx70forlifexx in Moms for Liberty Bucks County Leaders Think Public Schools Are Trying to Bring Pedophilia Into the Classrooms by Open_Veins_8

Nah, they just don't care about truth or fiction, they'll say whatever gets them what they want.
 
Jean-Paul Sartre wrote this about a different kind of bigot a lifetime ago, but the meaning still stands:
> Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.

 

They hate gay people, if smearing all gay people as child abusers gets them the outcome they want they'll do it, even though the idea is absurd.

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69FunnyNumberGuy420 t1_ja9gwjp wrote

Reply to comment by sx70forlifexx in Moms for Liberty Bucks County Leaders Think Public Schools Are Trying to Bring Pedophilia Into the Classrooms by Open_Veins_8

They're not insane, it's just a bunch of bullshit they spew to justify hurting people they hate and forcing their will on everyone else.

 
For the Qanon people, they do not want to imprison pedophiles so they're attacking Democrats; they want to attack Democrats, so they paint them all as pedophiles and child traffickers.
 
They'll repeat any bullshit that gets them what they want, because words have no meaning to them.

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