I made a couple hundred dollars with the bonus bets from DraftKings last week and similar with FanDuel this week. I always withdraw most of the winnings however.

It’s not your place to tell people what they can do with their money. Gambling restrictions are stupid and puritanical.

Any delivery driver would prefer the same or close to same money for a shorter delivery. There isn’t really any judgment beyond “your sloth is my gain”.

> It’s so sad that they celebrate murdering farmers. Not that I would agree with it, but I could at least understand why they might celebrate a successful raid on a colonial fort or killing Redcoats in a shootout. But this is over two English farmers that were just driving their cart to market. That’s awful.

This is how the Palestinians would flip this back on you. Not that I agree with the above either, but some redditors tend to have a double standard about this when Israel or Palestine pops up.

Manchester-By-The-Sea is a town that doesn’t want anyone poorer than upper-middle class living in it, just like all the other towns in the region, and now they’re worried because essential services don’t have any working class labor pool to hire from. This is a great case of r/leopardsatemyface.

Too bad, so sad. Build some more housing, including for those working class you despise so much, if you want firefighters again.

I want to go back in time and smack the dipstick that decided to license fishing of all things.

If you give a man a fish, the FDA will fine you for not being regulated to distribute fish.
If you teach a man to fish, the Environmental Police will confiscate his rod and boat.
Now repeat after me: I am free.

> Libertarian Republicans all in opposition. 😒.

Which is stupid considering the majority of subway lines in the US were built by private companies before being bought out decades later.

Gen Z can own a home in their 20’s. In the South. Where zoning laws are weaker because business interests are stronger.

Hilariously, business interests are more equitable with regard to housing than “the people”.

Texas… the fastest growing state largely because of its lack of strict zoning laws.

> “The Market” isn’t going to solve this problem, it’s perfectly fine with how expensive housing is.

The market is why Houston is cheap. It doesn’t have the senseless idiocy of zoning laws.

Don’t be so melodramatic. The US has one of the most stable energy grids on the planet and has nowhere near the top-to-bottom corruption of Pakistan or South Africa.

Housing is housing and every extra unit is good. We don’t tell watermelon farmers they aren’t allowed to grow watermelons just because there’s a shortage of affordable wheat somewhere.

> They didn’t do that. Sympathetic White Northerners and the 101st Airbourne did. If you don’t have the force to back up your proclamations, they don’t matter.

I’m guessing we’re going to ignore hundreds of major riots and mass-marches… But yes, Northern Whites and their philosophy did push it through Congress.

> History is not a narrative or a grand march to a leftist utopia.

In case you didn’t notice, I’m critiquing you from the right.

> It doesnt end. There are no “sides of history”. If Hitler stayed out of France and we’d be singing the praises of the Nazis for standing up to the genocidal Soviets.

There is a right side of history: The side that won.

> So did black Southerners. How’d that go?

They’re free now, so apparently it worked. But at least you understand what side of history you NIMBYs stand on.

> If enough people hate you, you will lose. It’s better to negotiate an acceptable settlement if you don’t have the power to use force.

Lol. You greatly overestimate the number of people willing to commit violence against someone else over an apartment building. Even if they were willing, it’s better to die free than live on your knees.

So be it. I reserve the right to shoot terrorists that seek to do serious harm to my family and/or property.

> It keeps people from shooting up/bombing/bulldozering a building or city.

Better to have freedom than peace. I’d rather have property rights, affordable market-rate housing, and the occasional NIMBY terrorist than the status quo.

>brings up the killdozer

You’re just making a case for the 2nd amendment covering RPG launchers.

Why should a neighbor have a voice over property they don’t own? If you don’t want more housing within a mile of you, buy up all the property within a mile of you, but don’t tell other people what they can or can’t build on THEIR property.

Also, I’d love to see a NIMBY blow themselves up trying to rig an improvised explosive together. That’d be hilarious.

If we just allowed developers to develop, we wouldn’t have this problem.

Honestly, there are plenty of people who leave MA because of the cost. Decent people that don’t make much money but are still needed in society nonetheless. We should be building much more housing so that more people can live here comfortably.

> We can see how many people support developers who come into neighborhoods to make their millions.

Yes, I support people who provide a human necessity, shelter. I’m also a sellout to farmers who plant and harvest thousands of acres of land to make their millions too. I’m also a sellout to biotech companies that develop new ways to treat and cure illnesses to make their millions as well.

It’s almost as if people who do things that are necessary should get paid for it. Crazy thought.

> People have rights to decide how their area is developed. Many more are starting to speak up against over building.

Why should you have more of a right to determine how a property is developed than the owner of the property itself? If I and a few neighbors think your property should be an ice cream shop, should we be able to force you to bulldoze your house to provide us an ice cream shop?

> There is no need to turn Boston/MA into a large city/cities. Supporters are destroying the area in some delusional thinking that more building will bring prices down.

It’s already a large city and should organically get larger if the demand is there to do so. Building more is the only way to drop prices and allow more people the opportunity to live in the area. Also, Boston was destroyed when it passed 10k people, and then again when it passed 100k people, and then again when it passed 500k people. It’ll be destroyed again when it passes 1 million people and then again when it hits 1.5 million. Boston is always dead and always dying, ever since the Puritans first arrived. Hell, even the Massachusett tribe probably destroyed it after taking it from some other tribe a century earlier. Places change, just accept it.

> i never said that i am against building housing, just that a blanket “build” policy is not conducive to building neighborhoods and communities. the seaport is a perfect example of building soulless neighborhoods.

Nearly all of Boston was built out under a blanket build policy. Ever notice how cities in the Northeast suddenly had housing shortages and stopped growing right after they instituted zoning laws? What if zoning laws were implemented in 1890 instead and Boston was stuck at half its current size but at twice the price? What if everything south of Melnea Cass was single-family housing only instead of the neighborhood you know now? Would that have been better? And if it wouldn’t be, how do you know that where your neighborhood is now is the best it could be? Why wasn’t it better when it was only farms?

Also, the Seaport was centrally planned by the city under community-directed zoning. Boston prioritized jobs back then because it was still largely working class in the 90’s. Seaport is intentionally a second downtown. That’s what was voted for.

> There is NOTHING wrong with having neighborhoods where people can feel like they can walk, ride bikes, is safe for children, with some outdoor yard space and places to park.

Density and people don’t make neighborhoods dangerous, cars make them dangerous. Even the densest parts of NYC were perfectly safe to do all those things in 1900. Who knew that crisscrossing the human environment with fast-moving heavy machinery would be so dangerous? Especially for children.

You’re in a coma. We’ve been trying to reach you. This is our last attempt.

The shadow of which is still around in North Dartmouth.

> Apartments in New Bedford and Fall River are fairly expensive because of Section 8 housing assistance vouchers.

No. Housing is the cheapest in Eastern MA, but rising fast because all the working and middle class people are getting priced out of everywhere else.

> Kempton Street in New Bedford on that bus route is not a nice part of the city.

It depends. Everything west of Lindsey St is alright. It only gets dodgy when you get close to the Temple Landing projects.

What positions?