I’m making a specific claim that I think zoning restrictions on residential density are bad. I understand that other people disagree with me. I don’t think that’s a point against me.
Yes, I support some form of housing code that is equally applied across every neighborhood, including some outright restrictions on use if those uses pose a danger to local residents. That’s not really what we’re talking about though, right? Like nobody is saying that the restrictions on Tyson opening a chicken plant on my block are leading to inflated housing prices. But there would certainly be interest in building some higher density housing in my middle class relatively affordable neighborhood if zoning allowed it to be built here, and it would be a good thing if 100 families who can’t qualify for a mortgage or can’t pay $1400/month to rent a townhouse here could instead pay $850/month to rent an apartment in a 30 unit building.
The market demand in my neighborhood is actually for less density. Developers kept combining lots to make like 8k sf houses. The city stopped that a few years ago.
When the people are being beaten with a stick, they aren’t any happier if it’s called “the people’s stick.”
Anyway, as has been explained, you claimed that Biden was “certainly worse” for Cubans than Trump. The evidence against this claim is a bunch of new sanctions against Cuban people during Trump’s term, Trump designating the Cuban government as state sponsors of terrorism, and, perhaps most relevantly, him, R pols, and every R Cuban American saying now that Biden is being soft on Cuba because he’s a communist sympathizer. The evidence for this claim is… nothing.
Biden has changed nothing, although his stated policy aims are return to Obama status quo and he started some commission to “look into” (the D special) doing that. I would never claim that Biden is “good for Cubans” in some absolute sense. The origin of this argument went back to Vic’s use of Cuba as an example where Biden was “certainly worse” than Trump. This is clearly false as Trump initiated the harsh sanctions in the first place (whereas Obama improved relations with Cuba), and him and Congressional Rs want harsher sanctions now (still some money is allowed to go into the island). All the evidence points to Trump having a more hawkish response to protests in Cuba if he won.
No. If someone is continuously moving policy to the right, and someone else doesn’t move it at all from where they got it, and the first person is saying “I would’ve moved it further to the right,” that does not make them the same, and it definitely doesn’t make the second person “certainly worse.” Vic has already linked the new sanctions.
Trump and trumpstains are trying to score points on Biden. It doesn’t matter what they say. How is policy changing? More sanctions. Maybe Trump would have had more more. Who knows?
It’s a world apart from Obama though, so I’m not believing anything Biden says about moving in that direction at this point.
