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Armand Domalewski Profile picture
Armand Domalewski
@ArmandDoma
Co-Founder, @YIMBYDems, (formerly @yimbysforharris)
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Mar 22 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
I’ve seen a lot of genuinely smart people say that there is no biological advantage for people born male over female in sports and not only is that very much *not* the scientific consensus it is also just obviously crazy trans people deserve to be included and treated equally and none of that is contingent on deluding ourselves about very basic biological facts…
Mar 28, 2024 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
“squatter’s rights” is basically because well meaning lawyers got good tenant protections passed (your landlord shouldn’t be able to just assert you’re a squatter and kick you out), didn’t really think through that the court systems take forever to resolve these cases, and so created a situation where some bad actors figured out they could squat on a property and run out the clock while living rent free

and this is the story of many many many things in America political system dominated by lawyers funnels everything through the legal process and then we are surprised when bad actors (who are frankly more often on the landlord side of the equation) take advantage of the arduousness of that process to nakedly abuse the law
Feb 28, 2024 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
I would not have phrased it the way Ben did—I’m glad she spent the money on something positive besides a private jet and cocaine—but if you have a billion dollars to give, reducing the tuition for some of the most affluent people on the planet is not optimal Because doctor supply is bottlenecked by residency slots, if your goal is to increase the supply of doctors you should try to fund some of those, or even better, lobby Congress to permanently boost those
Nov 14, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
The Claudia Sahm debacle really validates the Will Stancil thesis that something is deeply wrong with the information ecosystem.

Claudia is someone with impeccable progressive credentials—no one in economist world has gone to war with Larry Summers more than she has. But when even someone with as impeccable a left wing track record as she does looks at the facts and admits basic realities, they get thrown off the island.

The American right did this dance for many decades where they fed what they saw as credulous rubes with deranged propaganda, working hard to chisel away any trust they had in basic factual reporting. And then they were shocked when those “rubes” ate their party and made one of their own, Trump, President!

Conspiracy theories and fever dreams are now mainstream in the GOP, in large part because the elites on the Right thought they could cultivate them to their advantage.

That should be a cautionary tale for those of us on the Left, not a model to embrace. George HW Bush built his career by flirting with and cultivating the lunatics in the John Birch Society, only to be shocked when the lunatics took over the asylum and locked his family out of power. Democrats who think they can play footsie with their version of reality denying conspiracy theorists are playing with the same kind of fire
Aug 10, 2023 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
It’s been a long time since I read it, but why is “Guns, Germs, and Steel” considered racist? I recall the thrust of the book being “Europeans did not colonize the world because of superior genetics or culture, as racists claim, but because of unique advantages of geography” Image I don’t know how accurate the specifics of “Guns, Gold, and Steel” are, but at a basic level if you don’t agree that Europeans were able to colonize the world because of environmental factors you have to believe it’s because of genetics factors and that is tautologically racist
Jun 16, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
MYTHS OF THE OPIOD CRISIS: SOLVING THE FENTANYL CRISIS IS MORE COMPLICATED THAN YOU THINK. 🧵

common refrain you hear during debates about the fentanyl crisis is "you just need to do X to solve the problem"---the unfortunate truth is that we don't actually have good answers yet. MYTH #1: Forced drug treatment can cure addiction

TRUTH: Most studies on forced drug rehabilitation show poor results---it is hard enough to fix your addiction when you *want* to do it, it is that much harder when you *don't*
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…
Jun 12, 2023 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
My girlfriend bought a bag from another woman on FB marketplace…she had me go pick it up and I wound up grabbing it from…the other woman’s boyfriend, whom she had dispatched to hand it over It felt like we’re both low level dealers making an exchange on the orders of our respective cartel bosses
May 28, 2023 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
respectfully, this is fearmongering. The developed country with the least “local government consultation” (NIMBY veto points) and “civil society input” (gifting opportunities for NIMBY lawsuits) is…Japan. The country with the most earthquake safe buildings on the planet?

Japan. Turkey is a poor country plagued by corruption. The idea that “wow, impoverished country with corruption issues built a lot of shoddy buildings because of graft” somehow justifies 20 years long lawsuits against offshore wind farms is…nonsense
May 24, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
For a long time, if you ever so much as breathed a word about the fact that US transit projects cost quite literally ten times per mile what they do in Spain for an objectively worse product (surface vs subway), you’d get barraged by people scolding you for “attacking transit.” Often people respond with “no one ever gets mad about FREEWAY COSTS, I guess you just HATE transit” and it’s like, no, man, we have insane cost disease for all infrastructure but I care more about waste in transit than in freeways because I want more transit and not more freeways
May 21, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
The fundamental gender divide is that if I never had to go shopping in my life ever again, I would be extremely pleased while my girlfriend would fall into a crippling depression Obviously not universal! Not everyone conforms to gender norms!!! (I find it very funny that my trans women friends all become massively more into Shopping after they transitioned tho)
May 15, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Your country nuked its economy because it was so terrified of plumbers with last names ending with “ski.” Give me a break Gotta say, “anti-immigrant xenophobia but feminist” is a new one. Kudos on the innovation
May 11, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
in periods of low demand and low inflation it is good for the government to spend more and tax less

in periods of high demand and high inflation it is good for the government to spend less and tax more frankly, fiscal policy that eases inflation by cutting, say, wasteful biofuel subsidies or borderline fraudulent overcharging by defense contractors and raising taxes on the affluent is a lot better way to fight inflation than interest rate hikes that wreck housing production
Mar 21, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
It really feels like the whole windowless bedroom debate has become unmoored from two basic facts:

1) The only reason they’re being pitched is because it is very hard to convert dying downtown office space to housing
2) Windowless bedroom =\= Windowless apartment This is only being proposed because there is a big public interest in converting office spaces to housing and it is just extremely expensive and difficult to do so, it’s not something people want to be widespread
Mar 20, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
If I wrote “DSA electeds oppose housing projects on principle” I feel like people in DSA would be mad at me, but this DSA member just…wrote it out, proudly…? I think folks fundamentally disagree on the scale of the housing shortage. If we had perfect rent control—your rent can never go up—and perfect eviction control—you can never be evicted—I still believe you’d need to build a ton of housing, because lots of people do not have homes
Mar 18, 2023 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
On a more abstract level, DSA’s embrace of the “we should negotiate every housing project as an individual ‘deal,’ and that deal is never good enough” framework has done more to dissuade me from flirting with socialism in the past few years than anything else The housing debate, because it is one of the few areas in American public policy where each instance of capitalist production is negotiated via political process, has provided me a microcosm of how, in practice, socialists would want to run America, and the results…are not great
Mar 17, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Shameless engagement bait, but this DeSantis three fingered pudding thing has me genuinely curious: what weird way that you eat food would result in a scandal if you were a politician? What I’m learning is that you people are sick little freaks
Mar 16, 2023 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Genuinely baffled that the idea that “if someone is smoking fentanyl or otherwise making people feel unsafe on a train, it is fine to firmly but politely insist they leave the train” is a giant controversy On Here…no one needs to go to jail, they just need to get off the train Also, there’s a lot of potential in the unarmed ambassador model—BART has had some success with it. If you look official and firmly insist someone cut it out, most of the time…they do bart.gov/news/articles/…
Mar 14, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
It's not "demanding total devotion to venture capital" to ask the FDIC to follow its standard resolution process & I don't know why you think nuking small businesses that employs tens of thousands of SF residents or triggering a series of bank runs would help working class people Like, you can disagree with my assessment of what would happen if the FDIC had not done what it did, that's fine, but asserting that the only possible reason I would want to avoid a bank run and the collapse of small businesses is because I have some secret devotion to vcs is BS
Mar 10, 2023 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
people are getting very confused about this whole Silicon Valley Bank / FDIC issue, so here's a thread:

-Majority of accounts over $250k are BUSINESSES, not individuals
-While FDIC is only required to pay out up to $250k, in practice, they tend to arrange a sale...

🧵 (1/?) 1) It would be very bad if we just let every account with over $250k in deposits lose all its money---SVB had almost 40k customers, most of whom are businesses that employ people. You're talking about firing tens of thousands of people because of their bank!
Feb 3, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
What type of YIMBY are you?

I’m “grew up poor, saw my family and friends struggle with housing costs their entire lives, studied the research extensively, and realized that fighting for working class people meant fighting for housing” I’ve seen too many people I love get displaced and evicted to have any patience for spoiled self-involved apologists for landlowning gentry masquerading as revolutionaries
Jan 12, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
It’s incredibly depressing to see @KarenBassLA, LA’s next Mayor, say it is untrue that construction of new market rate homes does not prevent gentrification or displacement. Madam Mayor, that’s wrong! Image New housing, even at market rate, does reduce displacement and gentrification

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf… Image