Comments by "" (@kaitlyn__L) on "How Property Taxes DOOMED Compton" video.

  1. I love the “budget advisory no money” in the thumbnail! And Straight Outta Compton is such a good album. Would you consider doing videos on some other “hip hop neighbourhoods”, for instance Queensbridge which Nas raps about? In seemingly every city there’s always some neighbourhoods that get a reputation, and indeed some other MCs try to pretend they’re from there even when they aren’t!
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  2. Oh crap you genius
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  3.  @InLoveWithCities  and US rail tycoons arguably saved the rail industry in the UK in the late 19th century. They had operational, planning, and management know-how which the British rail tycoons lacked. For instance we had no concept of rail stimulating (sub)urban growth before American investors got involved, railways were just built between existing population centres and didn’t serve anywhere else. (Which led to competing for existing demand rather than stimulating new demand, and many were going bankrupt.)
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  4. Those aren’t really two separate issues, as it’s middle classes who push for those policies explicitly to be hostile to the working class, under the guise of “protecting the character of our region”
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  5.  @mariusfacktor3597  the fact they’ve been treading water in a death spiral for 90 years is an astounding condemnation of suburban zoning with outside malls
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  6.  @fernandoalvarez9613  well, if they could sell a dozen apartments on each plot for what would’ve been a home purchase price on each one, they can justify a 100-200% markup on the home evaluation to incentivise a buy-out of the properties. That’s still 900-1000% income gain at the end. Sure, that’s less than an 1100% gain if they bought at market rate, but if they want to build low-mid rise elsewhere, the alternative is not getting to build near the city centre with the chance of somewhat decent light-rail or bus links for the new development. Which would reduce demand and sales prices.
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  7. But… property taxes are a huge part of that hyper-local funding. Not to mention, you can’t put all that in a title.
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  8. I think that’s more an issue of the discourse conflating independent businesses with huge multinationals. Most leftists I know are supportive of having local shops and mixed zoning, they just want them to be run by members of the community rather than Daddy Starbucks
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  9.  @raaaaaaaaaam496  you both agree he’s a centrist, you just have different opinions on how good that is
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  10. That one line can be viewed that way, but the rest of the video clearly stated that the taskforces were violent, exploitative, didn’t help do anything about the root causes and in fact made them worse. Plus I’d say calling attention to the fact the gangs started as protection against racist intimidation also agrees with what you said. I interpreted it as “the city weren’t interested in doing anything about it, and then when they finally did it was all the wrong things”. (Edited the next day because I realised I said “they” for 3 different things. Have now disambiguated.)
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  11. I bet that would be awesome. There’s been other great “big socioeconomic picture” narrative hiphop tracks.
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  12. Maybe it’s just because my brothers introduced me to Biggie and Flash albums at a really early age, but I hadn’t realised that was unusual! (Perhaps there was less racial stigma over hiphop in the UK though? IDK.)
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  13. I can’t believe NWA is CRT /s
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  14. You get an activation email automatically after up to a day. (Source: this is what happened when I did it. I did actually email Nebula support anxiously and they were like “just wait a lil longer”, and they were right.)
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  15. @Zaydan Naufal right, the middle class are sold a message that our interests align with the upper class because we have some financial stability, but that’s really a distraction tactic because middle classes are overwhelmingly still workers rather than capital owners. Missing a mortgage payment can get you kicked out even faster than missing rent! Middle and working class material interests are overwhelmingly aligned, but the psychological interests have made many feel in opposition.
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  16.  @mariawesley7583  ooh yeah, an overview of a few of them rather than one video per could be good.
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  17.  @afroceltduck  oh absoLUTELY! The lack of investment in the social housing and deliberate neglect from planners and public services, and how that influence led to the B-boys parties, which spawned the original hiphop DJs&MCs. Plus I’m sure there’s more that I’m not currently aware of! I’ve mostly just seen what the first generation says in interviews.
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  18.  @jaredross9  okay, so what do you call yourself? Since you haven’t said yet. (PS, your “I’m not” was not in response to someone calling you white, they called you ignorant of their struggles. So the semantic content of your comment was “I’m not ignorant of your struggles.”)
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  19. Tulsa was, before the white population destroyed their businesses and killed people
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  20.  @jaredross9  you’re through the looking glass if pointing out someone’s self-evident ignorance on a topic is racist, but attempting to erase the strong racial elements involved in white flight, intimidation, redlining etc… isn’t? Honestly as a fellow white person, it’s a super embarrassing look to want to say something is racist against you so badly.
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  21.  @jeffreymyles38  sounds like you should email Nebula support then, and copy your CS order number into it
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  22. @Narja I guess it’s the kind of thing where, without cultural context, someone could read iffy things into it. But with the context (provided in the first few minutes even) it’s clear.
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