It ain't sexy, but if we want that #solarpunk future of high density, walkable, decommodified housing the city of Lakewood needs to ditch its racist, classist zoning laws that mandate sprawl.
@clayton
How very #libertarian of you.
Alex Akselrod
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I recently met up with a friend who used to be a #Libertarian. He told me that he now identified as a #DemocraticSocialist, and was planning on voting for #Biden (and that #BernieSanders showed him the light). I wonder how many Libertarians have distanced themselves from #MAGA types, since they seem to have pretty much taken over the LP?
…#Musk held forth on the patio on a variety of topics: his visit to the US–Mexico border; the war in Ukraine; his frustrations w/govt #regulations hindering his rocket company, #SpaceX; & Ramaswamy’s highest priority, the dismantling of the #FederalBureaucracy.
Musk made clear that he saw the gutting of that bureaucracy as primarily a #technology challenge. He told the party of around 20 that when he overhauled Twitter,…the key was gaining access to the…servers.
Wouldn’t it be great, #Musk offered, if he had #access to the #computers of the #FederalGovernment?
Just give him the passwords, he said jocularly, & he would make the govt fit & trim.
What started as musings at a dinner party evolved into a #radical takeover of the #FederalBureaucracy. It was driven with a frenetic focus by Musk, who channeled his #libertarian impulses & resentment of #regulatory #oversight of his vast #business holdings into a singular position of #influence.