I know a lot of people who are having trouble handling the way things are going. The left has engaged in sustained, random, low-intensity violence on a national level. People feel they need to prepare, but they can't retaliate, and that constant edgy readiness is already wearing people down while the left continues to randomly burn and loot with impunity.
Do people have some ideas on how to handle that constant background noise without getting worn down and losing before the fight even begins? I've been able to compartmentalize and just wait to do the job that's in front of me, but not everyone can do that.
Elaborate. My understanding is Washington caselaw is stand your ground.
I think you've just spent too much time in Snohomish and King counties.
I 'owned' a house w/barn + garage on 10 acres outside of Spokane, when the county Planning and Zoning board rezoned my land as they are allowed under state law, because Washington instituted a development Master Plan which zones every square inch of this state. (much like agenda 21-30). It is state law they can do this.
Guess what happened after they rezoned my property? It could be used for almost nothing, zoned fucking urban reserve and they naturally boosted the taxes, capiche? No guns necessary. /I sold the place.
People need to pay more attention to property laws, and how many entities really have control of them.
Yes, and?
You strike me as a person who wants to benefit from the tax advantages of being rural while being as close as possible to the metro and then complaining about encroachment.
There's a word for that: hypocrite.
I came to Washington from Texas, they do NOT have statewide zoning. I didn't know what I was in for, that was early 2000's, Washington was an early implemetor of Agenda 2021
I don't think you understand how destructive of individual property rights zoning can be. When zoning becomes law, you will do what they let you do with your property.
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If you want to talk about zoning here's another example of zoning madness - every commercial business all over America is required by local zoning laws to provide so many square feet of parking per square foot of commercial space.
That's why we have mattress stores with 2 acres of paved parking. Look at the terrible proliferation of parking lots and parking acreage and parking garages, miles of vacant paved parking because of zoning laws.
There is a book called Technocracy Rising which describes regulatory capture, no guns needed.
Huh. While I live in Canada, I've long been frustrated by the modern design of stores. Parking used to be in the back, and you walked around the front to the door, which had access via the sidewalk. Now? Your big stores sit smack in the middle of a parking-lot sea, where pedestrians have to play dodge-car, for the most part. I just thought it was a deliberate, pro-cartard decision to deliberately discourage walking. Because for all the fuss about "get on a bike" from the 80s and 90s, no one actually redesigned anywhere to be more pedestrian or bike friendly (and this city is probably one of the fucking worst, even for its "small" size). And bike trails basically got treated like tourist routes that don't need to go anywhere actually useful (and bicycles should never be expected to share with either cars or pedestrians).
Oh, I know. I completely understand runaway development.
I also completely understand gentrification, and that in order to have it you first have to have depressed, burned out urban slumland.
Those rioters... are useful idiots. Eventually they'll go to jail and the medium density commercial neighborhoods they burned will be bought for pennies on the dollar, rezoned and developed into higher density.
"Joo want to live in the country outside of a city, and you have the audacity to expect your land not to be swallowed up by runaway urban tax expansion? What a hypocrite!"
You're fucking retarded.
The borders of Ankeny, IA, have grown northward by a half mile a year for the last twenty years. It's been in the top ten fastest growing cities in the US for most of that time.
I've seen what cities can do when their councils are stacked with land developers. I've seen it in Coralville, North Liberty, Dallas County...
So I know how far away I need to be from one in order to avoid annexation in my life time.