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Re:Austin's Surge of New Housing Construction Drove Down Rents by beepbooptheory on Thursday March 19, 2026 @08:47AM (#47438452)
What is a better faith interpretation of downplaying gentrification like this? Like what do we talk about when we talk about gentrification if not this? Gp is not even, like, denying the concept, and literally saying that it is good (in a sarcastic way).

It's not "better faith" to construct an entire alternative world for the user's comment to remove it from the actually existing implications of their point. I am not sure what that it is, but it certainly isn't a healthy exchange of ideas.

"I think we should burn down all the forests"; "Oh geeze that sounds like a terrible idea.."; "um it's actually pretty bad faith for you to assume they were talking about forests on Earth and not some bad evil forests that could hypothetically exist somewhere else..." taps the guidelines sign

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Re:Austin's Surge of New Housing Construction Drove Down Rents by triceratops on Thursday March 19, 2026 @09:45AM (#47439352)
I refuse the premise that "gentrification" is purely negative. There are benefits and downsides. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47434356

The downsides of not building new housing at all are even worse than "gentrification" and they fall even heavier on the poor. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47434470

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Re:Austin's Surge of New Housing Construction Drove Down Rents by beepbooptheory on Thursday March 19, 2026 @10:39AM (#47440332)
I don't want to throw the dictionary at yeah but gentrification is the word we generally use to talk about a downside to maybe a more general effort in urban development. This is really really weird hill to die on.. Just pick another word, I don't think you'd lose the nuance you are trying to inject here. As it stands its just needlessly provocative, a Twitter-hot-take vibe that is generally frowned upon around here.

Also (imo) don't link to yourself like this! Especially when its to just another short comment in the same thread! Why do that??

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Re:Austin's Surge of New Housing Construction Drove Down Rents by triceratops on Thursday March 19, 2026 @11:18AM (#47440974)
> don't link to yourself like this... Why do that??

I've been told off (by dang, no less) before for copy-pasting comments. There's no winning it seems.

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