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Stan Oklobdzija

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Ass. Prof. Public Policy @ UC Riverside | Better Cities Through Better Government | 1st Gen πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ: πŸ‡·πŸ‡Έ/ Việt Nam Cα»™ng HΓ²a | θΊΊεΉ³ | Ham chΖ‘i stanokl.github.io | https://everyoneiswelcome.substack.com/ πŸ“: The Inland Empire, California.

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It's ok to hate the people who voted for this.

07.03.2026 01:30 πŸ‘ 109 πŸ” 27 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 0

Joe Biden was a very good domestic policy president, but an atrocious foreign policy president.

07.03.2026 01:09 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

If people can store their cars for free on public property, then I get to place 200 ftΒ² of crap that's cluttering up my garage out on the curb as well.

06.03.2026 22:06 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I dunno if it's still like this, but it blew my mind to see unmetered parking on the island of Manhattan ten years ago. There is literally nowhere in the US where land is more valuable.

06.03.2026 22:05 πŸ‘ 22 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0
06.03.2026 21:32 πŸ‘ 51 πŸ” 10 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Comment of the month right here.

06.03.2026 21:27 πŸ‘ 14 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I'm not talking about Gaza or Iran specifically, but about a counterfactual world where Netanyahu was ousted in 2023 and Trump was sitting in a jail cell for the Jan. 6 coup.

06.03.2026 21:18 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Would be cool to live in a country where foresight was a big part of our politics.

06.03.2026 21:15 πŸ‘ 34 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

Fondly recalling the 2010s, when one could borrow money for free and instead of densifying our cities and building electric-powered mass transit, we pretended Uber rides would always be cheap and worked hard to prevent "transit-oriented gentrification."

06.03.2026 21:14 πŸ‘ 108 πŸ” 21 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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Next time you're in Riverside, be sure to visit the Belvedere Heights neighborhood immediately east of campus and marvel at the breathtaking architecture and stunning streetscapes.

06.03.2026 20:13 πŸ‘ 17 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0
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I will never get tired of pointing out how the Metrolink station that ostensibly serves UC Riverside is not only served by just **six** trains daily, but it's also two miles from actual UC Riverside because people living in a dump sprawl neighborhood next to campus filed a CEQA suit.

06.03.2026 20:08 πŸ‘ 30 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 0

Now that gas has jumped $1/gallon at my local station since Sunday, I'm just gonna take a big swig of this coffee and look at what options I have to get to my job at one of California's largest universities using mass transit....

06.03.2026 20:01 πŸ‘ 38 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Kinda blows that the post WWII international order might've been preserved if Israel had done a better job jailing Netanyahu and America had done a better job jailing Trump.

06.03.2026 19:35 πŸ‘ 143 πŸ” 29 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 2

If only there were a way for me to have negative children...

06.03.2026 19:24 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

This is the thing where Gen Z watches other people play video games, right?

06.03.2026 19:20 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Do I have to learn what Hasan Piker is or is it not that important?

06.03.2026 19:19 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 0

Can the Democratic Party start airdropping "I did that!" stickers with Trump's face on them so people in swing districts can slap them onto the gas tank of every pickup truck and SUV they come across?

06.03.2026 19:00 πŸ‘ 25 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

There was another candidate who was light-years better on every conceivable dimension and people still didn't vote for her because they are, quite simply, terrible human beings.

06.03.2026 18:58 πŸ‘ 14 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Never forget that this is happening because the stupidest and worst people in America were bored.

06.03.2026 18:56 πŸ‘ 38 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

El Eternauta on Netflix is the best thing on streaming right now. Can't believe I missed it when it came out last year.

06.03.2026 07:01 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

At a certain point, we have to come to grips with the fact that the contemporary Republican voter is functionally no different from the Germans who voted for Hitler 100 years ago.

06.03.2026 06:25 πŸ‘ 40 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Yeah we didn't build any housing in the 2020's either so Texas will take at least four of our Congressional seats. But on the bright side, all the single family homes and surface parking lots will rise up and overthrow capitalism.

06.03.2026 00:37 πŸ‘ 37 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Nothing would be more perfect than California being governed by Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco because 400 dummies that no one has ever heard of all campaigned using the Democratic Party label.

06.03.2026 00:29 πŸ‘ 40 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 4

How TF can Juan Vargas' stupid ass be the best person California can come up with who lives in this part of southern San Diego County? Is there not one person in City Heights we can convince to run a primary challenge?

05.03.2026 23:18 πŸ‘ 37 πŸ” 9 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

The most illuminating thing about graphs like this is how inefficient work is in the United States. We generate far less wealth per hour worked than our wealthy EU counterparts.

05.03.2026 19:49 πŸ‘ 31 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Nuremberg 2.0 implies John C. Woods 2.0.

05.03.2026 19:42 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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I hope the US Senate carries out their constitutional duties and finally delivers the truth about this insanely questionable 3-0 record. He beat a guy with a 1-11 record twice in a two month period????

05.03.2026 19:26 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This is the kind of serious pivot we needed from Trump. Rather than the governor of a backwater oil pit whose major qualification was shooting her dogs, we need a senator from a backwater oil pit whose major qualification is having a fake MMA record and trying to fight a witness at a Senate hearing.

05.03.2026 19:06 πŸ‘ 32 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

Imagining a dog that's always showing up late to work, smelling like booze, and then blows the big presentation because he didn't finish his deck on time.

05.03.2026 18:47 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I'm pretty sanguine on how much junk studies like Storper et al's actually affect policy. If these academics weren't disgracing themselves by putting out such drivel, segregationist elected officials would just find some other excuse to keep housing costs high.

05.03.2026 18:40 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0