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    It’s awesome how his company is doing the opposite of helping USA citizens afford property, homes, rent. Good job, you couch fucking dork.

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    But don’t forget to blame those brown immigrants, folks! They’re the real problem according to JD

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    Libertarians by their very definition cannot be patriotic.

    For starters, they want to destroy, defund, and minimize the state and beneficial services that make up a nation.

    Secondly they want to sell it off the peices to private interests.

    …and they want these things to reduce and avoid paying for their fair share, shifting their tax burden, and the tax burden for their companies to others.

    Libertarians can’t be patriotic, they by definition attack nations in the name of private enterprise, and personal profiteering.

    They seek to increase the wealth gap, exploit their fellow citizens, and disband the connection in between, reducing all to the profit motive, because they can have no other values to maintain but money. They’re nihilists, and comflict with all value systems which aren’t, including the nation and patriotism.

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        On the back end the Tea Party movement was always a conglomeration of Koch related organizations and think tanks, who teamed up with 'Americans for Prosperity ', Phillip Morris, and ‘Citizens for a Sound Economy’.

        https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Tea_Party

        It’s an accurate small scale model of what parts of Trumps campaign would later become, using the appearance of a “grass roots” movement to disguise the big money interests driving things just under the surface.

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    I think JD Vance is a sellout with absolutely no principles, turning his back on his ideals to ride Trump’s coattails, but this doesn’t really strike me as anything outrageous.

    Some tech bros have reinvented the wheel yet again, this time by making an app centered on 1031 ‘like-kind’ transactions, which is already big in agriculture (trade land for cash in a transaction that isn’t a taxable event and maintain the rights to farm on it). It’s pretty popular because often, there’s a generational rift where someone’s kids don’t want to farm, so they use the land as a retirement vehicle and cash out, but I digress. They’re basically the ‘we buy ugly houses’ version of that hooplah.

    We have very lax laws in regard to foreign investors purchasing real estate or investing in securities, and they don’t seem to be soliciting foreign investors. Foreign companies don’t normally solicit American investors but if you have mutual funds in your 401k you probably hold BABA and BIDU. It’s a privately traded company so one must be an Accredited Investor, last I checked the biggest hurdle for that is net worth >$1MM.

    Don’t get me wrong, I think people in office should divest from most things including bonds (policy can affect yields) but this seems a little bit less scummy than Door Dash (those guys are blood sucking parasites for small restaurants)

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      I’m in Ohio and I voted against him, but if you are involved in real estate even a little you’re definitely going to be selling some property to a foreign investor.

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    Man, fuck me. And I’m out here struggling for to make ends meat meet trying to do “honest work”. I fucking hate this time line I’m in.

    Edit: thank you fellow native English speakers for correcting me, albeit in a snarky/condescending way, as it were, but still appreciate it.

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      It absolutely infuriates me that having high ethical standards makes me a sucker.

      Frankly, at this point the only thing stopping me from saying “fuck it” and starting to blatantly lie and cheat to get ahead isn’t even that it’s “wrong,” but that I’m just too damn stubborn to be a “reasonable man”!

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        You don’t need to cheat, just never do this bullshit of “go above and beyond”. Do what you’re paid to do, no more no less. That’s what I do. They ask for more, I tell them to pay me more.

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        English isn’t my first language. So, not sure how to say it, but I know you know what I meant.

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          I thought maybe it was something I hadn’t heard before. Humorous misunderstanding though.