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  • The blowback to Trump's racist video reveals his weakness

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  • I think it has more to do with people not talking about him trying to nationalize the elections. Using ICE to intimidate voters in democratic centers, Usng the SAVE act disproportionately disenfranchise groups more likely to be democrats: women, people of colour, low income, or young voters. These are key issues which need pushback on this year.

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    Rent is theft

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  • People need homes.

    You buy a pressure washer, and rent it out, thats a good business. Theres no shortage of pressure washers. I can live without one. I can biy my own relatively easy. Choosing to rent or own is a question of how often I expect to want to pressure wash something.

    You can only rent a home that you buy. Which means you had to take it off the market. You can also only rent a home (or room) that you aren’t living in. Which means you need somewhere else to live. You’re taking more than you need, to charge someone else who also needs it, to cover your cost of owning it, maintaining it, and presumably profiting from the difference.

    When this is done at scale, you have owners skewing the market to make it harder and harder to buy.

    They make more money, buy more properties and make it worse. While renters, and young adults get trapped i to renting because they have no options.

    That is what makes it so much different.

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  • Which of my statements are false?

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  • Good landlords will only be as good as they need to be, to continue renting. In a housing shortage, that means they will keep getting worse over time, doing little and hearing little from their tenants who have only ever dealt with predatory landlords.

    They will almost always charge as much as they can, not doing anything to help the renters.

    The exceptions to this will be invisible on the market, because renters will do everything in their power to never move out or change their situation.

    Long time renters are trapped, because they are paying nearly as much as a mortgage, and getting no equity from it, unable to save a down payment to get out of it.

    Renting to seasonal, temp workers or students is about the only exception where renting is a necessary service, but currently its way over priced, so its not a great value. So still predatory.

  • I've heard pro and con that addiction to whatever is genetic kind of like balding. Has there been a defentive to prove yes or no?

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  • I for one believe that everyone is an addict, or anyone can become addicted to whatever. There is no pathology or dna, that’s just the way the human brain works.

    Not every brain works the same way. Not every brain responds to chemicals the same way. You can’t just ‘believe’ those realities away.

    Alcohol for example. Everybody in the western world drink, it’s even part of our culture and education in some countries. Some might become alcoholic after 2 years of drinking, some after 69 years. This difference is just life.

    There are so many factors involved. But washing them all away as ‘just life’ to justify your beliefs is lazy.

  • Secret Service visits mom who posted she wants trials for Trump officials

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  • Yes, because that is how the administration uses it, knowing the trials would not be fair or just.

  • Disastrous poll shows Trump’s White House return is a ‘failure’: Americans say he’s ‘gone too far’

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  • Im in Canada and have friends who believed his second term would be mostly as feckless as his first.

    They didn’t understand how project 2025 meant he was going to be coming out of the gate with someone else’s agenda with all of the key players, including scotus in his back pocket. It all lined up to mean shit was going to go down fast and hard.

    Look where we are one year in. 3 more years to subvert or nullify the next election.

  • Trump tariffs: US president announces plan to hit UK, Denmark and other European countries with tariffs over Greenland

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  • By making the American poor people pay them, they transfer more wealth to the captital class by contracting out jobs to their buddies. Also, it huts sales for the exporters, so its win win for him.

  • Plunging US Birth Rate Leaves Too Many Colleges with Too Few Kids

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  • Is it the birth rate? Or is it the massive unaffordability?

  • Trump writes fictional narrative about ICE shooting a woman.

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  • Just remember, anyone, or anything can be posting those ‘truths’. There is no way to verify it’s actually him, or even his intent being represented by them.

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    Are the majority Venezuelans actually happy trump just stole their president?

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  • Moving troops into a foreign country without invitation or UN support ? Yea. Thats exactly what that is. Regardless of who you’re removing or why.

    It was never about Maduro. Retconning it to say it was doesn’t make it okay since there was never any courts to explicitly claim he was illegitimate.

  • Bitter feud ensues after landlord's failed attempt to raise tenants' rent 65%

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  • Renting in some cases is a valuable service to offer, but its also a bit of a chicken and egg problem.

    When a huge portion of the population is renting only because they can’t afford to buy, the few people/businesses that can afford to buy rental properties are essentially just extracting value from renters. Getting paid to do nothing like a parasite.

    Makes them get ahead faster than renters, and they buy up more and more properties. Driving up prices for both owners and renters.

  • Carney’s Alberta pipeline deal weakens climate policies

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  • My favourite is the ‘carve out’ to just ignore the tanker ban bill.

    Its not a carve out if you’re going to do to the exact thing the bill was put in place for.

  • Why all the Epstein files may not come out even though Congress took action

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  • No, the whole system found a new way to block it, so now Trump could say 'Release the files!' without worrying about it actually happening.

    This way his thralls can point to him being 'open and transparent', and no evidence is ever released.

    The grift never ends.

  • Eminem sues Australian beach brand 'Swim Shady'

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  • Swim Shady is a leading manufacturer of high-quality beach shades, bags, towels, and swim shorts. Our products are designed to protect you from the sun's harmful rays while providing comfort and style. Swim Shady products are perfect for sun-safe travellers seeking adventure.

    That makes the name pretty clear and meaningful entirely outside of the existence of a Slim Shady.

  • Should parents who refuse childhood vaccines be liable if their choice harms someone else’s kid?

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  • If they choose to not vaccinate their child, fine. But they shouldn’t then expose other people to their children’s infections.

    It gets messier when they are communicable before symptoms are showing. But if my Sally and your Bobby were at a party with 10 other kids, and the next day bobby is showing symtoms, and then a week later a binch of kids at the party are as well, then they should be held responsible.

    Especially if they had reason to believe Bobby had been exposed to it days prior.

    Make your choices, but if your religious choices are that important to you, then account for how that impacts other choices you make, and don’t put other people at risk.

  • Checkmate, libs

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  • Its a viable strategy.

    Get a career going in a blue state when you've got supports to help you make it.

    Make a good amount of money, or get a decent wage/salary.

    Then transfer that all to a lower cost area to rest on your laurels and skip out on having to pay into support for the next generation.

    Its a perfectly conservative thing to do, pulling up the ladder after you've succeeded with it.

  • 60 Minutes Removes Trump’s Threat to ‘Walk Away’ from Interview During Corruption Questioning

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  • I don’t know for sure, but I imagine settling out of court, specifically avoids setting a precedent. Which in this case means if they want to run it, they’d not have the precedent to protect them, but also have to choose settling, or paying to fight an overtly partisan court system right up to the supreme court.

    They’ve capitulated enough for us to know that was never going to be N option.

    No network is going to do more to draw the attention of the administration, than allow late night hosts to make jokes about him, and even that isn’t going to last much longer I expect.

  • Confused by pizza

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  • Even better: the pizza dude and the handler are both on the take, and its how they get the drugs through security.