You can tell whether someone really loves anyone by how often they have to remind you that they know how to use the word “Christian” like it’s some kind of magic spell.
That convicted rapist scumbag who does nothing but lie for a living doesn’t have the slightest clue what the word love means.
That’s how he talks, even way before he ran for president. Trump was kind of a hyperbolic snake oil salesman in the stock markets before he got into politics, and he was surprisingly good at it.
America is deeply obsessed with single family homes.
Most homes are 90 m² or larger. I’m in a medium sized city in the midwest and I have a 3 bedroom 130 m² home I got for 115€ but it’s already inflated in value in the last 15 months to 138€. I wouldn’t be able to afford the house I purchased 15 months ago, if I was house shopping now. And homes currently cost nearly double what they did in 2019.
Doesn’t seem particularly “cryptic” to me. Essentially he’s saying “If we win, you don’t need to vote, because I’ll make sure we win from now on by rigging it”.
I dunno, I hate Trump as much as the next guy but it seems to me he meant “I’m going to fix all the country’s problems in one term so you won’t need to vote for me again”, not “I’m going to abolish voting”.
I think it’s more that he doesn’t give a shit what happens because he can only be elected for one more term. Trump doesn’t give a shit about anyone except himself, on other words. And even he’s smart enough to know he’s lucky if he’s got four more years of health left in him. Cholesterol is the only thing holding him together.
I think it’s more that he doesn’t give a shit what happens because he can only be elected for one more term
That’s what I was initially thinking. Maybe he doesn’t give a shit what happens in 4 years because he won’t be running and he doesn’t give a shit what happens after that. He doesn’t care about people voting Republican in 4 years because he’ll be gone.
But, then I tried to imagine him peacefully handing power over just because the constitution limits how many terms he could serve… and I just couldn’t picture that.
I mean sure, if he’s elected he’ll definitely do everything possible to destroy any legal cases against him. He’ll also try to have anybody who pissed him off sent to Guantanamo or something. But, will he really want to just retire after that? Even if he feels safe because any potential enemy has been put away, can you really picture him giving up the spotlight and power that comes with the presidency? I can’t.
“After tens of thousands of murders, many of which were women, elder and children, I realized that maybe we weren’t in Gaza to defend ourselves”
No, fuck you.
FUCK
YOU
You fucking deserve all the nightmares and all the PTSD you’ll get from this. 1 day there should have been enough to realize you were being part of an ethnic cleanse. In fact, you should have ended your reserve duty before going there.
You don’t deserve my pity or my understanding, you deserve to live with your burden for being a fucking genocide helper.
What a retarded line of thinking. He is to be condemned for coming to the correct conclusion too slow? Can you imagine the pressures involved in going against your entire society and everything else you may have ever known? These people ought to be commended and celebrated so more people with similar doubts may be able to follow in their path.
Only leaders were tried at Nuremberg though, which is why that shit didn’t fly. As reservists, these guys almost don’t qualify as professional soldiers. Trying the few dissenters for genocide would ensure no one in the IDF questions their orders ever again
If we close entirely the door to earning redemption, we only consign dissidents to the clutches of what they were trying to get away from in the first place.
As maddening as this is, imagine the ENORMOUS propaganda and social pressure that these soldiers are fighting against. They’ve been told countless times that they’re defending both their religion and their homeland (and, by extension, their friends and family). For most of us, those are some of our biggest drivers. Honestly, I’m not sure that I would have the strength to maintain free will under those circumstances. We all like to think we’re incorruptible, but we’re not.
Judging from the outside is easy. Actually living through it is something else.
Context from further in the article: Williams came under fire initially for his lackluster fundraising and because he worked as a full-time aide to a state lawmaker while leading the state Republican party. The criticism only intensified as he mounted an unsuccessful run for Congress.
When U.S. Rep. Doug Lamborn, R-Colorado Springs, announced in January that he would step aside, Williams used the state party email to announce that he would run for the 5th Congressional District seat in El Paso County.
Williams has rejected calls to step down as party chairman, and spent party money in late February to criticize his opponent, conservative commentator and activist Jeff Crank, among others. In April, Williams had a Colorado Sun reporter tossed out of the state party assembly.
For the first time in recent memory, if not ever, the Colorado GOP endorsed candidates in competitive primary elections, drawing anger from many in the party. Of the 18 candidates endorsed by the party, only four won their contests.
Nope. He’s a racist. You are not going to convince me that he’s just a senile old man. He comes up with his own special name for everyone he doesn’t like.
I think the mainstream consensus is that this is a supply and demand issue. The supply of homes is just not sufficient to meet the demand. But, while that’s true, it doesn’t explain why there is an insufficient supply of housing, relative to the demand. The reason is really quite simple: land is finite. Americans demand a detached, single family home with a yard and an attached garage. Only so many such low density homes can be built in any given area. That’s just a physical reality.
If you want a detached, single family home, with a yard, you can easily find one in many, many places in the US for WELL below $1,000,000. I did. My wife and I built a home on about an acre and a half of land, and it only cost us around $250,000. However, we are in a very rural area, in the interior of the country. The nearest major metro area is about an hour’s drive. If we were to try and buy a similar home nearer to the metro center, with all of its jobs and amenities, we would have to pay much more.
I think Americans are going to have to make a choice: if you want a detached, single family home, but you don’t want to (or can’t) spend the money it costs to buy one in a major metro area, you’re going to have to either give up your dream of owning a single family home, or you’re probably going to have to move pretty far out of the metro area, since even the suburban areas around most major cities are pretty full.
The American dream is dead (for most), at least in already very populated areas. It really is that simple. If you want to live in a major metro urban, or suburban area, you’re probably not going to be able to own your own single family home. You’re probably going to have to rent. (Edit: I should add that people might still be able to own, but it’s going to be condos or townhouses, not detached, single family homes). And we’re going to have to change the zoning laws so that more high and middle density housing can be built. If that doesn’t sound good to you, and you really want to own your own single family home, you’re probably going to have to move to a rural area and/or move to the middle of the country, to one of the “fly over” states.
I don’t think you’re wrong, but I think this might be over simplifying.
For one thing, in the USA, our building codes and standard methods for making apartments makes it very difficult and space inefficient to make apartments with enough bedrooms for families. Affording a SFH is only so desirable because there aren’t apartments big enough for families to grow into, and while moving to a rural area might allow for enough living space, now the family has to figure out how to have a job that supports them.
For another, we don’t make as many apartment-like buildings you can own part of. This deincentivizes staying in apartments, because with the way our real estate economy is structured, owning any real property is one of the best ways to secure a spot in the middle class.
Another aspect-- a lot of desirable places to live have populations that literally and directly state they don’t want to build more dense housing, they don’t want people who can’t afford the sfhs to live there. It’s not just about pricing people out of homeownership, it’s literally trying to gatekeep access to specific towns by class. Plenty of people would gladly accept living there even without SFHs, so the housing shortage is not caused by the people who want houses, and is instead caused by the people who don’t want apartments next to their houses.
Another aspect-- a lot of desirable places to live have populations that literally and directly state they don’t want to build more dense housing, they don’t want people who can’t afford the sfhs to live there.
That’s true, but I think that’s largely because they feel it’s necessary to protect their main investment. As you said, owning real property is one of the best ways into the middle class. For many Americans, their home is their most valuable asset, by far. People want to maintain these restrictive zoning laws because they feel it’s in their financial best interest to do so.
There’s nothing subtle about Trump. So when he say something blatantly stupid and evil, it doesn’t need translation or interpretation. If he says, “we’re going to ‘fix’ voting so that you’ll never have to worry about voting ever again” there only ONE way to interpret that. Believe people when they show you what they really are.
It also doesn’t help that our mainstream, “liberal news media” (you know, the one that’s owned by only six corporations) is constantly running interference for Trump.
This is hardly a new law, so the question follows why this is timely / why now.
I’m hardly the expert here, but I wonder if there is even standing for TX to challenge a thirty year old federal law that’s effectively long settled law.
It’s not technology that’s at fault. It’s under-regulated capitalism enabling near-monopolies and letting them get away with cutting all corners to maximize profits even as them being thorough becomes critical to the functioning of society.
If you were to put one corporation in charge of the drinking water of the world with equally lax maintenance requirements, it’d fail just as hard no matter how low tech their methods.
The answer isn’t to become a luddite or complain about tech and do nothing. It’s to demand better from the profiteers and the politicians they bribe.
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