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by tharmas 1y ago
Please only book with owner OCCUPIED AirBnBs otherwise your contributing to local housing problems.
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by tharmas 1y ago
Well, in Vancouver Canada, they built tons and tons of condos. But they were mostly bought up by local and overseas investors. In, fact some condo buildings weren't even advertised at all in Canada, only in Asia. I grant the Austin Tex
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by tharmas 1y ago
And the West's support of Israel's IDF, how would you characterize that?
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by tharmas 1y ago
This. There's always two ways to do things: the right way and the wrong way. And they chose the wrong way. This isn't 1971 where Nixon could tell the world "suck it. our dollar, your problem" because America was the sole
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by tharmas 1y ago
Maybe Austin is an outlier. They have high property taxes. Or people left because of those taxes Most cities that built a lot of housing saw it bought up by investors.
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by tharmas 1y ago
Boomers = The Selfish Generation Poor stewards.
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by tharmas 1y ago
The more austerity for the people the more popular extremist parties will become. Banning them will just stoke the fire. The ruling clases are blinded by their greed. Throw the starving people more than a few crumbs and the appeal of extrem
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by tharmas 1y ago
Strongly disagree. Most right wing populist parties' policies are very pro worker. Right wing parties in USA see these policies as "socialist", anathema.
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by tharmas 1y ago
>accepting suspicious payments from Russia Do you really think the Russians would ever support a Neo Nazi party after what happened in WW2? That's propaganda.
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by tharmas 1y ago
You mean just like the criminals didn't feel compassion for their victims? Oh, but these guys are guilty those victims of criminals were innocent i hear u say. Not everyone in those prisons are guilty. Collateral damage i hear u say. T
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by tharmas 1y ago
Agreed. Well articulated. >Many US business elected to chase short term growth, and short term and higher margins and minimize long term investments. I would like to add that this was due to the influence of Milton Friedman. He put the e
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by tharmas 1y ago
I think its $6 Million.
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by tharmas 1y ago
Yes, this is exactly it. Eventually the cruelty and fear become the ends themselves rather than a means to an end.
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by tharmas 2y ago
I think the point being made is that under Trump's plan (repatriate production) China is MORE likely to invade Taiwan than before. Under the current situation China is LESS likely to invade Taiwan BECAUSE they rely on selling stuff to
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by tharmas 2y ago
Does rent control work for new tenants? It doesn't in NYC. It only works for long term tenants.
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by tharmas 2y ago
The Establishment want cheap labour and ”diversity" helps keep the lower classes divided against each other. Immigration also creates demand for the asset owning classes (housing).
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by tharmas 2y ago
Yes! Yes! Yes! This!
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by tharmas 2y ago
Nothing but butchers with chainsaws, this administration is.
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by tharmas 2y ago
And those ads.
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by tharmas 2y ago
Yes, this explains a lot of the "logic" behind the behavior of this Trump administration. I also think that its not just an end goal but that they enjoy the means to this end. "There is a class of men whose sole delight is in
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by tharmas 2y ago
Get the govt off the Rich people's backs and onto the less well off people's backs. Destroy the Consumer Protection Agency "to save money" but open up more detention centres and hire more border guards, etc etc. More scr
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by tharmas 2y ago
The whole DoGE thing is about Ideology. It has nothing to do with efficiency. It should actually be called Department of Ideology. Its about privatization. Americans should read up on what happened with Thames Water in the UK.
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by tharmas 2y ago
Pure folly. Ukraine is wrecked. Continuing the war will make things worse, especially for Ukraine. For the love of Ukraine support the end of this War. I agree that Trump and Vance treated Zenlenskyy disgracefully. Ukraine has been led on b
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by tharmas 2y ago
"America has no friends or enemies, only interests" -Henry Kissinger
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by tharmas 2y ago
They can really only f it up with their pricing. Last time they did just that. Hopefully they've learned their lesson.
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by tharmas 2y ago
When youtuber der Bauer mentioned that his AiB card from ASUS only had a couple of weeks of testing before arriving at his door, when its usually a couple of months, I knew then people were going to find defects. The company no longer cares
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by tharmas 2y ago
Many thanks for this link.
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by tharmas 2y ago
I'm sorry but this is a stupid idea. It will be so expensive to ride this. Only rich people will be able to afford it. It will be underused. They should spend the money on INTRA city travel. Expand the subway systems in Toronto and Mon
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by tharmas 2y ago
Programmers are training their replacement.
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by tharmas 2y ago
Don't forget a key component of Trump's tariff policy is to "replace" income tax with the tariff (tax). This effectively replaces income tax with sales tax. And you can guess which economic class benefits from this the m

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