Sigh.

Let them. Let them lie. They don’t care about truth, evidence, or justice. Why should we care what they lie about?

If houses cost less then rent could go down.

There are limits of course. Building a new house has a minimum cost, which factors into the value of existing homes. But with lower investment costs to buy a house, less pressure to make that cost back with high rent.

Exactly. They don’t want a white ethnostate, and they wouldn’t appreciate the level of totalitarianism it would take to pull off that kind of ethnic cleansing.

It would crash housing prices, which would be objectively good. I can’t say for certain if it would be worth the other costs.

Money is credit. It’s a promise that someone else will pay their labor or capital or goods in exchange.
I would like a world where the things people NEED housing, food, medical care, are provided and the things people want, they can save up money (credit) and purchase by selling what they can, labor, skills, assets.

Credit scores aren’t just about how likely you are to pay back loans, they are about how much money can be made off lending to you.

Pay off loans early, and the lender makes less money, so your credit goes down.

Closed accounts, inactive accounts, those aren’t making anyone else money, so less credit score.

Paying on time is the biggest risk of lending, so it has the biggest impact, but doing things that lose your creditor money can make a difference on the margin.

Sure they can, until their cousins, spouses, and neighbors start disappearing, their coworkers, employees, and representatives.

My city has plenty of racists, but even a casual racist might think twice when more than half the city is being deported.

Not every trump voter is 100% in board with his policies.

A shocking amount of people are just floating through life on Vibes. They don’t know why they do things, it just feels like they should. This applies right up to the ballot box.

Economic meltdown, most of the population has no one that would take them so they will end up either in camps in failed/failing countries or inside the US itself.

Also getting the white population to agree to do it would be a big lift. The majority would passively oppose and a minority would go full on underground railroad/insurgency.

Only a minority would be totally on board.

The Republican party was a party of radical abolitionists and it was captured by the capitalists. The Democratic party can likewise be changed to something it is not currently.

You can’t convince me of what may be by talking about what is.

Only worked in the 90’s because of Ross Perot.

People thought the smoke filled rooms that gave us Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, and Goldwater were the most corrupt thing and what we needed was more democracy.

And 2 generations later we got trump.

You drove through one big city and it sucked. LA and Chicago would have sucked to drive through as well.

New York is better now I hear since they implemented congestion pricing.

Correct me if I’m wrong, Huston is the biggest city I have ever been to.

Counterpoint, there are more firearms in possession of the American civilian populace than there were in the Ukrainian military during the February invasion.

If the American politiy doesn’t want to be governed, it’s going to take a whole lot of concentration camps to make it governable.

I think if Stewart won the white house and made Colbert his press secretary, and he played the character from the Colbert report and just framed everything Stewart did as the most hardcore American Conservative stance and talked about how Republicans need to get on Stewart’s level, they could actually shift the Overton window.

Republican voters say the exact same things about Republican politicians.

They constantly talk about how conservative shitbags that waffled on this one thing are RINOs.

They make up conspiracies where Democrats are stopping their preferred solution even when Republicans control every branch of government.

They just have the votes.

It’s not understanding, it’s blind faith.

What else would superman be? Are you gonna change the lore so Krypton is a small town in Kansas?

I don’t see anything weird about this. Sounds like parenting.

The last vaguely leftist president was Carter.