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  1. 16 minutes ago, tbone_ said:

    Ah, my bad. I thought we were having an actual discussion among grown ups using facts. I’ve only been building apartments and houses for nearly 30 years so what do I know.

     

    Carry on with whatever it is you are doing I guess. I’m moving on. 

    My apologies for being a dick, it's just maddening to see a serious person act like the explosion of extractive and exploitative leases is simply because people have more money to give to their land lords. 

    Sorry for treating you like you were posting in bad faith, though

  2. BTW as a follow-up for @ChickenSandwich, Lisa Cook did NOT break any rules. I wonder why else she might have been illegally fired 

    https://www.reuters.com/world/us/no-evidence-primary-residence-violation-by-fed-gov-lisa-cook-says-michigan-2025-09-16/

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    The property tax records in both states, along with Cook’s “vacation home” disclosure in Atlanta, could be considered strong factors in her defense, real estate and legal experts said. For any conviction of mortgage fraud, which is rarely pursued as a criminal offense in the United States, they said prosecutors would have to show she deliberately sought to deceive her lenders.

    Paul Pelletier, a Washington-based former federal prosecutor who targeted bank fraud, said the Justice Department historically would only pursue cases in which a financial institution suffered significant loss. “This would never have crossed my desk, let alone be prosecuted,” he said, regarding the accusations against Cook so far.

    The rates on Cook’s two mortgages show Cook didn’t enjoy discounts compared with prevailing rates available to borrowers when she negotiated the loans in 2021.

     

  3. 11 minutes ago, Thetexashammer said:

    Kirk is a public figure insofar as he fomented and funded an armed insurrection that disrupted and delayed the peaceful transition of power on January 6th. We should only shoot fascists when we're at war with them, and EVERY PERSON in the United States is owed due process. 

    I don't support what happened to Charlie, but Charlie supported what happened to Charlie.

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  4. 1 hour ago, tbone_ said:

    Because we live in a world where housing only gets built if people think they can earn more money doing it than in some other endeavor.

    You know what isn’t a good environment for new housing to get built? One where new supply is rampant and rents are falling. Weird paradox for sure. 

    Yeah, gotta drive some homelessness to really get the goosed rent numbers going, I gotcha. Heaven forbid we have enough housing that everyone can afford to stay in, what a terrible idea

    1 hour ago, tbone_ said:

    Also sorry, I read your post wrong. You said the last decade. That’s true. They probably have nearly doubled over the last decade. Again, supply and demand, and the incomes to pay for it are the contributing factors. 

    Median incomes have not doubled in the last decade. Hell, they haven't doubled since the 80s. Despite the "economy" (read: stock market and shareholder value extraction) adding on a few zeros in the same time interval. It's not incomes increasing that's driving the rent increase, it's been illegal collusion via Realpage and the other rent collusion platforms

     

    Edit: just to really drive the point home, the meteoric rent increases STOPPED when propublica published their initial reporting and got DOJ sniffing around in 2022. It lines up quite nicely with your rent increase timeline through 2020-2021

  5. 24 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

    I do.  But I like to keep it easy.  I have two cups of coffee on a Saturday morning.  So, I make two individual cups.  It's nice.  It's easy.  Sit on the sofa, shoot the shit with the wife with a Premier League game on.  I am a fan of "easy."

    Our morning ritual is a latte and a flat white out of our Bambino Plus - a $40 2lb bag of beans will last us damn near a month and it's waaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyy cheaper than Starbucks with a shorter wait. But its a whole thing and not just slapping a pod in and pressing a button. Our toddler loves to watch coffee get made while she has her first breakfast (she's on the hobbit meal schedule atm)

  6. 41 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

    Even my wife, who doesn't really pay attention to grocery prices, came home from a trip to HEB yesterday and asked me "what the fuck?"  She'd just bought a single bag of groceries, and spent over $100.  Granted, $42 of that was on....coffee.  See, we use keurig coffee pods (San Francisco Bay co. breakfast blend), because it's just the two of us, we don't need a whole pot.  A few months ago, a box of pods was $14.  Today, it's $21.   Every single thing she bought has noticeably gone up in price (but coffee was definitely a beating).  Prices on everything goes up.  Quantities go down.  Quality goes down.  Experience gets worse.

    Tbh, you're better off with those reusable pods and grinding your own fresh. It's way better and way less plastic waste

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  7. 7 minutes ago, mdmost said:

    No one responded to Robinson that night, according to the screenshots obtained by The Post. But the next day, one friend wrote that the apparent confession seemed to be true. The friend asked group members to “pray for Tyler and his repentance” and then turned to Kirk.

    "pray for his repentance" is something I hear """leftists""" saying all the time, now that you mention it... The President and Vice President were right, it's all leftist violence

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  8. 3 minutes ago, Foosters said:

    ah yes, its people on this website who are the problem. Not our elected officials with access to major media platforms.

    it's a really interesting parallel - Kirk and "their" favored "debate" style is to stake out an unsupported position and challenge all comers to "prove me wrong". Similarly, our elected officals are staking out their unsupported position of it being "LeFtIsT vIoLeNcE" and challening everyone to prove them wrong - and any counter-assertion is literally being prosecuted both socially and criminally

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  9. 1 hour ago, Hank Kingsley said:

     

    It's wild to see them just using the same tactics as they ever did: filter their talking points through an overly credulous news organization and then present it to the public as fact. This was the EXACT mechanism and tactic used to gin up the concern that "many people are saying" about the election in 2020

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  10. 9 hours ago, freyguy said:

    Already uninstalled mine.  Feeling better already. 

    Definitely don't keep the app(s) on your phone, they're surveillance capitalism tools. Their whole business model is selling access to their user profile of individuals so that advertisers can further microtarget their ads

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  11. 13 minutes ago, bolverk said:

    “You might want to crack open that Bible of yours. In a lesser referenced part of the same part of scripture, is in Leviticus 18 is that, ‘thou shalt lay with another man shall be stoned to death.’ Just sayin’! So Miss Rachel, you quote Leviticus 19… the chapter before affirms God’s perfect law when it comes to sexual matters.”

    wow I forgot he was trying to start beef with Miss Rachel - what an absolute culture warrior.

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  12. 21 minutes ago, bolverk said:

    What does that tell you? Well, it tells you that Darren V Michael posted that meme 6 DAYS BEFORE Kirk was murdered, and so therefore, it wasn't in reference to Charlie Kirk.

    Folks, take a moment to scroll through @DripChud's Xitter account (https://xcancel.com/DripChud), and tell me what you see. If you prefer to give traffic clicks to a website that promotes actual fucking Nazis, you can also visit the original https://x.com/dripchud?lang=en.

    They (Steven Miller) already told us: they don't give a shit about facts, they're using this murder as their cudgel to do their fascism 

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  13. Just now, TKthunder2 said:

    Shane Gillis was absolutely cancelled. He lost his job with Saturday Night Live and a majority of his sponsors and fellow mainstream comedians completely stopped associating with him.

    Most people who have that type of cancellation either disappear or lean hard into it and become a FOXnews pundit.

    Shane didn’t do either. He kept his podscast going, started a web series, and was still do shows at a discounted rate for anyone who would let him.

    Just because he was able to recover, does not mean he wasn’t cancelled.

    He just kept doing what he was doing. And nobody stopped him.

    You're describing consequences, not cancellation. And it wasn't the office of President advocating for specific, targeted actions

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  14. 2 minutes ago, Nicole44 said:

    So are you saying no one was fired for speech during the Biden or Obama administrations for their beliefs or if they were it was deserved bc all of those fired were in the wrong?

    "Being fired for their beliefs" is a weasel word way to conflate then and now. Biden firing people for saying "COVID isn't real" is not in the same solar system as "Kirk supported what happened to Kirk". There are beliefs that are actually WRONG and dangerous to hold in a leadership position. If you dEePlY bElIeVe that injecting yourself with bleach is a cure for COVID, should you be allowed to hold a public health related office?

    6 minutes ago, Nicole44 said:

    All those cancelled were in the wrong?

    I think "cancelling" is bullshit in general and used as a false grievance by shithead culture warriors. Shane Gillis was cancelled? Suuuuuure lol

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  15. 3 minutes ago, Nicole44 said:

    That shit has been happening as far back as the early 2000’s. Bill Maher was kicked off ABC for saying the 9/11 terrorists weren’t cowards. Even though he left an empty seat for a regular conservative  contributor who died on one of the planes that day, it’s been going on for a long time. People being fired and disciplined or put on leave for making statements that don’t match the narrative of the current party/administration in power. That’s a both sides kind of “thing.” 

    I don't agree with your framing at all. For one, it's republican administrations in both cases not #bOtHsIdEs. For two, there were not members of the Bush administration going around giving statements and speaking from the White House about how they are going to use this to crush their political opposition with force.

    You're comparing apples to assholes

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