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3 hours ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

I agree with you on principle, but to be fair Mamdani promised some very silly and fantastical things. 

Well that strategy has certainly led donald trump to ruin, amirite?? 

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Well that strategy has certainly led donald trump to ruin, amirite?? 

Bingo. Dems need to run on rainbow and unicorn shit, and then when it doesn’t work/happen, blame Trump.
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1 minute ago, Brisketexan said:

Bingo. Dems need to run on rainbow and unicorn shit, and then when it doesn’t work/happen, blame Trump.

The rub is: establishment dems and the primary process guarantee this would never make it to the general. See: NYC mayoral race flipping the FUCK out over a progressive

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14 minutes ago, Captainant said:

Well that strategy has certainly led donald trump to ruin, amirite?? 

It’s a good campaign strategy if people either believe it or don’t care. 

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19 hours ago, washparkhorn said:

I think doomsday-libertarian Peter Thiel in 2020 stumbled onto what has been self-evident for quite some time now. 

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Yesterday I stumbled onto the new Peter Thiel interview on the NY Times. watch/listen

Not that I didn't think this before, but he's even weirder than I thought. He has this core belief that the world became stagnant after Los Alamos '45 or perhaps the Moon landing in '69. Even to a point that the internet and now AI wasn't as big of a deal.

He's also comes across as very fixated that we haven't discovered more (any?) cures or treatment for dementia. Either he had just finished reading an article about that so it was top of mind, or I have to wonder if he has a personal fear that is his near-term future. I will psychoanalyze him further in that some in his position of wealth, power and arrogance can get very upset when they recognize their mortality. I'm ~2 years younger than Thiel, and it's a sobering fact in your mid-50s that your highly productive years are behind you and/or quickly ending. You have to accept that the world now belongs to younger people. Life isn't over but you won't be around to experience 50 years from now.

I hadn't realized that he hasn't made any political donations since the '22 cycle due to disillusionment of MAGA.

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3 hours ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

I agree with you on principle, but to be fair Mamdani promised some very silly and fantastical things. 

Our society, as it currently stands, can accept anything with the exception of boredom. Anything that isn't silly or fantastical in the political realm is boring. 

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8 minutes ago, Brian Fantana said:

Getting housing prices under control in one of the most fucked up real estate markets in the world: Silly and fantastical.

 - Bozo Casanova, Maestro

Why do you think God invented Staten Island? It wasn't because he thought it was cool.

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9 minutes ago, Brian Fantana said:

Getting housing prices under control in one of the most fucked up real estate markets in the world: Silly and fantastical.

 - Bozo Casanova, Maestro

Government can make markets more or less efficient, but trying to control markets is like trying to control weather: you can try!

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Government can make markets more or less efficient, but trying to control markets is like trying to control weather: you can try!

It’s like you don’t even Jewish space lasers, bro.
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I've never believed in the wisdom of rent control. I get it that it helps renters but it also creates an artificial marketplace that harms others as well. People can't afford a new place because a landlord needs higher rents to cover the fact that another tenant has been paying $200/mo for the last 40 years. Of course, my understanding is that new NYC rent control apartments stopped in the 70s, and those tenants at the time were grandfathered in. Very few of them remain. Their stories are crazy so they often get repeated and believed to be widespread. 

Rent stabilization is the current system that makes more sense. However it still creates an artificial marketplace that eventually gets out of line when its controlled by politicians who answer to said tenants. Who wants to vote for a politicians who indirectly raised your rent.

Stabilization can also lead to subpar living conditions as the apt owner has less incentive to improve the building. Since they have limited availability to sign new tenants, they will do the bare minimum required perhaps even waiting to be forced to do so by the authorities.

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21 hours ago, washparkhorn said:

I think doomsday-libertarian Peter Thiel in 2020 stumbled onto what has been self-evident for quite some time now. 

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70% of millennials are not pro socialist.
 

1 hour ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

Yesterday I stumbled onto the new Peter Thiel interview on the NY Times. watch/listen

Not that I didn't think this before, but he's even weirder than I thought. He has this core belief that the world became stagnant after Los Alamos '45 or perhaps the Moon landing in '69. Even to a point that the internet and now AI wasn't as big of a deal.

He's also comes across as very fixated that we haven't discovered more (any?) cures or treatment for dementia. Either he had just finished reading an article about that so it was top of mind, or I have to wonder if he has a personal fear that is his near-term future. I will psychoanalyze him further in that some in his position of wealth, power and arrogance can get very upset when they recognize their mortality. I'm ~2 years younger than Thiel, and it's a sobering fact in your mid-50s that your highly productive years are behind you and/or quickly ending. You have to accept that the world now belongs to younger people. Life isn't over but you won't be around to experience 50 years from now.

I hadn't realized that he hasn't made any political donations since the '22 cycle due to disillusionment of MAGA.

The damage this guy has done is immense. He and his cronies have very little idea of the role of our government.

https://therevolvingdoorproject.org/billionaires-and-the-trump-admin-peter-thiel/

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25 minutes ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

I've never believed in the wisdom of rent control. I get it that it helps renters but it also creates an artificial marketplace that harms others as well. People can't afford a new place because a landlord needs higher rents to cover the fact that another tenant has been paying $200/mo for the last 40 years. Of course, my understanding is that new NYC rent control apartments stopped in the 70s, and those tenants at the time were grandfathered in. Very few of them remain. Their stories are crazy so they often get repeated and believed to be widespread. 

Rent stabilization is the current system that makes more sense. However it still creates an artificial marketplace that eventually gets out of line when its controlled by politicians who answer to said tenants. Who wants to vote for a politicians who indirectly raised your rent.

Stabilization can also lead to subpar living conditions as the apt owner has less incentive to improve the building. Since they have limited availability to sign new tenants, they will do the bare minimum required perhaps even waiting to be forced to do so by the authorities.

Stabilization vs control is basically a distinction without a difference these days (in SF the increase is capped around 2% usually). In addition to everything you mentioned, it decreases the rental supply as landlords take vacant units off the market for condo conversion (or sell to corporate owners with the means to evict). And there is no means testing - I’ve know a few people with such great deals they bought houses in Sonoma or Tahoe and kept their city apartments. And yet in pure Tobias Funke “but maybe this time” fashion, it persists (although St Paul is already walking its disastrous experiment back after just two years). 

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1 hour ago, Brian Fantana said:

Getting housing prices under control in one of the most fucked up real estate markets in the world: Silly and fantastical.

 - Bozo Casanova, Maestro

 

44 minutes ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

I've never believed in the wisdom of rent control. I

 

1 hour ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

Government can make markets more or less efficient, but trying to control markets is like trying to control weather: you can try!

 

I hate to jump in here because a) Brian Fantana is a little irrational and b) I'm a far from educated about Mamdani's promises aside from some of the highlights. 

That said, I did listen to his 30 minute interview with Derek Thompson and one take away is his attitude of "let's try it.  If we fail, let's try something else", that is a welcome change from someone high profile in the party.  There's so much risk aversion amongst Democrats and that insecurity doesn't lend itself to campaigns in the 2020's, particularly with younger voters who've grown up in a world so connected that the notion of a private life is a quaint artifact.  

At least on the interview, his specific rent policy was a rent freeze on rent controlled apartments and appeared to be data driven.  

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31 minutes ago, LCHorn said:

 

 

 

I hate to jump in here because a) Brian Fantana is a little irrational and b) I'm a far from educated about Mamdani's promises aside from some of the highlights. 

That said, I did listen to his 30 minute interview with Derek Thompson and one take away is his attitude of "let's try it.  If we fail, let's try something else", that is a welcome change from someone high profile in the party.  There's so much risk aversion amongst Democrats and that insecurity doesn't lend itself to campaigns in the 2020's, particularly with younger voters who've grown up in a world so connected that the notion of a private life is a quaint artifact.  

At least on the interview, his specific rent policy was a rent freeze on rent controlled apartments and appeared to be data driven.  

All fair and good points.

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24 minutes ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

This 2000’s retro craze is really taking off. Girls are wearing low rise jeans with crop tops and it’s socially acceptable to call Muslims terrorists in public again. 

not sure that last part has ever gone out of style with the less cerebrally inclined citizens of this fine country



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