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Lol!

Overthrow and get what? Another Libya?

Israel has nukes, so why would they be afraid of Iran?

≥stamping it out

Sounds authoritarian not authoritative.

Tax the rent seekers not producers.

Govts should be heavily taxing those who buy up assets yet produce nothing. Those who produce should be taxed lightly.

Democracy requires compromise. That's long gone. The "two" sides are far apart from compromise.

Maybe Abraham Lincoln should have let the South go. There's just too much difference in world views.

Shouldn't the issue with porn be the people in those films are heavily exploited and most often abused and in some cases even worse. In particular women.

Why the absolute focus on demand side and none on the supply side?

I guess the issue is they just want to stop young people from seeing porn? That's it? That's all society is concerned about, regarding porn?

I never said anything about jews or even implied it. U assumed? And ran with it.

And ur comment addressed nothing about how the elites in the west are using ukraine as a pawn to take down russia like Afghanistan with the soviets.

Both sides have their propaganda and bullshit.

What about the Russian speaking Ukrainians? How do u think they felt when they tried to ban Russian?

West good, Russia evil? Cmon its way more nuanced than that. And the Ukrainian speaking Ukrainian elites are no better than the Russian elites. Or the Western elites for that matter.

Ukraine is a pawn in the Geopolitical power game. The people have been sacrificed on both sides.

Its the morally bankrupt and corrupt Elites who should be in the firing line.

The plan certainly was to create another Soviet-Afghanistan war in hopes to cut Russia "down to size". Geopolitics.

Whether that works time will tell.

What is certain however, is the number of the dead and the destruction of Ukraine.

The gamble was that the Communists would be overthrown or collapse once "the people” got a taste of western capitalism etc etc.

Please only book with owner OCCUPIED AirBnBs otherwise your contributing to local housing problems.

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 Texas is its own unique situation.

Also, developers don't want to build build build housing as that, like you said would help to reduce the price.

And the West's support of Israel's IDF, how would you characterize that?

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 hegemon.

Today, there is a rival player. China. Its a completely different game.

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.

Boomers = The Selfish Generation

Poor stewards.

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 extremist parties will drain away. Its politics 101.

Strongly disagree. Most right wing populist parties' policies are very pro worker. Right wing parties in USA see these policies as "socialist", anathema.

>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.

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. The price of safety?

"The iron hand crush'd the Tyrant's head And became a Tyrant in his stead." -Willian Blake

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 emphasis on shareholder returns being the most important, without considering the survival of the company itself.

I think its $6 Million.

Yes, this is exactly it. Eventually the cruelty and fear become the ends themselves rather than a means to an end.

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 the USA. Once that reliance is gone, there are less negative consequences for China if they choose to invade Taiwan.

Does rent control work for new tenants? It doesn't in NYC. It only works for long term tenants.

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).

Yes! Yes! Yes! This!

Nothing but butchers with chainsaws, this administration is.

And those ads.