They should GET A JOB! And don't you COMMIES tell me that Wages won't cover a one room rental because that's a LIE! I BOUGHT my house 30 years ago working as a JANITOR! Kids today are just LAZY! GIVE me my Social Security you COMMIES!
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Bidenomics!
This is why it's a bad idea to stick your name onto whatever is the current state of the economy.
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Well, at the moment, the other option is Trump. We all know we need better politicians in general, but are you suggesting things would be better with him?
The other option is whoever we want. Wild how voting works.
Problem is absent major reforms in every state, that's not how voting works. Third parties playing spoilers in the first-past-the-post system has been documented and evidenced many times. Whichever bloc has greater unity or no appealing 3rd party candidates will win. So you could end up with Trump being elected with 35% for Biden, 25% for West, and 40% for Trump. Run-off or ranked choice could fix that but we don't have that.
Whichever bloc has greater unity
Ive got unity with the progressive candidate. Who also endorses that ranked choice we both want. Biden and Trump represent a conservative bloc.
That would be great but voting for them this round isn't a practical choice. We have to somehow get voting reforms then support the candidates we actually prefer. That would start at a local/state level.
Right, this round. Next round for sure.
Before there is comprehensive voting reform it won't work at all. It's more likely to get whatever candidate you least support elected.
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I have not told anyone how to vote in this thread. Y'all just crawled up my ass about it because I blasphemed.
If you choose to vote for Biden despite hating him, I understand. But don't try to silence criticism.
I’m not concerned with them. I’m engaging in conversation with you. Are you able to answer the question?
I literally did answer the question: I have not told anyone how to vote. That necessarily means I'm not suggesting Trump is better. 🙄
You say that like Trump’s biggest legislative accomplishment wasn’t a massive tax cut for the wealthiest Americans.
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Weird how people who are 'I'm so COMMUMIST!!' reserve their criticism for US politicians closer to the left and don't bother saying shit about Trump or the Republicans in congress.
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You cracked the case!
It wasn't anything like coordinated rent increases from large groups of landlords using a pricing app, it wasn't a worldwide pandemic disrupting the market, it wasn't America keeping housing as an investment vehicle instead of a means of sheltering humans, it wasn't decades of wealthy investors buying housing to convert into rentals.
Nope, all of that complexity can be tossed out the window because one single man is to blame: Joe Biden. All in his first term as president too!
It wasn’t anything like coordinated rent increases from large groups of landlords using a pricing app
Which Biden has no interest in doing anything about. Why isn't he using the bully pulpit to name and shame enemies of his administration?
it wasn’t a worldwide pandemic disrupting the market,
It's been years since you and the rest of Democrats gave a shit about COVID, so it's hypocritical to blame the ongoing pandemic.
Perhaps if Biden didn't give up entirely on public health then the ongoing economic problems caused by COVID could be addressed, but instead we don't even talk about it like it's still a serious issue and ignore the ongoing wave of deaths. We are still having excess deaths far above the pre-pandemic period, but I bet you don't even wear a mask to the store. What a joke.
it wasn’t America keeping housing as an investment vehicle instead of a means of sheltering humans, it wasn’t decades of wealthy investors buying housing to convert into rentals.
Both problems are something Biden helped establish over his long tenure as a Senator.
Nope, all of that complexity can be tossed out the window because one single man is to blame: Joe Biden.
Liberals in every country do this thing where they use complexity as a way to mystify and obscure the consequences of their party's actions and inaction. Somehow the President is powerless and problems come from nowhere. No one is to blame, except maybe the red team.
Both parties are neolibs.
It's just a duopoly.
All of your critiques apply to both parties.
I'm left so I hate right.
I'm right so I hate left.
So boring.
Introduce ranked choice voting.
We could hate omnidirectionally.
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It's interesting to see the assumptions and projections you put onto me. All I've said (or implied snarkily) is that the housing and homelessness crisis that we're seeing in America is a multifaceted issue, and much larger than trying to simply blame one man.
For what it's worth, I have no love for Biden and think he could be doing a hell of a lot more from his position, as could the rest of the corporate Democrat party, as could literally any Republican with a spine, but unfortunately we're stuck with a party that won't act and a party whose only purpose is to block the other.
I still don't think you can distill the housing issue down to just 'Biden bad' though, so you should really do some introspection and see if your anger towards Biden might be blurring your viewpoint a little bit
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Do you think you make any sort of sense with this way of writing? You are slamming Biden because you don't know who is a actually responsible. It's greedy landlords and the corporate overlords that run housing.
Biden runs the country. Not the whole housing market. If anything he helped it with his administration relieving college debt and made it more affordable to many Americans that don't need to pay off debt.
You make zero points and I just throwing mud to make Trump the only choice.
Biden runs the country. Not the whole housing market.
He definitely could interfere with the housing market to a much higher degree. He could also make better use of the bully pulpit to attack greedy landlords and corporate housing by name.
He will not.
When Trump wins he will make everything worse and Biden is doing everything he can to make sure he loses.
He could also make better use of the bully pulpit to attack greedy landlords and corporate housing by name.
Biden: "You landlords are terrible and charge too much! Here are your names!"
Landlords: "Cool. How are you going to be able to stop us?"
Biden: "..."
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You can what if all day long. And it's not fact. It's fantasy. So you don't make sense in two posts. Keep going. Your whole account can look like a lost soul in a cult.
A cult of what? I'm just criticizing Biden! You seem to think the president is powerless and nothing that has gone wrong is his fault.
Is there literally anything you would criticize him for?
Not to you. Because you are Trump's nuts and are a sad excuse for an American.
So you're hostile to outsiders and blindly support Blue Leader no matter what?
Remember, I never told anyone how to vote. If someone wants to vote for Biden that is their business and I completely understand it. You, on the other hand, attack anyone who even criticizes Biden.
Sounds like I'm not the one in a cult. Good luck Blue MAGA
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