Choosing to eat terrible McDonalds burgers over not aiding a genocide is psychotic.
Tryptaminev
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Just a small distinction. Not more than 1/3 of your income should be rent. Also this figure is based on the net income, not pre-tax
Elastic housing supply is nonsense.
Once a house is there it is there. You dont just demolish it, and build it up again somewhere else.
The only thing that can be elastic is demand. And it is not because moving has high opportunity costs, people are socially integrated in the area they life, feeling at home is a crucial feeling for mental well being...
People renting/buying to life are at a fundamental disadvantage against landlords, who only care about the money coming in. Thinking of housing as a "normal" market like idk. headphones or something shows a lack of economic understanding.
No regulation is worth anything without enforcement.
i mean couch surfing is guest and host being there and interacting with each other.
AirBnB is getting the flat for yourself for the time you rent it.
Boycotting McDonalds and KFC over their support for the genocide in Gaza is a good idea anyways. Unless you want to feel like eating the meat of little children.
letting non-Democrats get into power does not do anything to hurt the politicians
Are the Democrats not politicians then? Are they not seeking power then? Also what makes you believe that now they support a genocide against brown people and in four years they wouldn't support killing LGBT+ ?
There’s no incentive for them to change course now.
If people say: "Stop the genocide, or we will not vote you" there is plenty of incentive to change course now. But people arguing the opposite, claiming it is pointless and that the people have no power are diminishing the power of the people. This is why the DNC is pushing this narrative so heavily. They want you to be demotivated and feeling powerless. It is the same strategy like with the oil companies and climate change.
Way to not engage with the points i made. Scared of not having any arguments?
There is still 5 months until the election. 5 months in which the current DNC leaders can be pressured to change course.
Don't buy their bullshit that you have no power over them. I fully agree with you to organize though. Make your voices heard with them, but tell them fair and square that there is no vote for genocide supporters.
The obvious truth is, that the Dems can end this genocide, force Israel to hand over all its war criminals and establish a Palestinian state. and gain all the support for it. The fact that they rather want a genocide to continue shows you that they rather want Trump to win, than to not take AIPAC money.
And they successfully gaslighted the people into believing it is their fault, instead of the fault of the leaders that can end this genocide right fucking now.
There is banks that explicitly do not invest in these things. Does not mean that the little guy is responsible, but we aren't all powerless.