Don't blame me, I voted for the other guy. (Politics General)

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“The game is rigged and nobody seems to notice. Nobody seems to care! Good honest hard-working people; white collar, blue collar it doesn’t matter what color shirt you have on. Good honest hard-working people continue, these are people of modest means, continue to elect these rich cock suckers who don’t give a fuck about you…they don’t give a fuck about you…they don’t give a FUCK about you.
They don’t care about you at all…at all…AT ALL.”
– George Carlin

Missouri voted to defund all their public libraries.
I drove through Missouri once, you can feel the stupid in the air.
Defunding/reforming the police is virtually impossible but defunding libraries is perfectly acceptable to do throughout an entire state… That’s just fucked up.
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Libraries aren’t just a place for education.
They’re a place for education that caters to the poor.
Homeless people wash themselves a bit in the disabled stall, then they can sit on a computer for an hour and look for work or just read.
Anyone can borrow a book they otherwise might not be able to afford.
Not everyone has constant Internet access.
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In retrospect I was probably too hard on Trump for being a cheat and miser. The one time he ever paid for something and now he’s getting indicted for it.
Speaking of, New York laws dictate that an indicted person must see trial within 6 months. Trump will appeal and stall it so that limit might get pushed up a bit, even the prosecutors and judges have recently been slapping down those attempts now.
The trial might go on for a month or 2, so it’ll possibly be concluded just in time for primary voting.
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Ah, rent control. I know I’ve debated a lot of things this past month. And none of them make me feel quite as strongly as rent control.
I hate rent control. It’s awful. It ignores the laws of how supply and demand work, and it just assumed that more people will move in to match. This is not how the market works.
Supply and demand states that when the demand for something is high, but the supply is low, the price for it goes up. This is because when there isn’t enough of that resource to go around, raising the prices is the only way to keep it from running out. Usually, if the price for something like rental property is high enough, and stays high, then it becomes a signal for entrepreneurs to profit by being able to offer that service to others. And since there are now more people offering that service (places to live), the price of them will go down. And rent control disrupts that order, for if the price is already low, then it tells the aforementioned entrepreneurs that they will not make money by making more rental properties.
Here are a few of the demonstrated harms caused by government rent control policies:
St. Paul, Minn., passed a rent control ordinance in 2021. A University of Southern California study the next year found that “rent control caused property values to fall by 6-7%, for an aggregate loss of $1.6 billion.” It further found that “the tenants who gained the most from rent control had higher incomes and were more likely to be white, while the owners who lost the most had lower incomes and were more likely to be minorities. For properties with high-income owners and low-income tenants, the transfer of wealth was close to zero. Thus, to the extent that rent control is intended to transfer wealth from high-income to low-income households, the realized impact of the law was the opposite of its intention.”
A 2018 study of rent control in San Francisco found that the imposition of rent controls reduced the supply of rental housing by 15%, raised rents by 5%, and fueled the conversion of lower-end rental units to higher-end condominiums. The authors found that “landlords of properties impacted by the law change respond over the long term by substituting to other types of real estate, in particular by converting to condos and redeveloping buildings so as to exempt them from rent control. This substitution toward owner occupied and high-end new construction rental housing likely fueled the gentrification of San Francisco, as these types of properties cater to higher income individuals. Indeed, the combination of more gentrification and helping rent controlled tenants remain in San Francisco has led to a higher level of income inequality in the city overall.”
From 1970-1994, Cambridge, Mass., imposed strict rent controls and made it hard for the owners of rent-controlled properties to convert them to other uses. Those ordinances were abolished with the passage of a 1994 referendum banning rent control in Massachusetts. This led to increased apartment construction. “Over the next several years, direct dollar investments in housing units, as measured by building-permit filings, more than doubled on an annual basis,” a 2012 study found.
A separate 2007 study of the effects in Massachusetts found that rent control did lower rents in covered buildings, but also “led to deterioration in the quality of rental units” and encouraged apartment building owners to “shift units away from rental status.”
A 2000 study of the effects of rent control on tenants found that rent control raised market rents and “the average benefit to tenants in regulated units is negative. This implies that, on average, tenants in rent regulated units would be better off if these controls had never been established.”
A 2019 study of rent control in Berlin, Germany found that rent control “reduces rents in the controlled sector, but also leads to rent increases for uncontrolled units. And it “reduced the propensity to move house within rent controlled areas, but only among high-income households.”
A 1989 University of Pennsylvania study of rent control in New York City found that capping rents discouraged homeownership, helped whites more than minorities, and reduced investment in and upkeep of rent-controlled units. In short, rent control lowered the quality of apartments while simultaneously discouraging renters from becoming homeowners. “The expected rent control benefits had a significantly negative influence on the propensity to own. That is, consumers with large expected rent control benefits had lower demands for homeownership.”
A 2009 review of the economic literature on rent control found that “economic research quite consistently and predominantly frowns on rent control.” It also found that the effect on homelessness was inconclusive. “Several empirical studies find no clear relationship between rent control and homelessness,” according to the review. Some studies found that rent control increased homelessness, others that it had no clear effect or reduced homelessness. Given the mixed results, rent control should not be considered a solution to the problem of homelessness.
But, obviously, I mostly grabbed this for sources. Personally, the best way someone depicted it to me was this.
Imagine there are two people. The first person can afford to spend $1,500 on rent, but the second can only afford to spend $800 on rent. The first person can find a one-bedroom apartment for $1,400, but the second person cannot. Therefore, they begrudgingly move in with three other roommates to split bills.
In a rent controlled city, the first person can afford their one-bedroom apartment. But so can the second person. And all three of their roommates. And the result is that everyone can afford it, but there aren’t enough vacancies, and they don’t have an open apartment to move into. And there won’t be any more, since no one has an incentive to wanna build them.
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There we go…now it makes sense
Renting in general is already a shit affair. More so if you’re at the lower end of it. It’s an easy way to print money but for property owners that have found themselves owning housing for working poor it’s even more of a pain in the ass because, speaking as a resident of one: trailers and such are shit properties to own. One of the innovations in property management in the last decade or two has been to just mortgage the trailer off to the resident and rent them the land they leave it parked on. These deals requiring the resident to never leave or pay a fine until after a certain period of time, and they end up on the hook for maintenance on housing built to fall apart in five years. Together between mortgage payments owed to the landlord and the lot rent you’re never paying less than you would owe on rents and for far less the services owed to you by law as a renter; so the landlord makes a lot more money on just having to do less property maintenance work.
This isn’t really unknown in other sectors of the working class rent world either. The 2008 Financial Crisis still has left a lasting legacy where it’s just believed better to build housing oriented to wealthier and more middle class clientele. Maybe because their income is more secure than Joe Average who could potentially lose all his income for whatever random reason, and because he never had the chance to get skills training enters a very flooded and low value, non-unionized service work field (along with anyone who may have been convinced to join whatever trending college and trades field that was being preached up and down any and all Highschools across the country the decade before).
Renters too don’t have a lot of protections either or opportunities for collective action. Rent strikes are notoriously difficult to set up, especially if the property owner/landlord owns multiple disconnected properties; which is most landlords in this country (even ‘small/family’ landlords don’t exist and if they are did are equally parasites).
The class war continues, the long march of exploitation grinds on.
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Most likely Lukashenko wants to position himself as a kind, responsible, neutral leader who wants only peace. But at the same time he’s playing on the Russian side. Remember all this anti-Ukrainian sentiment masking as anti-war? As soon as Ukrainian offensive starts, Russia is going to double down on “peace” propaganda and try to portray itself as peace-loving and reasonable, and Ukraine as a hateful, aggressive country. Lukashenko’s call for truce is a part of this.
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I’m mainly focused on the RESTRICT ACT right now but I can’t let this go without sharing word on this situation here in Texas:
“Republican lawmakers in Texas proposed a bill that would enable the secretary of state to overturn election results in counties that have one million residents or more.”
“Senate Bill 1993 was introduced on Thursday by state senators. It would allow the secretary of state – currently a Republican – to order a new election and gain district court-level authority.”
If you’re also concerned about the RESTRICT ACT but aren’t up to speed, Vice did an article on that a few days ago:
“Digital rights experts told Motherboard the RESTRICT Act, which may be used to ban TikTok, could impact many other types of services too, including VPNs.”
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He’s managed to hold onto power for 30 years. I wouldn’t be too dismissive of him. I’d go as far as to say that he’s a savvier politician than Putin, just with a much weaker hand.
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Out of all of the things Trump has done they indict him on giving hush money to a pornstar. I guess I should be grateful he’s being punished at all…
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