Let them. Let them lie. They don’t care about truth, evidence, or justice. Why should we care what they lie about?

“It’s not doable”

On that we agree.

If houses cost less then rent could go down.

There are limits of course. Building a new house has a minimum cost, which factors into the value of existing homes. But with lower investment costs to buy a house, less pressure to make that cost back with high rent.

Exactly. They don’t want a white ethnostate, and they wouldn’t appreciate the level of totalitarianism it would take to pull off that kind of ethnic cleansing.

It would crash housing prices, which would be objectively good. I can’t say for certain if it would be worth the other costs.

Money is credit. It’s a promise that someone else will pay their labor or capital or goods in exchange.
I would like a world where the things people NEED housing, food, medical care, are provided and the things people want, they can save up money (credit) and purchase by selling what they can, labor, skills, assets.

Credit scores aren’t just about how likely you are to pay back loans, they are about how much money can be made off lending to you.

Pay off loans early, and the lender makes less money, so your credit goes down.

Closed accounts, inactive accounts, those aren’t making anyone else money, so less credit score.

Paying on time is the biggest risk of lending, so it has the biggest impact, but doing things that lose your creditor money can make a difference on the margin.

Sure they can, until their cousins, spouses, and neighbors start disappearing, their coworkers, employees, and representatives.

My city has plenty of racists, but even a casual racist might think twice when more than half the city is being deported.

Not every trump voter is 100% in board with his policies.

A shocking amount of people are just floating through life on Vibes. They don’t know why they do things, it just feels like they should. This applies right up to the ballot box.

Economic meltdown, most of the population has no one that would take them so they will end up either in camps in failed/failing countries or inside the US itself.

Also getting the white population to agree to do it would be a big lift. The majority would passively oppose and a minority would go full on underground railroad/insurgency.

Only a minority would be totally on board.

People thought the smoke filled rooms that gave us Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, and Goldwater were the most corrupt thing and what we needed was more democracy.

And 2 generations later we got trump.

You drove through one big city and it sucked. LA and Chicago would have sucked to drive through as well.

New York is better now I hear since they implemented congestion pricing.

Correct me if I’m wrong, Huston is the biggest city I have ever been to.

Counterpoint, there are more firearms in possession of the American civilian populace than there were in the Ukrainian military during the February invasion.

If the American politiy doesn’t want to be governed, it’s going to take a whole lot of concentration camps to make it governable.

I don’t see anything weird about this. Sounds like parenting.

Wealth is actually being redistributed quite a bit in Russia right now. The oligarchs are paying for the war and “the people” are getting much higher wages either in the military or because of labor shortages.

It’s not great, what with all the death and destruction. But Russians gini coefficient is going down fast.

I met my wife on OK cupid. 8 years ago though.

If you want to kill a whole lot of people, your police will suffer and eventually quit if you just have the execute people en mass. This happened to the Nazis and it’s the prime reason the gas chambers were constructed.

The police need to feel like they are doing the right thing.

They fought like the fight Trump. Sternly worded letters. Op eds. Speeches. Press conferences. Maybe a procedural vote or 2.

You must be really inspired by that energy.

Anyone could have run vrs Biden. That asswipe from Michigan did. I looked into his politics and decided I would rather have Biden.

Small in number. Bernie came close both times, but 40% of the primary voters is like 2% of the population.

I would remind you that Clinton was legit popular with dem primary voters. She nearly won vrs Barak Obama, historically charismatic candidate.