@lorne_guyland@mattyglesias High prices definitionally mean a housing shortage. If there was no shortage, prices would not be high. What does "financilisation of housing" or "landlord based housing model" even mean?
@hecubian_devil This is 100% true. Justification: all of the background anger that led to Trump was caused by people being financially crushed by housing costs
You are not standing with the Ukrainian people by voting down aid for Kyiv and shielding Moscow from accountability.
Utterly unacceptable nonsense that derides "economic warfare" against Russian civilians while simultaneously enabling ACTUAL WARFARE against Ukrainian civilians.
@dealfredwins@SwannMarcus89 He is responding to the neo-Brandeisian claim that every social ill in America is caused by corporate consolidation. These people were extremely influential in the Biden admin
@JackyBoy8888@SwannMarcus89 He is talking about neo-Brandeisians - Matt Stoller is one of them, so are Lina Khan and Elizabeth Warren. They do exist and were extremely influential in the Biden admin.
@BeuwenDragon@peppercoyote There was no slavery in communist Poland. Collectivization was limited and most farms were privately held. But OP is misinformed - the rations were not free, it was a purchase limit and the food was often unavailable altogether.
@peppercoyote 1. Poland was not part of the Soviet Union
2. The ration shown in the picture was not given out for free, it was the purchase limit
3. In 1981 the food supply was so bad that "hunger marches" were held in multiple cities
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@peppercoyote The food in the picture was not given out for free. It was the maximum that you could legally purchase. Anything beyond that, you had to get on the black market, where prices were many times higher.