Yes, your rent is frozen. So is the landlord's budget to fix your heat, your leaks, and your broken freezer. But don't worry, when nothing works, at least the number on your lease stays the same. You can admire it while you eat out.
And the rent won't rise, true. Neither will any new buildings, because no one builds apartments he's forbidden to price. So enjoy the same aging unit for the next thirty years, paying yesterday's rent for tomorrow's ruins.
Freezing a price doesn't freeze reality. It freezes the supply, halts the repairs, and ends the building, while the line of people waiting for an apartment grows longer every year.
But feel the warmth of collectivism: everyone equal, shivering together in identical crumbling units, sharing the broken elevator and the dead freezer as one community.
The number stays the same. That was the promise, and that is all you'll get.
@MuseDarryn I checked the US Constitution and it turns out that is correct! But the Founding Fathers did say that if the Fleer brand comes back, collectors will have to pick two out of the three
@SmPotatoes Dream of the MoCo officials you can apparently do nothing to stop. Curse the Apple Ballot for being better at swaying voters than anything your uncreative mind can come up with.
@SmPotatoes I’m not sure what grqduated means. Keep on keeping on! Good luck in your next move — I’m sure you’ll find plenty to complain about there too
@SmPotatoes I mean, you run a business right? Don’t you enjoy when potential rivals lament that they can’t compete with you, ergo you must be doing something unfair?
I’d rather see that than learn they’re innovating to try and change the playing field
@SmPotatoes It makes me smile when people concerned about their opponents’ resenting their success and tearing them down have no other political solution than … lamenting that they can’t tear down their rival’s machine because it’s too hard to grow their own
@SmPotatoes Well, that means 95% of the population is up for grabs, if you or anyone else chooses to get off your asses and chase them.
But obviously much easier just to whine about the one group that does it well
@SoundMoneyG “We need better leaders” — ok. Clearly you don’t consider yourself to be one of them, or you’d run for office. What are you doing to find them and boost the ones you like? Because whatever you’re doing now, it ain’t working out for you. Try something different next time
@SoundMoneyG “I live in a blue part of a deep blue state and I don’t understaaaaaaannnnnndddd why my non-blue candidates lose! It must be a conspiracy”
@SmPotatoes It’s not that people are blindly voting for the apple ballot. It’s that nobody else has been able to give people a compelling reason to show up at a low-turnout election — where just showing up has a real chance to make a difference! — and do anything else
@SmPotatoes There are plenty of examples lately of insurgents who win because they inspire people. MoCo has none of those, and nobody seems to be looking for them. That’s not the apple ballot’s fault. It’s the lack of creativity from those who hate the status quo
@SoundMoneyG I don’t need to make the big bucks that @SmPotatoes does — I just need that David Trone money where I can throw away millions of dollars on failed campaign ads whenever I feel unloved
@SoundMoneyG If you really want to make enough money where your personal tax bill really impacts a budget, invent a way so that I’m never served any commercial for any candidate I can’t vote for, and then get the networks and streamers to mandate its use