MustardClementine

Uncommon ideas, for interesting times.

[MustardClementine @MustardClem]

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[MustardClementine @MustardClem]

@DavidColetto If Conservatives were smarter, they'd lean harder into their gains with younger voters and speak much more directly to them. Making the only part of the electorate that's guaranteed to keep shrinking the centrepiece of your strategy seems... short-sighted.

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@AbeSimp12856621 @ManyBeenRinsed Exactly. Call me when they do take them seriously because they have no choice. Better yet, call me when sellers just list at the market price to begin with instead of treating negotiation as part of the price.

[MustardClementine @MustardClem]

@AbeSimp12856621 @ManyBeenRinsed Well, call me when the shift in negotiating leverage is complete. Until sellers know they no longer have the power to expect anything in return for accepting lower prices, I don't see a real bottom. Just a lot of noise.

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@ManyBeenRinsed Sure, but "no financing" de facto means no financing condition, right? If sellers still require such concessions/benefits to accept lower prices, how is that any kind of bottom? A real bottom, to me, is when lower offers with full conditions are simply accepted.

[MustardClementine @MustardClem]

Why push waiving financing or other conditions? This is where you get silly. I'd rather wait until I don't have to lowball, argue, or rush. Let the market get properly bedraggled first. Then take your time, include every condition you want, and buy at the new, settled price without the used-house-salesman pressure.

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@ManyBeenRinsed Thinking things could get even better isn't doomy or gloomy. Isn't the whole point of prices tanking that buying no longer has to feel like an emergency? Let the market settle, then browse at your leisure. Why replace the old FOMO with a new one? Take a beat.

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@ManyBeenRinsed @StraightFromDan I know you're saying to lowball, negotiate, and make deals if you have leverage. But really, what's the rush? Why not wait until you don't have to haggle or deal with delusion? Wait until everyone knows the new game and has given up on the old one.

[MustardClementine @MustardClem]

@RobynUrback I would love someone off the chain enough to come in and make these kinds of changes by, like, 2027. A real wrecking ball, but with a purpose.

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@sciencelives @ShaziGoalie Mine are definitely burning indoors, even with an air purifier on the go, no less.

[MustardClementine @MustardClem]

Nothing in that spiel makes me want Canada ever to depend on the US again. In fact, it signals yet another reason we really shouldn't. Self-reliance requiring time, effort, and real, meaningful change isn't a reason to remain deliberately dependent. https://t.co/9XokkuTEI4

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I love how, right in the middle of his little "don't pull away from abusive daddy, he's only being tough for your own good" rant, he explains exactly why countries are trying to make sure they never need abusive daddy again. His support is conditional, and "they can no longer take it for granted".

[Under Secretary of War Elbridge Colby @USWPColby]

It also isn’t borne out by reality, in our experience. We see an *upsurge* in desire for engagement with the United States, not a reduction. Under President Trump’s leadership, countries not only see the value of American engagement, they can no longer take it for granted. We unquestionably see an incredibly strong and continuing demand signal for U.S. military presence and engagement around the world. 3/

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@JShamess @ManyBeenRinsed I consider that to be a doomer mentality/failure of imagination, and will continue to hope and advocate for a better outcome for our society.

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@ManyBeenRinsed @JShamess I don't see housing prices failing to reach a more attainable level as positive. We'd all be better off with an economy where more people can take risks, invent things and create real value, not just trade existing assets. I'd never feel truly rich in a poor society.

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@Sean_Speer Millennials revived cities. Investors exploited that revival, bidding up home and commercial real estate, until they killed the very thing they were monetizing.

[MustardClementine @MustardClem]

@ronmortgageguy @ShaziGoalie Who goes all the way to Hamilton to live in that kind of big city squalor? Even at the absolute height of crazy, you could still buy an at least okay detached house in Hamilton, for the same price?

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@Sean_Speer Some jobs, in fact, can't be "lost" to technology fast enough. Real estate agents should have gone the way of travel agents long ago, if not for an industry whose greatest innovation has been protecting itself from innovation (and transparency).

[MustardClementine @MustardClem]

@ManyBeenRinsed @au_engineer Lower home prices aren't “doom.” For many people, they're hope. It isn't "bullish" on Canada to cheer for anything less than a country where ordinary people can afford homes and have a decent shot at life.

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@ManyBeenRinsed It comes across very differently to mock people who simply want an affordable home and a decent shot at life for having been “rinsed” than it did when you were saying it about those helping create the conditions that made both so much harder to achieve.