@JeffFisch If I had a nickel for every time someone thought building the V1 would win them the war, I'd have two nickels, which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice.
@whizthesugoi@noinconsistency As opposed to communism, where employment is simply compulsory, and not working is parasitism and directly punished as a crime
@Janastas@jeremyct Yeah, nah, that isn't what's happening. Per forbes
Those houses are being leveraged or sold and ultimately going to corporate owners and being directly turned into rental properties or torn down to make apartments
@Janastas@jeremyct I know it's great to own a home. I own a home. I pay ~1/3 what people are paying to rent a similar place here. People who own a home are doing well. People who don't are struggling. We're seeing the bulk of like two generations getting permanently locked out of the middle class
@Janastas@jeremyct Again, your entire argument that high home prices affect a tiny percentage of Americans is that only a tiny percentage of Americans is buying their first home, which is directly at odds with your point
@Janastas@jeremyct Again, what the hell do you think is supposed to happen? Doubling the price of houses has basically no effect on the people who already have them.
A decline of 3% means a few million more homeowners died than non homeowners buying their first home.
@Janastas@jeremyct Why would you expect home ownership to change more drastically in eight years, what percentage of American homeowners died in that time frame? Anybody who's already got a house is going to keep it or trade to another one.
3% in 8 years is honestly a pretty huge swing.
@Janastas@jeremyct Home sales are now basically old people trading between themselves. First time homeowners are barely 1 in 5, with a median age past child bearing age.
The median home buyer (all sales, not first time buyers) is 59 years old.
Its a sport for retirees.
@Janastas@jeremyct Your argument is seriously that only 6% of Americans would like to buy a home but are unable to because home prices have more than doubled in under a decade?
@Janastas@jeremyct weird reasoning. the people suffering from unaffordable housing would probably be the ones unable to buy a first home, not the ones able to?
@Janastas@jeremyct I got my place in 2018 and now it's doubled in price and APRs are nearly triple what I have locked in. I got mine, but 100+ millions of Americans are FUCKED, and if that continues long enough, we won't be able to ignore it.
@Janastas@jeremyct According to CPI, which is so gamed it's basically meaningless.
We're paying about double for housing, food, cars, and gas. I don't give a shit if the price of tvs is down 10% or whatever.
@ProSpaceDog I really want a killzone 1 remaster, it's got the best art direction of the whole series, but it's held back by ps2 graphics (even the ps3 port)
Dunno why they don't make do a killzone trilogy and resistance trilogy for ps5, it's not like they have any better ideas.
@dannycantalk The US was 90% white in living memory. The US positioned itself really well following ww2, and we're still coasting off that and winning the cold war.
@ConservativePen@BreannaMorello The second part sure, but I don't think listening has anything to do with it. Looks like he figured he could commit murder and get away with it, look tough, and become a gofundme millionaire.
Basically he was about four year late to get away with that.