@udadditastebuds@nope__nope__ugh@Punished_HIMBY -acknowledge that Americans are struggling and has made several decisions that have made it a lot worse notably the tariffs last year and the Iran War this year
@udadditastebuds@nope__nope__ugh@Punished_HIMBY Most people engaging in these discourses from what I can tell have never lived through widespread economic hardship as an adult so they don’t understand that things like this have already happened (2008). What’s different today is that we have a president who refuses to-
@nope__nope__ugh@Punished_HIMBY@udadditastebuds My perspective is that rent control is a temporary action that works in major cities to prevent landlords from raising the prices of the lower cost apartments during economic crises where prices are rising rapidly and wages are not. I don’t think Mamdani is proposing permanence
Landlords threatening tenants with poor habitability as punishment for winning a rent freeze is just more evidence that we need stronger habitability laws too
“If I could snap my fingers and make generative AI disappear forever, I probably would. Creatively, I get no enjoyment from using those tools. It defeats the purpose entirely for me.” -Kane Parsons, the guy who just made A24 277.5 million dollars last month.