Nelson Richardson

Barely getting by but loving every moment.

[X @XaviercMiller]

Here’s what I think will happen in NYC under Mahdami.

The free buses and government grocery stores won’t happen, they never do. They sound good during campaigns, but collapse under basic math. You can’t run a city on ideas that cost billions and produce no revenue.

The only way to make housing affordable is to build more housing. The free market lowers prices, not regulation. Every time politicians try to control rent or force affordability by decree, developers stop building and landlords stop maintaining. Supply dries up, the quality collapses, and the few properties that remain skyrocket in price.

Once landlords can’t make a profit, they sell, lose properties, or walk away. Eventually, the government takes over.

Taxes will rise to pay for the promises, and the middle class will be the ones shouldering the burden. The rich will relocate, the poor will depend on subsidies, and the productive class will be squeezed from both sides.

Thriving businesses are the foundation of any thriving city. When they leave, everything else follows, jobs, schools, grocery stores, stability. Chicago already proved this. Boeing, McDonald’s, Caterpillar, Citadel, nearly 70k jobs, all gone. Now they’re facing billion-dollar deficits, half empty schools and neighborhoods without grocery stores.

I saw someone who lived in a rent-controlled apartment in California put it perfectly, he said his landlord could no longer afford maintenance so the pool was filled with dirt, the floors had soft spots, and the foundation ended up cracking. That’s what overregulation does, it destroys quality.

People who voted for this will eventually feel the pain but they won’t blame the policies or the politicians, they’ll blame the rich for leaving.

This conversation is always difficult because most people simply don’t understand market dynamics or incentives. In a free society, people act in their own self-interest. If you remove profit and reward dependency, productivity dies and the city with it.

If you think things are expensive now, just wait until they’re “free.”

[The Figen @TheFigen_]

They won at parenting ...

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Absolutely

[non aesthetic things @PicturesFoIder]

He tried to be romantic , but She gave him the finger

[Out Of Context Football @nocontextfooty]

https://t.co/CyJDM5qAkl

[fire lord zuko updates @nicostrid]

katara creating a tiny water "umbrella" in book 1 vs being able to stop the rain in book 3

[JJ 😈 @KingJordan_57]

Nickelodeon hyped tf out of Sozin’s Comet. Those trailers had me so hyped to watched this. They treated this like it was their Endgame and it LIVED UP TO THE HYPE

[NO CONTEXT HUMANS @HumansNoContext]

She: “Bet he's out cheating on me”

Me with homies:

[skeleton @ThinkingBone]

i loathe tiny transactional “venmo me $9 for covering lunch” culture

no i’m gonna pay for you this time, you’re gonna pay for me next time, and it’s all gonna come out in the aggregate of our long and storied friendship

[The Figen @TheFigen_]

Real life video game. 😂

A man who wants to have fun crossing the overpass.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

🤨

[kira 👾 @kirawontmiss]

The TikTok ban:

[Yoko 🇯🇵 | ランダムヨーコ (石井陽子) @randomyoko]

Most of us Japanese in Japan are not even Christian, yet we say Merry Christmas to each other every year.

So… Merry Christmas 🥂

[internet hall of fame @InternetH0F]

This is an achievement of biblical proportion

[kira 👾 @kirawontmiss]

even his opponent couldn’t believe it�