This is the correct policy approach to housing btw. It’s completely unsustainable for housing to be a constantly appreciating asset when it is also a basic human need.
Words can not describe how dumb it is that yall think Black people should leave the blackest region in America to live under every group in the sun and be the lowest priority among them instead of consolidating ourselves in one place and building among ourselves
This is like a massive, stinging slap in the face of every self-righteous proponent of the free-market economy who works tirelessly to brainwash the entire planet into believing that limited government intervention is inherently good, that state regulation is evil, and that prices will always magically find their true, natural value.
If the state does not decisively intervene to stop corrupt oligarchs, private equity firms, and global investment giants from buying up every single affordable residential home, real estate prices will never find a value that respects basic human dignity, local communities, or the working class. Instead, they will only ever find a highly inflated, artificial value that strictly protects the greedy corporate interests, profit margins, and portfolios of multi-billion-dollar venture capitalists.
Socialism works and will always work. Even the most ruthless capitalists on Wall Street still desperately lobby for massive government tax cuts, multi-billion-dollar state bailouts, favorable regulatory loopholes, protectionist trade tariffs, and direct central bank interventions, which is basically nothing but a highly customized, tax-funded communist manifesto designed exclusively for the rich, the powerful, and the politically connected.
I turned 18 in 2011. Rent was $425. After work I’d go to the mall with friends and get a whole new outfit for $40. We’d go out that night, drinks were $3 and whole meals were like $7. Wake up next morning & get brunch WITH DRINKS for less than $15. Life is hell now.
Russia’s banned from the World Cup & Olympics. The US is hosting both while openly cheating, facilitating genocide, kidnapping and murdering the leaders of sovereign states and murdering fisherman in boats and posting the snuff films on the official White House account.
The word "slavery" is too small for what happened.
People were hunted, chained, branded, raped, tortured, sold, and worked to death. Families disappeared. Languages, names, and traditions were stripped away.
It was one of history's greatest crimes against humanity.
"Rape followed by the murder of Vietnamese women was so common that US soldiers had a special term for it: double veteran."
Fuck July 4th and fuck America
History like this teaches us there is no peaceful solution. You cannot protest or march your way out of bondage. Respect to those handling the job underground — from hackers to the field guys. One by one, we’ll take them down.