@AQuartermain@CCanuck4 I see you got the cliffnotes of the first few chapters, and are not actually curious but I will explain it with analogies. Would you find it preposterous that a maggot try to understand why your home is furnished the way it is and then correct it?
It's actually really easy to understand why rent control is popular, even though it's incredibly stupid.
For leftists it's just normal playbook anti-economics based on wishcasting and a total refusal to consider things like supply and demand. Their entire worldview boils down to "if we just change the definitions of things, those things will actually change materially." They think that making something artificially cheaper magically solves supply issues, the same way they think calling a man a woman makes him into one.
For those in the middle or to the right, it's that they are experiencing the real world struggle of having 50 million third worlders (who get priority) competing for housing with them. They just want a way, any way, to make that housing affordable without having to go to war.
The people still living with their parents or living with 5 roommates or paying $4,000/mo for rent only know how much it sucks. Most aren't ready for the reality of how this gets corrected. They don't want to be the ones kicking down doors and dragging these people onto a plane to send back to whatever mud hole they crawled from. They just want to have a house, or even an apartment.
So of course they're going to take the easy road of "oh, the government will just make it so rent is cheaper? Cool, maybe then I can move out and get my own apartment and I won't have to live in or participate in a civil war first to make that happen."
Like all temporary measures it can only fail and make things worse in the long run. But if we learned anything from the boomers it's the power of a group of people who are incredibly motivated to leave someone else holding the bag for their incredibly obvious mistakes.
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@owenbroadcast I have a very basic knowing of Greco-Roman myths but doesn't the "prophecy that has literalist and legalistic wiggle room" show up like every 2nd story?
@philliplede Hamfisting it is actually the problem that Herbert and Villenueve are running into. Play it straight. Every male with an ounce of testosterone in their body was ready to go to war when they saw the jihad start in Dune 2. Thats the point. Its that easy to follow someone like that
@ProspectsUsmnt I want the next match the US plays against them to be listed as a war crime against the Belgian people.
Playing dirty as Mexico, the whole bit
@elidourado If he just had them beat each other with sticks for 90 minutes, running around a field until half of them were left I wouldn't even bat an eye
That was embarrassing