Yep, pretty much. They’ll never issue a real fine.

Agreed. Corporations should not be allowed to own housing. It has zero benefits for the public and little to no drawbacks for the corporation.

Seriously. They act like it’s 1924 not 2024, when ~$3,000 was the equivalent of ~$55,000 today.

Gentrification: the process whereby the character of a poor urban area is changed by wealthier people moving in, improving housing, and attracting new businesses, typically displacing current inhabitants in the process.

It literally is gentrification. And yes they are NIMBYs too. It’s both. It’s the same coin.

Pretty much. Gentrification in action. They’re pricing out workers who work these jobs and then the rich people who move in pitch a fit about how there’s long waits and “no service” and how “no one wants to work anymore.” You all did this to yourselves. You chased away the workers. If you have a problem with the environment you created, perhaps you should stop doing that or go work these “great” jobs yourselves?

Good. Let’s issue warrants for all current and former presidents too as they’re all war criminals.

I hope they fine all of them trillions and jail the top level people. They shouldn’t be allowed to get away with this BS. There’s been rampant price gouging, fixing, and collusion going on in this country for a long time now across industries and it sure would be nice if someone would do something to stop it.

Right? There’s people still spouting that “all of that money from the pandemic” is somehow still sustaining the lives of thousands and thousands of people 4 years later.

Yeah that is some odd phrasing on their part.

I agree. Elections are about conning gullible and stupid people into thinking they have some say in what goes on. They don’t. We’re an oligarchy-kleptocracy and have been since at least the 1980s, if not earlier.

People think the primaries allow us to pick candidates, but do they really? Not IMO. How often do you see a random Joe or Jane from a middle of nowhere town of 200 people as one of the candidates? Hardly ever. And even if they were, would they ever get the nomination? Doubtful. The oligarchs pick the candidates for the primaries.

Even if someone honestly believes we have a democracy, we don’t at least not when it comes to presidential elections, not IMO anyways. Those who vote are voting for electors, who is, in theory, supposed to then vote for the candidate the voters voted for, but they don’t have to AFAIK (faithless electors). IMO democracy is direct, not indirect. I know there’s representative democracy (indirect), which is what we have, in theory, but I don’t agree that it’s that democratic. Especially when the oligarchs get to pick who they want to run.

Electoral politics are a sham and you can’t vote out fascists and oligarchs. They will just change the rules if the election doesn’t go the way they want. And yes, both Democrats & Republicans are fascists and run by oligarchs.