DownIsTheNewUp
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Supply issues, people locked into mortgages, zoning laws, investment firms swallowing up existing inventory. There are 4m too few units on the market.
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Supply issues, people locked into mortgages, zoning laws, investment firms swallowing up existing inventory. There are 4m too few units on the market.
Listen to the podcast.
Just listened to the podcast. I don't believe the worst is behind us. I think we are still heading towards another housing market crash due to the majority of houses being unaffordable.
As mentioned in the podcast, housing is an investment previous generations made most of their money off of. By buying low and selling high. And the housing market as is in our capitalistic society only works as long as buy low sell high can continue. That means that prices are only going to go up.
Sure they might slow down. But they will still go up. They are not going to level off or decline until there is a major reset.
I'm in the park where if you are priced off in markets to day, you will always be priced out in most of those markets. As a first time home buyer I don't ever seeing most of these markets returning to affordable for first time home buyers / starter houses.
Also with rend being so god damn high, I'll never save up enough for a down payment.
As mentioned in the podcast, housing is an investment previous generations made most of their money off of. By buying low and selling high. And the housing market as is in our capitalistic society only works as long as buy low sell high can continue. That means that prices are only going to go up.
Sure they might slow down. But they will still go up. They are not going to level off or decline until there is a major reset.
I'm in the park where if you are priced off in markets to day, you will always be priced out in most of those markets. As a first time home buyer I don't ever seeing most of these markets returning to affordable for first time home buyers / starter houses.
Also with rend being so god damn high, I'll never save up enough for a down payment.
ayayrawn
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Who could have guessed this one either
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Jeffrey Epstein said Bill Clinton 'likes them young,' accuser testified in newly unsealed deposition
Jeffrey Epstein told one of his victims that Bill Clinton likes girls "young," according to a newly unsealed deposition.
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Why Parents Struggle So Much in the World’s Richest Country — The Atlantic
Raising kids shouldn’t be this hard.
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Jan
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In 2024, what’s the way forward? | Bernie Sanders
In these difficult times, it is easy to fall victim to despair and cynicism. We have no alternative but to stand and fight
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Hemotep
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Dean Phillips Offers Dark Quip After Zero Voters Turn Out for Campaign Event
Brian Snyder/ReutersRep. Dean Phillips (D-MN) gave a somber quote Tuesday after he failed to attract a single would-be voter to his campaign event in Manchester, New Hampshire, reportedly telling journalists, “Sometimes if you build it, they don’t come.” The doomed event, titled “Government...
This makes me remember when Jeb Bush came to campus in Knoxville and no students would stop to talk to him. It was pretty funny to watch from the window as he ran around looking like a pissed off dork.
Republican Officials Openly Insult Women Nearly Killed by Abortion Bans — Slate
Red states would rather let a patient die than let her terminate a dangerous pregnancy. And they’re barely pretending otherwise.
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Chris Christie Drops Out of GOP Presidential Race — The Wall Street Journal
The former New Jersey governor focused his campaign on criticizing front-runner Trump. His exit is seen as a boost for Haley.
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avecigrec
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Chris Christie Drops Out of GOP Presidential Race — The Wall Street Journal
The former New Jersey governor focused his campaign on criticizing front-runner Trump. His exit is seen as a boost for Haley.
This one I did not expect.
yukbon
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that's terrible news, if there was one dude who absolutely loved standing up to trump and calling him a dumb bully to his face, it was christie. none of the others have anything close to his gumption, which isn't saying much, but there you have itChris Christie Drops Out of GOP Presidential Race — The Wall Street Journal
The former New Jersey governor focused his campaign on criticizing front-runner Trump. His exit is seen as a boost for Haley.
ayayrawn
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Hearings to begin at The Hague in case claiming Israel’s Gaza war is genocide
International Court of Justice will hear complaint brought by South Africa, which is asking for urgent ‘provisional measures’
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ayayrawn
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Maybe enabling civilian massacres isn't the best way to secure an election.
Biden trails Trump by 8 points in Michigan: Poll
President Biden is trailing former President Trump by 8 percentage points in the battleground state of Michigan, according to a new poll. The latest Michigan poll found that while neither of the fr…
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yukbon
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Ehhhh, I get the feeling that these particular numbers are more about folks supporting Trump than abandoning Biden because of Israel/Gaza. Very few people are like, enthusiastically pro-Biden. It's mostly "well, he's not Trump and he's not worse than Trump, so, yeah, I'm 'pro-Biden'."Maybe enabling civilian massacres isn't the best way to secure an election.
Biden trails Trump by 8 points in Michigan: Poll
President Biden is trailing former President Trump by 8 percentage points in the battleground state of Michigan, according to a new poll. The latest Michigan poll found that while neither of the fr…thehill.com
Also the idea that Trump -- and let's be honest, if it isn't Biden, it'll be Trump, there's no realistic third path here -- is going to be any better in regard to Gaza is, to be kind, delightfully hopeful. Dude doesn't give a shit about people in the room with him that have worked for him for decades, he's not going to care more for brown arab strangers on the other side of the world whose existance is completely theoretical to him.
Bull Shannon
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Snopes is still pinning down confirmation, but we've got Pence signing shells in Israel. Biden is unforgivable. Trump would be far, far worse.
Real Photograph of Mike Pence Signing an Artillery Shell in Israel?
The former U.S. vice president visited Israel’s border with Lebanon in January 2024.
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yukbon
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I mean, not to put too fine a point on it: Trump is the reason the Hamas attack was possible and happened.
If anyone think things are going to be better by not voting for Biden, buddy, good fucking luck.
ayayrawn
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Michigan has one of the highest Arab and muslim populations in the country. I absolutely think that Joe's disregard for them is enough to cost him in the state. The majority aren't necessarily going to switch to Trump - it's extremely easy to hate them both - they're just going to stay home.
The Hamas attack was possible because the Israeli government propped them up with money through Qatar to weaken the PLO for decades. It happened because Netanyahu saw a (temporary) way out of the corruption charges he was weeks away from getting prison time for. These things were well underway without Trump being involved.
ayayrawn
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Not attacking anyone here, this is just my two cents, but I think it should be extremely easy to hate Trump (like I'm sure everyone here does) and acknowledge that Biden's position on Israel/Palestine has been, and is currently , a catastrophic foreign policy and public relations failure. He's begun trailing in 6 battleground states since October. We are long past the break glass in case of emergency stage. That he, and the democratic party at large, not only exhibit no remorse, but a complete indifference to changing course at this stage is genuinely astounding.
Young people don't give a shit about the minutiea about how the economy is doing well; they see Biden exploiting every loophole and power he can to send more of their tax dollars to a state that has killed 30,000 civilians and counting, and then witness that carnage as it happens on the internet. All while still being drowned in student loans, still not having health care, and not being able to afford groceries.
It's easy to say omg, people are so dumb for supporting Trump, what is the world coming to. The reality is that Biden isn't doing half as well as he needs to be doing as a president at this point in time. Those failures are going to make people sit out, explore other options, or pick whatever's gonna blow things up the fastest so we can just start over.
Young people don't give a shit about the minutiea about how the economy is doing well; they see Biden exploiting every loophole and power he can to send more of their tax dollars to a state that has killed 30,000 civilians and counting, and then witness that carnage as it happens on the internet. All while still being drowned in student loans, still not having health care, and not being able to afford groceries.
It's easy to say omg, people are so dumb for supporting Trump, what is the world coming to. The reality is that Biden isn't doing half as well as he needs to be doing as a president at this point in time. Those failures are going to make people sit out, explore other options, or pick whatever's gonna blow things up the fastest so we can just start over.
Hemotep
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As much as I hate the cynicism that thinks we should burn this all to ground (especially because it assumes anyone will make it out the other side) I think this is an apt description of how many young people think about things right now. And it's not surprising that people feel this way. The biggest problem is just that when things blow up a lot of innocent people get hurt and there's no guarantee that things will be any better on the other side if there even is another side.
Biden and the Democratic party are willfully ignorant and the absolutely wrong people for this dangerous moment in history. And Trump and the Republican party are the dangerous moment personified in the shape of evil willing to fuck everyone over so that they can feel some pleasure in watching someone else suffer. If I could jettison both parties into the sun I wouldn't have the slightest hesitation to hit that button.