rent control and rent freezes' main purpose is to benefit incumbent renters at the expense of everybody else, including future renters you can make those arguments, i wish people were more explicit about that trade-off

the worst part about Destiny going EoS and Bungie probably getting dissolved soon is probably the raid team getting scattered to the winds there is nothing else in any game that comes anywhere close to what they pulled off with Destiny raids and it cannot be replicated without a Destiny-size game

apparently Maine didn't send anybody to the 250th Anniversary Fair so instead we just get the official State of Maine cuck chairs

HEARTWARMING: the White House social media guy posted his Destiny stats on main and proved he's a tourist with no motion

it's spreading

i wanna know what it's like in the quarterly Shinra shareholder meetings "why are we spending three hundred million gil a month developing a barracuda robot made out of chainsaws?"

i do think this is actually the perfect response insofar as it illustrates how these dorks actually just fantasize about getting to be the bullies in high school

is there a more insane career fall-off than Jonathan Majors going from "the next Thanos" to starring in Daily Wire slop?

this is my personal 9/11

"the President can categorically strip the legal rights of immigrants from specific countries he doesn't like" sounds like a bad liberal parody of a right-wing SCOTUS decision and yet what are you supposed to call this except ethnic cleansing?

gonna join DSA and propose "Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for the Imperial Core" but it's just a copy of Abundance translated into internet communist jargon

i wonder what race neutral policy stance trump was expressing when he accused haitian immigrants of eating the pets of their neighbors

Sam Alito: It is the worst kind of discrimination to create majority-minority congressional districts and so we are going to kill the Voting Rights Act. Also Sam Alito: There is nothing we can do if the president cancels legal status because he thinks the United States is a white country.

wow this socialism thing is spreading across party lines faster than i thought

apparently a B2 flew overhead real low here in Arlington a few hours ago does anyone know wtf that was about i thought a plane was crashing or some shit lmao

implying you lost to a different Jewish guy because of antisemitism is very funny

it's always funny whenever people run the "Jews have no place in the Democratic Party anymore" routine when there are more black Republicans in Congress than Jewish Republicans

as much as i don't like the excessive handwringing about the "future of the Democratic Party" i should be clear that the Chevalier lady is crazy and barring any radical changes i hope she is in office for as little time as possible lol

you know there's a lot more air outside than inside, right? like *a lot* more

the fundamental double standard in American politics is that any given Democrat is supposed to have an opinion on Darializa Chevalier but no Republican will ever be pressed on Randy Fine, Brandon Gill, or Andy Ogles

in 2050 Republicans will be describing AOC and Zohran Mamdani as reasonable Democrats compared to the crazy Marxists we have nowadays

nothing Taco Bell has released since has captured my spirit and soul like the Crispy Chicken Taco i hope whoever cooked that one up in the R&D labs is getting royalties

i was assured by right wingers that supporting the GOP was the obvious choice for lowering housing costs then Trump decided to deport all the homebuilders and is now refusing to sign a bipartisan housing bill

"humiliating submission" Mr. Senator i know what word you want to use

summer class is over with so now i have to find a way to stay productive without spending time on campus every day

my school is doing campus tours and stuff this week and i've concluded it should be illegal to feel this old at 24

perhaps this is too reddit atheist brained of me but Chevalier being a recent convert to Islam might actually be the biggest red flag for me barring family reasons or some crazy traumatic shit, being an adult religious convert always raises my eyebrows

at risk of ruffling some feathers i think SpaceX losing ~a trillion in market cap since its debut is a pretty good example of why aggressive wealth taxes on purely financial assets aren't the smartest idea

right-wing "intellectuals" like Rufo are struggling rn because their whole thesis that mass immigration is a plot to bring about Sharia communism fails in the face of overwhelming evidence that socialist candidates are most popular among white libs the Great Replacement is preventing socialism!

there's this meme idea my high school friends kicked around once where votes should be reverse-weighted by age now i'm sure some actual political science people can tell me why that's stupid and dumb but stuff like this reminds me of it

in general there's a lot of silliness among moderates both left and right caused by a futile struggle against the nationalization of politics sorry guys, everybody's online now and the internet doesn't give a fuck about zip codes

Trump cancelling the housing bill to throw another temper tantrum about the SAVE Act is a perfect microcosm of everything wrong with the argument for why abundance wonks should work with the GOP

the worst part about this is the fact that everyone in the entire country cares more about local NYC politics than their own city because every media company lives there

i'm not enthused about self-proclaimed socialists winning elections but the obvious answer is that voters are looking for angrier candidates which is correlated with being far-left if moderate candidates want to win these primaries they gotta start promising to put Trump and Elon in the contraption

Whenever I hear someone claiming that USAID was evil from a leftist perspective, I hear someone saying “yes, millions ARE dying because Musk and Trump killed USAID, but at least they’ll die free of American imperialism.” Notably it is never the people saying this who are dying.

i forgot FF7 has both crossdressing and bestiality as major plot points in its first act what were game devs smoking in the 90s man

"the President is secretly getting advanced medicine from pharmaceutical companies" is one of those things that would sound like a crazy conspiracy theory under anybody but Trump

watching UK politics continue down the luxury communism for pensioners path makes me think retirement spending might be a kind of Mass Effect Reaper-esque Great Filter for developed economies

so Fauci should sue for defamation now, right?

can't stress enough how goofy it is to have National Guard walking around threatening to arrest anybody who gets too close to one of DC's biggest tourist attractions in the middle of the summer

i don't follow British politics at all in the slightest but to the very passive observer it seems like Brexit happened and then they spent a decade getting a new Prime Minister every year who promised to ban the internet even harder than the last one

guys are we 100% sure turning the reflecting pool into a swampy mess in the heart of a faltering empire struggling under the strain of self-inflicted malaise isn't an elaborate marketing campaign for the next From Software game?

add another one to the "all of this is revenge for Nixon" pile

to understand this you need to understand that for decades the American right has said that socialism is when the government does stuff, and now a significant portion of people who want the government to do stuff call themselves socialist for many people Obamacare *is* socialism

I HAVE A BATTALION SIZED ELEMENT OF SUPER MUTANTS IN FRONT OF THE LINCOLN MEMORIAL, THEY'RE PUTTING BARRELS OF FEV IN THE REFLECTING POOL

imagine being a National Guard guy from Illinois or wherever and being shipped off to stand around in full gear in the DC summer to protect a pool

imagining the timeline where the National Guard end up Kent State-ing someone over the algae pool and how that would be explained in future history textbooks

the leopards claim another victim

I find myself increasingly frustrated with the naked lack of financial literacy in modern pop criticism, especially in gaming. You cannot simultaneously believe that it is (1) baffling Microsoft would close studios that make niche, off-the-wall games and (2) games are too expensive.

is Cuba finally doing the China strat or am i getting clickbaited