FakeNewsForDogs

That time of year again when the anhedonia starts creeping up I guess. Wahoo.

How about this one from wsj: “World Court Rejects Demand for Gaza Cease-Fire” That’s their main (only?) article about the ruling. Lol.

Honestly the main perk of the job for this one.

There was a socialist running in that UAW election. Think he probably got about a dozen votes, but I was happy to at least see that option on the ballot. Fain is definitely an improvement over the old guard at least.

Lol. I had the exact same thought. I finally started watching one of his videos yesterday after however many months of people referencing his analysis on here. After five minutes I looked at the length and was shocked to see he would be continuing for over an hour. Good god. Seemed… informative, but I promptly closed that window. No thank you, Alexander.

Much appreciation for anyone here with the time and attention span to watch these and sum them up for the rest of us. Truly a service.

Looks like a pretty good list from Vonnegut there. Just wanted to add that I believe Vincent bevin’s new book covers the Arab spring too, as an example of leaderless movements being co-opted or steered away from revolutionary paths, which I gather the book is largely about. I have not read it but plan to because Jakarta method was so good. It’s called “if we burn” I think.

Pretty much my attitude on the subject as well.

It was the silver legion I think. Lol. Personally, I assume they were successful, and all the mods have been compromised. They’re just biding their time now. Waiting for the perfect moment to strike and ruin us all.

Might be going to a gathering of the local anprims this weekend. If you never hear from me again it’s either because I decided to join them and forsake all technology and civilization, or because I simply froze to death listening to a bluegrass band play outdoors in single digit temps.

I’m sure that’s true. I mainly just wanted to point out that this problem does intersect with policies that fuel real estate asset inflation, and that there incentives beyond collection of actual rent that are driving this bullshit. And I would also guess that even if vacancy rates are low, they are probably higher relative to the demand than is historically normal.

As I understand it (not perfectly by any means) I think for some of them the rent is secondary. They are instead simply banking on leveraging the “infinitely increasing” asset value of the property itself.

Hence so many vacant but very expensive properties. They can’t lower the rent because doing so would be acknowledging that maybe the property’s not actually worth what it says on paper.

And it’s not a bad bet honestly, because Washington knows that’s what our joke of an economy runs on now, and it would be financial suicide to let the bubble deflate at this point.

All the same, you have to imagine that sky high rent meaning no rent at all for a certain threshold of housing volume is not sustainable for long.

This is kind of how I always thought about it too. Like it’s a jokey epithet for people with an immature, unsophisticated, lifestylist sort of vaguely “anarchist” politics. Was very confused to come in here and see serious political discussion about bedtimes.