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K1052 said:
Trump thinks the cops should just be able to kill people either intentionally or through gross negligence/indifference and get away with it.
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That's not very far off from current supreme court logic.

Cop makes a mistake in the law or situation, that's just a little oopsies that we can overlook.
 
Brainonska511 said:
I'm sure there is nothing Europeans will like more of in their cities that have housing crises of their own than Americans immigrating with lots of money (relative to locals) to afford those higher rents.
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I mean if I was the French I'd just build them a new town/research campus at the end of one of the RER lines northeast of the city. It'd be worth it.
 
K1052 said:
The idea that billionaires are a huge policy mistake that demands rectification really growing on me a lot these days.
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From my reading this morning, it seems that there could be some easy solutions here, including just raising marginal rates on them (apparently, the very well off are more buy-save-die than buy-borrow-die). And then close all the random estate tax BS that allows things like stepped up basis.

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Brainonska511 said:
I'm sure there is nothing Europeans will like more of in their cities that have housing crises of their own than Americans immigrating with lots of money (relative to locals) to afford those higher rents.
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Heh, that was pretty much _exactly_ my thought at this article ("goddam it, house prices are going to go even higher")

www.standard.co.uk

Meet the Americans moving to London to flee President Trump 2.0

After Trump’s re-election, Democrats are flocking to more liberal destinations — and London is high on the list
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pmv said:
Heh, that was pretty much _exactly_ my thought at this article ("goddam it, house prices are going to go even higher")

www.standard.co.uk

Meet the Americans moving to London to flee President Trump 2.0

After Trump’s re-election, Democrats are flocking to more liberal destinations — and London is high on the list
www.standard.co.uk www.standard.co.uk
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The UK is unfortunately patient zero for the "can't ever build anything anywhere now if my little corner of the world changes one iota" disease that infects the US.
 
K1052 said:
The UK is unfortunately patient zero for the "can't ever build anything anywhere now if my little corner of the world changes one iota" disease that infects the US.
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Yeah with all the violent protests that UK and France get, imagine if the RWNJs in this side of the pond behaved the same way.
 
Brainonska511 said:
Yes but they'd have to get over their hangups about immigrants.
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Most of the racist hangups are about poor and only minority immigrants, asylum seekers, etc...

We are talking doctors and scientists here. Sure some will be asian, but a ton will be white - totally different story.
 
gothuevos said:
All hail our new tech overlords.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1882042989184430332
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Much easier to have a fascist surveillance state when you have AI to monitor for malcontents. We've already been told to reject the evidence of our eyes and ears.
But yes, to hear conservatives tell it, it's always liberals doing the ol' 1984 (projection, of course, just like the grooming claims against liberals and LGBTQ+ people).
 
nakedfrog said:
Much easier to have a fascist surveillance state when you have AI to monitor for malcontents. We've already been told to reject the evidence of our eyes and ears.
But yes, to hear conservatives tell it, it's always liberals doing the ol' 1984 (projection, of course, just like the grooming claims against liberals and LGBTQ+ people).
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The $500B AI infrastructure investment makes a lot more sense now!

I'm curious if we will be given social demerits or if it's just straight to jail/camp/reeducation?
 
Trump is going to fix the housing market by demanding that interest rates go down immediately 😂 the unchanged 10-year treasury yield suggests that just maybe the market is not taking him seriously. Funny clown president.
 
repoman0 said:
Trump is going to fix the housing market by demanding that interest rates go down immediately 😂 the unchanged 10-year treasury yield suggests that just maybe the market is not taking him seriously. Funny clown president.
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Erratic economic moves will push the yields yet higher. People who do not like their 6-7% mortgages may end up considering themselves fortunate in a year or less.
 
K1052 said:
Erratic economic moves will push the yields yet higher. People who do not like their 6-7% mortgages may end up considering themselves fortunate in a year or less.
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That’s my expectation too. Certainly doesn’t seem like mortgage rates are going under 6% for the foreseeable future. Have fun with that broke Trump voters who will never own a home.
 
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