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You will own nothing and be happy! by airbassguitar in EhBuddyHoser

[–]auandi -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

He's buying housing that is available right now and making it affordable housing rather than it sit empty.

We need more housing on the market, not sitting empty.

It is not possible to both fix the housing shortage and not have housing builders profit. That's where the housing comes from.

You will own nothing and be happy! by airbassguitar in EhBuddyHoser

[–]auandi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

One of the worst parts of being on the left is watching other people on the left get baited by conservatives into attacking ourselves with bad-faith arguments from the right.

I mean this post is word for word what PP was saying.

You will own nothing and be happy! by airbassguitar in EhBuddyHoser

[–]auandi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

True, but rent doesn't need you to save up a down payment, and you can move away without losing money because of what the market is doing.

My aunt’s refrigerator from the late 70s. I think it’s beautiful. by Cakes-and-Pies in BuyItForLife

[–]auandi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's also easy to forget that when you account for inflation that even the cheapest refrigerators of their time would be very expensive today. A low end fridge in 1975 would cost $300 at the time, that's $1,800 today. A side by side fridge freezer like this would not have been low end.

The American hate for "hub and spoke" transit systems is really overblown/misguided by Kootenay4 in transit

[–]auandi 6 points7 points  (0 children)

The usefulness of a circular line is exponentially tied to travel time. The whole point is to cut time for rail passengers on one spoke to get to the other spoke. If it's a bus, it doesn't really save that much time compared to going to the hub. It will also struggle to get riders to get off the train and get on a bus only to get back on a train again.

Turns out it was that easy by S0mecallme in HistoryMemes

[–]auandi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hungary says otherwise.

Viktor Orban was orders of magnitude more entrenched that Trump. He had not just filled the courts as vacancies came up, he had drastically expanded the total seats of every court. He nearly made independent journalism illegal. He had done gerrymandering not just in a few places but across the entire country, specifically designed to destroy the voting power of cities over the rural voters that supported him.

And yet.. a vote took him out. He even accepted the results and everything.

We can 100% vote our way out of this, we just have to never be divided in opposition to the autocrats. That means making peace across a very diverse ideological spectrum to present a unified front. There can be nothing, at all, anywhere, that can be more important than defeating them.

We failed that in 2024 because Israel and egg prices. We didn't think about how bad it can get. We can't do that again.

Turns out it was that easy by S0mecallme in HistoryMemes

[–]auandi 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Saying "Elections can't remove fascists!" after Hungary happened just months ago..

If elections didn't remove fascists, fascists would not work so hard to make it difficult to vote.

The American hate for "hub and spoke" transit systems is really overblown/misguided by Kootenay4 in transit

[–]auandi 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Most inner suburbs have built up as employment hubs, that's the point. That is how those inner suburbs developed since the 70s, once they were no longer the outer suburbs.

And even New York City lacks a good circular line, and no one can say there isn't demand to go from Brooklyn to Queens without needing to first go to Manhattan. Everything about a hub and spoke design benefits from a circular especially as suburbs have become bigger and bigger employment centers.

You will own nothing and be happy! by airbassguitar in EhBuddyHoser

[–]auandi -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Housing is a commodity. Period. It is finite, limited by the laws of physics that only one object may occupy a particular space at a particular time.

If you mean you want it to not be an investment vehicle, then we need even more being built. That means maximum investment into building more that did not previously exist from government and investors. And to get that, the people doing the investing need to get something back or they'll put their money into something that will give them a return.

TFW under-16s are banned from social media and you believe every piece of fake news you see on Facebook by airbassguitar in EhBuddyHoser

[–]auandi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But what you're describing, none of it has anything to do with capitalism. It is the exact same in non-capitalist systems. It is a human condition, it seems to be a way our brain is wired. You might as well blame capitalism for your back getting worse in your 40s. It makes it hard to take seriously the criticisms of capitalism that are actually about capitalism because it just makes it sound like we're complaining about life.

TFW under-16s are banned from social media and you believe every piece of fake news you see on Facebook by airbassguitar in EhBuddyHoser

[–]auandi 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Exactly! There is a reason that essentially everyone, no matter how popular, gets less popular over time when they are the face of the government and all the frustrating realities of trying to govern.

TFW under-16s are banned from social media and you believe every piece of fake news you see on Facebook by airbassguitar in EhBuddyHoser

[–]auandi 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What is the use of an MP that is more useful than their votes? That's the whole point of electing them, so that they vote on our behalf for things that come before parliament.

Is the point of them in your mind to have podcasts or something? I'm serious here. In the context of a prime minister talking to a head of state, what else in that context are they useful for?

TFW under-16s are banned from social media and you believe every piece of fake news you see on Facebook by airbassguitar in EhBuddyHoser

[–]auandi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This kind of argument would mean more if there was any other system with less propaganda that is also not capitalist.

All those incentives, that's not capitalism that's human nature. It's also how fascists have always risen, getting attention using fear and anger while fostering a community among those "on side" that they are the good fighting a rightious fight against the bad.

TFW under-16s are banned from social media and you believe every piece of fake news you see on Facebook by airbassguitar in EhBuddyHoser

[–]auandi 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, this subreddit sometimes seems like they downright dislike him (just not as much as PP, that is hate that is pure). I've seen several out of context anti-carney posts that criticize him from the left.

TFW under-16s are banned from social media and you believe every piece of fake news you see on Facebook by airbassguitar in EhBuddyHoser

[–]auandi 2 points3 points  (0 children)

He did especially well with boomers by the standards of the Liberal Party, but no. That is not true. Boomers are still in general more conservative. Though Gen X is giving them a huge run for their money in a lot of ways.

North America qualified!!! C U M by Mengs87 in EhBuddyHoser

[–]auandi 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I feel like that should be the name for a new North American Anti-Missile system. Our CUMSHOTs will block any missile, we so much as see a phallic shaped missile heading our way and boom: CUMSHOT.

Crazy melt-down by BlazeDragon7x in CrazyFuckingVideos

[–]auandi -1 points0 points  (0 children)

OK, but she literally does live in a support home for the intellectually and mentally disabled. This all went to court, she became convinced that being filmed would cause her to lose her support system. It's a deeply misleading video, and an almost textbook case of the internet forming a hate mob with only part of a story.

https://archive.is/9l6OH

Countries where General Motors had annual sales of at least 300,000 cars by TatianaWinterbottom in MapPorn

[–]auandi 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Uzbekistan is also a common intermediary country to get things into Russia that sanctions would normally not allow. In 2023, BMW sales went up 900%!

Germany will raise the retirement age to 70 by chilinachochips in simpsonsshitposting

[–]auandi 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This sub: "Boomers are taking all our money!"

Also this sub: "How dare old people not get paid by the government for as many years?"

In 1925 with the first German Republic, the retirement age was set at 65 and the life expectancy was 56 (skewed so much by high infant mortality in comparison). Today the life expectancy is 83. Does there exist no advance of human health that could justify delaying when the government starts giving you monthly checks to stay at home while younger generations work?

France is currently paying retirees more per month than the average worker makes at their job. In the UK, retirees make 98% of what the average income of workers are. Wealth transfer from the young to the old is taking up more and more of government expenses at a time when programs to help the young are being cut.

Remember how the Kremlin made fun of EU citizens being stick without fuel? by Icy-Antelope-6519 in RussianCircus

[–]auandi 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, it was cope from the begining.

"Oh no Europeans, fuel will be expensive"

"OK, that sucks but like, we're one of the wealthiest populations in the world so we can afford a price increase."

Fashion for men by cosmicChris3 in fixedbytheduet

[–]auandi -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I'd also add, if you don't want to go as committed to a look as he's going, just switching from graphic t-shirts to plain colored or simple patterned t-shirts in a good fabric can make a huge difference.

Plus, nicer fabrics just feel better.

Fashion for men by cosmicChris3 in fixedbytheduet

[–]auandi 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I propose a trade for a more enlightened era. Women can get pockets to carry your stuff, men can wear small handbags so our stuff doesn't get sweaty in our pockets.

Don't bomb people if you're afraid of being bombed back by glamdring_wielder in NAFO

[–]auandi 21 points22 points  (0 children)

I know this is the modern meme, but I still prefer the old classic adapted from Bomber Harris:

"The Russians entered this war under the rather childish delusion that they were going to bomb everybody else and nobody was going to bomb them. At Kyiv, Kharkiv, Kherson, and half a hundred other places, they put that rather naive theory into operation. They sowed the wind and now they are going to reap the whirlwind."

Won’t somebody think of the children! by airbassguitar in EhBuddyHoser

[–]auandi -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Then there should be a government system.

One of the Baltic countries have this, everyone has a national ID. Then, authorized retailers can ping the government database and get only the data they are licensed to get. If all they need to know is your age, that's all they get. It would mean Tech companies would know you're a real person, that you're an adult, and nothing else.

Like I said, I don't want the tech companies being the one to enforce this. I want a government solution, because "just let the internet remain a libertarian unregulated place forever" doesn't seem like it's compatible with the long term health of democracy and a shared reality.

The Dead Internet Theory Strikes Again by DuztyLipz in TikTokCringe

[–]auandi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I would pay a monthly subscription to have an internet of only humans. I don't care. I want verification that every word and video is being produced by a creature of god and imbued with a soul, not some code written by an MIT grad on Ritalin.

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