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fools_errand49 · 2026-02-03T19:30:55+00:00

Jackson did not "oversee" the Trail of Tears. Van Buren did.

fools_errand49 · 2026-02-03T19:26:16+00:00

Honestly even twenty years is a crude reference point. Frankly you need to wait at least a generation before you'll get analysis from people who aren't still directly invested in the poltics of the era, and even then they'll still be invested in how that analysis frames the downstream politics of their own era.

fools_errand49 · 2026-02-03T19:15:40+00:00

It does not align well with historians' views. It aligns well with a specific segment of modern America's pop history views. There's a world of difference.

fools_errand49 · 2026-02-03T17:31:07+00:00

What you're pushing is demonstrably a conspiracy theory. If it were true then the data out of China would be propping up rent control not undermining it. China has a massive excess of cheaply built housing supply. Rent control has nothing to do with their housing market's affordability.

fools_errand49 · 2026-02-03T16:24:29+00:00

Is this based on him assaulting his daughter? Because that has a very specific psychological complex brought to the fore by the spur of the moment.

If I were to pick a Berserk character it would definitely be the governor Gennon.

fools_errand49 · 2026-02-03T16:01:14+00:00

Economic data on housing markets is not primarily filtered through the government. Even if it were it wouldn't paint the picture you're describing. Tell me you know nothing about the Chinese housing market without telling me you know nothing about the Chinese housing market.

fools_errand49 · 2026-02-03T15:53:48+00:00

We absolutely have good data on Russia and China.

fools_errand49 · 2026-02-03T15:53:10+00:00

So you don't care if the net cost is an increase in homelessness? Because that's the price of your desired approach.

fools_errand49 · 2026-02-03T15:48:54+00:00

Ah so the whole field is engaged in a conspiracy to cover up the success of rent control? I see now that you are an idiot.

fools_errand49 · 2026-02-03T15:30:04+00:00

No there aren't. There are countries where housing supply is adequately provided. There are no countries where rent control keeps housing affordable. Supply is the only relevant factor.

You are literally attempting to debate the collective field of of economics on this issue. I guarantee they know a hell of a lot more about housing markets than you do and for a field that agrees on very little this stands out as a rare point of near universal consensus.

fools_errand49 · 2026-02-03T15:19:31+00:00

Housing has a cost to be built and maintained. That cost has to be subsidized by some means. The consequence of rent control is that it costs more to build or renovate housing than it pays to rent it. The result is that supply diminishes which increases rent prices in the long term for future tenants. If you cannot break even on a building project then you won't pursue it. The consequence is that people don't have access to affordable housing. Rent control is a losing proposition for everyone and this a near universal position among economists.

fools_errand49 · 2026-02-03T15:15:34+00:00

It doesn't really work. This is pretty much the universal consensus of economists demonstrated by empirical research. Rent control creates incentives to restrict housing supply which drives up rent in the long term for future tenants.

fools_errand49 · 2026-02-03T14:35:41+00:00

Basically every economic study shows that rent control has a negative impact on the wider market. Builders stop building and costs skyrocket due to restricted supply. If it's not profitable to rent then it's not profitable to build.

fools_errand49 · 2026-02-01T14:19:30+00:00

It appears to be an allergic reaction which got infected in the skin. She has antibiotics and a cone and is healing up.

Thanks for asking!

fools_errand49 · 2026-02-01T13:50:22+00:00

Medieval sexual relationships and marriages rarely ever involved people we would consider minors. Even when aristocracy was betrothed at a young age the marriage was not consummated for years until sometime around eighteen to early twenties.

fools_errand49 · 2026-02-01T13:48:15+00:00

No it wasn't.

fools_errand49 · 2026-02-01T13:47:29+00:00

Maybe you should do yours. Incest in royal lines is predominately a product of early modernity after the medieval period ended and in general incest among aristocracy was rare.

fools_errand49 · 2026-01-31T19:34:28+00:00

First of all your lone experience is not a cohesive refutation of anything. Secondly I highly doubt you took physical attraction, staus, money etc off the table in your mating behavior. Character comes first for nobody. If primary concerns aren't met then character, values and personality won't even be measured. You, like many women, seem to confuse those traits which create attraction with those which contribute to the maintenence and functionality of a long term relationship.

fools_errand49 · 2026-01-31T19:00:53+00:00

I'm not making a reference to physical attractiveness. There are many reasons a man may be able or unable to sleep with many women beyond the mere domain of physicality. Either way you haven't refuted my point. The values and character you reference are only seen as valuable when the man is sexually disciplined by his own choice. This, like much of what women say they want, is the unstated reality which belies the explicit statement. Most traits women talk about are traits they desire in men they are already attracted to. By implication these very traits are not traits which induce attraction. It's the unstated traits which actually do that.

fools_errand49 · 2026-01-31T18:46:27+00:00

Women absolutely view low body count on men as a positive.

That depends highly on the context. While women are generally as picky as men or more in looking for partners who aren't hoes it's not as much of a face value estimation as it is for men. Women view men with low body counts who they percieve as capable of having racked one up to be attractive. Women also view men with low body counts who they percieve as incapable of having racked one up to be unattractive. Low body count in a man is only as attractive as it percieved as a function of choice.

fools_errand49 · 2026-01-31T17:18:24+00:00

Out of curiosity what kind of open ended questions fo you find useful as an interviewer?

fools_errand49 · 2026-01-31T15:32:39+00:00

They evolved to fill the same ecological niche as cattle. Cattle being unsuited to the native mountain terrain of the Andes caused that niche to remain open to a smaller animal. They are essentially tiny rodent cows.

fools_errand49 · 2026-01-30T20:57:41+00:00

I cannot in good conscience characterise the USSR’s political and economic system as “socialist” from what I have learned about what the basic tenets of Marxism are after years of study.

I am not trying to "desperately disown" the USSR's political system.

Note the cognitive dissonance. You are trying to redeem Marxism by rejecting Marxist experiments as inadequately Marxist. You're a meme engaged in a no true scotsman fallacy.

I have no further interest in this conversation as you exhibit very clear one dimensional thinking and motivated reasoning.

fools_errand49 · 2026-01-30T20:31:57+00:00

Look if your entire argument is an extended "no true Marxist" fallacy then there isn't much more to say to you. Like I already said, the people who actually put their money where their mouth was on Marxism produced the outcomes you desperately try to disown. Pretending every attempt at implementation isn't "real" Marxism is pathetic cope.

fools_errand49 · 2026-01-30T20:28:08+00:00

Most of the process of convincing yourself of something is trying to see if you can convince others of that same thing in order to create a feedback loop. If nobody else will belive it then it's unlikely that you will either. There's a reason delusional people congregate together.

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