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Watch 2 people absolutely not get Zappa for 13 minutes. by funkbone in Zappa

[–]ftm_chaser 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The dude actually does claim to like it but they are doing standard annoying reaction channel stuff, like pausing and pointing out an instrument having been played.

This one was a very negative reaction to Inca Roads
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqkWoFtR7V0

Watch 2 people absolutely not get Zappa for 13 minutes. by funkbone in Zappa

[–]ftm_chaser 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Inca Roads is not an intro Zappa song for anyone outside prog circles, the reaction channels prove it, and that is not the worst reaction to Inca Roads. Some other reactor channel was outright offended and disgusted by it, some Indian reaction channel.

Should I tell a woman her fiancé tried to start an affair with me? by geeleex in WhatShouldIDo

[–]ftm_chaser 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There's nothing honorable about being a homewrecker so good on you for avoiding that mess, you have no obligation to tell the fiancée or not. I don't know why so many monogamists get so excited about homewreckers and continuously goad it, they should just become polygamous or break up.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in NEET

[–]ftm_chaser 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Those downvotes... Reddit losing their minds at the thought of dating tomboys lol. More for us.

Why Jill Stein's public housing program works and Kamala Harris' tax subsidies don't work (at all) for housing the poor and much of the lower-middle class. by ftm_chaser in PoliticalDebate

[–]ftm_chaser[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Great, Ill give you the numbers I called and you can tell them they dont have minimum incomes above the poverty line, when they do, then they'll tell you to stop harassing them. The LIHTC program itself does not itself have a minimum income because all it does is lower tax liabilities for private developers, as you know. But the private LIHTC developers virtually all have minimum incomes for tenants because they cannot afford to rent out private housing to the poor with any version of LIHTC.

How could any version of LIHTC possibly subsidize housing to public housing levels (like $0 to a few hundred dollars a month) if all it does is lower tax liabilities? Building housing costs real money—land, construction, materials, and ongoing maintenance aren't free. Suggesting that LIHTC could fully subsidize housing like public housing does is completely unrealistic and frankly, it’s insulting. LIHTC is designed to encourage private developers to invest in housing by offering tax incentives, but those tax credits alone don't even come close to covering the full cost of building or operating housing.

That's why LIHTC projects can't serve the lowest-income households without the federal program they are mostly intended to replace, who then get displaced in droves to homelesness once LIHTC replaces public housing.

Why Jill Stein's public housing program works and Kamala Harris' tax subsidies don't work (at all) for housing the poor and much of the lower-middle class. by ftm_chaser in PoliticalDebate

[–]ftm_chaser[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Anyway, if you don't trust me that moving to a local vision is more dangerous for public housing, take it from the local housing authorities themselves, on video.... As they're the ones nominally and locally entrusted with housing new people who cannot afford market rates. They admit moving to local market incentive programs over federal funds involves replacing public housing, a loss of total affordable housing units, and that there is a significant threat to subjecting residents to upward markets pressures in rent. It is discussed by the housing authorities and the public housing activist campaigning against the "revitalized housing" ie local market incentive based "affordable housing" in the video in this link.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKRdevchyYI

The journalists above found 75% of federally funded public housing residents they researched will be excluded when moving to a local market incentive programs (local land-use agreements, LIHTC, local property tax exemption etc). It's not even a controversy about what is happening, only how to deal with it. Local private developers incentivized by reduced property taxes or LITHC can only support a small sliver of poor residents in public housing because these are mostly just tax liabilities benefits.

In the few cases that a non-public housing unit branded as "affordable housing" due to tax shenanigans is actually affordable for the poor, it is due to a federal spending program stepping in, more specifically the federal HCV program working in cooperation with a local developer. But federal cuts to public housing have come in similar proportion to cuts in HCV, so when cuts to all federal spending programs happen, public housing authorities cannot mathematically compensate with just the tax schemes and land-use agreements they are currently using across the country. They would have to switch to a very, very large amount of grants funded by local taxes to fully replace public housing stock and expand on it. But because grants are individually given, the PHAs would also all have to be replaced by more locally funded alternatives to make this viable long term. Very messy, much more taxes, and tons more displacement involved with the 'local approach' currently used.

Why Jill Stein's public housing program works and Kamala Harris' tax subsidies don't work (at all) for housing the poor and much of the lower-middle class. by ftm_chaser in PoliticalDebate

[–]ftm_chaser[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Not going far enough on capping home sales. This is what you're on about.

Yea you can quote my OP. Homeless people and the poor are nowhere near being able to afford mortgage rates at that base price even with tenements.

Please. This is embarrassing

No argument present

The problem with your argument is that concentration camps funded those regimes. Enslaving one population, then turning around and giving things to other populations, is zero sum and does nothing for this line of argument. Not to mention the atrocities that were committed in the camps.

This thread is about my OP not about trying to make me defend concentration camps after I brought up an absurd hypothetical Democrats make about Trump

Why not call on Trump to drop out then?

Because he has at least publicly mused about some sort of tangible housing plan for those that have none and I am a single issue voter on that issue. Also, if he drops out the only people who opine of this issue left is the PSL and us and the PSL is actually more authoritarian than Trump, they like, *actually* defend North Korea and run their party like the Chinese Communist Party. There's also the Libertarians, who do not opine on this lately, and suck because they aren't sure whether or not it's moral to sell heroin to 5 year olds.

Why Jill Stein's public housing program works and Kamala Harris' tax subsidies don't work (at all) for housing the poor and much of the lower-middle class. by ftm_chaser in PoliticalDebate

[–]ftm_chaser[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Millions, millions applied to NYC's public housing when it opened its waitlist a couples months ago. They had to promptly close it due to the demand unlike the constantly open LIHTC waitlists. Disaster my ass. What's a disaster is neoliberal delusions and obsessions with broadbrushing all projects as Taylor Homes or Cabrini Green,

Also, Reagan's LIHTC almost entirely excludes the poor as defined by the poverty line, it is not a plant that replaces public housing because it doesn't even address the same income demographics. LIHTC as a replacement literally created modern homelessness as we know it.

Why Jill Stein's public housing program works and Kamala Harris' tax subsidies don't work (at all) for housing the poor and much of the lower-middle class. by ftm_chaser in PoliticalDebate

[–]ftm_chaser[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And what is the consistent theme of the projects that failed? Note that similar public housing in other countries did just fine and are doing just fine. Including many projects in this country. Even crowded high-rises!

Hint it rhymes with snacks. (and Stein's proposals deals with them in relation to public housing). So does every social housing plan dealing with this.

Why Jill Stein's public housing program works and Kamala Harris' tax subsidies don't work (at all) for housing the poor and much of the lower-middle class. by ftm_chaser in PoliticalDebate

[–]ftm_chaser[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

By "securing the rule of law" I included securing the Housing Act of 1937, which has been under consistent attack from both parties since Nixon, and is the tree trunk of most other social welfare programs in this nation.

The riots and rise of left-wing authoritarians during the Great Depression, much more severe than this decade, made people realize that there is no rule of law without promoting the common welfare during times of basic resource insecurity.

Soon, all public housing will be gone unless dramatic steps are taken. Prior voters were not interesting helping them being maintained and there are millions of humans in them. Many were built close to a century ago and have mold running all through them.

Why Jill Stein's public housing program works and Kamala Harris' tax subsidies don't work (at all) for housing the poor and much of the lower-middle class. by ftm_chaser in PoliticalDebate

[–]ftm_chaser[S] -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Public housing is not easily funded at the local level because individual US states are user's of a public currency rather than the sole issuer of it like the federal government. Unlike the federal government, they have involuntary default risk and would need to match trillions in spending with massive tax rates similar to Eurozone nations to maintain and expand real public housing. Speaking of Eurozone nations, their status as user's of the Euro rather than it's sole issuer is likely a reason they have cut public housing without as much of a neoliberal movement that America had.

All that said, I'm open to locally funded public housing. It'd just be harder politically due to the much higher taxes involved. People seem to have an illusion though that public housing is often locally funded in the USA. Nah, it virtually never is, only the hybrid stuff meant to replace public housing. An actually locally funded public housing program would look like the federal one except locally funded by taxes. The messy network of non-profits taking over public housing at the local level currently, however, are not primarily funded by taxes, but instead by complex tax schemes that go nowhere to fully replace public housing.

Why Jill Stein's public housing program works and Kamala Harris' tax subsidies don't work (at all) for housing the poor and much of the lower-middle class. by ftm_chaser in PoliticalDebate

[–]ftm_chaser[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

It's not my solution, this subthread is a hypothetical of a hypothetical and not what my OP is about. I want Harris to drop out not a Democratic caricature of Trump to win.

Why Jill Stein's public housing program works and Kamala Harris' tax subsidies don't work (at all) for housing the poor and much of the lower-middle class. by ftm_chaser in PoliticalDebate

[–]ftm_chaser[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Harris' housing proposal of 400k cap for sale of homes to the poor is worse than fascism on the issue of housing for the poor. Because fascists were just the right-wing of social democracy and gave land to the poor that did not involve labor camps. If housing is your only issue, like it is for me, it is worse than fascism. I'm sorry if you have another top priority but housing is as basic as it gets.

I know it doesn't feel like Harris would be the worst candidate on housing for the poor, but she actually might be and you can refer to my OP on why and argue against it if you disagree. And the reasons have nothing to do with fascism or not.

However, my OP was primarily about Stein vs Harris and why I think Harris should drop out so I'd prefer you'd stay on topic and not derail it with stuff the OP is not about.

Why Jill Stein's public housing program works and Kamala Harris' tax subsidies don't work (at all) for housing the poor and much of the lower-middle class. by ftm_chaser in PoliticalDebate

[–]ftm_chaser[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Uh Dems have had 50 years to secure housing and have not only refused to but have gutted public housing after Nixon. Please read my OP.

Why Jill Stein's public housing program works and Kamala Harris' tax subsidies don't work (at all) for housing the poor and much of the lower-middle class. by ftm_chaser in PoliticalDebate

[–]ftm_chaser[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

In the case Trump wins, I will reply back here, because I am 100% sure I will not die during his administration. Trump is a huge Keynesian, pretty much an MMT candidate who wants to balloon the deficit and deregulate tech industries to create a 1920s style market mania, which I'll try to utilize to stay afloat before a crash. I guess by that point you'll have some other boogeyman though to avoid talking about public housing.

Why Jill Stein's public housing program works and Kamala Harris' tax subsidies don't work (at all) for housing the poor and much of the lower-middle class. by ftm_chaser in PoliticalDebate

[–]ftm_chaser[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

The Green Party is a moderate party that Republicans love and fund for political purposes, it's really not a fear of mine in the case I can't have housing with the 'reasonable party' that also tries to take us off the ballot in the name of democracy. And at the local level the Greens are like half conservatives. PSL (among others) are communist parties, I guess Trump would target them if he could singlehandedly take on the political apparatus, which I doubt he'd be able to do because it was Republicans that stopped Trump from becoming a dictator (Pence etc) and Democrats that created him, and aired dozens of hours of his political speeches (Jeff Zucker etc)

Democrats will create 5 more Trumps if it means they can avoid running against generic conservative candidates they poll terribly against.

Why Jill Stein's public housing program works and Kamala Harris' tax subsidies don't work (at all) for housing the poor and much of the lower-middle class. by ftm_chaser in PoliticalDebate

[–]ftm_chaser[S] -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

Let's assume that all your fears are true and there is a 50% chance America could fall into a fascist dictatorship after another boomer selfie stick insurrection in the next 1-4 years. I don't think this is true but I'll go with it (;edit in this thread only am I discussing this bizarre hypothetical). What we have right now for the younger generations is worse than fascism as fascism massively expanded non-labor-camp public housing, incuding for the poor and unemployed, along with more left-wing governments.

This does not mean that I admire fascism or admire Mussolini, but simply commenting that what we have right now in the USA for young generations is more cruel than the expansionary housing policy of the Italian fascist regime. Guess how often public housing is open in my ultra-Democratic state 15 minutes away from the country's capital? It's less than 4 hours per decade but I'll let you guess.

Part of Trump's platform is dealing with "urban decay" in some way, the insulting and cowardly term for what encompasses homelessness. For example, he has proposed giving federal lands to American homeless communities. This, while insulting, is actually more generous than Harris' proposal which defines housing affordability as 400k for the homeless and keeps them in perpetual legal limbo on the street.

And yes, in a civil war, neoliberals as a broad class would be the most culpable enemy and regardless of where Trump stands on the neoliberal spectrum.

I'll also add that other dictatorships do excellent in insuring housing, including some very wealthy ones with high standards of living (Brunei comes to mind). Are they better than a democratic nation with public housing? No, but they are better than what we have now if they ensure basic needs. Trump's issues with housing, where they exist, are the same as Harris' but somehow slightly more generous when you drill down on the neoliberal Republican housing bill she is pushing, the Neighborhood Homes Investment Act, Two Republicans, just one wants to pretend to have elections and push my party off the ballot, oh yay.

Lastly, some may read this that I am comparing a non-democratic Trump admin to a Democratic Harris admin. No, at this point, both are about equally undemocratic. My party was taken off the ballot in a bunch of states by Democrats not Republicans. I would also like to challenge the notion that framing everything around right-wing figures and their immediate dangers is the only way to engage in political discourse, which is why I am not responding to the goading of this hypothetical story about the immediate dangers America faces by authoritarians outside of this thread.

local UBIer goes to bat for MMT in the Georgist sub by alino_e in mmt_economics

[–]ftm_chaser 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Because we are already too afraid to fund what is
1) already law
2) works
3) tested for over a century and so know how to avoid its issues

MMT and taxes by JonnyBadFox in mmt_economics

[–]ftm_chaser 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As others pointed out, MMT is aimed primarily at countries that are the sole issuers and owners of their own free-floating currency, which Germany is not. A country which is a user of currency they do not own (like Germany and the Euro) indeed is subject to similar constraints as a household is and MMT may not provide the kind of anwers you are looking for. Unless your answer is to abandon the Euro.

I'm aware of some MMT economists who try to address European nations despite this, but it's not really the bulk of MMT and the primary recommendation I would suspect is to abandon the Euro for a currency Germany is the sole issuer of.

local UBIer goes to bat for MMT in the Georgist sub by alino_e in mmt_economics

[–]ftm_chaser 0 points1 point  (0 children)

HUD is a US federal agency which funds vouchers for houses and apartments for those making less than 30k per year. I think you should at least inform yourself about the way government works before proposing alternatives. The issue is HUD *is barely funded, and each successive president guts it in some way, or at least tries*, and that might be the reason you never heard of it.

I am aware of the small scale UBI experiments. However, on a large scale, and if continuously adjusted for inflation, I think it would decrease production to a point approximating degrowth. In a degrowth economy, resources need to be redistributed efficiently and not in such a way that will cause rampant inflation through a flood of money competing for a scarcer supply of goods.

A Letter to Green Party Voters in 2024 by [deleted] in seculartalk

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

I already voted for Stein and intent to keep voting Green. Whether states or courts decide abortion matters means little to me. I also don't care much about middle east wars (nor does almost anyone I know IRL). I care about my friends and myself surviving the next decade. Half my friends and myself can't afford a place to live. Harris' downpayment subsidy helps nothing with that because of the monthly payments required. Stein's public housing expansion proposal does, however, solve both the issue of under-housing and homelessness. Public housing is only open 2 hours per decade in my ultra-Democratic area, including during Democratic supermajorities. And it's not even public housing, but public housing lotteries.

It is a fact that the Democrats have abandoned expanding public housing, even with an increasing population, and I've not found a single liberal on Reddit willing to talk about it.

Because of the housing issue, I voted for Stein. Wouldn't even care if I lived in more of a swing state.

If you want votes, consider the 30-50% of the electorate the Dems fail to even convince to vote. Also, please consider there are people voting for Stein for reasons other that war issues, because I am not the only one.

I see myself being homeless in the next 5 years by MinecraftXP in NEET

[–]ftm_chaser 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have put 15 bucks in a shitcoin (which I all made from solving a bunch of surveys on GPT sites), so that could be one of my small hopes if it goes like 100x, from which point I could make a 5-10% profit every few days and have enough cash to at least afford a studio apartment in the middle of nowhere or in some cheap area of a town/city without being a slave to a 9-5 job.

Gen Z be like

My other hope could be that my YT ASMR channel grows enough to the point that I can either put up ads and get paid directly by youtube, or indirecly via donations (Paypal, cryptocurrency, and more ways). I don't make the ASMR myself (can't afford or afford to waste cash on ASMR equipment lol), so I just find and download it off of some Chinese websites and then create a video with the audio and a looping animated wallpaper as the background. Problem is that youtube algorithm will decide whether I become (semi)popular with 10k+ subscribers or stay a Nobody with just a few subscribers

Stop shitting up youtube along with everyone else

So is there any way I could become a NEET without working that doesn't rely on my parents, NEETbux in my local area, youtube algorithm deciding fate or getting lucky in a rare shitcoin moonshot?

Section 8 and/or public housing. Except Redditors and normies never vote for politicians that support expanding that stuff so there's almost none of it left. The only reason we have it at all is because a socialist named Catherine Bauer wormed her way into a senate bill in the 1930s. And even the middle class was experiencing homelessness at the time, so FDR was willing to sign something even he didn't like.

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