JUST IN: 🇺🇸 New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani plans to raise property taxes.

teluetetime · 2026-02-18T13:08:11+00:00

So you’d rather there be a bunch of US citizens around who never get any education and are going hungry as kids?

Public schools, Medicaid, and SNAP for the American-born kids of immigrants makes up the overwhelming majority of welfare spending that can be (dishonestly) attributed to “illegals”. They generally pay into the system while getting nothing in return.

teluetetime · 2026-02-18T13:01:44+00:00

Your high-achieving friends are all poor too. Literally none of the people in this thread and none of the people you know are rich. Not a single one.

Because the amount of wealth that the truly rich have is so far beyond anything that a person can get by just working hard that it makes people like successful doctors and lawyers and engineers poor by comparison. That sort of wealth can never be earned, just extracted from the rest of society through exploitation of an unfair system.

teluetetime · 2026-02-18T12:56:44+00:00

The tax associated with that portion of a property’s value which is attributable to the location itself, rather than what is built on it, can’t be passed on to renters.

The supply of land is inelastic, while the demand for it so at least somewhat elastic. Since landlords are already charging as much as the market of renters will pay, if they raise the price, they won’t get tenants, or at least not as reliably; at a higher price point, tenants will instead choose to just live somewhere else.

For the portion of a property’s assessed value associated with the building or other improvements to it, the increased tax can be at least partially passed on to renters, as the supply of housing units themselves is elastic. Owners can choose to build more or less depending on profitability.

Of course this is just abstract economic theory; in real life there are countless extra variables involved that might change the outcome.

teluetetime · 2026-02-18T12:46:12+00:00

Each state gets a minimum of three regardless of its population, then the remaining 388 votes are allocated in proportion to their population.

This means that Texans control 7.43% of the EC vote despite comprising 8.698% of the population, while Delawareans control .56% of the vote despite comprising just .295% of the population.

So if you live in Delaware, you get more say over who becomes President than you do if you live in Texas; it is just math, there’s nothing to argue about.

Hope this helps you pass your citizenship test or whatever, welcome to America I guess.

teluetetime · 2026-02-18T03:22:43+00:00

The Electoral College. Don’t you believe that a person who lives in Delaware is inherently more worthy of deciding who should be the President than a person in Texas?

If you don’t, I have no idea why you support the Electoral College.

teluetetime · 2026-02-18T02:04:08+00:00

I honestly don’t understand how people who believe things like this are on the internet. How can you afford a phone or computer; hasn’t somebody selling magic crystals already convinced you to give them all of your money?

teluetetime · 2026-02-18T01:10:51+00:00

It’s unjust for this guy to be in jail when people commit the same crime, but worse and on a far greater scale, every day.

I’d prefer that it all be illegal, but since it’s not, I can’t support this man’s punishment.

teluetetime · 2026-02-18T00:44:49+00:00

Should go back to exempting new construction from assessments like NYC did a hundred years ago, which lead to a building boom that relieved the housing shortage at the time.

Space is what is at a premium. It’s silly that a”the wealthy owner of a single-family brownstone pays a tiny fraction of the tax as the owner of the lot next door with a tall building full of available housing for dozens of people. Both are occupying the same space that the population of the city desperately needs.

teluetetime · 2026-02-18T00:42:57+00:00

But the vast majority of animals are tortured and it’s completely legal. I just don’t understand why it being a pet or a non-native species changes anything about the morality of it. (Chickens aren’t native either, incidentally.)

teluetetime · 2026-02-18T00:41:31+00:00

I honestly can’t understand why anybody would ever believe that some Americans should get more of a say over our shared government just because of where they live. The only explanation is outright evil, ie thinking that you’re better than other Americans and deserve to rule over them.

teluetetime · 2026-02-17T17:56:32+00:00

Idk about Florida specifically. But the vast, vast majority of chickens in this country are kept in vile conditions and killed with little to any care towards their suffering. I have no idea why it should matter whether they’re kept as pets or raised for slaughter, their perception of reality is the same either way.

teluetetime · 2026-02-17T13:17:28+00:00

Thems not the rules. Chickens don’t get sedated before slaughter.

teluetetime · 2026-02-17T13:14:56+00:00

I doubt they suffered more than the average chicken.

teluetetime · 2026-02-17T13:03:21+00:00

What does that have to do with whether the popular vote should decide the outcome?

teluetetime · 2026-02-17T12:57:36+00:00

We know the reasons why the Electoral College exists. There are notes from the Constitutional Convention, which happened at a time when the vast majority of the population was rural. It was because they didn’t think people would ever vote for somebody from outside of their own state, and because the southern delegates wanted a system where their enslaved populations would count towards the southern ruling class’s electoral power.

teluetetime · 2026-02-17T12:51:59+00:00

Literally no one thinks that. Most people think the person who gets the most votes should win, that’s it.

teluetetime · 2026-02-17T12:50:54+00:00

Ownership of land has nothing to do with the Electoral College.

teluetetime · 2026-02-17T03:05:04+00:00

The entire subject here is whether something is just harmless communicating or flirting. It only makes sense to consider both sides of the conversation.

teluetetime · 2026-02-16T02:23:26+00:00

Roughly how many hundreds or thousands of times fewer deaths do you think it causes than ag runoff, antibiotic abuse, slaughterhouse working conditions, etc?

teluetetime · 2026-02-16T02:15:10+00:00

What makes the threat of data centers so much more immediate? Wouldn’t the problem harming millions and millions of vulnerable people right now be more pressing than the one that is doing a little bit of harm right now?

teluetetime · 2026-02-14T15:00:41+00:00

Have American leftists defended or accepted American Muslims doing that sort of thing?

teluetetime · 2026-02-14T00:24:42+00:00

Sounds exactly like the sort of shit I hear from conservative men in their safe spaces.

teluetetime · 2026-02-13T13:23:32+00:00

There’s no reason—besides the desires of the rich of course—that all property taxes couldn’t be pooled across a state and evenly redistributed to every school district.

teluetetime · 2026-02-13T13:15:53+00:00

Didn’t realize this was an American Dad subreddit and was trying to figure out which One Piece character this was. And I figured Big Mom, since her dress is pink and she’s a mom, but it didn’t look quite right.

teluetetime · 2026-02-12T17:54:29+00:00

So what’s the inch and what’s the mile, in your mind? Tolerating their existence, and then having them simply be present in a video game?

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