Quelle surprise. thestranger.com/news/2024/02/2…

Reporter: “Are the airstrikes against the Houthis working?”

Biden: “Well when you say ‘working’—are they stopping the Houthis? No. Are they going to continue? Yes.”

This might be the most concise summary of U.S. foreign policy available

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Rebecca Parson Don't forget Betty Whiteout!

Good morning. WA’s three tow plows Washington State DOT are named Plowie McPlow Plow, The Big Leplowski, and Sir Plows-A-Lot.

In the future, progressives (whatever that means), should look at a candidate’s past actions and their actual policy platform before supporting someone just because they’re such a renegade for wearing shorts.

Unfortunately, reality contradicts your YIMBY ideology:
-over the last 2 years, there's been an increase of 1m more new units than new people in the US
-we have 13m empty homes, including 11.6m empty year-round
-even the high-demand market of Manhattan has a 10% vacancy rate

Only in the richest country on Earth could there be 13 million empty homes while 600,000+ people are homeless.

Illegal price cartel of landlords drove up rents while 13 million empty homes sat empty, YIMBYs in disarray.

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“Yeah, there may be empty homes but they’re all in places nobody wants to live.”

Then why are there 3 empty homes for every homeless person in NYC? Why does Manhattan have a 10.5% vacancy rate?

Adjust your ideology to reality, not reality to your delusions.

They are lying to you. There is not a housing shortage. There are 11 million permanently empty homes in the US.

If capitalism’s “free market” efficiently allocates resources, then why do we have 11 million permanently empty homes and 30% of the US food supply being wasted — during a housing and hunger crisis?

Ayn Rand appeared to me in a vision and told me the solution is clearly more subsidies to build unaffordable housing because supply and demand.

The fact that there’s a supply of 11 million homes empty year-round is irrelevant.

“Lol lmao Rebecca you’re out of touch because there are historically low vacancies and that’s why rents are high. It’s simple supply and demand.”

First of all, I’m talking about year-round vacant homes that ARE NOT ON THE MARKET right now.

Damien Goodmon Dean Preston (deanpreston.bsky.social) Jacobin The housing shortage is so “acute” that 10% of Manhattan rentals are vacant. The obvious answer is 👏 more 👏 unaffordable 👏 market 👏 rate apartments 👏

8% of all housing units are vacant year-round?

Three-fourths of all vacant units are vacant year-round?

How can this be??

This is the strangest housing shortage I’ve ever heard of!

You're telling me that a country with 13,681,156 vacant homes doesn't have a supply problem??

⬇️ “it’s basic supply and demand” is a baby-brained, childish view of the world in which idealistic notions of How Things Work are unconstrained by reality, e.g., artificially set mortgage rates, price fixing cartels (oh, I’m sorry, I meant “rental price optimization software”),…