TL;DR; Selling off land in places without jobs doesn’t create useful housing for people. What it does do is turn what had been public space into private space for the wealthy.

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  • HobbitFoot
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    6 days ago

    Or Democrats: Hey, we started making some changes as part of this term. We are going to need more support to get additional items done.

    Leftists: This isn’t good enough so I’m not voting for you as punishment.

    Republicans: Great, now we can deregulate more!

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      6 days ago

      Hey, we started making some changes as part of this term.

      Trump does more in six months than Biden managed in four years, despite having thinner Congressional margins and far less popular support.

      Again, this goes back to DeJoy. It goes back to ICE administration. It goes to Biden’s intervention to kneecap labor during the COVID era strike wave. It goes to Merrick Garland sitting on his hands for four fucking years while Republicans continued to commit crime after crime.

      Biden didn’t make progressive changes. He squandered his time in office, refused to impede Project 2025, and sent hundreds of billions of dollars into the pockets of Republican mega-donors that ultimately wrecked his VP’s chances at an electoral win.

      For what? So he could keep funding a genocide in Gaza?

      Republicans: Great, now we can deregulate more!

      Why did Jared Polis veto the anti-price gouging renter bill?

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        6 days ago

        Trump is also completely ignoring the law, to the point of trying to suspend habeus corpus.

    • swelter_spark@reddthat.com
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      5 days ago

      It’s feels off to me when not voting for someone who doesn’t share your politics is described as “protest” or “punishment”. Wouldn’t you expect a person not to vote for a candidate who doesn’t share their politics or represent their interests?

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        5 days ago

        At a certain point, I’m voting for the person who most likely aligns with my views. Democrats may have 50%, but Republicans have 0%.