Jikiya

joined 2 years ago
[–] Jikiya 3 points 2 years ago

Feel like all politicians are selling these days (and probably most days in the past) is anxiety. "Vote for me or [X]!"

[–] Jikiya 2 points 2 years ago

Can't wait to hear about the violations, and their million dollar fine.

[–] Jikiya 40 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The left edge of this picture gives me anxiety.

[–] Jikiya 9 points 2 years ago

Well, first you did exactly pull a whatabout-ism.

More importantly though, the democrats claimed those were the things that caused them to lose the vote. They did not claim they did win, and those things were the things that point out that they did win.

"These are the things that made us lose" =/= "These are the reasons we didn't lose"

[–] Jikiya 3 points 2 years ago

I think you'll find that Kennedy is the one that really ramped up the Vietnam war/conflict. He even knew the intervention would fail, but committed more troops anyway. Many southern democrats did indeed try to stop democracy also, during reconstruction. I realize that both of these things are decades or more old, but this goes back to the overconfidence in our group that the article was just describing.

[–] Jikiya 10 points 2 years ago

Probably could, if there were better computers to parse the images. But due to the fact that there's not a computer as good as the brain is at moving physical body through space, you need to use other tools at the moment.

[–] Jikiya 3 points 2 years ago

It was self defense.

[–] Jikiya 6 points 2 years ago

You should look up Ordinary Things. And once or twice a year Internet Historian puts out a new video.

[–] Jikiya 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

And putting money in the bank is just rent for living? The money is used to increase your home's value. But I see we are at an impasse, and will be done discussing it.

[–] Jikiya 8 points 2 years ago

Love can quite easily turn to hate. Strong emotions still, just in another direction.

[–] Jikiya 1 points 2 years ago

Yes, for everyone. Regardless of political affiliation.

[–] Jikiya 0 points 2 years ago (4 children)

It's nothing like a landlord, as the person living in the apartment owns said apartment. The owner makes the money off it when it's next sold.

While often HOAs are abusive, and I don't want to ever be a part of one, I also don't want to live in a condo/apartment again. Someone needs to take care of the building, so they set up HOAs which, when run well, are democratic. You elect the board, you can go to the meetings and make your voice heard. If you speak well you can convince all the people in the building to get behind the idea you're championing. Condos require a Home Owner's Association due to the fact that no one person should get to dictate how the common area is run, and no one should be on the hook to fix, say, an elevator. Everyone pays dues, and those dues pay for the repairs.

If people elect to hire a company to be the head of the HOA, well they're choosing to be lazy, and for that reason, the HOA will be paying the company to run it's affairs. If the HOA is run by the residents, no money is going to enrich any one person, the money is being used to enrich everyone that lives there, through keeping the building in good shape to raise the value of their personal property.

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