MercuryUprising

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[–] MercuryUprising 12 points 2 years ago (13 children)

Things will never get better. When we can't sustain an industrial society then people will start murdering each other for the dwindling resources we have left. This is the best it's going to ever be in anyone alive's lifetime.

[–] MercuryUprising 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Remember when climate change was identified for the past 60 years and people just ended up buying bigger houses, bigger cars, and consuming more?

[–] MercuryUprising 8 points 2 years ago

Awesome, hopefully they'll do it to all the others. Maybe take a few oligarch yachts with them along for the ride to the briny deep.

[–] MercuryUprising 6 points 2 years ago

I didnt claim they were adorable all the time, but they're cute as shit when they're floating on their backs and washing themselves. Dolphins are cute too, and they'll rape anything that isn't bolted down.

[–] MercuryUprising 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

They're fucking adorable, are you kidding me? That just doesn't bypass the fact that it's a wild animal that doesn't give a fuck about your instagram stories or your need to pet it.

[–] MercuryUprising 31 points 2 years ago (3 children)

What do you mean? I can't think of anything more stable than a grown man burning children's dolls on the internet after watching a movie based on a toy designed for 6-12 year old girls.

[–] MercuryUprising 5 points 2 years ago

Christians are often times the least Christ-like people you'll ever meet.

[–] MercuryUprising 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It didn't "infect" anything. It was always here. I noticed it when I moved from Vancouver to Calgary as a kid. If you live in one of Canada's three major cities, you just aren't exposed to it, but the second you get into the suburbs or further, it's on full display. There's a reason we had Harper for an entire decade, gagging scientists, cutting corporate taxes, cuts to education and health care, and driving profits into the hands of the rich.

[–] MercuryUprising 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Latinos subscribe heavily to the machismo personality = good, and that any threat against it is a threat to their existence. They are raised religious with heavy incentive on strong family structures, something that conservatives use as a weapon to curry favor.

[–] MercuryUprising 2 points 2 years ago

Asians tend to be extremely conservative, particularly Chinese immigrants. They grew up in an authoritarian world, and view the progressive policies of the West as antithetical to their own. They don't care if Trump is a racist, or blames them for the Kung Flu, because he represents their views on what a government should be.

[–] MercuryUprising 1 points 2 years ago

Stop calling them conservatives. This level of ultranationalism has fascist written all over it.

[–] MercuryUprising 5 points 2 years ago

The both sides message is particularly insidious because it takes a real criticism and then equates it with something that is potentially much worse. It does nothing but limit options, and breeds nihilistic cynicism and nothing more. The worst part about it is that it is based on an absolute lie: the idea of both sides being the same doesn't make any fucking sense, because in this world nothing is the same. If it was the same, it wouldn't need to have a distinction. It's an argument against progress, and therefore a wholly conservative viewpoint in that it states that rather than choosing the best of the two options to not bother at all. To stay the same, or even revert.

It's totally dystopian and reminds me of Russian propaganda, which is designed to erode faith in everything, so that the people in power can make the decisions while the people feel helpless.

 

A week before they were shot dead, an east Hamilton, Ont. couple were in a dispute with their landlord over mould in their basement apartment, according to police.

Homicide detectives say Carissa MacDonald and Aaron Stone were also just “days away” from moving into a new home before killed at a Jones Road home north of Barton Street East in Stoney Creek.

 

Some $1.5 trillion in real-estate mortgages will come due in the next two years - paving the way for a potential financial crisis as higher interest rates push down property values....

... In comments to The Financial Times, Chad Littell, an analyst at a major research firm that tracks commercial real estate, added that prominent players such as HSBC's recent decisions to unload outstanding debts at a loss come as a red flag.

'The fact that banks want to sell loans is coming up in a lot of conversations,' Littell, who works for New York-based CoStar, said Monday in a similar interview.

The finance expert further remarked of what he said is a clear sign of the bank's determination to reduce their exposure to an increasingly unstable market: 'I am hearing more about it than any time in the past decade.'

At the time of writing, HSBC is in the process of pawning off hundreds of millions of dollars worth of held-up commercial real estate loans potentially as a discount, as part of a burgeoning effort to wind down direct lending to property developers - who many say are poised to default come 2025.

 

It's something on nearly every young person's mind: the housing crisis. Once limited to places like San Francisco, NYC, Hong Kong and London, the real estate crisis has gone global.

With house prices at abnormal heights and rent prices following suit, it's only a matter of time before certain cities hit their breaking point.

Let's post information, discuss how we as individuals can make a difference, or even just vent about the complete absurdity of the situation and how we got here.

This is one of the defining issues of our generation. Don't just stand on the sidelines.

 

A survey of over 3700 property investors by the Real Estate Institute of Queensland (REIQ) recently revealed that more than 80 per cent were considering bailing on the Sunshine State due to recent and proposed tenancy law changes.

When asked for their primary reason for considering selling, many pointed to ongoing rental reforms, bad tenants, increasing holding costs and the stigma that all landlords were “greedy, wealthy people” as among some of their key gripes.

OPs note: Did QLD really just figure out the solution to the housing crisis? lol

 

Fewer builders are starting new homes amid high prices for materials and loans, threatening housing shortages

 

The rate of house price growth is continuously exceeding record highs, according to data compiled by the Bank of Greece for the first quarter of this year. Indicatively, prices rose 14.5% year-on-year in Greece as a whole, with even higher increases in the two biggest urban centers, reaching 16.5% in Attica and 16.1% in Thessaloniki...

... In addition to domestic demand, Attica’s sharp price increase during the first quarter of this year is undoubtedly attributable to the fact that it is a major target for foreign investors.

This year there has been an especially abnormal increase in foreign investment through the Golden Visa program, due to the upcoming changes, which will make it more difficult to obtain a residence permit.

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