• @LEDZeppelin
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    356 hours ago

    But don’t forget to blame those brown immigrants, folks! They’re the real problem according to JD

  • @[email protected]
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    486 hours ago

    It’s awesome how his company is doing the opposite of helping USA citizens afford property, homes, rent. Good job, you couch fucking dork.

    • @Volkditty
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      145 hours ago

      If God wanted those citizens to afford property, homes, or rent, they would have been born rich.

  • @DarkCloud
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    155 hours ago

    Libertarians by their very definition cannot be patriotic.

    For starters, they want to destroy, defund, and minimize the state and beneficial services that make up a nation.

    Secondly they want to sell it off the peices to private interests.

    …and they want these things to reduce and avoid paying for their fair share, shifting their tax burden, and the tax burden for their companies to others.

    Libertarians can’t be patriotic, they by definition attack nations in the name of private enterprise, and personal profiteering.

    They seek to increase the wealth gap, exploit their fellow citizens, and disband the connection in between, reducing all to the profit motive, because they can have no other values to maintain but money. They’re nihilists, and comflict with all value systems which aren’t, including the nation and patriotism.

    • @VerbFlow
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      Despite my Anarchist leanings, I still hate Tea-Partiers for their disregard for human life.

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    85 hours ago

    Hey, homey has a $1.3M mansion to support.

    • @Wrench
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      22 hours ago

      What? $1.3m is a modest fixer upper in an ok neighborhood where I live.

  • @_bcron_
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    55 hours ago

    I think JD Vance is a sellout with absolutely no principles, turning his back on his ideals to ride Trump’s coattails, but this doesn’t really strike me as anything outrageous.

    Some tech bros have reinvented the wheel yet again, this time by making an app centered on 1031 ‘like-kind’ transactions, which is already big in agriculture (trade land for cash in a transaction that isn’t a taxable event and maintain the rights to farm on it). It’s pretty popular because often, there’s a generational rift where someone’s kids don’t want to farm, so they use the land as a retirement vehicle and cash out, but I digress. They’re basically the ‘we buy ugly houses’ version of that hooplah.

    We have very lax laws in regard to foreign investors purchasing real estate or investing in securities, and they don’t seem to be soliciting foreign investors. Foreign companies don’t normally solicit American investors but if you have mutual funds in your 401k you probably hold BABA and BIDU. It’s a privately traded company so one must be an Accredited Investor, last I checked the biggest hurdle for that is net worth >$1MM.

    Don’t get me wrong, I think people in office should divest from most things including bonds (policy can affect yields) but this seems a little bit less scummy than Door Dash (those guys are blood sucking parasites for small restaurants)

  • @[email protected]
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    Man, fuck me. And I’m out here struggling for to make ends meat meet trying to do “honest work”. I fucking hate this time line I’m in.

    Edit: thank you fellow native English speakers for correcting me, albeit in a snarky/condescending way, as it were, but still appreciate it.

      • @[email protected]
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        150 minutes ago

        English isn’t my first language. So, not sure how to say it, but I know you know what I meant.

        • @[email protected]
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          116 minutes ago

          I thought maybe it was something I hadn’t heard before. Humorous misunderstanding though.

      • @Wrench
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        32 hours ago

        Nah, he’s hustling for that well done end piece on a prime rib