Another way of looking at this is landlords won’t be able to fancy up units and jack up prices which push out low income renters. Also, if landlords can’t make a profit, they will sell which will allow more people to buy rather than be forced to rent. This does decrease the number of rental units in the future which could drive up prices, but it could be combined with a plan to renovate office spaces into apartments to counteract this.

Rent control works in specific applications. First, it must be short term as a response to market shocks (like a sudden tax increase). It also must have a graduated taper off period where prices are allowed to gradually increase to meet the market rate. With the dramatic increase in work-from-home, office spaces are going empty. This creates an opportunity to counteract the usual reduction in the quantity of rental units that comes with rent freeze. Reductions of red tape and streamlining conversion of office spaces into apartments would stabilize or even increase the number of rental units.

The entire point is that there needs to be a comprehensive strategy, not just a simple tax.

Better pass a rent freeze first or that property tax increase will just get passed on to the people who can afford it least.

It gets all muddled depending on how you define the borders of the various political movements, but for the purposes of my previous comment the left is anything that isn’t the fascist right. We don’t have the luxury of adding any personal grievances. We all fight fascism together or we all go down.

Every fascist regime in history has gained power in part because the left was too busy infighting to resist.

Horses were in the Americas but went extinct before Europeans reintroduced them. There is significant oral tradition that remembers the importance of horses. How long ago the extinction of horses happened is hotly debated between white and native academics and likely varied widely depending on what part of the Americas you are studying. Scientists keep discovering horse bones that are radiologically dated to more and more recent times. The “official” extinction date has been revised down several times in the last few decades. There is even one highly debated sample that puts the date as little as 1500 years ago. Some native academics are working on genetic testing of wild horses in an attempt to prove American horses never went totally extinct at all.

IIRC a lot of it depended on the size of the tribe. Smaller ones everyone was basically treated like an extended family group, so everything was very communal. Larger tribes had more in-group/out-group politics, where certain families within the tribe maintained their own family property. People being people, there is sometimes bonding that happens with some animals. A horse or a dog becomes “yours” because of mutual preference and affection, not economics.

I was writing a fantasy story with a Cree friend of mine that included realistic representation of Native American culture. We did extensive research to incorporate elements of the Cree, Haudenoshone, and Tlingit mythology and culture derived specifically from non-white sources. I don’t have a doctorate or anything, but I know what I’m talking about.

Ownership is probably the wrong word, but you can’t overstate the importance of a horse to a Native American. “He took my horse so I stabbed him” would get a bunch of approving nods.

I still have burn scars on my knuckles from working at a bagel restaurant that used one of those when I was a teenager.

They still had private property. You try to take a man’s only horse and you think he is going to be okay with it?

BMW driver’s can’t even change a tire in my experience.

We aren’t copying the Nazis. The Nazis were copying us.

Kids of MAGA parents out there, remember to take your parent’s ID the day before election day.

They do other things besides just rule on Trump. There are a lot of crimes and lawsuits that need judges. Without that the whole justice system collapses.

Besides that, quite a few of these judged have decided against Trump. Just last Wednesday a Trump appointed judge blocked an attempt from Trump to get Michigan’s voter rolls. Once they have their sweet lifetime appointments, a Trump has nothing to offer them.

If there are not enough judges, do you think the government will stop arresting people? No, the judicial system will just grind to a halt which will make it even easier for Trump to break the law.

I’ve definitely seen a couple places here in Chicago with $11 milkshakes. Jojo’s Shake Bar comes to mind.

There’s no pleasing you, is there?

One would think, but a lot of people are miseducated as to the cause and effect of these things (to put it as politely as I can).