Housing price increases are actively harmful to those who want to upgrade, since it increases the incremental cost of upgrading.

Yes this thinking really underestimates the cost of driving and devalues your time.

And as you mentioned, long commutes are uniquely unhealthy.

It’s more along the lines of “buying is generally better than renting, but there are about 100 different factors to consider.”

We (rightfully) condemn other nations like Russia and China when they do shit like this. Where is the outrage from western politicians here?

On this particular issue: yes

On other issues: not as much

Perhaps you are right and she is the beginning of it. It will be interesting to see if she picks up a lot more support once the election is over and the focus is no longer on blocking Trump.

I think after this cycle we see the progressive block moving back to being ‘independents’

The thing is, we need to start jockeying for position immediately. Don’t wait until presidential campaigns start rolling around in 3 years before signalling a departure. These things take years to pick up steam.

I’m sure people in other nations are holding their breath right now. This election has huge consequences world wide.

Voter suppression is their go-to, so they’ll outright ban various groups from voting if they are able to.

Ban non-whites, raise the voting age, require owning land.

Time for Matt Miller to spew some more BS

Assist Israel?

They aren’t the ones who need the help.

And this is why celebrity endorsements matter.

Good call. When your “role model” (for lack of a better term) takes a position on something, it tends to give it more credence to the target audience.

I have a great deal of respect for Bernie Sanders, so his words carry some weight with me. He is being a voice of reason.

“Temporary”

CAFOs are an endless nightmare.

Although I’m not opposed to meat in principle I am opposed to factory farming and thus stopped eating meat and using other animal products several years ago.

No politically viable candidate will have environmental policies sufficient to properly address climate change. We are so unbelievably behind the 8-ball on this.

Maybe the system is set up to limit the power of protest voting?

It absolutely is set up that way. This may or may not have been the intent of our election system, but it is the outcome.

They screamed at Bernie when he endorsed Clinton after she got the DNC nomination in 2016. They called him “sell out” and such.

I’d really like to see someone who has the power to actually do something stand up to Israel and knock them down a peg or 2.

The information that I’ve seen about Israel’s attack on Iran over the weekend has some outrageous levels of discrepancy. Israel claims it crippled all of Iran’s air defenses and its ability to produce drones and missiles. Iran claims it intercepted the attack with limited damage (and a few confirmed fatalities). The truth is almost certainly between these 2 points with tons of propaganda and straight-up misinformation, but despite the “Iran Dome” bravado I’m not convinced that Iran’s defense was particularly successful.

I am no fan of Iran by any stretch and would prefer a more benign entity to step in and do something, but seeing them keep Israel in check would have been a welcome change. I guess my mindset is that you never really want one group to have too much power over others because being able to act with impunity opens the door for the worst types of behavior.

I call it “defensive” voting. Not voting for actual progress, just voting to prevent further deterioration.

I put practicality over ideology, and in accordance with this have already voted for Harris. But I can still express my disappointment.

Donors think of voters/voting as “the fifth column.”