WTF? Do I have to allow shit in my car and phone to start tracking me to provide evidence in my favor when some ai decides it has “tracked” me? The only reason this lady got out of it without getting a lawyer and going to court is she allowed all the bullshit in her phone and car that I block. And if she didn’t have it, what would have happened in court?

Well duh, obviously if it wasn’t for all the illegal Mexican gang members taking all the food stamps there would have been plenty of money to help the people that deserved it, like them.

Maintenance costs suck, but even that has a silver lining when you own. It’s yours. When your fridge breaks in a rental you’re not out any money, but they just bring by another jank landlord special. I redid my kitchen with Thermador, not the top of the top brand, but pretty far up there. That cost quite a bit but it’s mine and my kitchen is far better than anything I had renting.

That too, last year before I finished my mortgage my neighbor was paying well over double my mortgage, property taxes, and maintenance costs combined.

The value of a paid off home is not the equity, that’s just numbers on a paper until you die and your heirs sell. The value is in living for peanuts for the rest of your life.

My house is paid off. My monthly housing costs are $735 for property tax that can’t increase more than 2% year due to California law. My neighbor three doors down with the same floor plan rents for $8500/month. That difference will only increase for the next 40 (I hope) years until I die.

Thanks, it was more about not letting his doomer shit sit there unchallenged. If 1 or 2 people saw the exchange and said “roscoe is right, I’m going to go volunteer and try to get a little Mamdani elected to my city council,” I’ve done my good deed for the day.

Are you dense? The Republicans have not been stable, they’ve been taken over by the far-right. The R’s that R’s vote for for because they’re not D’s have become increasingly far-right due to decades of grass roots efforts. Meanwhile the left and progressives have allowed D’s to drift until they resemble Eisenhower Republicans, or even Nixonians.

Help move the Democrats left or stop whining about the very predictable results of your passivity.

I’m probably waiting my breath. You seem like the type that just likes impotently screaming into the void.

The far-right did it. The people of New York did it.

The far-right spent 20-30 years doing it. They started with the smallest elections where the fewest number of people could have an impact, city council, school boards, etc. They consolidated their power and moved on to things like small city mayors and state legislatures. Then large cities and the U.S. house. Then Governor and Senate. Then the fucking presidency.

You think support for Mamdani materialized out of thin fucking air? The locals did it. Despite the state and national parties trying to rat fuck him. Get enough local elected officials in New York state like Mamdani, the state party won’t try to rat fuck them any more, because they will be the state party.

Do you think the left is lazier than the far-right? Do you think they’re dumber? I don’t. I think they’ve been discouraged by people like you and I try to push back.

You could stop discouraging people and help me push back. Or you could just keep doing nothing and whining about the results.

Don’t allow “democrats” to continue to mean corpo Dems. Make it mean leftists and progressives. Or just keep whining.

You don’t seem to understand what I’m saying.

Those people aren’t the left, they’re the fucking problem.

Show up locally with other leftists, or at least progressives, outnumber the corpo Dems, and change the party from the ground up. Leaving the party in the hands of the people who currently run it and complaining about the candidates they put forward isn’t going to do you any good.

If you don’t like that, and you shouldn’t, show up to your local meetings regularly, not just two weeks before the primary, and encourage other like minded people to do so. Doing that allows you to get the better candidates recommended in the voting guide, canvas for them, phone bank for them, etc. I’ll be there waiting. In my precinct it would only take 3-4 people to tip the balance from corpo Dems to progressives, and maybe even an actual leftist, for local office and state legislative candidates. Start local and trickle up.

Or if you’re already doing that, thanks and keep doing it.

But until those efforts bear fruit, when faced with a binary choice please pick the less bad one.