Rent control is absolutely for the benefit of people already in place, and 100% hostile to newcomers and young people.  It also discourages investment in properties and results in a housing stock like the poor working class souls in NYC have to endure

We demand affordable housing!

Yeah, because I don’t work in retail, and I’m project based, i have a lot of leeway in my schedule. It’s a reward for working hard and being useful for the last 20 years. Being a professional complainer or victimization specialist doesn’t really generate economic benefit for anyone, and is closer to a grift than a…

In the US it is. It’s right there in the Bill of Rights. It’s the second one, in fact, important enough to only be behind Freedom of Speech. I realize the typical Splinter commenter doesn’t know much about history, and even less about the US Government, but the 2A guarantees the right to gun ownership. Obviously there…

Yes we should only glamorize transexual demiqueer otherkins and anti-vaxers of the sort that get blogging jobs and live with their parents

Yes, young idiots of every single generation love the idea of free everything while having no idea how any of it works, or the responsibility to make it work. You can see it in every clickbait article on Splinter that can be boiled down to “other people have things I dont so we need to change everything so they’re…

Because of the wild misunderstanding of how market economies work, let me share with you a couple cold hard facts:

replying to my own post because too late to edit the other one, we’ve seen this in action. Irish Catholics were the absolute base of the Democrat party for a really long time but as the Democrats moved away from the concerns and culture of the white middle class, eventually that bloc turned red, or at least somewhat…

Furthermore, the entire notion of ‘permanent democratic majority’ (lol) is predicated on this very diverse electorate staying on the plantation right where the Democrats want them, and assuming that no more than 30% of hispanics ever vote red. I’ve said this before, people vote for people, and pocketbook issues. The…

Democrats are going to need that since they’ve ceded the midwest (ewwww!  white males!  ewwwww!  we can win elections without them!!!1!!) and it’s many, many electoral votes. 

Liberals and their misguided policies ruin California, so people leave and move to the Free States, where they immediately set about trying to implement policies like the ones that ruined California, forcing them to leave.

Because Puerto Rican (immigrants?  not the right word here) citizens who move to the US are largely concentrated in already largely blue areas.  Sure, they might help Hillary 2020 run up the score in the Bronx, but that doesn’t move the needle.  Also, as a bloc, they don’t vote at the rate of other groups

I get that most Splinter commenters are ignorant of history (not your fault, i understand the primary education system in the US is terrible, and teaching of history even moreso!) but a hard line on Cuba is exactly what the Cuban expats in Florida want.

How have we arrived at a point where it’s ~racist~ to ask if someone is a citizen of the country, in a census for that country? I mean i get it, EVERYTHING IS RACIST ALL TEH TIME 24x7 because that’s how Splinter gets clicks, from dumb millenials who only see through the lens of race, but this is dumb even by that…

You have a child like understanding of the Constitution and Bill of Rights. Read a little of this,

I mean, I don’t think owning a gun is an inherent right, I live in a nation where that inherent right is recognized and enshrined into the founding documents, as well as a long history of jurisprudence that continues to agree with and enforce that reality. It’s just like a Splinter Liberal to just think they can…

Right well the American left isn’t really a fan of inherent rights. They’re much more into the notion of Government ‘granting’ rights versus recognizing them. Who decides what should be a right? The twitter mob i guess, or whomever sits atop the victim intersectionality pyramid.

Oh, hey, it’s everyone’s favorite defender of the Islamic Patriarchy! Since you’re being so persistant in wanting to educate the Kool Kids of splinter, let’s dive into the group that you spend so much time defending, the Palestinian Liberation Organization. Everyone knows their record on human rights, it’s abysmal,…

The point is that celebrity culture celebrated what Clinton did. The fucking president of the National Organization for Women made a hillarious ‘joke’ about wanting to blow him and that she didn’t see what the big deal was. That was about an instance of clear cut abuse of power.

One of these things is not like the other, friend!