I like most of these ideas, but even as a liberal, rent control makes me pause...I know very progressive people who work in these fields who tell me rent control often doesn’t work (it might in specific cases like NYC) and other ideas are better for helping keep rent costs down. Maybe I am wrong.

These sound like great proposals, except rent control, or in this case rent stabilization, has pretty wide and deep criticism among economists of all philosophies. Landlords are less likely to maintain existing housing stock, and land owners are less likely to build new rental units. Affordable housing is an issue to…

Are you talking about the AOC says something of little consequence or value > 200 left-wing publications write about it >> 200 right-wing publications write responses to it >>> 1000 left-wing blogs write “OMG the right is obsessed with AOC” shit-posts news-cycle?

Yep go ahead and move out and enjoy only getting 50% of what you paid for your precious IPO plot

Her office’s mishandling of the Green New Deal largely discredited it, I get that she’s young and she’s from NYC but I feel like the media (on both the left and the right) is attributing far, far too much to AOC. 

Water skiing of course

Exactly. There are a lot of voters (many of my friends are these types of voters) that think about people like themselves when the topic of “struggle” or “income inequality” come up. They’re not thinking of the homeless man sleeping under the bus shelter or the single mom waiting in line at the food bank. They think…

Enjoying her retirement out of the spotlight?

National rent control will cause home prices to crater.  Basic economics.

She may be getting more coverage and recognition from her whiteness, but the conservative vitriol aimed at her just shows these monsters for what they are. I absolutely despise saying it, but less vocal conservatives would just excuse all the hateful rhetoric coming from their talking heads if she were a POC. They’d…

Ah yes, joking that a child you disagree with should be raped. So funny and subversive.

The fact that he thought that might be funny says a lot of disturbing shit about him.

I had been waiting for the Ice Cream Duck-ification of Thunberg from the left, in which we say she’s only taken seriously because she’s white. I saw it from Travon Free on Saturday and promptly unfollowed. Is she more lauded because she is white and European and “cute” than she would be if she was a person of color…

Climate change activism also threatens the bottom line of a great many companies headed by these talking heads’ friends, and the idea of putting the greater good/society above profit threatens the very structure of the societies these men benefit from the most. Accountability is the absolute worst possible outcome for…

“One senator who spoke to the president’s daughter about gun legislation said the first daughter made it clear she wanted to do something on the issue, but did not reveal a specific opinion.”

I don't understand how the best sitcom ever, The Good Place, wins nothing.

Congrats to Billy Porter and Jharrel Jerome. Not sure why GoT won Best Drama when it wasn’t even that good this season. I guess the Emmys wanted to award it for the past seasons and because it was such a popular show.

I’m not here for any of the excuses. I say: ‘Make it up to me. Make it up to us.’

This is totally par for the course for Bernie’s supporters, a cohort of edgelords for whom politics has become a tribal bloodsport, yet paradoxically have nothing of substance at risk with any of these elections (save their egos). They will gleefully shipwreck this country and all our futures in the name of…

But Bernie is going to give middle class New England white kids free weed and college.  How dare she sully his name /s

Bernie's schtick attracts a certain percentage of weak-minded fools who formed some type of cult of personality around him. Which is fucking dumb because Bernie has done NOTHING but say we need an entire movement and he is NOT the solution to everything.