The center right is economic, really a difference of macroeconomic philosophy while still holding classically liberal ideas like democracy and the holding elected officials accountable. Taxing and spending with agreeable returns, such as having roads or an educated workforce.

The far right is obsessed with control and heirarchy to the point of overlapping with theocracy. And don't have any long term plans that could be described as rational. Most of them want to wait around for Judgement Day, many start it a little early.

The far left wants to tear down the current mainstream economic system and rebuild a different kind of society.

The center left, like the center right, has a variant of macroeconomic philosophy. And support democracy, classical liberalism, and capitalism. Generally a flavor capitalism that can be described as Western welfare capitalism. Frequently agrees to compromises with the center right in order to keep day to day business going. Like hammering out a budget to keep the government funded.

Embryos-are-children has been the position of the far right for at least two decades now.

So now instead of having a phone number that identifies your phone, you have a username that identifies your phone. And this accomplishes what, exactly?

Yes, we don't want nuclear war. We also don't like wars to occur in the continental United States, which explains some of the aggressive "regime change" invasion policies. Both of these aspects explains our reaction during the Cuban Missile Crisis.

The US is obviously not anti-war. But they do choose the wars they participate in, usually by being the one that initiates them.

"The US has been tracking Chinese pre-positioning operations for well over a decade, but Wray told the security conference that they had reached "fever pitch." He said China was increasingly inserting "offensive weapons within our critical infrastructure poised to attack whenever Beijing decides the time is right." "

So they've been tracking 'prepositioning' and just leaving the 'offensive weapons' in place for Beijing to... yeah fucking right.

The United States will respond in the time and place and manner of our own choosing. And not be drawn into a war it does not want. This is pretty much warfare and geopolitics 101.

If you want to produce an exciting action film, then of course pick the more dramatic but improbable route.

Weird how this isn't considered an act of war.

That's not how economics work. In a supply constricted environment you'd expect the most costly assets that were feasibly priced for buyers/renters to afford to set the market rate.

If the supply constraints ease, the price will drop and eventually stabilize around a number that gives a rate of return for the investor that's competitive with similar investments of that "type." Otherwise that capital will flee to bonds or farm land or whatever. I don't know what that target is off the top of my head, but I'd guess 3 to 5%.

The economics will, long term, either encourage more housing stock or encourage people to leave. Option #2 seems to be winning currently, for a mix of good and stupid reasons.

All goods/services are sold at the market rate. To do otherwise would distort the pricing mechanisms that normally would encourage more supply, and thereby arrive at the appropriate price for any good/service. Of course in the case of housing in these localities, the real distortion of supply was purposeful and intentional by the elected officials who legislated/ruled on local and state laws and regulations...

So should we start sending asylum seekers to Detroit?

Do we really need millions of low skill workers that hardly speak the language

You seriously over-estimate the percentage of housing units that are being bought and kept off the rental market. Do you have any idea how expensive it is to buy a housing unit and not collect any income from it? There's the cost of the unit, the interest on the loan used to purchase it, the property taxes & upkeep/security costs to 'protect' your investment, all so that your other investment properties can be rented out for a bit more money?

Only a person that's never owned rental properties can believe that countless homes and apartments are being bought to be kept off the market - the finances will eat you alive.

The economics of rental properties is such that 90-100% of rent collected goes towards paying off the loan and property taxes of the property, the payoff for the landlord is in the appreciation of the property over time and some tax savings thru depreciation. If an apartment that used to rent out for $1,000/month is taken off the market, the landlord/owner still has $800-1,000 in monthly expenses for that unit that have to be paid.

We are witnessing the end of the internet.
The beauty of the internet is that you can go on there and get the opinions of regular people.

if that was true why have been conservatives been offended by anything liberals do for the past 16 years of my life

you were offended america had the audacity to elect a black man president and haven't stopped being offended a day since

the snowflake horseshoe is true. y'all are a bunch babies, you are mad about something new every day, i mean, fuck, this week you're actually mad about the NFL and white heterosexual relationships. wild times for you all

No, more like Fox News, Alex Jones, Ben Shapiro, the whole of "Prager U", and all "conservative" talk show hosts on radio. The whole sector is so monotone in its servile service of whatever dogshit they decide is "conservative" that it could very easily be mimicked by AI. At least Al Jazeera has reporters traveling the globe. The entire "conservative" media enterprise consists of people spewing nonsense. Hell, it may already be AI generated.

You pussies cannot even hurl good insults.

> but they also quietly replaced the Russian malware with their own [US gov't snoopware], for national security.

I assume you are joking, otherwise we at Slashdot expect clear evidence of such claims.