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Nope. Bur plenty of people are. Considering what the average income is, im at a complete loss to figure out how all these people are buying new houses and cars. There’s just not that many 6 figure jobs out there. It has to be massive debt. But what happens when the bill comes due? Are banks that easy with refinancing now?

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Top income earners have done very, very well over the past 5 years (higher interest rates actually benefits people with accumulated wealth). To them it doesn’t matter if a Yukon is $60,000 or $90,000. That’s a rounding error. Since only 15 or so million new vehicles are sold each year on a country of 330 Million, it doesn’t take many people to push prices higher. Manufacturers have adjusted to serve the top of the market.

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Moved out of a house on July 10, 2023 and into a new one on July 17. Hole. E. Chit. It was hot.

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Also moved in July of 2023. Had to move stuff into a non-air conditioned metal storage unit in July, then move everything again because the next house wasn’t available until early August. Had to be 150 in the storage unit, stepping outside in 120 degrees felt cool. Absolutely miserable.

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Or people can just not buy as big of homes? Or stop buying so much other consumer BS. People can easily afford homes, they just don’t want to. There’s plenty of homes under 2,000 sq ft around me that are under $400,000. No this isn’t cheap nor what we would term ‘affordable’ but people can afford them. They just choose to prefer bigger and more expensive.

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Where do you live? Because if that was truly the case, the value of entry level homes would have gone down, not nearly doubled. A $400,000 home in Baton Rouge will cost almost $3,400/month, not including maintenance and upkeep. A lot of these same houses would have cost around $1,800/month just a few years ago.

Also, other things have gotten more expensive too, not just houses - vehicles, food, insurance, health care, medicine. That all adds up.

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He was killed on camera. No one's family deserves to have to witness that. It's sickening that people would then go on the internet and say things about an innocent man, that "He's not a hero." "I don't care that he's dead." "He's a scumbag." "He shouldn't be celebrated." Edit: wait....those quotes are what Charlie Kirk had to say about George Floyd when he died. Thanks for the upvotes and proving how hypocritcal you are!

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I don’t agree with the right vilifying Floyd, but it’s certainly less ridiculous than the left sanctifying him. Although I am genuinely curious as to how you would describe a man who committed a home invasion where he terrorized and robbed a woman at gunpoint?

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But I'm pointing out the hypocrisy of our side that shamed their side. Also, let their employers wash that out. Work and outside life should be separated. Some and most ppl don't bring that stuff to their jobs and/or imperial with their judgements on the job. But this is mostly about hypocrisy.

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You think this is about hypocrisy because you don’t know what “cancel culture” is, and you don’t understand the criticism.

The left is using “cancel culture” to shame and attack people for sincerely held political beliefs and/or personal choices that generally have no negative effect on others. Perfect example is the decision not to take the Covid vaccine.

Meanwhile, Charlie Kirk was murdered for having fairly basic political views. Hundreds of thousands of leftists are not only celebrating his death, but calling for the death of anyone who thinks like him. You can’t have a professor at Southern who is literally advocating the murder of her own students. You can’t have nurses advocating the murder of their patients.

And the fact that you can’t (or don’t want to) see the difference is quite disturbing.

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If someone is beating on your door at 1:00am are you supposed to assume they are police?

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According to Massad Ayoob, yes. Well, not that you should assume it’s police, it it’s the most likely possibility. He did a video on it:

How To Answer Door at 3am

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It’s flirting with being illegal to have an opinion.

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The left murdered Charlie for having an opinion, and want everyone else with the same opinions murdered as well.

To add to the general discussion: Pepper spray is seriously underrated as a defensive tool. Effective, easy to deploy, and if you’re wrong, or miss, nobody is dying. I’m not going to replace my handgun, but it’s good to carry along with a gun. My buddy who teaches concealed carry classes is a big proponent and carries both. Not sure if it would have helped this girl, but it’s a good tool for folks to carry.

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While this is somewhat true, it’s likely more wrong than right. Rents are based on current values, not historical costs. You may be saving pennies on the valuation delta, but you haven’t bused the game like you think you have

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I’m renting because all of the homes in my price range are total shite, not to save a few bucks on taxes. I expect my income to increase by a decent amount over the next year, which should be enough to put me in an actual entry level home and not a tear down.

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Is this Russia's way to keep the war going? This is becoming a clown show. What does Russia want to do?

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Yes. Russia has never been interested in “peace.” They offer platitudes to appease/divide the West, but with Russia you have to look to their actions. And their actions say they aren’t interested in peace.