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Less crazy than this example is the median cost of houses going up from 143k in 1997 to 414k in 2025. This is still a major increase, since the price of a house tripled while incomes most certainly have not.

I have to wonder how many housing market issues are more of an isolated issue in major urban areas rather than universally true across the board, but I have seen housing prices higher in rural areas as well to a lesser extent, so it is effecting everyone to some extent.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/business/nearly-30-year-old-capital-gains-tax-exemption-rules-blamed-for-us-housing-shortage-5869376

I get trying to fix problems by removing bad taxes and red tape, but I don't think this will go far enough. The bigger problem is when older people who bought their home 30 years ago for 100k are trying to sell their house (supposedly) now worth 4 million without thinking about how it possibly makes sense to be selling at such a markup. Or am I to believe the house is really worth 40 times more than it was 30 years ago?

One common example of this is women with their dating expectations. "He should make 500k a year, be at least 6 feet, good looking, and accept me as I as a single mom with 3 kids."

It is simply a sign of stupidity to not be able to have and accept a realistic assessment of what you should be able to attain, not live in delusion.

How many people have you come across that have unrealistic expectations? And how many of those people with unrealistic expectations have low intelligence?

It seems obvious when I mention it, but I think it is a missing piece in the discussion of those who have unrealistic expectations. They are stupid, plain and simple.

Among the many pieces of propaganda by the LGBT, the "we just want to get married" apparently never really took off even when the Supreme Court just invented the "right" for them to be married in spite of many states voting against it (even California of all states in 2008).

https://news.gallup.com/poll/329975/one-lgbt-americans-married-sex-spouse.aspx

@Tfmonkey The big problem with many libertarians is that they think they can implement their policies in any order and cheer even when they get open borders without realizing that having open borders means they will lose any possibility of cutting welfare. "Don't worry, we are working on that problem too!"

That is where the retardation is with many libertarians and the Libertarian party.

@Tfmonkey regarding the Libertarian party, you are correct that they are generally useless and often counterproductive. But with their own words, I have seen them claim to be cutting welfare spending and removing tax dollars from the healthcare system. But since they are only empty words, it is functionally the same thing as them being opposed to cutting that kind of spending.

Something I observed happened to me again. I had eaten a lot of food over 2 days, and the very next day my body stopped giving me hunger signals. It was the opposite of starvation mode (that same term inappropriately used by many who are obese). It was a forced fasting mode.

At least I know that I should not have to worry about gaining too much weight, since my body will simply say "slow down before you get fat!"

Doing recon listening to state propaganda NPR, and they had a guest on to talk about how RFK Jr. gutting the HHS was bad because "the HHS saved the government money by preventing fraud and abuse in the system with their oversight."

Okay, that might be true. But it begs the question of why is it even possible to have this fraud and abuse in the first place. Maybe we shouldn't be granting money so easily for every request for funding. That's the real problem, not the cuts to bloated institutions.

https://religionnews.com/2025/05/12/episcopal-church-ends-refugee-resettlement-citing-moral-opposition-to-resettling-white-afrikaners/

While I see plenty of talk about the anti-white agenda of the Episcopalian "church," I have not seen as much talk about the fact that President Trump actually granted asylum to a group of white people on the basis that they were being persecuted. So I will give him credit for doing something that is not just in the interests of Israel.