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Mar 25 2022 06:42am
Quote (ofthevoid @ Mar 25 2022 06:43am)
In 2017, 2018, 2019, average annual home price appreciation was between 5-6% annually. In 2020 HPA was 11% and in 2021 it was 17%, in 2022 it's projected to be up another 10%. Covid actions absolutely exasperated the issue by significantly expanding the money supply and damaging supply lines.


Covid may have exasperated the situation, but it didn't cause it. It just accelerated an existing trend of housing prices outpacing inflation.
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Mar 25 2022 06:46am
Quote (Black XistenZ @ Mar 25 2022 02:34pm)
These countries were brutal dictatorships and/or theocracies. Saddam and Assad used poison gas against their own people, bombed strongholds of their politcal opposition into the ground and massively stiffled democracy, pluraility and freedom of speech even during peacetime. In Syria, a civil war along confessional lines had already broken out before the U.S. got seriously involved. Afghanistan hosted Al-Qaida and the man who masterminded 9/11. (And Iran had the audacity of sitting on *our* oil...)


All bunch of bullshit under various justifications, including the hypocritical crusade for democracy in the Middle Each in which Saudi Arabia and apartheid Israel are the biggest allies and partners.
Man up and say US can do whatever it wants to maintain world domination, just because they can... It is a much more respectable argument than this stuff :)

Quote (Black XistenZ @ Mar 25 2022 02:34pm)
Ukraine is guilty of ZERO of these things. Much of the U.S. military action your meme mentions was wrong or misguided, yet all of these missions had a stronger justification than Russia's current war against Ukraine.


Not in my book. Ukraine for Russia is far more justifiable because, if we use common sense and a little sympathy to draw a line between defense and offense, it is defense.
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Covid may have exasperated the situation, but it didn't cause it. It just accelerated an existing trend of housing prices outpacing inflation.


... an existing trend which is largely caused by central banks printing money and fueling asset price inflation.
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Mar 25 2022 06:50am
My optimistic bet: Russia gov get dismantled while in the same time we pushed on alternative energies, then all valves will be opened back at lowest prices ever. Petroleum should only be used to make plastic material anyway.

Quote (HeLiCaL @ 25 Mar 2022 12:33)
he is "making a difference" from his keyboard :rofl:

https://i.imgur.com/kmsjqZg.jpg


Your density is indestructibe :thumbsup:
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Quote (Djunior @ Mar 25 2022 07:10am)
I'm not pro Putin Eeyore. Try again.

You assholes are pro-war, you're the ones that should pick up an AK and get blown to hell. Cya ;)


Except you are. There is simply no other way to take "Ukraine shouldn't defend itself."
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Quote (Surfpunk @ Mar 25 2022 08:42am)
Covid may have exasperated the situation, but it didn't cause it. It just accelerated an existing trend of housing prices outpacing inflation.


Nothing in this world is caused by easy to explain single variables, we don't live in a petri dish. You say accelerated as if it was inevitable that the rate at which home prices grew would double. Just because home affordability was an issue long before Covid doesn't change that the actions taken in the last few years made it far worse.


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Quote (Lebanon961 @ 25 Mar 2022 13:46)
All bunch of bullshit under various justifications, including the hypocritical crusade for democracy in the Middle Each in which Saudi Arabia and apartheid Israel are the biggest allies and partners.
Man up and say US can do whatever it wants to maintain world domination, just because they can... It is a much more respectable argument than this stuff :)

The "spreading/upholding democracy" argument was always a bunch of crap, I never claimed otherwise.



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Not in my book. Ukraine for Russia is far more justifiable because, if we use common sense and a little sympathy to draw a line between defense and offense, it is defense.

Russia has to shell hospitals and residential areas in Ukraine to... defend itself?!


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Quote (Black XistenZ @ Mar 25 2022 02:52pm)
The "spreading/upholding democracy" argument was always a bunch of crap, I never claimed otherwise.


So why are you spreading notions that are "a bunch of crap"?
Are you doing propaganda deliberately, or perhaps simply out of habit? :)

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Russia has to shell hospitals and residential areas in Ukraine to... defend itself?!


Russia neutralizing Ukraine as a hostile state and keeping it from joining an encirclement block is defense, yes. The same can not be said for USA and Iraq/Libya/Syria/etc.
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Quote (Santara @ Mar 25 2022 02:50pm)
There is simply no other way to take "Ukraine shouldn't defend itself."


But there is :) USA give up Ukraine as a vassal state. That also, would end the war :)
The war is between USA and Russia. Ukraine is like an NPC in a pvp game
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