Yes, but the problem is that HOAs are forever. Just because I've group of people a long time ago agreed to make one EVERYONE who lives there FOREVER are bound to it. That is problematic.
Hacksaw
joined 2 years ago
If the reason the new people bought into the neighborhood is that it was managed by a good HOA then they'll sign the contract voluntarily!
Exactly. We're using the same concept that destroyed unions power, but instead of doing it for evil we're using it to destroy HOAs
It's like "right to work" legislation that destroyed unions, but used to destroy HOAs. "Right to home" legislation.
Why should the fact some people a long time ago have away their power to a dubious political entity, permanently destroy the right to make your own house into a home. There has to be a way for people in a neighborhood to phase out of an HOA and a "Right to home" legislation could do it easily. If the HOA really is adding value to the neighborhood then they would easily be able to entice new homeowners to sign up!
I love the bonds story, I love how it's tied to many actual true events. I want it to be true in my heart.
But there isn't any evidence that it's true, and I don't think Blundell is the guy who would have the "inside scoop" and leak it when no one else does. He just doesn't have the credentials or the connections. This combined with the verifiably false and misleading statements on his site like were excluding the US from NORAD means he's simply not a credible source.
This kind of thing is exactly how the right wing conspiracy mindset started gaining broad acceptance and I just don't want to see us on the left fall for the same trap.
Dean Blundell is a former radio shock jockey who has been publishing pro-left disinformation and conspiracy theories lately.
He has an article stating Carney orchestrated a bonds sell off with Europe and Japan which would be cool as fuck if it were real.. the story is widely discredited.
https://deanblundell.substack.com/p/carneys-checkmate-how-canadas-quiet
https://www.snopes.com/news/2025/04/11/canada-mark-carney-treasurys-sell-off/
He has another false article stating Carney kicked the US out of NORAD.
https://deanblundell.substack.com/p/breaking-canada-announces-earth-shaking
I love reading his stories because they're well written and designed to make leftists feel good. If you treat them as fiction you won't be likely to spread the misinformation they contain.
47% of Americans today APPROVE of what Trump is doing. You really think he's going to have a hard time finding a couple thousand people to do his most heinous stuff? You're going to convince people to say no?
Be real.
https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/approval/donald-trump/approval-rating
Wow that isn't in good faith AT ALL. Downvotes aren't bans.
You don't have a right to an audience, if people don't like what you have to say, they don't have to listen. They can also let you know if you're a shit person. Maybe give you an opportunity to reflect and have personal growth.
This type of "we must tolerate the intolerant" energy is how Reddit became neo-fascist. First being against DEI and Palestinians is a heinous political position. Second of all people who are against DEI believe it's racism, if he's okay with private institutions using what he believes are racist policies, that's a heinous position.
What you're basically reading is: "I'm a racist, and I think private institutions should be able to have policies I think are racist"
Yeah that's a no from me.
I get every box every time! Bingo is easy!!
My ravioli bowl won't unstick. Took about an hour of prying, and still I couldn't unstick the plate.
1kN is equivalent to lifting 100kg.... 220lb for our imperial friends... I don't think I could put that much force on a plate and bowl I was trying not to break
I saw a convoy of about 30 cars on the highway back in October. I looked it up and found nothing. Then I see a Reddit post in /r/vexillollogy with the same flag and no useful answers.
It's so weird that people bought like 100 of these flags and there is no info on them at all!
I flipped the picture to make the flag the right way.
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Did company profits fuel inflation? Bank of Canada researchers say no - National | Globalnews.ca
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The laughable Bank of Canada report even includes the line
Why did this increase in markups not contribute significantly to inflation? We show that markup growth reached its highest level because of a contraction in firms’ costs [...] during the pandemic-related public health interventions
So when their costs go down they keep the prices the same and pocket the difference, BoC report verdict "profit growth without inflation". So what happens when costs go back up?
We observe a mild contribution of markup growth to inflation in 2021, partially explained by demand rebounding faster than costs. However, the fact that markup growth fell to zero the following year indicates that firms were likely smoothing out their price increases [...] rather than leveraging increases in market power.
So when the costs go back up, they pass 100% of the cost to the consumer and keep their new higher profit margins (no change in markup). BoC verdict "the inflation has nothing to do with profit growth". Amazing!
If industry follows this "price ratchet" mechanism profit margins can go to infinity "without causing inflation" according to BoC. Absolutely galaxy brain levels of economic genius.
They really think we're idiots.
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The American tradition of telling everyone else what to do and how to behave while not wanting others to tell you what to do and how to behave!