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Because I don't qualify for a mortgage for double the fair market rate. That's why they're willing to pay so much for the properties. It keeps us from buying them.

Because banks for some reason think that people can't afford to pay a mortgage that's less than their current rent.

I am asking for help because I can'tfix this on my own. It's okay to do that.

American here:

I would like for the civilized world to do a full trade embargo on the US. I want the economy to nosedive so hard that either the GOP votes to remove the motherfucker from office, or get crushed in the biggest electoral landslide in history in 2026.

Twice.

...and then he made holocaust jokes

...and then he attended a German Nazi rally

...and then the administration he works with announced a concentration camp for undesirable immigrants

"I can't be prejudiced. I'm a white billionaire from old money in South Africa."

I'm not Italian or Balding, but I'm super fat.

He's the only President to never reach 50% approval, yet he's been elected twice.

That's all the evidence you need to know that our election system is broken.

We covered it heavily when I was in Texas public schools in the 90s.

Yeah. By paying the mortgage plus 30% on the property they bought at double a fair market rate just to keep me from buying it for myself.

I love paying double in rent what I would pay for a market-rate mortgage and getting no equity in return.

Thanks landlords!

Their function is using them to introduce concepts to an audience that may not otherwise be interested or receptive.

The spaceships and aliens are how you get people to look at it from a new perspective.

The early seasons of DS9 were about the aftermath of the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan and the fall of the Soviet Union. 1990s Americans couldn't have cared less about the dangers of far-right religious indoctrination of schoolchildren, the re-intrigation of traumatized resistance fighters into peacful society, the cautious restoration of political and economic ties with former occupiers, and the danger of the discovery of a new resource in the territory of a politically and militarily fragile nation full of extremists.

But throw in phasers and a warp drive and people will watch. Suddenly you've tricked people into recognizing that people with different backgrounds and religions can embrace their differences to make the world a better place, or reject that unity and create suffering. You have capitalists and socialists sharing space in peace. There's an invented taboo against rekindling an old relationship that's actually about gay rights.

All these amazing topics are brought to an audience that just wanted laser fights.

Any genre show can do it. My parents were as red-blooded Republican as anyone, but the third episode of The Last of Us had them crying tears of joy and pain over the love story between 2 men. It tricked them into becoming open-minded by promising zombies.

That's fiction at its finest.

Kids shouldn't die because their parents are idiots.