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So true. Waiter! Waiter! $10 billion more dollars to the local landlord class please! The most intelligent online leftist told me it will not realistically empower them and decrease parity with the working class any more than currently stands!
This is so fucking pathetic. Go back to r/politics
I’m literally not wrong here. You dweebs only think I’m wrong because you incorrectly assume that I’m an electoralism dead-ender.
Please ignore all of the hard work other leftists put in to this electoral campaign and sit on your ass on a Tuesday afternoon instead of like, actually getting the chance to do layup praxis and freeze the rent for millions of your fellow proletarians at absolutely zero cost to you
You can’t actually believe that a rent freeze is even a remote possibility if Zohran wins, can you?
The rent was frozen multiple times in the past decade, so no I do not believe it’s a possibility, I know it is an inevitability should Zohran be elected.
I also believe it’s an inevitability because I know how the Rent Guidelines Board works. Do you? Because if you did you wouldn’t be saying that. Even Eric Adams RGB voted only 5-4 in favor of raising the rent, and the mayor gets to appoint one member immediately to serve at will.
That balance is in favor of a rent freeze on day one of a Zohran administration.
So do you just go around making up critique about all leftists without actually having a baseline of understanding of the situation you are speaking on? Maybe go try r/politics
Zohran assuming office is basically an inevitably at this point so I’ll make you a deal, I will apologize and admit you were right if a rent freeze happens.
Public apology video with tears please /j
I don’t do face reveals but I promise many crying emojis.
This contrition only ever cuts one way though. No lessons are ever learned from the hundreds of repeated failures of this method. They just keep doing it. If we're lucky we get one Lenin "Where did that bring you? Back to me" meme before they're back on their bullshit with the next Bernard
Okay we definitely need to find an emoji indicating the next bernard