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Vincent Van Goatse
Nov 8, 2006

Enjoy every sandwich.

Smellrose

anime was right posted:

welcome to the club

I was a Bernie Bro during the primary and I supported Hillary because I thought she wouldn't whizz the election down her be-pantsuited leg. I never really left the club in the first place.

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loquacius
Oct 21, 2008

ALL-PRO SEXMAN posted:

I was a Bernie Bro during the primary and I supported Hillary because I thought she wouldn't whizz the election down her be-pantsuited leg. I never really left the club in the first place.

:same:

the bernie bro is a myth though

just makin sure everybody hears me say this at least once a day

docbeard
Jul 19, 2011

loquacius posted:

:same:

the bernie bro is a myth though

just makin sure everybody hears me say this at least once a day

Sir, this is a cryptozoology conference.

Vincent Van Goatse
Nov 8, 2006

Enjoy every sandwich.

Smellrose

loquacius posted:

:same:

the bernie bro is a myth though

just makin sure everybody hears me say this at least once a day

I self-identify as a Bernie Bro stop with this erasure you non-ally.

Grondoth
Feb 18, 2011

ALL-PRO SEXMAN posted:

I self-identify as a Bernie Bro stop with this erasure you non-ally.

My mother in law once said "aren't bernie bros not a real thing" and I blocked her phone number after telling her I'll never talk to her again. No one can possibly question my allyship.

loquacius
Oct 21, 2008

docbeard posted:

Sir, this is a cryptozoology conference.

this so-called "bernie bro" is just a fratboy skeleton with a Che Guevara shirt attached to it post-mortem

ALL-PRO SEXMAN posted:

I self-identify as a Bernie Bro stop with this erasure you non-ally.

It's fine if you want to reclaim the slur I guess

Zerg Mans
Oct 19, 2006

loquacius posted:

:same:

the bernie bro is a myth though

just makin sure everybody hears me say this at least once a day

How can you say this when the BernieBros are coming from inside the thread

Vincent Van Goatse
Nov 8, 2006

Enjoy every sandwich.

Smellrose

zegermans posted:

How can you say this when the BernieBros are coming from inside the thread

Go away.

GlyphGryph
Jun 23, 2013

Down came the glitches and burned us in ditches and we slept after eating our dead.

RENEGADE CUCKSKY posted:

your house being worth less than when you bought it has real-world consequences: you cannot move unless you can afford to pay the depreciated value of your home vs. what you paid for it, or, you have paid off the entirety of your home anyway. housing is an 'investment' because unlike renting, you (in theory) recoup the value (and hopefully more) if you ever sell the property.

Why is this, exactly? If you're underwater, can you really not sell your home for the listed value and just keep the remaining debt? I would presume it's because the home is no longer worth enough as collateral... but if the home dropped that much in value, that's already true as far as the bank is concerned. I don't doubt this is true, like I said the "on paper" stuff matters even if the in reality stuff doesn't.

quote:

recoup the value (and hopefully more)
That part is pretty hosed up though, I would hope not everyone wants to be a parasite that wants others to pay them more for something than what it's worth.

big business man
Sep 30, 2012

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/going-for-the-big-enchilada

quote:

Republicans apparently aren't going to be satisfied with phasing out Medicare. They're going to try to pass huge cuts to Social Security this year too. Not Bush-style partial phaseout but just big, big cuts. And you're out of luck even if you're a current beneficiary.

But reviewing the summary of the GOP bill, keep the following in mind. If you've been working for any number of years, but especially if you've been working for two or three decades, you've been paying in not only money for current beneficiaries but additional money which was invested in US government bonds to make it possible for Social Security to pay benefits of Baby Boomers and Gen-Xers. The additional money was required since there will be more seniors relative to the working age population.

This plan appears to foresee the government never paying that back to Social Security. In other words, your payroll taxes have been socking away additional money to cover the growing senior population. But this bill says too bad. That money goes for high income tax cuts.

Yinlock
Oct 22, 2008

lol i like how they take the money either way

GlyphGryph
Jun 23, 2013

Down came the glitches and burned us in ditches and we slept after eating our dead.
Can people who are underwater on their homes not declare bankruptcy? Honest question.

Vincent Van Goatse
Nov 8, 2006

Enjoy every sandwich.

Smellrose
I was with Bernie until after the CA primary and I voted for him in said primary, then I bowed to the inevitable and supported Hillary because I'm not stupid except it turns out I was because Hillary's campaign was a total disaster.

drat right I'm gonna call myself a Bernie Bro now. My instincts were right all along.

Grognan
Jan 23, 2007

by Fluffdaddy
They either foreclose on the mortgage or restructure so you're paying until you die (and then they take it).

Too Shy Guy
Jun 14, 2003


I have destroyed more of your kind than I can count.



GlyphGryph posted:

That part is pretty hosed up though, I would hope not everyone wants to be a parasite that wants others to pay them more for something than what it's worth.

Do you really not understand how houses in specific locations can become more desirable over time?

big business man
Sep 30, 2012

GlyphGryph posted:

Why is this, exactly? If you're underwater, can you really not sell your home for the listed value and just keep the remaining debt? I would presume it's because the home is no longer worth enough as collateral... but if the home dropped that much in value, that's already true as far as the bank is concerned. I don't doubt this is true, like I said the "on paper" stuff matters even if the in reality stuff doesn't.

That part is pretty hosed up though, I would hope not everyone wants to be a parasite that wants others to pay them more for something than what it's worth.

if you owe $400,000 on your mortgage but your house is only worth $300,000, when you sell you still owe $100,000 on your mortgage. not many people can afford to pay 2 mortgages, or a mortgage and a rent. that's not 'on paper,' it's a real thing. if you had to sell your home or move due to financial reasons, you're probably not in any position to cover extra debt from your underwater mortgage. this is why so many people went bankrupt during the last financial crisis.

they're not paying them more than 'what its worth.' if you bought a house 10 years ago and it was worth $200,000, and now it's worth $300,000 and you sold it, you got paid 'what its worth.'

Shinjobi
Jul 10, 2008


Gravy Boat 2k
I'm with Bernie, bro.

bump_fn
Apr 12, 2004

two of them
its spelled "bernie brah"

GlyphGryph
Jun 23, 2013

Down came the glitches and burned us in ditches and we slept after eating our dead.
Haha I looked it up and apparently you could dismiss an underwater mortgage in the past, and there was legislation to allow that again during the housing crisis but it was killed by the Dems, and the Supreme Court in 2015 went even further and said you can't even get said mortgages voided as part of a proceeding even if you don't own the home because you've already lost it to another mortgage.

Hahaha. Wow.

Zikan
Feb 29, 2004

GlyphGryph posted:

Can people who are underwater on their homes not declare bankruptcy? Honest question.

Mortages cannot be altered to the homes current price even if you are underwater so basically a bankruptcy won't help unlike cridt card debt.

It's why people just walked away and let their credit tank during the height of the housing crisis.

big business man
Sep 30, 2012

GlyphGryph posted:

Can people who are underwater on their homes not declare bankruptcy? Honest question.

uh, they often do. are you Michael Scott by chance?? declaring bankruptcy isn't just saying some magic words, it's a legal process and is very expensive in and of itself.

the bitcoin of weed
Nov 1, 2014

just crash the housing market on purpose and then bail out homeowners instead of banks so that everyone ends up doing fine with collapsed prices. bing bing bong

Digiwizzard
Dec 23, 2003


Pork Pro
The problem with Bernie Bros is that they sabotaged Clinton's chances by moving her too far to the left. This is because they are racist misogynists who are educated stupid and do not believe in life time 4 day Abuela rotation.

MizPiz
May 29, 2013

by Athanatos

Fullhouse posted:

just crash the housing market on purpose and then bail out homeowners instead of banks so that everyone ends up doing fine with collapsed prices. bing bing bong

But that would reward failure. :qq:

DaveWoo
Aug 14, 2004

Fun Shoe

ALL-PRO SEXMAN posted:

I was with Bernie until after the CA primary and I voted for him in said primary, then I bowed to the inevitable and supported Hillary because I'm not stupid except it turns out I was because Hillary's campaign was a total disaster.

drat right I'm gonna call myself a Bernie Bro now. My instincts were right all along.

cool story, bernie bro

Yinlock
Oct 22, 2008

bernie bros were A Thing but lol if you think they somehow cost hillary "charisma of a doorknob" clinton the election

Concerned Citizen
Jul 22, 2007
Ramrod XTreme

Acelerion posted:

Regarding the DNC chair - I wonder if which faction wins is just as important as who it actually is.

Establishment may put up someone further left than normal, but it's still the establishments pick and re-cements their control of the party. Ellison represents the progressive wing, and if we want to control the party it's important we get our way in these fights.

ellison IS the establishment pick. And by definition, any DNC chair is going to be the establishment pick because they're the ones voting on who is the DNC chair. It's the same super delegates that backed Hillary in the primary!

SHY NUDIST GRRL
Feb 15, 2011

Communism will help more white people than anyone else. Any equal measures unfairly provide less to minority populations just because there's less of them. Democracy is truly the tyranny of the mob.

Well no one is ever affording a house in our generation so the market will collapse and no one will be home owners to eat the cost Bing bing

Digiwizzard
Dec 23, 2003


Pork Pro

Yinlock posted:

bernie bros were A Thing but lol if you think they somehow cost hillary "charisma of a doorknob" clinton the election

You are educated evil, and might have to kill the evil socialism teaching Bernie Bros before you can learn that 4 Clinton terms exist -but all Abuela Truth denied.

Zerg Mans
Oct 19, 2006

Hey I'm gonna run for president my platform will be to stand in front of dumb white college kids and say "Millunayes and Billunayes" for an hour straight, please vote for me 2020

Internet Explorer
Jun 1, 2005





Fullhouse posted:

just crash the housing market on purpose and then bail out homeowners instead of banks so that everyone ends up doing fine with collapsed prices. bing bing bong

This is basically where I was going with my comments. If you want to reduce the cost of housing, fine. But good luck getting every homeowner in America on-board if you are just asking them to suck up hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of debt.

Again, just because you own a house does not mean you are rich. Plenty of not well-off people own houses. To act like you're some woke empathetic saint and then say gently caress all homeowners because we want to help homeless people afford rent, that's not exactly super empathetic. You have to come up with an answer that doesn't eviscerate the middle class to help the poor.

I'm about as left as I think most people in this thread are, but "make all houses worth $1" isn't exactly a stellar plank.

Internet Explorer
Jun 1, 2005





SHY NUDIST GRRL posted:

Well no one is ever affording a house in our generation so the market will collapse and no one will be home owners to eat the cost Bing bing

Just out of curiosity, what is "your generation?"

Grognan
Jan 23, 2007

by Fluffdaddy
*hillary supporter shown the word neoliberal*

"That doesn't look like anything to me."

Internet Explorer posted:

Just out of curiosity, what is "your generation?"

Born in late eighties, pretty much anyone from there on I guess?

Oh Snapple!
Dec 27, 2005

GlyphGryph posted:

Obama has give every inclination. Imo, that he is more worried about a Leftist takeover of the Democrats than he is about Trump

going to laugh when over the next few years he legitimately fights the leftists harder than he ever fought the republicans

loquacius
Oct 21, 2008

Yinlock posted:

bernie bros were A Thing but lol if you think they somehow cost hillary "charisma of a doorknob" clinton the election

There are bros of every political inclination; this proves nothing. The unifying factor of Bernie supporters was absolutely not maleness or aggressiveness or a liking for Natty Ice but rather "being younger than 35 years old"

zegermans posted:

Hey I'm gonna run for president my platform will be to stand in front of dumb white college kids and say "Millunayes and Billunayes" for an hour straight, please vote for me 2020

"Bernie Sanders had no platform" -- a serious political commentator who really knows his stuff unlike all those dumb college kids

sexpig by night
Sep 8, 2011

by Azathoth

Acelerion posted:

Regarding the DNC chair - I wonder if which faction wins is just as important as who it actually is.

Establishment may put up someone further left than normal, but it's still the establishments pick and re-cements their control of the party. Ellison represents the progressive wing, and if we want to control the party it's important we get our way in these fights.

Ellison is extremely the establishment pick as well though? 'The establishment' is lining up behind him in a big way. So does he now bear the stink of 'establishment politician' because spoiler alert the guy that Schumer and the AFL-CIO are lining up with is 100% the establishment's choice.

GlyphGryph
Jun 23, 2013

Down came the glitches and burned us in ditches and we slept after eating our dead.

RENEGADE CUCKSKY posted:

if you owe $400,000 on your mortgage but your house is only worth $300,000, when you sell you still owe $100,000 on your mortgage. not many people can afford to pay 2 mortgages, or a mortgage and a rent. that's not 'on paper,' it's a real thing. if you had to sell your home or move due to financial reasons, you're probably not in any position to cover extra debt from your underwater mortgage. this is why so many people went bankrupt during the last financial crisis.

they're not paying them more than 'what its worth.' if you bought a house 10 years ago and it was worth $200,000, and now it's worth $300,000 and you sold it, you got paid 'what its worth.'

Okay, so lets ignore the fact that legislators have made it so you can't legally sell a house you're underwater on in an attempt to maintain continued property value growth.

You owe 400k on a loan. Let's say you pay 40k a year towards it. Now, suddenly, your house is now valued at 300k. You want to move. You have a 400k loan with 300k worth of collateral.

You sell your house for 300k, and now have 300k dollars (as collateral), and a loan for 400k. This is a lateral move. You buy a new house for 300k that is the exact same in every way but in a new location, because for this example we are assuming national drops in housing prices, and use it as collateral against the loan.

You are still paying off the same 400k loan. There is no actual extra debt accrued. You still have to pay off the same 400k worth of loan for a house with the exact same utility.

I know this isn't how it works now in reality - I said the "on paper" stuff was important.

quote:

they're not paying them more than 'what its worth.' if you bought a house 10 years ago and it was worth $200,000, and now it's worth $300,000 and you sold it, you got paid 'what its worth.'
Unless you've actually somehow added another $100k of utility to the house, it's not. That's how how much you can convince someone to pay for it, but that's not how much it is worth.

UHD
Nov 11, 2006


who is the establishment exactly

are they bears

SHY NUDIST GRRL
Feb 15, 2011

Communism will help more white people than anyone else. Any equal measures unfairly provide less to minority populations just because there's less of them. Democracy is truly the tyranny of the mob.

Internet Explorer posted:

Just out of curiosity, what is "your generation?"

There's like twelve definitions for millennial but i think fit in there anyway. I'm 28. I'm being flippant but I really don't know anyone that owns a house. I do have a friend who is trying though, but can't even compete with flippers on trying to find a foreclosed place.

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loquacius
Oct 21, 2008

Tatum Girlparts posted:

Ellison is extremely the establishment pick as well though? 'The establishment' is lining up behind him in a big way. So does he now bear the stink of 'establishment politician' because spoiler alert the guy that Schumer and the AFL-CIO are lining up with is 100% the establishment's choice.

The outgoing administration is starting some rumblings about running Perez, who differs from Keith Ellison largely in who he chose to support during the 2016 primary and that's all

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