It’d probably involve a healthy bit of statistical analysis, basically measuring price increases against measured inflation rates and prosecuting anyone statistically outside the standard without a justifying factor like a different formulation for the product or significantly better quality to justify being more expensive.

As for what the punishment would be, I’d say either fining them twice the value of the excess profit, or forcing them to cut prices on all products to twice the margin they went over by until they’ve lost twice the value they effectively stole.

I like how you just admitted that your stanning the greens isn’t born out of the dems not being progressive enough but out of having bought the republican line hook line and sinker that dems just bad for whatever reason and having to do more introspection than glomming onto the cool edgy people who swear they’re more progressive than makes your brain hurt too much.

All the political saviness of a midwestern white boomer who doesn’t know jack about their political interest other than that they think the dems are against them because reasons.

The ADA and recent infrastructure act

There’s no such thing as a single issue bigot.

His daughter came out and he lost his shit over it and blames Biden.

What’s the last law the greens got passed with their tactics?

STAR vote to make parties irrelevant except at the coalition building level!

Reminds me of the “Business as Usual” scene from the end of Young Justice season 2

See that could be pretty easily achieved without eminent domain.

If you announced the program you’d probably have cities bidding against each other to host this department or that.

You’d probably have to create whole new departments just to appease cities and states that ended up not getting offices that you want to keep political capital with.

Establishing a Department of Language Accomodation in Queens would probably be the safe bet to test this kind of shenaniganery with.

TBF even Leninism is a stark departure from what MLs believe.

If you look at the original plans for the Soviet Union, Lenin was basically planning a Syndicalist Representative-Democracy. Problem was that Lenin got too bogged down in crushing any chance that said democracy would vote against itself, and then Stalin just decided to go full corporate town with it.

Either all those YouTubers collected the check from Raid without even touching the thing or they make up 99% of the playerbase at this point and it’s basically their best kept secret social club.

Conspiracy Theorist culture has been coopted by the evangelical right in the wake of shit like Watergate and Iran-Contra making a non-interfered-with conspiracy theorist culture seem too dangerous to the right to be allowed to persist.

Evidence being that if you go far enough down the rabbit holes of the looney theories we all like to make fun of, you’ll inevitably find some evangelical nut preaching about how it has to be that way either because they believe it says so in the bible or because they believe it’s a sign of the rapture which is surely happening within their lifetime, or often both.

It’s like the most dangerous kind of conservative appropriation of counterculture narrative.

That’d have some pretty dark implications for the recent assassination attempts then.

It’s one of those things that mostly works because there aren’t many rich people.

Since crimes committed by rich folks are mostly white collar, they’re rarely a danger to society if let back onto the streets.

It’s one of those statistical solutions that doesn’t really do enough thinking about why the statistics shake out that way.

That said, there is a gradient, rich folks can make bail for petty offenses but for violent ones judges may be inclined to just deny bail purely because the rich prick would be able to post it easily and the crime they’re accused of warrants not letting them back out.

Probably only if that city was a new planned capitol like the CBC has suggested be developed on the Republican River.

See I could see this working if it weren’t for the sheer number of data points you’d need to collect consistently to create a trainable model.

Nah, number of properties is a pretty fucking good metric.

Being a “bad” landlord isn’t the issue, the issue is taking properties off the housing market for rent collection, and driving up prices for everyone else in the process.

There are more empty units in this country than unhoused people to fill them, this housing crisis is one built entirely out of artificial scarcity created by letting speculators buy up supply basically for the purpose of scalping them to poor people who can’t say no to the product.

It’s the same kind of “market efficiency” that has ballooned medical costs, who can afford to compare costs on a kidney transplant? Nobody. Who can afford to shop around and wait on houses? Unless you’re very lucky in today’s economy, also nobody.

Housing does not abide the same market rules as designer T-shirts. Necessity goods will inherently have a hostage effect on the customers where you could in theory charge any price and just make the disinfortuned eat shit for it.

I was thinking more non-occupancy just meaning “that you don’t live in yourself”, so that would mean filling your rentals with tenants doesn’t save you from the tax.

Chicky Hopping Baby T-Rexes Cannon!

Most likely the weight difference would be the biggest issue here.

Same reason why to scale bug wings wouldn’t let you fly, that square cube law can lead to some very unfun conclusions where big beasties are concerned.

Or some absolutely terrifying ones in Shin Godzilla’s case.