spaghettiwestern

u/spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works
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The Pledge began as a marketing gimmick:

As branding expert John Gorman outlines, the pledge began with an initiative from The Youth’s Companion, a Boston-based magazine looking to expand beyond its religious roots. To reach a broader audience, the editors launched a nationwide effort to place American flags in public schools, offering them as incentives for new subscriptions.

Not such a great example of "American values", or perhaps since it started as a corporate marketing gimmick it's a perfect example.

Unless you live in a really unusual area, 55+ housing doesn't really have much of an affect on area housing prices. It sells for less so other things being equal developers have less of an incentive to build it over regular housing. People also sell their old homes and move into 55+ housing, making homes more suitable for families available.

Housing prices in general went insane during COVID and (at least in my area) the prices have not come down. Could the prices you're seeing on standard housing still be due to the COVID run up?

I use Startpage but haven't found a replacement for Google Maps that functions nearly as well. Once Google decides my residential IP is in another country the Maps interface language changes. Google also sells IP geolocation info some companies use and those website often behave the same way.

It's not just the Republicans, the MSM has endlessly repeated their claims for years despite evidence to the contrary.

I had a right-wing acquaintance who claimed that only Republicans bring the deficit down. When presented with factual evidence that Republicans consistently increase the deficit and Democrats decrease it he came up with an absurd explanation: Republicans increase the deficit because they're fixing the things previous Democrats broke. He insisted that was even the case with 2 term Republicans and no direct, statistical evidence could change his mind.

Unfortunately these people vote.