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[–] m3t00@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)
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[–] J92@lemmy.world 9 points 6 days ago (1 children)

What a shite take from the man who has no sense of real-world costs.

The price of a house is roughly, give or take, about one house. People might trade up and supplement the difference or have had savings from between purchases, but that initial upfront, first-time cost is the hardest one. It's not a grand difference of space between rungs on the ladder, it's that more and more of the lower rungs are getting actively broken off for the benefit of those with a surplus to sell.

Scum.

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[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 8 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Makes sense if everybody's dad can give them a million or so to get started. Trump worked very hard to get that million from his unloving father, so I get it. /s

[–] this_1_is_mine@lemmy.ml 9 points 6 days ago (1 children)

It wasn't a million it was millions and it was multiple times. Not like it really matters Donnie never really risks his own money anyway.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago

Dude was getting 200K a year by the time he was 3. By the time he graduated from college, he was getting 1 million per year.

Received nearly $413 million in all from daddy. At least.

And of course, didn't pay the proper taxes on it.

https://apnews.com/article/0452d29cd2564eaf97605ab90acc3a67

[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 8 points 6 days ago

I feel sad for the young people that voted for him, but maybe they’ll learn something from this. 

[–] AllToRuleThemOne@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago

This is a very Merz thing to say.

[–] Ioughttamow@fedia.io 7 points 6 days ago

Not very white power of him to prove a black man did the job better with his every action

[–] Sunflier@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Get rich you filthy plebiscite!

-Trump, effectively.

[–] TerdFerguson@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Plebiscite is, specifically, the common term for popular vote.

I think I get what you’re going for though.

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[–] peetabix@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 days ago

In that case the orange buffoon should have to pay the highest taxes.

[–] PhAzE@lemmy.ca 3 points 5 days ago

Hard to work hard when fuckers like him are trying to pay employees even less every year.

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