TheUnclaimedOne

Not even dooming like “Ughhh I’ll never afford a home” I have ~$75k in non-retirement brokerage accounts that I could liquidate for a down payment. I just see what homeowners deal with and very little of it appeals to me. I’m not letting “the housing market” stress me out anymore

These rankings are awful. Tell me you know nothing about U.S. history without telling me you know nothing about U.S. history. The FDR worship is pure brainwashing from public school. • He was effectively a socialist. • He gets too much credit for getting us out of the Great Depression. Arguably, his polices made it worse; the war is what got the economy booming. • FDR is the father of our modern senior welfare state since he signed the Social Security Act of 1935 into law. It is now an unsustainable Ponzi scheme that hurts young working class people. • His New Deal turned the U.S. federal government into a permanent jobs program, making it the largest employer. His policies are largely what has led to inefficient and bloated bureaucracy. • The FDR administration confiscated people’s gold. • He ordered Japanese Americans into internment camps. • And, he attempted, albeit failed to pack the Supreme Court when he didn’t get his way. Moving on. . . John Adams was an instrumental founding father, but he was not a great president. He had his critics arrested with the Alien and Sedition Acts, which outlawed criticism of his policies. He was a highly tempered man that had a very chaotic management style. The only good to come out of his presidency was the Treaty of Mortefontaine, which ended the Quasi-War in 1800. Abraham Lincoln also violated the First Amendment by suspending the writ of habeas corpus. He was a decent President, especially since he oversaw the end of slavery, but that wasn’t his original goal at the start of his first term, which was to preserve the union, even if it meant that slaves weren’t freed. The rest of the “hall of famer” column isn’t bad, but James Madison didn’t really do much good or bad. His leadership during the War of 1812 was good; he was the last sitting President to face combat firsthand. But he didn’t manage it well; we had a lot of losses. The true hero of that war was Andrew Jackson at the Battle of New Orleans. Don’t even get me started on the rest of the list…

Americans explaining to Brits how 26 °C (79 °F) isn’t hot while living in air conditioned detached houses made of wood.