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You notice the Uline logo in the background. Wonder why JD Vance is standing in front of it? It’s because Uline is one of the biggest donors to the GOP. In 2024 they spent over $146 million on Republicans.
Did anyone’s landlord call them and say the rent payment can be lower now? Anyone??
Uline? More like U-Lyin’
I’ve never heard of ULINE in my life
Chances are you see their products every day.
After looking them up, it seems unlikely.
You’ve never walked on a carpet in a grocery store, or use plastic bags, or use a public bathroom, or stop at a gas station?
I wasnt aware of their existence either but if they’re that broad how can you possibly boycott them without being fully self sustainable (Large garden / Farm, ability to create your own furniture, not having to use a car in the suburban and rural US)
Sure. But none of them would bother buying stuff from a US shitty corp when we have all kinds of shitty corps (and possibly even some regular ones) to pick from over here.
Never seen a tape gun or box cutter? Get real
Can you get it through your thick neanderthal skull that some people actually exist outside of the US, and out of the range of companies that are ubiquitous to you?
Your world isn’t univeral. Incredible, I know.
Nah
Me neither.
Going to be an odd question but if I need 700 paper bags, 50 wooden boxes, and a giant roll of bubble wrap next weekend can somebody reccomend a place?
Never knew the affiliation before now but a quick search shows it’s apparently big enough that there’s a whole website dedicated to alternatives
Remember when we used to joke about how politicians should wear their sponsors proudly like a racecar driver? Remember when that was just satire?
Hell, remember between 2003 to 2007 when the DNC had effectively banned money from politics? Remember the SCOTUS striking it down?
At first, I thought this was satire. I still don’t believe it, but I am willing to be persuaded by new information. Do you or anyone who knows much about this have links or even the name of the legislation?
The Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002 written by DNC and introduced multiple times between 1995 and 2002,
The Citizens United v. FEC Decision granted in 2008 and finalized in 2010.
A quick summary is on Wikipedia.
It wasn’t perfect, mind you, but since its stop being granted starting in 2008 the election spending has ballooned dramatically.
Im with you on Citizens United being a nightmare but if I understand your argument and your chart you are saying 100s of millions per election to politicians equals “banned money in politics.” Is that correct?
If so I dont believe we mean the same thing when we say those words.
It banned PACs and Corporations from spending on and engaging with campaigns, so yes, it removed money from politics.
Would the world not be so much better without oil companies and AIPAC running elections?
I agree with you on banning PACs and corps from spending on and engaging in campaigns.
My point is you aren’t going far enough. If you think $100 million spent for a candidate in 2002 is an ideal worth striving for or somehow equal to no money in politics, you are in for disappointment or you don’t remember that era well enough.
This still nearly entirely excluded normal people from becoming a candidate. Corporations were still writing our laws during that time through lobbying. Not to mention a dozen other in roads for money in politics during that era, such as insider trading.
Funny, this article (archive) about the rent prices dropping seems to have another take on the reason.
The historic surge in multifamily construction over the past few years is now pulling back, but a good supply of new units is still coming online at a time of much weaker demand.
So there is a glut of new rentals available due to historic levels of construction and…
“That 18- to 34-year-old group … I think it’s up to 32.5% of those now are living with family, and that’s the highest it’s been in a while,” said Grant Montgomery, CoStar’s national director of multifamily analytics. “I think it reflects high rental costs that have risen over the years, as well as the tougher job market for young folks just coming out of college.”
“That is where a lot of demand traditionally comes from, the core renter demand is from that sort of younger base,” he said.
Younger workers can’t afford to move out of their parents home because they can’t find a job they pays enough to do so, or any job at all in many cases.
Yeah, that makes more sense than Trump’s criminal efforts to kick anyone brown or black out of the country.
This fucking here.
I’m about to accept an offer for 30% less than what I made before. Because the economy fucking sucks.
I used to be able to save on top of my living expenses but I will, for first time since right after graduating, be living more or less paycheck to paycheck.
It’s a fucking travesty.
What even is that message? Ousting a few thousand people out of homes, where many of those homes remain occupied anyway, somehow causes rents to go down?
That’s not how any of this works.
It’s just emotional slop, like everything from from conservatives is
Corporations and foreign nationals buying up single family homes whole-ass neighborhoods at a time in order to price gouge the market utilizing soulless AI driven collusion software? Nah, couldn’t be the problem. Poor people living six-seven adults to a home however…
If Republican voters had more than one brain cell to rub together they’d be very upset by all this.
that same shit is going down in plenty of completely dem-controlled cities, where do you think they perfect all these greedy schemes before pushing them out across the whole country?
Uline sends out a lot of big thick catalogs to businesses, and they’re terrible about keeping an up to date mailing list. I get joy discarding them when they send them to vacant buildings (they’re 3rd class mail), and more joy when the few I do deliver go straight to the trash by the customers I deliver them to.
At the Post Office we call them the Urines, because they piss everyone off.
I used one of those to start my grill for years
We’ve gotten a few of those catalogs, and I looked through them out of curiosity. It always seemed to me that their prices are high, or at least no better than other sources.
I don’t remember specifics, but a few things I looked at were cheaper on Amazon or other sources; often it was the exact same item with a different brand name on it.
Probably easier to make a list of companies that aren’t GOP donors
When i was working for a company that did a lot of shipping last year, i moved them away from uline and ended up saving them a bunch of money. I still got laid off because they “couldnt afford to keep me” (despite them being a multibillion dollar organization…) but least i got to tell uline to go fuck themselves.
I’ve done the same at my job. Screw uline. They overcharge on products and shipping to pay for their GOP donations.
This has Four Seasons Landscaping vibes
Just going to leave this here… https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.goodsuniteus.goods
I’ve been using it for a while to try to shop more ethically, realizing that there is no ethical consumption.
I just started a new job in the packaging industry and I’m happy to say they are a competitor. I get to hate them for multiple reasons now. Nice.
He giving out houses? Thought that was commulism
No, they’re just illegally removing people from houses…which is fascism
The source of all your discontents is that you’re fighting for a limited set of resources, says a landlord that owns multiple properties.
