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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

New cars have always been a luxury good.
They've never been "affordable" to the bottom 40% of Americans.
Lower income households have always bought used cars. That's how the market works.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Credit where it's due!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago

That doesn't address my comment at all.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (4 children)

One of them kind of is necessary.
If you don't have some kind of "objective standard" to decide who gets a loan or not, you're at the whims of the loan officer sitting in front of you; Including all the bias they (knowingly or not) bring to the table.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (6 children)

They're a big step up from the previous alternative, that was rife with racism, abuse, and good-ole-boy advantage.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

The it sounds like you should be arguing for different semantics. Ones that match the experience of living breathing human beings.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (5 children)

The listed phone specs are hilarious.

  • 5000mAh long life camera

...

  • Processor & RAM
    • Storage: 12GB RAM
  • Memory
    • Internal Storage: 256GB Internal Storage (Expandable via card slot)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

If they don't, they're still transitioning their gender. Exactly how much they decide to change themselves doesn't matter. That's the point of the term.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Gender isn't biological. You're conflating with sex

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Depressingly, that would be a relative improvement.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

Well damn then.
That's extra depressing.

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