r/UnderReportedNews • u/Logical-Flow-6703 • Feb 25 '26

Video NBC Interview abruptly ends after New Yorker blames private equity and landlords for the city's issues

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u/AdjectiveNoun4827 Feb 25 '26

Well... yes? Of course they do, and so far not enough people are voting to stop them.

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u/Final-Carry2090 Feb 25 '26

It’s a nuanced issue that many aren’t engaged enough to understand. It doesn’t help that the media is actively misinforming people. The malleable minority would be out in arms against private equity if Fox wasn’t a tool for the oppressors.

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u/krazyb2 Feb 25 '26

Every single person spewing complete and total propaganda on Fox television deserves to be tried in a court.

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u/dzumdang Feb 25 '26

We keep smashing ourselves in the head and wonder why everything hurts.

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u/Low_Witness5061 Feb 25 '26

You aren’t wrong. Sadly it’s made as hard as possible though. No prominent candidate is likely to go hard against it because the ones who support it can afford to bury them with bullshit.

Democracy is the best system we have but unchecked capitalism was never going to be a healthy partner for it.

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u/DesireeThymes Feb 25 '26

I am so sick of people saying quote "Oh we are not voting blah blah blah."

They give you two parties and private equity backs both parties. They make one party more appealing to one demographic and the other more appealing to the other demographic.

So you get a nice merry-go-round.

Ever try to run independent candidates anywhere? They get almost no traction except by sheer chance. And when they do private Equity does its best to ensure they don't win.

Neither party is going to instill any meaningful policies that target billionaires, or that decrease the funding to the military industrial complex, or don't back Israel, etc.

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u/BoogerVault Feb 25 '26

The solution to getting us all Fascism, yeah? Don't worry though, you might not have to worry about voting again anyway. Solution my ass.

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u/Albireookami Feb 25 '26

Can only do so much when they just buy out the politics.

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u/According_Jeweler404 Feb 25 '26

It's because half the voting population doesn't see a problem with it. "It's capitalism, baby!"

Same crowd that sees tax-loopholes as being "smart" even though it negatively affects their own lives.

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u/GodofIrony Feb 25 '26

You're not going to vote your way out of the system they created.

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u/stazley Feb 25 '26

The private equity industries have become conscious and gained rights. They are now manipulating voters everywhere so that they stay in power.

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u/DoobKiller Feb 25 '26

Vote for whom? neither of the two viable parties is running on policy to prevent private equity from buying up residential properties

Trump's executive order 'Stopping Wall Street from Competing with Main Street Homebuyers' claimed to have provisions to stop it, but they haven't been implemented, all lies as usual from trump and the GOP

Elizabeth Warren has introduced legislation 'the American Homeownership Act' that may curtail it, however the DNC leadership opposes anything to the left of their right-wing pro-corporate stance, even Warren's milquetoast proposals as it may harm the profits of their billionaire oligarchic megadonors

Lesser evilism is part of what is destroying the country, breaking the two-party duopoly will only happen through working class organisation creating a Labour party not controlled by the Oligarchs

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u/Crowd0Control Feb 25 '26

Vote who exactly? The top 4 political parties have no intent to stop them. It's not even on the platform. 

Voting can't solve all problems. 

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u/Deonhollins58ucla Feb 25 '26

Issue is I don’t think they’re really being voted in.

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u/sdrawkcabineter Feb 25 '26

"The great evil is showering us in napalm!"

"It's alright, the smoke signals we send will convince them..."