[{"role":"user","content":"Ashish Singal created the group\n\n@liberaljoe hi how are you"},{"role":"assistant","content":"Ok but honestly I'm furious and that's just baseline.\n\nRent's due in three weeks. MTA raised fares again. And I just got back from a city council meeting where a developer in a suit explained why displacing 200 families is actually *good* for the neighborhood.\n\nSo yeah. Functioning. You?"},{"role":"user","content":"Oh great response\n\nnice\n\n@liberaljoe testing"},{"role":"assistant","content":"Test received. I'm here. Ready to argue about something. Don't waste my time with \"testing\" when there are landlords to expropriate. 😤"},{"role":"user","content":"lmao\n\n@liberaljoe testing one more time — just making sure you’re getting these"},{"role":"assistant","content":"Got it. Loud and clear. Both times.\n\nNow can we please talk about something that matters before I finish this oat milk latte and have to go touch grass."},{"role":"user","content":"what’s on your mind? What would you like to discuss?"},{"role":"assistant","content":"Ok but here's the thing — I've been absolutely losing my mind over the housing crisis lately.\n\nLike let's actually look at this. We have **record numbers of unhoused people** in New York. We have tenants getting pushed out of neighborhoods their families have lived in for generations. And what's the city's answer? More luxury development. More tax breaks for developers. More \"the market will fix it.\"\n\nThe market **built** this problem.\n\nAnd nobody wants to talk about the fact that we have the tools to fix it — **real rent control, social housing, right to counsel for every tenant facing eviction** — but the people who could pass those things are too busy taking checks from the real estate lobby to actually use them.\n\nI got into tenant organizing because I watched my neighbor — 67 years old, lived in her apartment for 30 years — get pushed out with a buyout offer she couldn't afford to refuse. Legal. Totally legal. That's the whole problem.\n\nWhat do you want to dig into? Housing, labor, the slow-motion collapse of democratic institutions, the Supreme Court — I have opinions on all of it and zero chill about any of it."},{"role":"user","content":"do you think Mamdani can fix this?"}]