Dammit
and that trump was in one of them being a creep
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Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
halvar@lemy.lol 2 weeks ago
once you stop taking politics seriously it’s fucking hilarious that the americans elected a president who felt the need to be in a fucking Home Alone movie because he is that egotistical.
you probably have to do a ton of weed or randomly dissociate after coming home from the grocery store where you spent your life savings, but man once you get there
Mirshe@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
He had to be in it because they filmed in his hotel. Imagine Paris Hilton wanting to be in a film because part of the movie is shot in a Hilton. It wasn’t enough that everything in that hotel is labeled “Trump”, he had to show up and have a speaking role because otherwise you might forget who the hotel belongs to.
theneverfox@pawb.social 2 weeks ago
I think that part is pretty normal, lots of people make deals like that
The crazy part is how he used to call newspapers under false names to talk himself up
Hell, there’s a reasonable amount of evidence suggesting that he was never a billionaire (until this year at least), he apparently got on the Forbes list by bugging them until they put him in
SARGE@startrek.website 2 weeks ago
I mean, by then we had Ronald Reagan, so…
It’s always been a joke.
Furbag@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It’s not really that surprising that Trump would request a cameo considering they used one of his hotels for filming.
The thing that I have never been able to get over is how the guy who live in a luxurious penthouse suite and shits on a gilded toilet, that has built his entire brand identity about being a rich douchebag somehow convinced people that he was a champion of the common man, as if he has literally anything in common with the average American whatsoever. I still burn even today when I think about how stupid people are to have fallen for it in the first place.
Now any criticism of him is automatically political, because he got elected to the most important job in the nation. Even criticism of him before he became a politician is being reframed as just disgruntled Democrats trying to tear down Trump.
I hate him. So much.
CluckN@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It’s an easy way to get your name out there. Look at Zelenskyy, dude played a fictional president before being elected. That’s like electing Kevin Spacey for being in House of Cards.
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
don’t think there’s a point to attribute morality or judgment from a cameo from a then tv celebrity.
he is one of the worst people who ever lived. but i doubt that cameo had anything to do with it.
stiffyGlitch@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
what
NoSpotOfGround@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
From Google AI:
In 1990, the year the film was released, the actual house from Home Alone was purchased for $875,000. Economists from the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago have determined that, at that price, the home was only affordable to the top 1% of Chicago households at the time. Other details about the home’s value and affordability:
The actual property at 671 Lincoln Avenue in Winnetka, Illinois, sold for $875,000 in 1989, just prior to the film’s release in 1990.
To afford the house in 1990 (assuming they spent no more than 30% of their income on housing), the McCallister family would have needed a household income of about $305,000, which is approximately $665,000 in 2022 dollars.
The house last sold in 2012 for $1.58 million and again in early 2025 for $5.5 million.
arrow74@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
From Google AI:
So it’s unsourced and likely inaccurate.
dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
Brave pairing Ai content. Surprised you have more upvotes than downvotes with this crowd.
I’m happy to see things summarised by LLMs, so thanks for the details.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
summarized
Oh, then surely the Google AI can tell us exactly what it summarized, right?
DahGangalang@infosec.pub 2 weeks ago
I’m mostly cool with it because they disclosed it was AI up front. Its also a summarization (vs OC), so even if it isn’t exactly correct it probably just mixed up a year/dollar value pairing at worst.
favoredponcho@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
So, I do happen to know that they made some changes to the houses including building a full size basketball court two levels underground. However, making $665,000 is not enough to afford an $5million dollar house.
LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Read it again more closely. In 1990 in order for them to afford an $885,000 house, they would have needed an annual household income of $335,000 which is the 2025 equivalent of $665,000.
bulwark@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
hakunawazo@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
glibg@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
My fav part is on the plane when Kevin’s dad guesses that the issue is he left the garage door open… and is completely unbothered by it. This sort of thing would have ruined my dad’s entire vacation.
cockmushroom@reddthat.com 2 weeks ago
I’m sure that’s what he wants you to think.
sepi@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
Had so many kids that they forgot one for the longest time. TBH they were fine without him too.
idiomaddict@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
And he was a messy little fucker, anyway
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
are you going to blame the child for developing coping mechanisms for the intense neglect he grew up with?
happy ending of home alone, CPS intervenes at the end
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
Krompus@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
They somehow made it look bland as hell. They added a fucking basketball court? Are they targeting Chicago Bulls players?
RagingRobot@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
We are getting ready to sell our house and the realtor wants us to paint everything boring colors and it’s killing me. She mentioned white was a good choice lol.
I can’t wait to get in my new place and paint it so I can feel normal again. Who wants to be surrounded by boring white walls all day
Psythik@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I’m having this argument with my realtor right now. She wants me to paint the entire house a boring white color, destroying all of its character; even ruin the wood cabinets by painting them too. I think she’s crazy but the wife is siding with her so I don’t know what the fuck to do. I don’t want to ruin my beautiful stained wood with ugly, white paint. I find it hard to believe that this is what actually sells.
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
Originality is scary to the vast majority of people. And because of billionaires, comforting and following pays off in the short term, and most people are selfish, stupid, and irresponsible.
imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Jesus. This house has nothing in common with Home Alone anymore. I bet they would bank more on keeping it as close to original as possible, or in other words - do nothing and win.
Obi@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
“who would need a vacation to Paris when you have this” under a pic of the blandest, whitest, most boring bedroom I’ve ever seen.
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
It feels like a disjointed bizarro dream version. Imagine living there and constantly feeling like you’re having deja vu about home alone
VerilyFemme@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
Why do renovations always mean “make it look like a lab, not a home?” Someone get Kevin’s aunt and uncle in New York on the phone before it’s too late for them.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 weeks ago
The ideal clients are obviously people who cook meth for a living.
hperrin@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
That would be at least $350k in today’s money.
wizzor@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
And a person who made 250k in a decade then, would make 275k now.
dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
That’s a 500k house easily
helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Happy cake day, I think that house will be in the millins. That’s basically a mansion in a Chicago suburb, a relatively nice neighborhood, and in walking distance of a big park.
hperrin@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
It’s probably be worth way more than 500k. I meant what they paid for it back then would only be like 350k today, despite the house being worth millions.
__nobodynowhere@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
5.25 million
hperrin@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
I don’t think inflation since the eighties is 1500%.
mkhopper@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Aside from the house, who the hell is going to pay the electric bill.
Does every damn light in the place need to be on?chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
And this is pre-LED bulb days. They didn’t even have compact florescents. Imagine the power bill from incandescent bulbs running for several days.
EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 2 weeks ago
It was winter in this. The indoors lights are functionally small space heaters, granted electric heating is comparatively expensive.
stiffyGlitch@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
post: about home alone house
people in comments: politics
me: jumps off of bridge
with bungee cords
buttnugget@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
That makes it seem like the post is about the house itself and not about limited access to resources. I’m glad you went bungee jumping but this is exactly the type of post it should be.
stiffyGlitch@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
oh ok
politics totally have everything to do with the cost of the house
ThatGuy46475@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It was a multi family household along with his aunts uncles and cousins. Probably cheaper to do it that way.
MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
We’re they all living there? I thought most were just there for the Christmas period?
SynAcker@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
No it wasn’t. The mom mentioned that the uncle and family drove in from Ohio.
But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
That house is why the Lego set is so damn expensive
Nanook@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
250k was still a shit ton of money back then, not a round trip to the grocery store like now.
arrow74@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Assuming they purchased that home in 1980 at 250k that would be valued just under 1 million today after inflation.
That house would easily be selling for 2 to 3 million now
tehBishop@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
5 million
realtor.com/…/home-alone-house-lists-after-seriou…
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Yeah but also it was like a 9b/6.5br house with bonkers common space