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TubularTittyFrog

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  • Billie Eilish says ‘fuck ICE’ during Grammy win: ‘No one is illegal on stolen land’

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  • what makes it genuine? i have no doubt she feels that way. i can feel lots of things and make statements about them.

    that is very different than taking actions regarding those feelings. and that is true of celebrities as is of everyone else. Lots of people I know complain about stuff, but few of them actively make choices to improve the things they complaint about. And the people who tend to actively do such things... don't complain or make grandiose political statements.

    One of my friends and I donate to immigrant families. I take old computers from work, fix them up, and together we give them to immigrant families, because they need computers. I take direct action to support and make their lives better. I don't complain about how hard they have it and how awful their lives are and how evil ICE is. I simply help them.

  • Billie Eilish says ‘fuck ICE’ during Grammy win: ‘No one is illegal on stolen land’

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  • right, my 1850s ancestor who was a substance farmer in Italy totally stole the land from the native americans...

  • Billie Eilish says ‘fuck ICE’ during Grammy win: ‘No one is illegal on stolen land’

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  • You believing in anarchism isn't doing anything to change the laws that govern your physical and legal body.

    But please lecture me about how nothing exists other than the ideal utopia inside your head and anyone who thinks your imaginary world instead your head is the 'real' one and the external one with property laws, borders, and real human beings is 'fake'.

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  • pretty much. they cosplay at being working-class/poor because it makes them feel like they aren't rich douchebags like their parents, and once it gets old/difficult/mom and dad get mad, they 'grow up' and stop doing it.

    I am in my 40s and I meet a lot of trustafians. they get so ANGRY when they realize I am not like them and I'm some 'loser' who made my own way up in life with hard work and didn't spend my 20s partying and traveling and working low-income jobs because it was 'authentic'. i had a low income job because it was the only one I could get until I had enough experience to get a better paying job.

    my rebelling was going to college and working my ass off, because my parents were uneducated lazy morons.

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  • so basically let the poorest of the poor guillotine everyone so they can take all our stuff, and then start killing each other?

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  • who determines the number of properties?

    what if a landlord buys up 1000 properties and rents them out below market rates, is that systematic harm?

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  • You're not wrong. I do some of those things.

    But the problem is most of my peers disagree with me. The majority of people in my city are against opening up zoning restrictions. My opinions is in the minority, and I am not economically powerfully enough to have much influence over politicians or voters.

    And this includes many of my so called leftist progressive peers. many of my leftist friends are adamantly against zoning reform, and they, like landlords, want more restricted development. when i express my opinion on expanding housing supply they tell me I'm greedy and evil and that what we need is rent controls and no new development and that nobody should be allowed to move here who doesn't already live here. and this is all local politics, not federal stuff.

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  • my mortgage for a 2bedroom apartment is 3000/mo. i make over 8000 a month so it's not a big deal. 5 year ago i was only making about 6000 a month so I needed rental income.

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  • based in that you actually brought facts and context to the discussion.

    housing values detached from inflation starting in the early 1990s, which is when housing starts started to decline and population and economy grew a lot.

    it's too much money chasing too few homes due to economic changes in the 1980s and 1990s that vastly financialized the economy and homes became investment class assets rather than fixed assets, which they had been historically. Fixed assets typically retain value over time only see returns that are approximate to inflation, like a savings account. Homes used be savings accounts, now they are more like stocks.

    all of this can be fixed with changes in economic policy. but nobody wants those changes because deflating the housing market would cripple the economy because so much wealth is locked up in housing values. housing values are so high, and rents are so high, because people are willing to pay those prices and people are actively against new housing supply construction.

    markets where housing supply has been less restricted, saw far less price inflation than those markets where housing was highly restricted.

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  • what class status are you?

    do you intend to forever be that status, or do you aspire to become a higher status?

    i've been multiple status and i know people from all different statuses over the year. they are far more alike than they are different and most people who swap status become the thing they claimed to hate when they were poor.

    and a lot of people are straight up delusional wrong about their status. I've met people who have millions of dollars who think they are struggling working-class people. I have family members who have about 50 million dollars, who think they are poor working class proletariat, just like you do. Same family who also lecture me about what a rich snob I am when my net worth is about 1/100th of theirs. I also have had friends and romantic partners who grew up poorer than I did, who think I'm a poor loser piece of shit because the home I own is only worth about 500K, meanwhile they had no home and 100K+ of debt and they blame everyone but themselves for their self-imposed poverty, while claiming those who are more objectively successful than they are, are all poor losers because they aren't richer.

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  • i have been called all four in the same thread once. proudest moment of my time in the fediverse.

    makes you know you are on the right track with everyone hates you and thinks you are evil

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  • a place to live

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  • in my housing market mortgages about double what rents are.

    is that absurd? or is that correct. because i live in the #1 or #2 most expensive market depending on the year.

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  • tankies don't believe in work and effort.

    they believe they should be given things for free, because work and effort is bad and wrong. because if they don't do it, nobody should! the idea of making something of yourself is evil and capitalist! just sit on your butt and day dream and don't true to improve your life, because that's evil capitalism!

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  • so why don't you go into some state owned land and live off the land in a tent?

    according to your worldview everyone who owns anything and uses it to economic benefit for themselves is evil and wrong.

    and yet i highly doubt you yourself aren't doing that on a daily basis, nor have you structure your own personal life in a perfectly just way.

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  • Anarchists all agree that anyone else who claims to be an anarchist isn't an anarchist.

    That's about the only consistent think I've ever heard about Anarchists.

    Which is why they overlap with Punks a lot. Punks favorite think to do is talk about how punk they are and how other punks aren't punk.

    Both things aren't an ideology over a political movement. They are vanity label that stands for nothing other than being 'against' things.

    and we all can agree that Tankies are complete nutjobs.

    Anarchists by bare definition are not anti-anything except permanent rules and laws. Banning rentals would make you a tyrant and Anarchists would hang you for that.

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  • People who believe in idealizes theory don't care about facts or a complex reality.

    They just think that stuff is fake or lies and will be swept away but the glory of the revolution when all the evil awful people own property get it stolen from them and it's handed out to the TRULY DESERVING people, like themselves. Who are so pure and wonderful and good... they'd never seek ownership or profit.

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  • immigrants are wonderful and perfect but only if they are struggling and oppressed.

    until they own homes. then they are evil oppressors who are destroying society with their greed.

    immigrants should just learn place and forever rent and be miserable and poor so they can joint the glorious proletariat revolution! not be evil greedy capitalists who want to provide for their kids!

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  • and who is in charge of this society, and what do they set the 'fair rent' rates at? you?