TubularTittyFrog
@TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world
- Comment on An ice dance duo skated to AI music at the Olympics | TechCrunch 4 days ago:
they didn’t want to pay for it. it’s expensive to license music
- Comment on Rent is theft 1 week ago:
it doesn’t do that. most business owners and home owners are not above others nor do they cause other people suffering.
some people are abusive and exploitative, yes. that is regardless of their financial status.
And who judges all of this? I work in cancer trials. Is my job causing other people to suffer because we have them go on experimental treatments that might not improve their chances of beating cancer?
- Comment on Rent is theft 1 week ago:
I’m not currently a landlord and don’t intend to be one ever again unless my circumstance sharing housing with someone else.
- Comment on Rent is theft 1 week ago:
according to many other random people here, I should be murdered and killed because I own property that I live in, and they think that’s correct because of some theory they believe in.
what they really mean is ‘I wish I had the power to kill and murder people who had more than I do because I’m bitter and blame others for my failings and refuse to take responsibility for my inability to provide for myself. So I’ll just sit around and fantasize and wish violence on others in my head and be abusive on the internet.’
Sitting around and fantasizing about a prefect world in which your life will be a wonderful and happy is a lot easier… than actually making your life better though work.
- Comment on Rent is theft 1 week ago:
ok, so if i come over and murder you and steal all your shit, you’re perfectly OK with that? As long, as I think it’s moral to do that, we’re good right?
Good to know. All you are making an argument for is total chaos where everyone’s feelings are all that matters, and it’s ok to do whatever i want to anyone as long as any of us feel it’s good to do that thing.
- Comment on Rent is theft 1 week ago:
do they murder and kill all the conservatives, moderates, and white people in Star Trek?
last time i saw it all the captains were white guys…
- Comment on Rent is theft 1 week ago:
It entirely depends on the house. Some people get bankrupted by their homes, some get really lucky and have very low maintenance costs. When I rented I had something like 60%+ disposable income.
Sounds like you are very economically well-off, and you can likely afford to outsource your labor and upkeep. I could not. I had more free money and time when I rented because I cannot afford to higher maids, landscapers, and etc. I do almost every minor repair myself, including plumbing and electrical and I absolutely dread the day I will have to replace a roof or do another very costly repair and it sucks to have to have a pile of money I have to keep aside for that, when I’d rather use it for something enjoyable. Owning a home has seriously impacted my ability to vacation and travel in both terms of money and time to the point I haven’t left the country in 5 years. I am ‘wealtheir’ on paper, but that wealth doesn’t do much for me in my day to day life. My 8 grand a month income does less for me than my 2 grand a month income did for me 10 years ago, because so much of it is sunk into my home.
- Comment on Rent is theft 1 week ago:
pretty much. they cosplay at being working-class/poor because it makes them feel like they aren’t rich douchebags, 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.
- Comment on Rent is theft 1 week ago:
so basically let the poorest of the poor guillotine everyone so they can take all our stuff, and then start killing each other?
- Comment on Rent is theft 1 week ago:
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?
- Comment on Rent is theft 1 week ago:
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.
- Comment on Rent is theft 1 week ago:
my mortgage for a 2bedroom apartment is 3000/mo. i make over 8000 a month so it’s not a big deal.
- Comment on Rent is theft 1 week ago:
based in that you actually brought facts and context to the discussion.
- Comment on Rent is theft 1 week ago:
what class status are you?
- Comment on Rent is theft 1 week ago:
i have been called all three in the same thread once. proudest moment of my time in the fediverse.
- Comment on Rent is theft 1 week ago:
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!
- Comment on Rent is theft 1 week ago:
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.
- Comment on Rent is theft 1 week ago:
Anarchists all agree that anyone else who claims to be an anarchist isn’t an anarchist.
- Comment on Rent is theft 1 week ago:
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.
- Comment on Rent is theft 1 week ago:
immigrants are wonderful and perfect and oppressed.
until they own homes. then they are evil oppressors.
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!
- Comment on Rent is theft 1 week ago:
and who is in charge of this society, and what do they set the ‘fair rent’ rates at?
- Comment on Rent is theft 1 week ago:
pretty much. the person you are replying to is entirely delusional and has decided ‘money is evil’ so therefore they shouldn’t ever have to pay anyone for anything.
And yet I wonder if they go into the grocery store and steal food… probably not. it’s almost as if they are just rhetorically grandstanding to feel superior to us ‘idiots’ who think money isn’t ‘evil’.
- Comment on Rent is theft 1 week ago:
you’re wrong. objectively. you are delusional and making ridiculous statements that are objectively false, both about housing and about MAGA, neither of which have anything to do with each other.
- Comment on Rent is theft 1 week ago:
They also had an incredibly corrupt and repressive society full of black markets.
- Comment on Rent is theft 1 week ago:
why is it crazy if someone is willing to pay it?
- Comment on Rent is theft 1 week ago:
houses aren’t free money machines. they are very costly.
- Comment on Rent is theft 1 week ago:
Math is hard.
- Comment on Rent is theft 1 week ago:
most americans want to be rich and are jealous as hell they aren’t the rich, and if they got rich, they would be just as greedy and self-interested as they rich they claim to hate so much are.
I’ve seen pretty much all my 20s anarchist/communist friends become landlords who now argue that taxes and tenants are evil. they felt exploited and now they feel free to exploit… it’s almost as if it isn’t about fairness and more about bitterness and power.
people tend to become the things they hate.
- Comment on Rent is theft 1 week ago:
sorry, what about your labor makes it more valuable than anyone else who also rents?
- Comment on Rent is theft 1 week ago:
the majority of landlords aren’t corporations.
