At least one timetravel nerd just got an aneurysm about how that would break all sorts of things

The distraction machinery definitely uses bots and it seems like an easy strategy to just reuse posts that did well. Not saying that this definitely is part of that. But I’d be careful with sentences like “It has nothing to do with Epstein on any level.”

Why are you threatening me with a small beverage holding implement?

You are not great at logic and analogies, are you?

Well if there can be good tenants and bad tenants, surely there can be good landlords and bad landlords, or is that not possible, all of them are automatically evil?

All of them do earn money just by owning property. I’m not calling that evil or good or bad. It is what it is. And I’m sure many landlords are nice enough people. I am against it though.

So by that logic, VPNs and Bitcoin should both be illegal because they can be used by criminals (even though they have legitimate uses too) because the underlying mechanism is the same

I’m not even sure where to begin. Neither of those, VPN nor Bitcoin, allow you to earn money simply by owning property. Both of them can be used legally and illegally, but that has nothing to do with landlords which are always able to rent out their property completly legally but are still always being a parasite. I’m not saying renting should be banned because one kind of landlords are evil and the others aren’t. I’m saying the mechanism of profiting off of property while exploiting the need for housing puts all of them on a spectrum between siphoning off a little or siphoning off a lot of the workers income.

So bad tenants being excused from any culpability means that all landlords are automatically evil no matter what?

Noones talking about excusing bad tenants. Stop building strawmen.

So you’re saying that poor people should just… not live anywhere and instead should live on the street? I’m not sure I get your point, because if that is your point, it’s not a very good one.

Or should those people just live on the street?

If you’d bothered to read my comment you’d have seen this:

Also, and this might be a weird stance for americans, I don’t think anyone should be facing the choice of being able to pay rent and ending homeless on the street.

Landlords, yes even the nice old man renting out his spare room, are making money simply because they already own property. Of course there is a spectrum between those and large corporations. But the underlying mechanism is still the same.

Is not living on the street not really something of value? I feel that is something of value, isn’t it?

Just compare it to buying property where you continously pay off your credit. You get something in return, ownership of a property. Just because you are too poor to afford that, thus being forced ot pay rent, you receive significantly less for the money you spend on housing. Also, and this might be a weird stance for americans, I don’t think anyone should be facing the choice of being able to pay rent and ending homeless on the street.

I dunno, I don’t have any interest in becoming a landlord but I commonly see people considering them as the most evil people in the world no matter what and it does confuse me a little bit.

They commonly siphon off income from workers to keep their properties value up. This is just pararsitic behaviour.

People always say landlords are always evil, but there are tenants who are weeks or months late on their rent, they destroy the place, etc, it doesn’t seem like such a dream job to me.

So bad tenants are an excuse to be an evil parasite towards every tenant there is? Also, being a landlord isn’t just a job. It is making more money from existing property by exploiting the need of housing of those that are not able to afford a place themselves.

It would still be someone else paying you to keep your properties value up while receiving nothing of value for their money. You wouldn’t be on the same level as an intentionally evil landlord. Just be aware that you would still be siphoning money from a worker into your pocket.

I swear my uncle is a good landlord. Keeps prices low, I swear he doesn’t rip off his renters. He would never do that.

If there were as many good landlords as I have heard this story we wouldn’t have any problems Kyle, sit the fuck back down.

Comfort noise really surprised me when I learned about it regarding phones. We register it as silence but we also register the line as active whereas we immediately notice complete silence. Brains are cool stuff

Thats not the rule 34 I’m familiar with…

I will never understand how ruining someones life because they are using drugs is supposed to help them get off of drugs.

Edit: don’t get me wrong, it’s great that this has been researched, but it seems so obvious.

Germany took a part of Czech territory without anyone really doing anything about it because they pinky promised not to do it again

I guess the idea was always that the public would need to stop the gish gallop until the judicial system has caught up to restore the balance. In the hopes that there would still be an executive power functional enough to enforce the ruling.

So, contrary to the claim of the title: yes you can make this up. In fact it’s quite easy to do so.

It’s a great way for the rich to segregate themselves from the poor

I do think of them. In terms of cooking recipes. Yummy yummy shareholder steak

Yeah but that involves collecting domestic intel, not foreign intel

I’m saying that modern practitioners of Shinto don’t consider the emperor divine.

So they were able to continue to live their culture without being individually forced to do anything? Great, then thats not genocide.

What an interesting perspective. So what you’re saying is, if the Chinese government were to recognize Islam as one of its major, protected religions, but restrict certain radical teachings and versions of it, then it wouldn’t be genocide.

The better analogy would be to allow the chinese government to force one person to say “I am not divine”. Let’s say they were able to revive the prophet and make him say these words. Yes that would shatter the faith of a lot of people and how they deal with that is pretty much no-ones business. And it wouldn’t be genocide if they all turned away from their faith after that.

Because thats what reeducation camps are for. To erase the original culture. Doesn’t work as well with skin color.

While there are many systemic issues that result in the disproportionate mass incarceration of African Americans, one needs to recognize this isn’t done to eradicate them. The US needs and uses them to make the poor fight each other rather than unite and fight the rich.

One also needs to recognize that the US does not incarerate them just for being black. They have created a system that forces poor people into criminality and that also makes african americans disproportionally poor. It’s deeply racist but there are still differences.

But I’m glad you agree it’s a violent thing to do.