https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/house-fails-extend-eviction-moratorium-ahead-week-recess/story?id=79168095

https://web.archive.org/web/20210731004429/https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/house-fails-extend-eviction-moratorium-ahead-week-recess/story?id=79168095

    • Awoo [she/her]
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      3 years ago

      Personally I think that the vast majority of them think that they're unstoppable and that there's absolutely no way that anything bad could ever happen to them. I think we're so far past the last time that they had any large scale consequences and that globalising production has made all the suffering... Distant. They think trouble is something that only happens to the people over there and not to them over here.

      In essence, I think they don't believe anything can ever go wrong in the imperial core and as a result they do not give a shit. I think this hubris will be their undoing eventually.

    • Dingdangdog [he/him,comrade/them]
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      3 years ago

      I have no idea where I heard it described like this, probably here or maybe a commie drinking buddy, but they described the current people in charge as "the sons and daughters of capitalists"

      Meaning the positions they hold are purely nepotistic, and that they have no fucking idea what to do except for following the path their fathers left for them.

      when it comes down to stuff like this, that's completely alien to their experience and there isn't a written in stone "do this to make money" rule to follow they just guess.

      currently they feel completely unstoppable, so they ran the math, and decided this one somehow saves money. This could be for a few reasons, but mostly because they are so fucking alienated from the landlord-tenant system they have no idea what it entails and don't understand that you can't just get into a new house after you are evicted.

      They have no idea about credit checks and renter's history, it's never come up for them and these things are by-products of the system instead of written into the legislation, so honestly, they'd probably be pretty surprised to find out about it.

      I legitimately think most of these fucking imbeciles don't even understand how any of this works.

      Expect a screaming hot take from some higher-up in the government saying something like "oh why don't you just look for a new place?" to confirm this theory.

      For further info on what comes next check out the Ds9 episodes past tense pt 1 and pt 2 lmao

      • quarantine_man [none/use name]
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        3 years ago

        Expect a screaming hot take from some higher-up in the government saying something like “oh why don’t you just look for a new place?” to confirm this theory.

        why don't all these people just get a small loan of a million dollars from their parents?

        • Dingdangdog [he/him,comrade/them]
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          3 years ago

          I was evicted, nervous breakdown and lost my job, like 9 years ago and the person I was talking to about the court proceedings and process literally told me to tell my parents to pay off the debt.

          like, yeah, that's what they literally think we can all do lmao

          I could go on about what a scam that was too. Ended up getting my bank accounts frozen and eventually paycheck liened until I paid off that debt which was 6 months of rent, during which I never even used the apartment because I was evicted.

    • Wheaties [she/her]
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      3 years ago

      They gain nothing. Maybe some of them think it's necessary for their "great reset", but it's really just a futher hollowing of the imperial core.

    • inshallah2 [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      My hunch is even as recently as a few weeks ago - Biden, Pelosi, and Schumer (etc) decided that because Biden's vaccination stuff was going so well they focused on purely on the politics of 2022. In their POV - even trying to continue the moratorium wasn't worth the "political capital" to try get Sinema and Manchin to play ball.

      They'd let the evictions happen, and they'd blame the republicans. Plus they'd say Gotta vote harder in 2022 so we got a bigger majority! But when vaccination stuff started to go haywire - they didn't know what to do. Maybe the supreme court's ruling surprised them? That makes no sense at all. But I just don't understand it. Anyway - they did what they often do when they are facing a non-Trump crisis which is nothing at all.

      All of this is ghoulish, insanely stupid, and horribly self-destructive. But, hey, they're democrats - it's what they do.