Right to own property for me but not for thee
At Wednesday’s hearing, the measure got a boost from P.M. Azinga, a Mesa resident who said she taught in China for five years. “The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fight,” she said, quoting from the ancient Chinese military treatise by Sun Tzu. That rang a bell with Sen. Sonny Borrelli, R-Lake Havasu City, who is a retired service member and called himself “a student of Sun Tzu.” What that philosophy involves, Borrelli said, is “encroachment, either through purchase, or their grab a little, nudge a little, grab a little, nudge a little.”
Oh shit we've got a Sun Tzu student here.
who is a retired service member and called himself “a student of Sun Tzu.”
man, I love it when army dumbfucks start considering themselves warrior-philosophers because they read a few Sun Tzu and Clausewitz quotes
taking 4 years of your life, a 6 month marriage and a Dodge Charger to understand what they're talking about in the death screens in Call of Duty.
[Sen.Tyler Pace, R-Mesa,] questioned what, if anything, might attract Chinese interest.
“Other than Sedona, I don’t know what else they would want to buy,” Pace said.
But, but, but, Sun Tzu said my desert metropolis pumping water from Colorado is strategic... right? :liberty-weeping:
Brave American patriot armed with ancient Chinese secrets. Xi will never know what hit him.
"If you can do something beneficial, do it."
My god, truly a genius, if every General read Sun Tzu there'd be no war because they'd realize all battles have already been determined in advanced.
(Yeah I don't get it either)
It's definitely in the "it's been around a long time so it must be good or authoritative" camp.
Honkies are obsessed with conquest because that's the only contribution they've ever made to the world
It's the equivalent of cops saying they have "special firearms training" because they shoot a box a year for qualifications. Patting themselves on the back for knowing the very basics of something they think is cool.
I mean, have you seen how far away they can merc your dog now? Their firearms training is definitely benifitting someone.
Arizona has some of the most bloodthirsty cops, fucked up poorly lit dilapidated roads, and a ridiculously skyrocketing cost of living with no end in sight. But no, the evil see see pee is more important.
Probably https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Alien_Land_Law_of_1913 ? And also the various Chinese/Asian exclusion acts of that era.
Wouldn't it be easy to circumvent this by just using a corporation to buy the land?
Also, China would do this to secure their food supply, which is why a Chinese company bought Big Hog company Smithfield a while back. They also believe in climate change, so why would they buy land in Arizona?
China has an issue with property speculation too, it's their big current crisis. Lots of Chinese bourgeoisie see international investment in property as a more stable option because America doesn't have a history of land reform.
It's amazing that America is so cucked that Chinese speculators see their real estate as basically guaranteed return on investment. Like, them getting accused of corruption or some other illegality will always be a danger, so they just park their "backup" in the west, where they know that their money makes them untouchable.
Incorporating a business called “not CCP lol inc.” and buying a shit ton of land while Arizona :wojak-nooo:’s in the background
Can I volunteer to be chairman of the Not-CCP-Freedom-Eagle-Corp? For a modest salary, I will be the straw purchaser of land in western countries, especially in Arizona?
Ok, cool. now ban land purchases, generally. land reform when? :mao-aggro-shining:
Obviously this is bad stupid red scare shit. But I think I would support a full blanket rule of “If you don’t live in the country you aren’t allowed to own land there.”
Foreign investors should not own land in any country. Investors and land should actually be terms that never come into contact.
No one should own land. But banning foreign people from owning land is just xenophobia if it is done under capitalism and not concurrently with banning people in the country from doing so
In a colonial context, it's preventing rich foreigners from buying up all the capital in your country and funneling out the wealth.
However, the US is not in a colonial context.
eh, you could argue a lot of american land is colonized by other americans. wealth funnels out of poor neighborhoods into rich ones, and pigs are just the occupying army stopping people from restoring themselves. However, it definitely isn't a foreign colonization. Although the proportion of european descendants with power over POC either native american or otherwise also sort of works here. But it is a loose idea and blocking land purchase wouldn't stop that.
For sure. Regarding internal colonies, the case for land & capital redistribution becomes very clear
"Land speculators are ruining the economy and making it impossible to buy a house. Please help"
"Sure thing. We've banned the Chinese from buying houses here so that should help a lot"
"What about the non-Chinese land speculators?" :)
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"What about the non-Chinese land speculators?" :|
Off-shoring every job to China is the best thing that ever happened, says the neoliberal, but now we need to go to war with China because they took all our jobs.
banning foreign people from owning land is just xenophobia
It harnesses xenophobia towards a leftist end. But limiting land ownership to the land's residents is a fundamentally communist idea. The xenophobia only really comes into play when you're denying people the right to travel, trade, and cohabitate together.
Banning people from demanding a tithe from land they've never set foot on isn't xenophobic at all.
They can't just legislate away something like that without broad buy in from their national bourgeoisie. Capital needs places to invest. Capital is international. American nationals own property in China, Chinese nationals own property in America. Banning Chinese nationals (or German, British, French, Indian, Egyptian, Philippino, etc.) from buying property in one country invites counter action from the other country.
I don't doubt enforcement is going to be limited to people who don't benefit from a powerful retaliatory state.
It might never get used at all. Just dangled over people's heads to inflict stress and provoke terror.
Yea that’s why it’s targeted at CPC members. Completely toothless because why wouldn’t they just buy through a shell corp
Investors and land should actually be terms that never come into contact.
Challenge accepted. How about: "All investors were judged before the People's Court and sentenced to 10 years work with the Land Restoration programme as a way to reverse at least a bit of the harm they've done to our planet."
I think I would support a full blanket rule of “If you don’t live in the country you aren’t allowed to own land there.”
I think it's one of those "would be smart for a leftist government to implement" rules. But from the Arizona perspective, it just seems like another settler-colonialist attempt to claw away land rights from whomever they're beefing with atm.
Investors and land should actually be terms that never come into contact.
It would create a better world, without a doubt.
meanwhile, the CIA's neo-nazi oligarch partners in Ukraine are quietly buying up the actual heartland and becoming some of the biggest real estate owners:
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/10/17/ukrainian-oligarch-midwestern-factory-town-dirty-money-american-heartland-michel-kleptocracy-515948
https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/06/03/the-u-s-midwest-is-foreign-oligarchs-new-playground/
https://www.clevescene.com/scene-and-heard/archives/2019/06/11/how-ukrainian-oligarchs-secretly-became-the-largest-real-estate-owners-in-downtown-cleveland
https://www.icij.org/investigations/fincen-files/with-deutsche-banks-help-an-oligarchs-buying-spree-trails-ruin-across-the-us-heartland/
those registered as “Native Communist Party,” the “Communist Party of Afghanistan” and even one "Anarco-Communist."
hihi sending this to my ancom friend to pester them
A narco communist is when communism+drugs. What else could it be?
God damn. I knew I never should have put my name on that centralized ledger of Communist Anarchists.
Why would the evil See See Pee want to own land in such a place to begin with?
Duh! To turn the beautiful capitalistic patriotic state SMOGGY and EVIL and COMMUNISTIC!
Banning people from buying private property? Sounds like communism to me
IIRC some labor laws specifically exempt members of communist parties.
Civil Rights Act of 1964 includes a specific carveout in Title VII so that you can legally fire someone for being a part of a communist org.
Fun fact about the USA: Discrimination laws only exist to offer the appearance of non-discrimination
And a lot of places don't even bother with that
If someone actually bothers to investigate a claim of impropriety, all the bank/business/landlord has to say is "nuh uh" and you're out of luck unless you have a notarized contract where they refer to you as a slur
I might be wrong but I think Communist Party of China membership is public, in China at least.
Oh yes, I'm sure Xi was just aching to get a piece of that scorched desert pie.
