• fusion513 [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    Prediction for 2021: Tenants not paying rent to landlords will be a BIG news topic and Republican talking point in 2021. Conservatives will talk about it constantly.

    Republicans will frame it as "Democrats make everyone else pay for their policies and don't take responsibility."

    Democrats will blame Republicans for blocking the 2K stimulus while completely ignoring the virus is ongoing. They'll propose a special tax deduction for healthcare policies purchased through the ACA healthcare exchange, which will narrowly pass. Then they'll say "mission accomplished" and not do anything else.

  • congressbaseballfan [she/her]
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    4 years ago

    But who the fuck else is he going to rent to during a fucking pandemic? I don’t get the hot to trot nature on evictions generally... yes, I understand that in gentrifying areas why they’d force people out the moment they can, but it’s better to have someone who is behind on rent that will probably get caught up in a year than no tenant for 6-12 months on average? Right?

    • RNAi [he/him]
      hexagon
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      4 years ago

      When your hatred for the poor is that strong, you prioritize wrecking their lives over making profit. See: Wasting millions of dollars criminalizing homelessness instead of funding public housing. (REAL housing, not loopholes for ghouls to build condos cheaply and sell them at imposible prices)

    • Des [she/her, they/them]
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      4 years ago

      maybe they look at it like cars. unoccupied it's like a car in a garage with the fluids removed covered in a tarp. occupied it's driving constantly putting on mileage? lol fuck that seems like the dehumanizing kind of think they might come up with down the road

    • shitstorm [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Because if you don't evict, you don't have power. Eviction is coercion and that's how they make their money.

  • GenderIsOpSec [she/her]
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    4 years ago

    The poor baby can't sully his pristine hands with PEASANT work! Oh the indignity of it all!

  • WisconsinLeftist [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    How do you argue against libs who make the argument of "well the landlords need to pay their bills too". I've tried to have this argument with my Mom and it's very difficult to get my point across because she doesn't see the landlord tenant relationship as parasitic. They always try to say that landlords take care of the property but we all know that landlords hire someone else to accomplish that and will generally do the bare minimum for tenants.

    • hogposting [he/him,comrade/them]
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      4 years ago

      The landlord made an investment, and investments come with risk. An investment is not an entitlement to an endless stream of free money. Sometimes investments go south, and the investor gets fucked -- that's the free market in action. Don't like it? What are you, some kind of commie?

      On the other hand, only a barbaric, illegitimate government would force millions of its own citizens out onto the streets in winter, in a pandemic. And only a depraved, callous person would support that to artificially guarantee the returns on landlords' investments.

      • WisconsinLeftist [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        The usual response to this is that "the landlord manages the property and deserves to earn money". They consider hiring people to do the work to be work itself unfortunately.

          • WisconsinLeftist [he/him]
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            4 years ago

            That they pay someone else to hire people, or that they pay someone else to do the work of maintaining the property? Because my issue is that they consider paying someone else to do the work to be work itself because they're "managing" things.

        • HumanBehaviorByBjork [any, undecided]
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          4 years ago

          if the tenant doesn't pay rent, they don't lose the benefit of the landlord's (or more likely, their hired super's) managerial services; they lose their home. there's no way around it: landlords are leeches who want free stuff for nothing.

          • WisconsinLeftist [he/him]
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            4 years ago

            This is actually a nice point. They're not paying for the service, they're paying for housing.

            • shitstorm [he/him]
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              4 years ago

              Honestly I think you're going at it from the wrong angle. Some people have been fortunate enough to not have to deal with a bad landlord before or have people close to them that are landlords. You won't get traction with these people by coming at them with "landlords are inherently coercive" unless they already resent landlords.

              Instead I think you need to hammer home that housing should be a human right, nobody should have to pay for housing. Homelessness kills people. America has more unoccupied homes than homeless people. We absolutely have the resources to house every person in the US, it is the morally correct thing to do. Evictions kill people. By not housing people, we are killing them. Get them on board with "nobody should have to pay for housing" and they will much more easily come to the idea that landlords are parasites.

              • WisconsinLeftist [he/him]
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                4 years ago

                Ok thank you, this is probably a good idea. I think there are a lot of people who will still object because they believe that someone deserves to make money off the homes, but it is probably an easier approach.

    • anthm17 [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      My bathroom is missing a towel rack and the toilet paper holder is a glued on replacement that’s falling off.

      I fixed one door by adding some shims and have another to do.

    • RNAi [he/him]
      hexagon
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      4 years ago

      "Bitch shut up, people need somewhere to live"