Have to disagree. We should be fighting against the entire concept of private land/real estate ownership and its use as a source of income. People like op definitely fall under that. The fact that the landlord in the thread doesn’t want to be convinced (and tbh some of the arguments people use aren’t great) still doesn’t change the fact that the other commenters are basically correct-

op is funding their nice lifestyle by extracting rent off 10 other households worse off than them and that’s somehow morally acceptable to them (whatever) and to wider society (utterly appalling). I believe housing is a human right and should be funded and managed collectively by ALL of society, not just the poorest classes.

This would also have the effect of freeing up poor people from having to scrape together rent money and letting them raise their level of consumption improving the growth of the economy.

Iirc he added an announcement that he’d be moving to lemmy before the shutdown.

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Maybe something like the sponsorblock addon could help

No they definitely had plans to leave some untermenschen alive as slaves. I wouldn’t call that maximizing equality

Wait what was killed? The steam controller?

well, yes?

They had no issues directly with Ada (the head admin) but imo the way moss (the 196 mod) acted at the time was pretty indefensible, and was the main reason they defederated.

That plus the way ada took a fairly strong “no politics, no language police” stance when someone asked another user not to equate queer topics with politics kinda soured me on the instance.

polite request to not use the word rape to describe annoying website practices

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I just don’t understand why the americans can’t decide their stance while sitting on these wonderful advanced weapons. Either give Ukraine enough equipment to win or tell them to get lost and give up territory in exchange for peace. One risks escalation with Russia or if things go too well collapse of russia, the other risks discrediting the rules based international order (lmao).

But the status quo with delayed/half assed aid shipments is costing thousands of Ukrainian (and Russian, but who cares lol) soldiers’ lives for pretty dam questionable outcomes.

Would actually be kinda cool if the prevalence of chatgpt forced everyone to write in a more varied and interesting style to dodge the accusations :)

God, remember MSNBC the night Bernie Sanders won the Nevada primaries?

Man I miss old matt taibbi so much. What happened to him 😭

My issue with that theory is if it’s true, why didn’t Putin invade while Trump was in power? I think Putin rightly considers Trump a loose cannon who may well have escalated in response. While Biden is predictably afraid of escalation and has been eager to pump the brakes on military aid whenever possible, against congress’s wishes.

I hate to be a Russian whataboutist but the American record of antiwar protest isn’t stellar either. Imo the closer comparison is Vietnam, that was the last one where we were forced to draft people. And it did result in significant protests from multiple groups (incomparable to Iraq imo. What exactly did the Iraq protests 2 years in accomplish, again?)

The vietnam protests were actively suppressed by intelligence services and ultimately followed in the 80s by a wave of reactionary public sentiment that set the tone for republican politics even to this day (and we can all see how well that’s going).

Back then we didn’t live in a police state with modern surveillance tech. It’s surprisingly difficult to organize a revolution when the medium of most social communication is readable by the gov without a warrant.

On the other hand I’m still amazed that those (yes I know they weren’t ever a revolution) Jan 6 clowns got as far as they did, considering they the relative capabilities of US and Russian domestic surveillance. Like that sort of thing has to have been organized on Facebook and telegram right?

Being called a “great person” imo should take a history of fighting for equality and dignity for everyone, and for most of his long career Biden has been doing the opposite of that.

I think they mean the hardware volume down button, not the one to reject the call

Nationalize them 😳

No seriously I think companies that provide such basic logistics services should be under public control. Amazon’s statistics/planning department is basically our (better) version of the Soviet gosplan agency. Yes the investors would be sad, yes they are also the ruling class but a man can dream