• pmtriste@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    Not just Americans. Right wing all around the world is doing the same thing. Even here in Portugal, same rhetoric from Chega.

  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    Um, aktuly, the Billionaires are all Chinese and Muslim Terrorist. And they are the ones coming over the border, via Trende De Agua, with the help of AOC and Hillary Killington, who both got rich smuggling children for Jeffery Epstein. So we have to fight back by passing out AR-15s to the beautiful Christian patroits along the Texas-Mexico border and telling them to fire when you see the whites of their eyes, just like the Founding Fathers told us to.

    Because, under Real Capitalism, none of this would be happening. The problem is all the Socialist Fake Capitalism that’s been imposed on us by the College Marxists and the Woke Cathedral of Hollywood Sickos. We need a New American Revolution to wash away the wicked. The streets are extended gutters and the gutters are full of blood and when the drains finally scab over, all the vermin will drown.

    Also, I should note, I’m typing this from a McMansion in the Texas hill country while sitting on a cool $50M in SpaceX IPOs. So when we say “Things are bad right now” what I hear is “My neighbors are unseasonably tan and I’m not allowed to sexually assault the house workers with impunity” not “I’m suffering even a modicum of physical discomfort or personal danger.”

  • dx1@lemmy.ml
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    9 days ago

    I really went down the ancap rabbit hole, but the whole time I was thinking the end goal was promoting equality and the government was getting in the way by rigging the market for the ruling class. Which, you know, it is, but really doesn’t change anything about the injustice of owners taking all the profit.

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    9 days ago

    Literally the whole “just get rid of billionaires” crowd when someone says that no one needs more than a million. Everyone thinks they will become a wholesome decamillionaire

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    7 days ago

    I agree except on housing. That I will place the blame squarely on NIMBYs. Corpos only account for like 9% of housing/rental stock. A majority are mom and pop landowners with 1 or 2 properties in their portfolio. These homeowners lobby against development to protect property values.

    Sources: https://www.resiclubanalytics.com/p/mom-and-pop-landlords-still-dominate-the-single-family-rental-market-batchdata-finds

    https://www.doorloop.com/blog/landlord-statistics

    https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257%2Fjep.20241428