• BigMacHole@sopuli.xyz
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    8 days ago

    I was ALL IN on Mamdani until I read THIS! CANT we just think of the RICH LANDLORDS PLEASE! THOSE are the Only Ones who Matter! I’ll GLADLY pay DOUBLE the Rent just to make Sure my Mom And Pop Landlord with 30 Buildings in NYC can stay Afloat and I Expect ALL Mamdani Supporters to do the Same! This is EYE OPENING!

    • i_dont_want_to@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      7 days ago

      I can’t afford my own place, but I’m a temporarily embarrassed landlord! These policies will hurt ME very soon. The gall of this guy.

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      8 days ago

      Giving everyone affordable housing would be socialism! Bailing out corporations with hundreds of billions of dollars every decade or so is not socialism, though. That would be straight up communism, but pssst

      • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        7 days ago

        That would be straight up communism

        Not really though. Communism means that the workers own the means of production. Bailing out billionaire-owned corporations is not that.

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          7 days ago

          Communism also means that the big companies get bail money whenever they struggle financially. It doesn’t matter if in capitalism the big corporations are billionaire owned. The money they are being bailed out with is tax money of the common people.

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        7 days ago

        What do you expect him to get a job like a peasant? He’s accustomed to a certain lifestyle

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          7 days ago

          I know. It makes me so sad.

          Something I will say about my landlord though, I’ve never seen a harder worker. That dude doesn’t stop.

          Still though, he makes money for nothing across the board.

          I have paid him for a whole ass house at this point. You know how many times he’s had to work on anything at my place? 0.

          Just collect money and throw it in the bank for absolutely nothing.

          I’ve actually single handedly paid for half of his one apartment building at this point.

          It’s crazy to me that it’s like this.

          • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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            7 days ago

            Imagine how easily all of this could be fixed if we had affordable public housing that’s actually rent to own?