“… I submit that what we’re watching right now in much of our nation’s Christian politics is an explosion not of godly Christian passion, but rather of ancient southern shame/honor rage.”
I can’t speak for people in urban settings but in rural areas landlords are your neighbors as well as your handyman. They see you outside when they go by and make sure to honk and wave, they know the names of your whole family and actually care about you. So before demonizing everyone who has a specific title please take into account they’re not all the same.
and they still throw you out on the street the moment you can’t pay rent just like anywhere else. landlords are not and never will be your friends. I grew up in the country buddy don’t come at me with this hokey small town bullshit, rural landlords are no different
Everyone on this website is so disgusting and ignorant.
If you actually read the CNN article, you’ll see how landlords running out of money is also negatively affecting tenants, as it’s hurting their ability to maintain properties and provide housing generally.
The system is in need of major reform but needlessly villainizing all landlords/housing providers in the short term is not going to do anything to help the massive housing shortage that exists in the U.S.
Also keep in mind that a not insignificant percentage of landlords are nonprofits and providers of affordable and subsidized housing. If they’re suffering, their ability to provide affordable housing suffers as well.
@thepatternneveralters
Landlords are not “housing providers”
In urban centers, podunk towns, and everywhere in between they actively snatch up otherwise affordable real estate in order to maintain a stranglehold on renters through inflation and artificial scarcity.
Landlords do not contribute to the economy or the communities they hold property in, they actively parisitize them.
They garner income through the simple act of owning a building, and writ large, will fight tenants tooth and nail to wriggle out of responsibility for maintenance and repairs on the properties they hold, because those responsibilities cut into their bottom line.
And when we get into the further egregious mess of corporate landlords and property holders, they aren’t even incentivized to prevent evictions to ensure a stable rental income, because recent bailout measures have resulted in lucrative schemes for corp. landlords through which they make MORE money by evicting tenants, getting insurance bailouts, and generating high eviction rates/ tenant turnover to generate as much as possible in quarterly profits
Landlords at all levels, from your corporate grave tillers to your “neighborly small-town” property renters are parasites who extract wealth from their tenants as a further reward for owning properties.
Landlords are not your friends, and about this at least, Mao was right.
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Detail of a wall painting depicts Queen Nefertari Meritmut playing Senet (ancient egyptian board game). Tomb of Nefertari (QV66). New Kingdom, 19th Dynasty, reign of Ramesses II, ca. 1292-1189 BC. Valley of the Queens, West Thebes.
Listen. There are only a few things that regular people buy zipties for and they’re A) to secure displays or products in a retail environment, B) to fasten shelving or other heavy things at risk of falling over to eye screws in the wall, C) to lash cables or tubing together so that their rooms are not a gigantic trip hazard spaghetti mess, or D) to use as temporary fasteners for projects like putting light strings on tree branches
Those zipties are not the same things as flexicuffs, which are fundamentally different heavy duty ziptie handcuffs used by military and law enforcement agencies as restraints.
Regular zipties:
Ziptie handcuffs, aka flexicuffs:
Guess which kind the rioters brought to Capitol Hill
