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[–]Breadman 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (15 children)

Americans have more to fear from landlord parasites, than mythical reds under the beds

[–]Canbot 13 insightful - 2 fun13 insightful - 1 fun14 insightful - 2 fun -  (14 children)

Wow, that is the most despicable thing anyone can think. Imagine working your whole life, sacrificing vacations, luxuries, and time to scrape together enough of a nest egg to retire. Because you came from poverty you don't have the knowledge or skills or youth to start a business venture with any chance of success. The only investment available to you is either the corrupt and manipulated stock market or real estate. You buy the only fixer upper you can afford and put your blood and sweat into fixing it up. Into your old age you keep working to fix every little issue that comes up with it while your tenants, who decided long ago that they would never be such fools as to work as hard as you to maintain a property, carelessly destroy everything because they aren't the ones who have to fix it.

Then one day the commie scum convince your lazy tenants that not only are they poor because of you, but that you are evil for having the audacity to charge rent for the house you bought with a lifetime of work, fixed up with back breaking labor, and maintain with all your free time. And just like in Bolshevik Russia, they murder you. Having never done a decent thing in their lives they feel they are better than you. That they deserve everything you worked your life to achieve. That somehow their worthless, lazy, good for nothing existence is just as worthy of your wealth as yours.

Read up on history to see just how absolutely vile the "mythical" reds really are.

[–]Breadman 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (13 children)

Buyer beware.

Just because it took a lot of effort to become a parasite, doesn’t mean landlording is suddenly morally permissible.

[–]Canbot 6 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 2 fun -  (12 children)

The ultimate irony is that people like you will call landloarding parasitism but welfare is somehow not. Shoe on head retarded.

[–]just_lesbian_things 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Isn't welfare theoretically supposed to be temporary?

[–]Canbot 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Ok, let's start by making it actually temporary.

[–]Breadman 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (9 children)

Welfare is parasitism, and so is landlording.

& given that welfare recipients typically spend 70%+ of their welfare checks on rent, that makes landlords the bigger parasites

[–]Canbot 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (7 children)

Voluntary associations and agreements are by definition not parasitism. Welfare is NOT voluntary to the person who is paying for it. That is why it is parasitism. No one is forcing anyone to pay rent. Go live in a tent, or an RV.

[–]Breadman 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

Housing is an essential good, so it’s not voluntary. To live in a tent or in an RV, you still need to live at the good graces of a landlord of some description

Demanding something merely on the basis of law, rather than mutual exchange is parasitic. Landlords do not create land

[–]Canbot 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (5 children)

To live in a tent or in an RV, you still need to live at the good graces of a landlord

There is a world of difference between a homeowner and the state. If you are lumping both together you are doing it to make some kind of bullshit claim. You don't pay rent to anyone when you live in a tent on public land. It just isn't true that there is no where for you to live rent free. That is the implied claim you are making to justify your animosity towards landlords. It is an untrue claim that you have been brainwashed with.

[–]Breadman 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (4 children)

Homeownership is a function of the state. Who do you think enforces and writes property laws? Santa?

[–]bald-janitor 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

My local rabbi!

[–]bald-janitor 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Ok