• ThePantser@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      8 days ago

      Providing housing and paying them a shit wage is slave labor too but you get the benefit of them paying their money back into the company store so it’s cheaper.

  • blockheadjt@sh.itjust.works
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    8 days ago

    It’s “expensive” in the “right” way. The costs are paid by taxes, which are largely supplied by the 99%. The revenue, by contrast, is privatized, going to corporations owned by the 1%.

    So it’s only “expensive” for the masses, which lawmakers don’t care about.

      • BanMe@lemmy.world
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        8 days ago

        They know goddamn well a big contingent is willing to if they had the opportunity, so they’ve gone to great lengths to avoid such possibilities.

        This should intrigue people who like a challenge idk

    • mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      8 days ago

      Here’s a reminder that there are nearly 14,000,000 vacant houses in America, and less than 650,000 homeless people. The math comes out to ~22 vacant houses for every single homeless person. I’ll give you one guess which income bracket owns the vast majority of those vacant houses…

    • 1984@lemmy.today
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      7 days ago

      Totally agree. What the fuck is a society that just cares about money and not people. Its not worth surviving.

      • ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online
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        7 days ago

        The sad thing is that it has been like this for so damn long it isn’t funny. And the people who like it this way will never go away.

  • bubblybubbles@lemmy.ml
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    8 days ago

    Don’t worry though, totally-not-zionist “lefty” Mandani got elected, he’ll tots take care of the homeless and defo not fall into this pattern!

        • jackeroni@lemmy.ml
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          8 days ago

          😁 Classic worlder lib

          Marxist: “There’s a fake leftist among us”

          Libs: “HOW DARE YOU! our prized New York Lies told us he’s EXTREMELY left!!! TanKiE TrOlL!”

      • Macchi_the_Slime@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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        8 days ago

        I’ve been seeing a bunch of people saying that he’s not really anti-Zionist because he says Israel has a right to exist “as a state with equal rights” rather than saying they don’t have a right to exist and that he’s not actually a Lefty because he isn’t making like huge sweeping promises before even getting into office officially.

        It honestly just sounds like more “Holier Than Thou, I’m The Better Leftist” LARP that the Online Left seems to love engaging in.

        Edit: Oh and people taking him talking about the talks he’s had with Jewish New Yorkers about the whole “Globalize Intifada” smear the wrong way. I guess some have taken it as him capitulating to the Zionists when I guess to me it sounds more like he’s just saying that he understands that he had a different view on what those words meant than other people apparently did not that he’s changing his views or anything.

        • orc_princess@lemmy.ml
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          8 days ago

          I’d personally be way more excited about Mamdani if he hadn’t called Cuba and Venezuela dictatorships at a time when the US is ramping up aggression in the region. It really feels like helping manufacture consent and capitulating to the US empire. I hope he does a lot of good for y’all, but I personally don’t trust him as a latina living in Latin America.

          • Macchi_the_Slime@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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            8 days ago

            idk, from what I can find he only issued the statement calling them dictators after answering questions about those countries talking about the horrible things the US has done to them like the embargo on Cuba and the extrajudicial killings of Venezuelans Trump’s been doing in which he didn’t directly call them that.

            I could definitely be reading too much into it, but it feels kinda like he’s effectively saying “yeah, they’re dictators because the US keeps interfering in their affairs”

            • orc_princess@lemmy.ml
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              8 days ago

              I get that, I hope you’re right, but it’s still a disappointing statement coming from a leftist. I have a hard time thinking he doesn’t know about Cuban democracy, but even if that’s the case, does he believe Cuba is less democratic than the US, where Bernie got screwed over by the DNC, where gerrymandering and overpolicing make some states red for perpetuity, etc?

              I wanna be hopeful but AOC was a massive letdown so I’m skeptical. But if I’m mistaken I’ll be relieved. We all deserve decent politicians and policies.

              • Macchi_the_Slime@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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                8 days ago

                idk, it’s hard to say at the end of the day what is real belief and what is playing politics. Personally with what I’m seeing if a right leaning think tank like the Manhattan Institute is mad about what you’re saying about Cuba and Venezuela then you’re probably on the right track even if you did call them “dictatorships” in a later statement.

                I absolutely feel being burned. I’ve been very disappointed in some of my more progressive officials in government lately. But right now IMO he’s given no real tangible reason I’ve seen beyond things that have been said to doubt him. Until that point I’m willing to believe that the no condemnation interview version is the “real belief” and the “they’re dictators” statement is a placating bit of politics playing after having said the important part first.

  • Ardens@lemmy.ml
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    7 days ago

    We? How about “we” remove the rich, so that homelessness is only a frie and true choice if you want to be traveling?

    The only people who’d like there to be homeless people are the rich and powerful.

  • LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world
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    8 days ago

    Part of the debacle of giving homeless people free homes, would make everyone else wonder why TF we’re working so hard for 90% of our net income to be sucked away by the housing industry just so we can keep a basic roof over our heads.

    You mean IF I DIDN’T WORK AT ALL, the government would GIVE me a FREE house?? If that were the case, people would decide that laziness is more rewarding than hard honest work.

    This is why the government doesn’t give homes to homeless people. Although I read two days ago that in the USA there is a ratio of 27.4 empty houses per each homeless person.

    But those houses must remain empty in the name of capitalism, for money-havers to do whatever they want with those houses. Anything but using it to house a needy, money-less person.

    The fear of homelessness & starvation & suffering are what motivates everyone to keep working our asses off.

    And after all that, any able-bodied people who still insist on sleeping & shitting on the streets & refusing to contribute to society & the economy, can be scooped up like kitty litter and dumped into for-profit prisons where they’ll be assigned jobs.

    Work & service to others, is the rent we all pay for living on this planet.

    • theparadox@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      8 days ago

      How about house them in a way that take away their voting rights and use them as cheap labor? Member how prisoners were used to fight the Palisades fires in January?

      Don’t forget the expensive housing is provided by a for-profit prison system. It’s expensive for taxpayers, but someone else is getting rich.