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Anon searches for normal politics (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 11 months ago by Early_To_Risa@sh.itjust.works to c/greentext@sh.itjust.works

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[–] UnrepententProcrastinator@lemmy.ca -2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Social media politics is confirmation bias by design.

A few of my opinions that are less popular here:

Unions are not a perfect solution.
landlords are not inherantly bad and it's not a "sit back and cash in" type of job.
Bridled Capitalism is a better system than the comunism we've tried so far.

I have no desire to debate any of those here. I talk politics with friends and in person and I try to remain skeptical especially of facts that happen to go my way.

[–] jaschen@lemm.ee 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I haven't raised rent for my tenants for 3 years and dropped it during the pandemic. I repair everything in the house as fast as humanly possible. I added AC to the house and replaced my furnace with a heat pump to reduce the carbon footprint in efforts to increase my tenants comforts.

I will eventually move back into the house when I move back to the states. So I want to make sure anyone who stays there is happy and keeps an eye on my house.

People here call me a pig or scum. Good thing other peoples opinions don't matter to me. I just want to point out that some of us are not here to make a buck.

[–] HaggierRapscallier@feddit.nl 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

The criticism isn't really supposed to be about how nice or not nice you are anyway. The landlaird bad meme is just a good way to open people's eyes if need be and allow people to vent which they have the right to. The fundamental problem is with the ownership of an asset that is a necessity. And probably the fact that it even is so commodified.

[–] Jax@sh.itjust.works -1 points 11 months ago

Crazy how that information never comes through in these initial messages. It's almost like it's a bad message, and serves only to further polarize each side.