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This was supposed to be c/traingang, so post as many train pictures as possible.

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LANDLORDS COWER IN FEAR OF MAOTRAIN

"that train pic is too powerful lmao" - u/Cadende

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[–] [email protected] 87 points 1 year ago (1 children)

owns 30,000 homes

That's a fucking Robber Baron. But also still a landlord.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago

Nah, I hear he sold avocado toast to finance it all.

[–] [email protected] 76 points 1 year ago

Young people:

[–] [email protected] 68 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

Unpopular opinion you shouldn't be able to own 30,000 houses.

[–] [email protected] 52 points 1 year ago (2 children)

actually unpopular opinion: you shouldn't be able to own more than one house

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You should be given one house and be allowed to own one second property for personal use.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I can concede this point, but only if dachas are things almost or absolutely everyone has. Soviets did have a pretty good system for it.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

We did have a micro struggle session once here whether if even owning your own singular house was petit bourgeois (one poster saying the state or collective should own it)

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think at a certain point of communism whether you "own" your home or whether it's technically owned by the Housing committee with full rights devolved to you while you live there is irrelevant. The only real risk is of the collective going Home Owners Association on you because you keep a tin boat in the front yard or something.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

one poster saying the state or collective should own it.

Lmao some people on here are unreal. "Well in my imagined perfect succesful communist utopia, this is how things should be, so since you're not doing that now, you're a reactionairy"

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (2 children)

maybe-later-honey we are passing a law that removes tax credits from individuals who own more than 30,000 houses.

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[–] [email protected] 59 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We should get rid of landlords. Just a quick thought. Spitballing here, I dunno. Could be good, could be bad, who knows?

[–] [email protected] 52 points 1 year ago (62 children)

But what about all the housing they provide? very-intelligent

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I dunno I haven't really thought it through yet but maybe like...what if we had some sort of system that gave everyone a home?

Just spitballing.

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[–] [email protected] 58 points 1 year ago

Ticket scalpers explain why no one wants tickets anymore

[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 year ago (2 children)

he doesn't have 30 thousand necks :gui:

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago (7 children)

how do libs defend this manifestly evil shit

Death to America

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago

Better future headline: landlord dares to show their face in television

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago

"No one is buying houses anymore"

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago

Oh, I'll take one! I didn't realize you were offering free-real-estate

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago

Rather than saying what I think should happen to this parasite, I will simply post fedposting

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago

I'm going to violate twitter's terms of service

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

30K cheap houses entering the market is a meaningful improvement to people's access to housing. To put it into perspective, according to the first DDG result the total number of houses they will be short in 2030 is 5-ish million houses. So 30K is more than half a percent of the total for the whole country. If they just guillotined this one dude/confiscated these houses the government could coast on good will until the next election.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I hope this is a fucking parody

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago

Or at least that it ends in parody

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

Read 30K and still convinced it’s from a satire account or something

Comically stupid shit

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