Yeah pretty much this smells like an infowar casualty

Twitter did us in you see

British people outside of Britain

To quote Hilldawg, “we came, we saw, he died”

This shit is a monument to the reestablishment of slavery in Libya & it pissed off a lot of the black community in Chicago with its placement and construction

No, renters positions aren’t improved by the turbo chuds getting rid of rent control, but it forces them to resort to more than stalling tactics. Rent control doesn’t actively improve their position or grant any leverage. It can be signed away instantaneously, it’s the perfect capital-friendly reform. It stops the parasite from killing its host.

I disagree that older western generations didn’t get better welfare or have a smoother ramp into homeownership/becoming landlords themselves. That’s kind of the point of them going turbo chud and denying it to their kids lol

Yeah they basically exist because the nation has no army. You’ll find the occasional nutjob (Mossad? never know) insisting the Lebanese army is stronger but this is generally framed through their collaboration with the IDF to crush Hezbollah. Even if the Lebanese army was completely on board with that, it’s obviously insane, but I have also heard that from Lebanese people, that the army is not even consistently like that & many of them are too sympathetic to Hezbollah to ever actually fight them. Probably depends on the region & I’d imagine the army is trying to keep track of that “problem” internally & taking it into account when deploying it to suppress pro-Hezbollah protestors

Hezbollah parliament members have declared that this new agreement renders the internationally-recognized government illegitimate. This is theoretically sound, too. I don’t think any compradors in recent memory (ever?? I don’t want to make sweeping statements that miss some horrifying Cold War event that slipped by me tho) have gone this far to subvert the sovereignty of their nation.

As far as military control, I believe Hezbollah forces are strongest in the south. I’d ask Lebanese journalists on Xitter. They’re chatty

That is a good bit of vagueness to focus on here, the problem with rent control is that it just alleviates the pressure caused by collusion between landholders, reinforcing their position. It’s a lot less intuitive than “landlords just do more collusion when minimum wage rises” which everyone can see happening & wish they could counter with more reforms (you can’t the landholders designed this electoral/legal system for themselves). It gives the renters something to quarrel over that, at the rate of legislation, is actually helpful to keeping landlords in charge & centers their political prioties in the discussion.

The problem with concessions is not that you get them, the problem with concessions is you are now negotiating to get back what was effortlessly snatched away from you that older generations got. They will be taken back as soon as necessary, repeating the reform bait

I mean think about what we’re arguing here, nobody denies this is a matter of survival when insurance, auto, & housing cuts into every cent for low-wage workers (for most of them, every extra dollar is harder to lose & never coming back, driving them into hedonistic consumption patterns), but saying we should just cut back to the pressure to the point it no longer threatens people, temporarily, that just delaying what needs to be done about the landholders. Shooting for Euro welfare is just trying to time travel 5 or 10 years into the past. I see many Americans these days optimistic about achieving the same kinds of policies as the Chinese at their ballot box, but they shouldn’t ignore what China did with its landholding class to make it possible

Rent control & mininum wage are a subsidy for landlords. This isn’t a joke & it’s impossible to get people to take seriously. Same genre of reforms. I ask people to take note of the singleminded focus of the new wave of American progressives on these paltry concessions.

Find me a guy with a master’s degree in jazz guitar writing music on Vim & I’ll agree on the emacs point…

I keep saying non-nerds should be interested in Graphene. Like, if you’re hot, why let the police ogle you? People should be more paranoid! Stalkers tend to seek out positions of impunity

Not saying your dad is hot, nevermind

Best sellers are mostly a self-reinforcing process. Money decides who gets educated, academia decides whose ideas get represented in education, publication decides which of those works become popular. If something is not promoted it will not be sold. They also have separate best-seller lists, so it’s self-aggrandizing pageantry as well.

What country are we talking about, by the way? I mostly see “homestyle” not “homemade” in marketing.

New York Times bestsellers will invariably be awful. Find personalities who are drawn to a deeper art scene, this will teleport you 25 years into the future withput their disadvantage of being jaded. Trust me, they’re looking to offload it to people who still have feelings left

Not a fascist at any point, but in music spaces you do notice many of these pipelines. It just takes personal responsibility to find artists who reject that from their scene. Electronic music is littered with fascists but plenty of radicals too

I think you should all be less trusting of western tech companies that strictly use infrastructure in countries that the CIA would feel comfortable hanging out & torturing people to death in

Is this not itself a geopolitical statement? Do we judge everything by indidual choices, or acknowledge the place of individuals in a wider structure they may not be entirely aware of?

You add up all we know about 5/14 eyes, comprador states, you couldn’t get a better list of CIA-compatible nations than the Mullvad server picker

Let’s just stop for a second. Cyprus? Israel? Ukraine? I know the justification. But cmon

Cheogram is $5 + $2.50/additional # and it has a data sim option that is only metered when you use it +$5 ANNUALLY, so even if you only visit the US once a year it never wastes money

I will have to try those options too but just saying cheapest option I ever found & they’re on here too a Lemmy user recommended it actually

They have a page for checking compatibility with 2FA stuff & whether it silently bounced, maybe we should make a giant page for comparing which of these numerous services cause issues with, say, Chase (holy shit chase is so annoying they will lock you out of all online & text services if you use a VOIP number aaargh, they finally admitted they do this to every # not associated with a real name, so I assume it would work if you import your old # to Cheogram)

Cheogram :D https://lemmy.ml/c/sopranica (or similar I think they moved)

Perfect for leaving the US/Canada while maintaining contact. Quite inexpensive

I mean, moderates are invariably SuperHitler, especially in Scandinavia where their social welfare is synonymous with creating apartheid, but I don’t see why that would bother most Lemmy users :0

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Oh my gosh! Is he okay??