We need more shit like this

  • SexUnderSocialism [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    10 months ago

    fidel-salute

    I love how the article is dripping with thinly veiled contempt and scare quotes. I also liked this part:

    On his TikTok, Van den Berg has also visited tenants in distress who have called him for help, exposing poor landlords who leave their tenants in units that require dire maintenance and do not fulfill work orders.

    Oh no, not the poor landlords!

    On their about page it say’s they’re not just another left or right-wing publication, but a bunch of unbiased neutral free-thinkers. landlord-sus

  • SoyViking [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    10 months ago

    I absolutely adore the way scare quotes are used in the article. It doesn’t make any sense. Why is a house where nobody lives “empty” and not just empty? Wh are tenants’s description and rating of their experiences with housing scalpers “reviews” and not just reviews? These are normal words.

    Also, bonus points to whoever wrote this for calling the legal process in which occupants can gain ownership over abandoned property stealing (without scare quotes this time).

  • Zvyozdochka [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    10 months ago

    We need more of this:

    sankara-salute

    Image context for anyone unaware: This is the “James Connolly House” in Ireland. It was taken over by socialist housing activists and used to house homeless people for zero cost until 100+ police raided the building and made a couple arrests.