Bay Area homeowners are hiring a sword-wielding man to help them kick squatters out of empty properties: ‘The average squatter has no melee experience’

https://reddthat.com/post/57098150

Bay Area homeowners are hiring a sword-wielding man to help them kick squatters out of empty properties: ‘The average squatter has no melee experience’ - Reddthat

Lemmy

“I’d much rather make a squatter homeless than have a landlord lose property,” James added.

Keeping it classy.

wanted to say the same thing. what a dickhead, simping for landlords.
Hear me out: I don’t blame landlords for wanting to protect their investments. But, I do have a problem with them (and guys like James here) who do it at the expense of the downtrodden. Being a landlord should not have to be mutually exclusive with helping people.

Their investments fundamentally come at the expense of the downtrodden by relegating necessities behind a paywall that they have private ownership over.

Being a landlord is fundamentally against helping people. It is explicitly about utilizing the private ownership over housing in order to profit off of someone else’s inherent need of shelter.

It is mutually exclusive and there is nothing that can be done to change that. The system is fundamentally oppressive.

@Crankenstein Okay, so what is your proposed solution or alternative? A world without landlords would require everyone who can't afford to buy their own home to live in public housing. Is that your proposal?

I’d definitely claim exception there in cases when someone travels often. Picture a guy who’s going to study at the nearby university for one year, but isn’t going to put down any roots in the city.

But yes, I acknowledge that’s a comparatively uncommon case to most renters.

Transient tenants can be accommodated by collectively owned lodging. There is nothing that necessitates private ownership.
@Crankenstein Fucking hell, get over yourself. This is one of the most childishly stupid comments I've seen today. Goddamn, son, people can see you.