Quasit

Just got a text survey about housing issues in my state, particularly the ballot question which would remove the ban on rent control that was passed about 30 years ago (although the survey never mentioned that fact).

I am probably not a good person to survey, because I am far more radical than any person they consider as a possible respondent. Specifically, I would like to see every landlord CENSORED in the CENSORED, then forced to CENSORED their own CENSORED. Followed up with a final close-up and personal experience with a good old-fashioned CENSORED, after which their CENSOREDs would be flung into a mass CENSORED.

Too extreme?

#survey #landlords #Massachusetts #rentcontrol

Jun 15 at 9:30pmWeb
Show threadMx. Chara Aznable (they/them) of Pnictogen6d ago
@Quasit I honestly believe that landlording ought to be a crime at least, but my logic is based on the assertion of a fundamental human right to housing, which the culture of the United States does not recognize as a right
Show threadQuasit6d ago

@mxchara

The options they allowed as answers were quite...illuminating. Very limited to the standard allowed American spectrum, if you know what I mean.

Whenever I answer a survey like that, I'm always on the watch for indications that it's a push-poll. Didn't see any proof of that, but it was still from a VERY conventional viewpoint!

Show threadMx. Chara Aznable (they/them) of Pnictogen6d ago
@Quasit yeah. I rather wish there were more awareness of that fundamental limitations of polls (which applies to all methods of testing) which is that the polling questions effectively define the terms of political discourse. Political issues are judged to be issues of importance because of responses to polls, but the polls themselves specify the issues of importance.