I hope Jefferies Tube Chakotay becomes a trend.
15You just reminded me of Jeffry Toobin and I hate you for that lol.
8On the bridge of the USS Voyager:
Janeway: What are you... Is he?
Jeffry, you're still on the viewscreen, we can see you.
JEFFRY YOU HAVE TO END THE TRANSMISSION!
God dammit he turned off his own screen...
...
... Kim, load torpedo.
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14Chékotay
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Looking at it another way, this is the result of the market pricing people out of normal conversation
13The free marketplace of ideas strikes again.
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What's the theory justification for "landlords are cops?" Fuck cops and fuck landlords but what is the connection?
9To elaborate on what @ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net said, as a landlord they must collect rent. That is inherently an extractive and exploitative relationship and they can only extract rent with the implicit threat of violent removal from your home if you do not pay it. And the arm of the state with the monopoly on said violence is the police, ergo landlords are cops.
9Sorry I still don't get it. Cops embody the violent coercion that is needed to enforce contracts and laws. Laws determine how contracts are made and what penalties for breaking them. Contracts are a legal confabulation that serve several functions, probably most relevant is they are the mechanisms that makes property ownership possible, such as land. Landlords have the personal property "rights" as outlined in property law and defined by the contract. Cops enforce the laws and contracts with violence.
Cops can only be landlords if they own property and collect rents. Landlords don't have the ability to use violence to enforce their property rights, they have to call the cops. They both occupy this weird class middle zone that is neither bourgeoisie nor worker: collecting rents doesn't necessarily make one a capitalist, land isn't really strictly capital; cops aren't proletarian workers though at one time they may have been working class with nothing to sell but their labor. Both are crucial to underwriting liberal private property relations which is the basis for capitalist exploitation and the class rule that emanates from it. But landlords have a completely different relation to production than cops, so they don't occupy the same class position.
I'm not debating and I'll read or watch anything recommended to me. I'm also mostly interested in specific and correct formulations of class, I study a lot and have high standards. If this is one of those things that is more agitational than strictly correct, I can live with that but if there is a critical formulation that I'm missing, or if this is a paradigm that other leftists are using to help formulate their views then I would very much like to understand
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This is the internet. Everything we dislike is the same. Landlords are cops, Nazis, Russians, Israelis, authoritarians, libertarians, racists, homophobes, and transphobes; all at the same time.
8Fair enough!
3I don't dislike Russians. I am also curious of your definition of "authoritarian." I am pro-liberation and pro-revolution, both things which would require a change in authority, either the colonized or the otherwise oppressed exerting their "authority" over their oppressors. Revolutions are by nature authoritarian. Also most of those things should be reviled and are not contradictory.
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Don't know where that comes from, but I think it has to do with the institutionalized authoritative power that comes with the job. Both are positions that can be abused, and can negatively impact people's lives.
On the other hand, my past landlords were nowhere near as helpful about noise complaints, as the police. So there's that.
7Not just positions that can be abused, but positions that are fundamentally abusive no matter how good the individual occupying them may be
10I almost got evicted over a bogus noise complaint. You are basically illustrating the point of the meme.
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I see many of you all over Lemmy
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