Just gotta work it in somehow.

Landlords are cops? I haven't heard that one before. What does that mean?

Googling...wait, is this real? https://systemicjustice.org/article/landlords-as-cops/

I thought evictions took 30-90 days and required court approval in the US.

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This is real. It's also one reason why laws against gay sex were on the books in many states until finally overturned by the Supreme Court in 2003 in Lawrence v Texas. Sometimes police would use the laws directly, but more commonly since gay sex was considered a criminal activity, landlords would use it as an excuse to deny lgbt people housing or evict them.

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Sociologist Matthew Desmond has an amazing book called Evicted that talks about criminal act evictions and profiles people who have been the target of them. The book follows very low income renters in Milwaukee through years of their struggles to find and keep housing. It also follows individual landlords from the same neighborhoods. It's technically an academic subject and is impeccably researched (the notes section in the back could be its own book) but it reads like a novel. It won a Pulitzer iirc.

He also just published Poverty, By America last year. I've only just started it, but it's just as readable. He explains overly-complicated regulations and social services red tape in a way that's concise and easy to understand, and he illustrates their consequences through his interviews with real people. His books should be required reading for every American.

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Carceral housing law arose from a transformation in federal law enforcement, in which the U.S. government encouraged the merging of policing and welfare, and policing became driven primarily by profit

"Wait, it's all capitalism?" "Always has been."

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Cops and landlords protect capital over all else

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The global economy is the reason I can't take civilization seriously, or even be on its side.

All I can do is appreciate the morbid gallows humor of it.

Billions of people self-flagellating on the false promises of a few thousand capitalist sociopath families. We were conquered by the modern contemporaries of the traveling snake oil salesmen of old. They've got most of the peasants so fucking snowed they don't even have to run away to the next county after they poison you anymore 🤣

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I feel like I do this alot, except it's the Aztec Empire instead of capitalism.

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FWIW I'm one of those people who would rather hear about Aztecs than today's weather, so thank you.

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- Aztec fact of the day:
  
  To punish some Altepetl (city states) for rebellion the Mexica would impose near impossible quotas on yearly tribute, such as white jaguar pelts.
  
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Pre-Columbian American civilizations are incredibly interesting. It's absurd how far they got without wheels, iron tools or animals like horses and cows. I guess I wouldn't mind listening about the Aztecs constantly.

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- Mesoamerican fact of the day:
  
  The wheel was actually known to Mesoamerica pre-European contact. Archeological finds included toys, food preparation tools, seal rollers, and spindle whorls for textile making.
  
  I'm a history nerd and Mesoamerica is quality content.
  
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- Their secret was murdering their children to win the favour of their gods.
  
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I do too, except it's billionaires instead of capitalism.

I believe in capitalism, it just needs to be very tightly controlled and heavily skewed in favor of the disadvantaged to keep it fair.

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- Capitalism always exploits someone whether the bulk of the exploitation is within your country’s borders or not. Being perfectly comfortable within capitalism comes at the expense of someone else regardless of regulation.
  
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- I just want feudalism to end
  
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- then it's no longer capitalism.
  
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- Capitalism cannot be regulated to become fair. Capitalism is irrational and immoral, it does not need to be controlled or reformed, it must be overcome
  
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- I believe in capitalism
  
  If you think billionaires are bad but capitalism is good you don't know what capitalism is. You should seriously consider reading some of marx's shorter works like Value Price and Profit and Wage Labor and Capital.
  
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Typical Lemmy experience

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All my friends be like “hehe I’m a socialist” and then they never come out they room

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I was gonna reply with "Sometimes the issue is racism", but then I remembered a large part of the racism also goes back to capitalism.

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My boss is my friend but she doesn't control payroll

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I don't know what everyone's complaining about. I found this funny and it reminded me of the television program entitled, "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia."

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I like you, son!

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Doesnt it get boring posting tankie propoganda? I know I am bored seeing it

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Honestly how is this tankie?

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- Post hog xd
  
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Call them woke next lol you're ridiculous

This meme isn't even explicitly socialist it is just class conscious

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- That's socialist to them.
  
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- You, grayox, queermunist, tokenboomer, microwave and all the other sussy chapotraphouse talking point accounts. Nobody cares to post about anticapitalism this much except you guys.
  
  Look at your accounts, its like 90% anti capitalism stuff.
  
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This isnt even propaganda.

How does this post try to persuade someone into thinking that the USSR was justified in using tanks to crush a revolution or to support Marxism-Leninism and not anti-authoritarian leftists, including anarchists, libertarian socialists, left communists, democratic socialists, and reformists(who commonly use "tankie")

It isnt even anticapitalist propaganda because it wasnt made to persuade anyone. It doesnt present any arguments against capitalism, its just a meme about someones opinion of capitalism

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- anti-authoritarian leftists, including anarchists, libertarian socialists, left communists, democratic socialists, and reformists(who commonly use “tankie”
  
  Ah yes, the anti authoritarian anarchists like the Ukrainian Free State, a military dictatorship that enabled pogroms against Jewish people in their territories.
  
  The marxist leninists were in practice a lot more anti-authoritian" than the anarchists and other "anti-authoritians" of the time.
  
  USSR was justified in using tanks to crush a revolution
  
  noted anti-stalinist Khrushchev sent tanks into Hungary
  
  I would also send tanks into Hungary -even if we were close to a peaceful settlement- if I suddenly got reports of soviet government officials and jews being lynched. Revolutions don't start lynching jews. Counter-revolutions do.
  
  This happened a decade after the holocaust in a country that the Soviets failed at denazifying as successfully as other Warsaw pact countries. Hungary was an enthusiastic collaborator in the holocaust. You do the math. The vanguard of the true revolution they were not.
  
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You do know it doesn't have to be one extreme or the other, right? It's not be a talkie or suck off Elon.

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Doesn't it get boring calling anybody left of Biden a "tankie?"

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- Ah yes, i forgot that being anti western and constantly posting anti western takes means being left of biden. My bad you right
  
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