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Comment on When leftists say "landlord are parasites" or similar dislike of landlords, do they also mean the people that own like a couple of houses as an investment, or only the big landlords?

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TrickDacy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

Take a step back and realize that you just read that story and then compared my parents to billionaires. I could read that very charitably and say you only meant that generalizations are “helpful” for inspiring change, but even that doesn’t sit right…

I’m trying to tell you that I don’t think literally saying “ALL landlords are scum” is helpful. Take or leave but I don’t think there’s an honest way to deny that.

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Maggoty@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
I could compare them to cops if that would make you feel better. Or the outdated western US water rights system. Landlords shouldn’t exist in the form they do now. That somewhere, someone is doing it in the hardest way possible doesn’t somehow make the system better.

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- TrickDacy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Whatever you say. In every way that matters I myself am closer to a billionaire than my parents. And I’m not close. But don’t let that stop your mentally lazy infighting with your own class, assuming you aren’t a billionaire yourself
  
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  - Maggoty@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    What you’re not getting is that I don’t care about your parents. They are neither good or evil to me. I care about the 99 percent of landlords exploiting people. The existence of one good person in a bad system does not make the system any less parasitical.
    
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    TrickDacy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    Lol the ONLY thing I get is that you don’t care about my parents. Well, that and that maligning people you ought to want to rise up with us of no importance
    
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    TrickDacy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    If people don’t even care if they are declaring war on their own fucking class, no wonder we still live under this bullshit. The Internet was a bad idea. I’d much rather think people like you wouldn’t act like this because if we talked about what we do agree about the world probably wouldn’t be such a depressing shit hole. but no, here we are exchanging blows for no reason
    
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prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
They didn’t compare your parents to billionaires though? Are you unfamiliar with how analogies work…?

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- TrickDacy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Their point was that my parents belong to a class of evil people, which I thoroughly demonstrated was false. And even if you ignore that, you can’t pretend that chosen example was meaningless
  
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