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They're completely different? "From the river to the sea" is a call for equal, democratic, civic rights for Palestinians alongside anyone and everyone else. These shirts here are explicitly about ethnic cleansing and Jewish supremacy and dominance.
🇮🇱🇵🇸 These T-shirt slogans are no different to ‘From the river to the sea’
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here is a landlord evicting a paramedic in the middle of a global pandemic literally because he works in the NHS
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blows my mind that british right-wingers act like posh people being bilingual is some amazing intellectual feat, but migrants kids being bilingual is "refusing to integrate"
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When this is all over, remember how landlords behaved - and let's build a society without them.
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god save me from germans whose grandparents were nazis lecturing me about antisemitism
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fuck, I hope the IDF haven't damaged any artwork in gaza
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Pro-Palestine activists are occupying Edinburgh's Waverley train station
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Advice for landlords who are worried about what today's rent freeze announcement means for their portfolios. 🧵A thread:
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we won on all counts ✌️✌️
about to go into court where we're bringing another case against another landlord who thinks the law doesn't apply to them, wish us luck 🫡
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Just like in Ireland and Bengal, "famine" is the sanitised term for the active and deliberate, genocidal, starvation as a weapon of war by colonisers.
Words like famine are being used to describe the situation in Gaza, as if there is drought or their crops are failing. These innocent men, women and children are being deliberately starved to death.
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Someone has driven a car into the crowd at the Edinburgh Palestine protest
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Not enough people understand that the Kindertransport didn't happen because Germany wouldn't let adult Jews leave, but because Britain wouldn't let them enter. It is not some heartwarming episode in British history, it's one of the bleakest. Our government left the adults to die.
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I'm saying this as a Jewish person: nobody seriously thinks that Jewish people face the same kind of racism as black people, and if they say they do, they're either lying for political reasons, or just don't care about anti-black racism.
Diane Abbott’s suggestion that Jewish people are not subjected to the same racism as black people was ‘anti-Semitic’, says Labour leader Keir Starmer. She has been suspended as a Labour MP pending an investigation.
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Less than 1% of the German population is Jewish. Germany's policing of Jewish political expression is so transparently antisemitic that it's hard to comprehend, and certainly far more consequentially so than anything these people are accused of.
37% of people arrested on antisemitism claims in Germany the last few months have been jewish 🥴
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Destroying Hamas by... bombing their political rivals? This is about destroying the entirety of Palestinian civic life, irreperably.
🚨🚨 Breaking: Israeli drone airstrike targets Fatah office in middle of the Balata refugee camp in Nablus (West Bank). The building was severely damaged/partially collapsed. Several people reported killed & injured.
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Can't stop thinking about how much this has been exacerbated by landlordism. Students conned into halls and then trapped there for online classes, workers bullied back to the office just to shore up commercial rents, how much of furlough wages have gone straight to landlords.
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yes, all landlords are rich - having a spare fucking house is the definition of rich u weirdos
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folks I am heartbroken to have to report that we won and the landlord was issued the maximum possible penalty 😢
back in court tomorrow morning against another criminal landlord, so far we've won every case we've taken but maybe these guys will get lucky who knows
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|￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣ |
| LANDLORDS |
| DON'T PROVIDE |
| HOUSING, |
| THEY HOARD IT. |
| ＿＿＿＿＿_＿_＿|
(\__/) ||
(•ㅅ•) ||
/ づ
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Edinburgh crowds now marching from Spanish Consulate to EU Commission to protest silence over repression against
#CatalanReferendum
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they're chanting "reparation" not murderer - which is important because it's not just an empty insult about a dead man, but a concrete demand about the system of racism he represented and which is still alive and well
A crowd has climbed onto the statue of colonial King Léopold II in
#Brussels
chanting “murderer” and waving the flag of the Democratic Republic of Congo where his atrocities took place.
#DRC
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#BlackLivesMatter
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Insane that these people expect every country in the Middle East to do nothing while Israel bombs them with impunity. Whatever you think about the Iranian government, it is an unanswerable fact that Israel started this.
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The people defending Israel now used to call this man a terrorist. Tories printed merchandise calling for him to be hanged. They won't be able to whitewash their complicity this time.
The Nelson Mandela Foundation extends support to the South African legal team as they appear before the International Court of Justice today. Wishing them strength and success in their pursuit of truth, justice and peace.
#CeasefireNow
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on behalf of all scottish jews: I am deeply, deeply sorry for giving the world this terrible person
This tweet has attracted a ton of attention because people deny Jewish ancestry and indigenous rights to Israel. Everyone who has attacked this tweet believes that Jews don't deserve a state, and advocate for genocide of Israelis. Yes I was born in Scotland. I live in LA. Israel…
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do you guys remember when we all had to pretend that israel would never attack a hospital
Breaking: Smoke rises from Al-Shifa Medical Complex in Gaza City after Israeli army forces detonated the specialized surgery building.
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are these cunts actually building a statue of the person who said hitler could be the solution to the "world problem" of jews
"If we want to preserve the open, plural and fulfilling democracy... we have to work now to ensure that it remains free from abuse and intimidation."
Theresa May speaks at the unveiling of a statue to Nancy Astor, the first female MP to take up her seat in the House of Commons.
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The rent freeze announcement and upcoming rent controls have been bringing out some absolutely bonkers arguments from landlords, so here is a quick thread debunking some of the biggest myths out there on rent controls:
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it's a great time to be a Jew in Britain, all our newspapers are so committed to tackling antisemitism!! *two seconds later* we regret to inform you the S*n is uncritically sharing content from some cunts called Aryan Unity
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THESE PEOPLE SHOULD BE IN JAIL
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zionism perfectly summarised in two tweets
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HAVE THE PEOPLE SAYING THAT INTRODUCING RENT CONTROLS WILL MEAN LANDLORDS WON'T MAKE REPAIRS EVER TRIED TO GET A LANDLORD TO MAKE REPAIRS LMAO
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The gap in life expectancy between the rich and poor in the UK is a full decade. Increasing the pension age literally means working the poor to death to pay for the pensions of the rich. There is no policy more transparently in the interests of millionaires.
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smoking joints outside keir starmer's window 24/7 but there's nothing he can do about it because i'm jewish
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Every landlord I've met agrees that there are some bad landlords out there, but insists they're not one of them. But there's no ethical way of forcing someone to pay your mortgage on the threat of homelessness. What makes it bad isn't the poor conditions, it's the exploitation.
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Sheku Bayoh was murdered by Police Scotland. One of the cops, Alan Paton, who was kept on after beating his own mother unconscious, openly admitted to "hating black people." He has still faced no prosecution. Do not pretend police racism is something that happens somewhere else.
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One of the main organisations that organised the defence of Jews against Pogroms was the Bund, and they used the slogan "Dortn vu mir lebn – dort is unzer land" - "wherever we live, that is our homeland". It was a fierce rejection of the Zionist idea that Jews must flea (1/2)
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feels like losing my mind to come on this site and scroll through pictures of palestinian kids blown to pieces, israeli politicians gloating about the carnage, and then see the entire british media and political class howling about abuse because a pensioner waved a flag near them
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If your opposition to genocide is dependent on constituents being polite to you, it betrays a quite genuinely unbelievable level of narcissism. These people are not fit to be MPs.
This. Also a message to all making demands on either side - if my constituents had shouted and raged at me the outcome might have been different. They didn't they sat and had cups of tea, and thoughtful chats. Heat and aggression is not the answer here.
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i will die before i vote for starmer's labour, and simply will not be lectured about it by people who refused to vote for corbyn in 2019's infinitely more consequential, infinitely higher-stakes election
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Scotland stands with Palestine 🇵🇸
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Demolition of graves to build a theme park. Fucking depraved.
Even in their death they are denied peace - here in Jerusalem, a Palestinian mother is dragged from her son’s grave as an Israeli Court allows demolition of graves to build a Theme Park…🇵🇸💔
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@joshcheetham
An iceberg says it has sunk a British-owned ship called the Titanic - but we've obtained pictures from today, showing it's still above the water.
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A quick thread with some advice for landlords in Scotland worried about what the new rent controls might mean for their profits: 1/?
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do you remember when corbyn said we should plant lots of trees and our entire media class collectively pretended that it was for some reason impossible to plant trees
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here's a nice Gaelic phrase for today: "cha chan mi càil mus can mi cus" - translates loosely to "if I speak I'll be in trouble"
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they're going to make it illegal to hold your MP to account in anyway aren't they
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Police unsurprisingly facilitating the driver and pushing protests away
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happy chanukkah to everyone except the people who weaponised the suffering of jewish people in order to propel the most racist government of my lifetime into office
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i'm old enough to remember when biden said "if you hurt an american, we will respond" - it was less than a month ago
BREAKING: Number of aid workers killed in Israeli strike rises to 7, with their nationalities reported as American, Australian, British, Canadian, Palestinian and Polish.
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this is how baby formula is packaged under capitalism
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banning food on public transport is the kind of fucking terrible idea that could only be thought up by someone who has never had to wolf down a sandwich on the bus between two shitty jobs
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again find myself thinking about when we were all expected to pretend that israel would never target a hospital, and that it was antisemitic blood libel to even suggest otherwise
Horrifying scenes emerging from the Al Shifa Medical Complex in Gaza City after pullout of the Israeli army from the area in the wake of a two-week deadly onslaught and tight siege.
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The Tories haven't "wasted" billions on a failed track-and-trace system and fantasy PPE contracts, they've handed that money to their pals, donors and cronies in quite blatantly corrupt contracts. It's the story of privatisation, every single time, from the trains to the NHS.
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someone in the scottish landlords network is proposing a landlord strike. is someone gonna tell him...?
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@BlackIslePMD
My point is that Germans instrumentalise the crimes of their forefathers for political ends now - isn't that obvious? Look at the way their historic guilt is being used to attack Muslims and immigrants. It's not me that's bringing their forefather's actions into the equation!
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Just had a tenant get in touch with me about her landlord breaking every law in the book. She found my details because we beat that same landlord in court, for doing the exact same things in the same flat, less than two years ago.
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no biggie, just police scotland actively stopping somebody from trying to save someone's life here
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Home Office have been forced to DE-ARREST everyone and are preparing to leave empty handed
Possible immigration raid happening right now in Edinburgh - outside Beirut restaurant off Nicolson St, anyone who's able to go down please do!
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it should be the law that whenever presenters ask this question, they have to reveal how much they earn - kay here is on £500k+
🔉 YOUR THOUGHTS 🔉
Do senior doctors on more than £100,000 deserve a 35% pay rise?
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quick note to british journalists:
YOU CAN'T PRETEND TO CARE ABOUT ANTISEMITISM IN THE LABOUR PARTY AND THEN GIVE STEVE FUCKING BANNON A NATIONAL PLATFORM
thanks for listening
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people like to pretend that the issue with Israel, to the extent that there is one at all, is Netanyahu, but the genocidal hatred of all Palestinians runs deep, from bottom to top, of the entirety of Israeli society, and no approach that ignores that has any hope for peace
Hundreds of Zionist Israelis are blocking trucks carrying humanitarian aid from entering the Gaza Strip through the Kerem Shalom crossing point.
#GazaStraving
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people should be paid in direct relation to how quickly this happens when they stop working
Only a few days into the Edinburgh bin strikes and don’t think I’ve ever seen Grassmarket looking like this 🤢
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fuckin called it
2019 will be the year centrists launch a new party and it will also be the year it disbands because it goes n o w h e r e
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looking forward to labour saying this doesn't go far enough
GP’s will soon be stripped of the ability to sign people off work as part of a major government inititive to crack down on ‘sick note culture’
Rishi Sunak says people should stop 'over-medicalising the everyday challenges and worries of life'
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Often Germans say they have some kind of national responsibility to the Jewish people, which obliges them to support Israel. But where's the national responsibility to Roma people? LGBTQ communities? Disabled people? Eastern Europeans?
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When Theresa May was facing a no-confidence vote, she restored the whip to two Tory MP's who'd been suspended from the party over sexual assault allegations in order to get their support. One of them was found guilty and jailed shortly after.
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eastern Europe in order to be safe from antisemitism, arguing that oppressed minorities deserve to be free wherever they are. It resonates with bitter clarity now, watching those same Zionists forcibly displace a million people with the most sophisticated weapons on earth.
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Lots of Labour MPs suddenly finding it in themselves to condemn "violence" when it's graffiti, but not when it's bombs, bullets and illegal chemical weapons. Farcical.
As Shadow Leader of the House I say MPs and their staff must be able to do their jobs without intimidation and threats of violence. The Police will act against threats, damage, abuse & intimidation. /1
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I liked this sick poster so much that I made a template for people to put their own face into
(.psd template: )
Nicola Sturgeon has insulted hundreds of thousands of Scottish Conservative voters.
This is just a taste of the bitterness and division in our politics if the SNP get their way with another divisive independence referendum next year.
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as Bulb energy becomes the 22nd energy company to go bust in the last four months, and the biggest one yet, i reflect on how great it is that labour are chosing this moment to double down on opposing nationalisation of utilities
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I just don't recognise Great Britain anymore. I can't believe it. I just wish we could go back to when the 00s when we invaded Iraq over a lie and murdered a million people, or the 90s when we funded death squads in Northern Ireland, or the 80s when our police and media collabor
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hot take if the only way people can afford a house is to deprive themselves of any joy or indulgence whatsoever for two decades then maybe there's something wrong with the housing market
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if you are a landlord who can't 'cover rising mortgages' then sell your house and you will be fine 👍👍👍
Nicola Sturgeon could extend rent freeze leaving landlords unable to cover rising mortgages
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short term lets landlords are
just local, hard-working business owners, based in Bermuda for reasons we probably shouldn't bother interrogating
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A lot of people frothing at the mouth in the replies to this, but the fact is that there is an enormous, unprecedented, multi-racial, multi-faith, multi-generational, global movement in solidarity with Palestine, and Israel simply has none of that popular support anywhere.
Scotland stands with Palestine 🇵🇸
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Abbott's letter was deeply ill-advised and generally I would never want to compare racisms, but the idea that anti-black racism (or Islamophobia) isn't worse, more consequential, and more structurally embedded than antisemitism is just patently ludicrous.
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it is absurd that Israel can just bomb any country it wants with no repercussions whatsoever - a rogue state, gleefully propped up by the entire West, who dare to lecture other countries about international law
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if i was a progressive political party, i would simply not adopt the slogan of a neo-nazi terrorist who murdered one of my MPs less than 5 years ago
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This was published in one of the UK's most widely-circulated newspapers.
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english people really went all the way, executed the king and abolished the monarchy then just chickened out and brought them back, none of this would be happening if it wasn't for a bunch of total losers in 1660
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the only thing british people hate more than joy is kids experiencing joy
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The point these "oh but look what I could cook for 50p" takes miss out is the time and energy it requires, not just the money. There's a reason so many people got into baking and making nice meals when they were furloughed - and it's because they *could*.
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This is funny, but it is important to understand that landlords don't see mortgages the way normal people do. For a normal person, it's a debt you have to pay off and that's it. For a landlord, it's a line of credit. 1/3
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Cannot be said enough, but this argument is *nonsense*.
If landlords 'leave the sector', only one of three things happen:
1) They sell to another landlord, in which case it has no impact whatsoever on supply of rented housing
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Find this stuff grotesque. Millions of people in this country don't have the luxury of letting their imminent financial ruin "pale into insignificance". Countless people will starve, lose their homes, and even die. Demanding they forget that is not "respect", it is blackmail.
Everything pales into insignificance as our thoughts and best wishes are with Her Majesty the Queen and her family.
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The problem is supply!
Not really. In many places, there isn't really a shortage of housing per se, it's just that loads of it is unaffordable, lying empty, or used as holiday lets. It would be much faster and cheaper to deal with those issues.
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Police still kettling mostly v young protesters - it's been almost two hours. Still no word about why they were detained, now finally saying they're going to let them go - suggests they never had any grounds for it in the first place.
#COP26
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still cannot really believe the bbc interviewed the literal cousin of pinochet as if he was some kind of objective floating voter
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if society collapses when you go on strike then you deserve every penny you're asking for. there are people who earn a hundred times what these bin workers do who contribute nothing at all
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white community leaders need to condemn this
German police treating shootings in Hanau as terror attacks, with evidence that suspect was right-wing extremist
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@Max_Ben_Levy
Don't worry Max, I'm condemning calls for ethnic cleansing. Good thing "from the river to the sea" isn't one.
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We just need to build more!
There is a reason landlords and developers make this argument: they know that simply building more without addressing the questions of ownership, control, tax, regulation, etc only means creating more assets for them to speculate on.
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When landlords say they need to increase rent because mortgages are going up, remember this post and take special note of the difference between this guy's mortgage and the rent he's charging.
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a general strike but it's just drones shutting down all the infrastructure and we're all in the pub
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about to go into court where we're bringing another case against another landlord who thinks the law doesn't apply to them, wish us luck 🫡
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