Purplepingers ☭
@purplepingers
Followers
31K
Following
22K
Media
2K
Statuses
5K
I hate real estate agents - join your union. Electoral content authorised by C. Oakley, Victorian Socialists, 83 Sydney Rd, Brunswick 3056
Joined November 2015
First of all, I wanna hear from the bottom official
1K
11K
158K
If the quote: “environmentalism without class struggle is just gardening” has ever resonated with you, I encourage you to listen to this chat from Jason Hickel: “why a liberated Palestine threatens global capitalism”
76
2K
8K
This will never not be funny
@purplepingers You’re tweeting about socialism on a smart phone that’s been presented to you by capitalism. Hypocrite!.
18
342
5K
If you’re mad at squatters, wait till you hear about Palestine.
136
729
4K
Increasing the rent without a mortgage purely to extract more profit from a tenant during a housing crisis is inexcusable. Some of us will remember what these folks did to us when they’re in their nursing homes.
Hey @purplepingers . More lovely landlords. Mine is again "compelled" to put up the rent despite owning the place outright, so it's just greed. There is nowhere else to go in Sydney. This is a small apartment.
120
316
4K
“Me and my mate Dave are looking for a housemate looking to put up with every single red flag under the sun”
168
234
4K
I'm running for parliament because we need change. Labor’s red doesn’t represent social-democratic values. It represents the blood of Palestinians killed in Gaza while Labor signs deals with weapons companies that are arming Israel. It represents those who will die because of
408
720
4K
Hey @SenatorWong - Israel just invaded another member of the United Nations, any thoughts on this? Maybe a crumb of a sanction perhaps? Surely at least a grave concern or two? Whatever you could spare would be nice x.
141
567
3K
Just want to say that I know we have our fights and don’t agree on everything, but I really appreciate you all putting aside our differences to fight the real enemy. Seppos. You’re all legends and thanks for having my back even if it was just to send this little meme and take
106
147
3K
Food bank line in Footscray.
We’ve delivered the first back-to-back budget surpluses in nearly two decades. This responsible economic management takes the pressure off inflation.
88
690
3K
Parcel Locker 10142 74259 8/117 Acland Street, St Kilda, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 3182
84
85
3K
The amount of both American and Australian folks saying they’d kill a homeless person on sight if they rocked up at a place that isn’t even their house is honestly heartbreaking. I hope you’re never in a place of need and are met with someone like you. Y’all have really opened.
158
360
3K
None of us are celebrating October 7 you weapons grade plum, we are marking one year of a genocide in Gaza.
No one should celebrate October 7 as many Australians mourn loved ones killed then and since. The largest loss of Jewish life since World War II. And an intolerable number of civilian deaths in Gaza, the West bank and now Lebanon. Despite what Peter Dutton and the Greens.
184
389
3K
“Sunny room” - my brother in Christ that is a balcony.
121
322
3K
Police just casually firing guns at peaceful protesters. Credit: Chelsea Catherine
608
865
3K
So Steve Price and I go to the same cafe and there’s 3 abandoned homes within 200m of the cafe, but apparently stevo hasn’t seen any of them.
164
207
3K
The age just published an article about how a landlord realised he couldn’t get a renter to pay off his ENTIRE mortgage and had to pay some of it himself. Incredible stuff.
90
361
3K
How on earth is this organisation a registered charity
90
611
3K
@SenatorWong This is a wild way to not mention whether you’ll comply with the ICC arrest warrant.
20
180
3K
If you ever want an insight into the mind of an average landlord, I encourage you to browse this Facebook page. This one’s complaining about the fact they can’t evict a single mother with 2 kids
206
294
3K
I wish for a world where one day people get more upset by genocide than they do about decorative windows.
What a bloody disgrace!.The launch of the Myer windows has been cancelled because of the threat of protests by pro palestianans!.What sort of society have we become, where a few, no doubt again supported by the Greens, destroy opportunity for the majority, especially our young.
232
349
3K
@BenFordhamLive Is it really unbelievable that people who live in social housing reflect the demographic makeup of Australia or are you just being racist?.
66
93
3K
This man is trying to lose an election. It’s becoming clearer and clearer that the focus groups conducted by the Labor party are most concerned with how they can gain conservative votes from the LNP, rather than introducing better policy in the interests of this country. We.
#BREAKING 🚨 Anthony Albanese has just announced the government will seek to ban teenagers under the age of 16 from social media. The announcement confirms the exact age restrictions that will be imposed
181
427
3K
The use of AI in rental listings has gotten so bad that @ljhooker has literally started advertising completely made up schools in their descriptions.
32
349
3K
Wills property is attempting to threaten someone who left a negative review about an illegal rental agreement for a property they were advertising
86
380
3K
Landlords who try and steal energy rebates from tenants should take a long hard look at themselves and then consider getting an actual job.
82
322
3K
You can now submit vacant American homes in the form too. No one should sleep on the street whilst we have houses left vacant for decades.
411
566
3K
Oh NOW people care about mould and asbestos? Interesting timing.
Someone is probably going to try to squat in one of those homes which turns out to be filled with mold or asbestos and unsafe for habitation.
31
194
3K
Nothing more awkward than going to work after being on the project and having to explain the word pingers over a zoom meeting.
65
68
3K
You can’t deduct hail damage from a tenant’s bond, Jess.
92
197
3K
Be nice if we did something about this other than go for a walk (like making housing actually affordable and accessible so that women have somewhere to escape male violence). Our housing fiasco forces more and more women to stay with abusers because the alternative isn’t safety,.
A woman has been killed every four days so far this year. Tomorrow I will walk with women across Australia to say enough is enough.
82
394
3K
“Nobody left behind”
88
530
3K
Australians effortlessly slapping Americans back on Twitter makes me so proud. It almost feels like punching down at this stage, they should be a protected species.
60
115
3K
Hey @NelsonAlexRE you know soliciting for rent bidding, and not offering rentals at a fixed price is illegal right? .@consumervic
50
334
3K
Rich people really need to lock up their abandoned houses better, especially the ones still connected to electricity and water.
87
124
2K
Incredible police work here.
51
247
3K
“The landlord understands that increasing rent can be difficult and has carefully considered the need for this increase, which is why they’re increasing the rent by 62%”. Abolish landlords. This shouldn’t be legal.
211
384
2K
This is something a franking credit would say if it could speak:
126
242
3K
This is genuinely insane. Dehumanising people like this has severe consequences for the most vulnerable people in our communities. Also, housing is still a human right if a fellow human being has a mental illness, drug dependence or criminal history.
226
375
3K
@purplepingers Endlessly crows about capitalism yet takes every advantage of living in a capitalist society.
26
146
2K
What’s the matter Johnny boy, got an empty house you’re scared about? X.
I’m poor. And that’s your fault. It’s not the fact that I only work 12 hours a week at a café in Brunswick. Which is already more work than I can handle, by the way. The soy milk has me exhausted and I stay up until 3am playing Fortnight. Capitalism is a rigged system.
111
75
2K
Anyone who has ever flown Rex knows that there’s there’s no way in hell they use cloudstrike because there’s just one lady called Donna who is holding everything together for the entire airline, and will also refer to you as “darl” in the most endearing way while you ask her a.
The only Australian domestic airline not affected was Rex. Jetstar has just cancelled all flights until 2am.
58
192
2K
Real estate agents: “let me watch your every online movement or else I’ll evict you”
116
406
2K
I get a lot of feedback from hobby landlords trying to tell me I’m giving them a bad name - someone please tell them they’re doing it themselves
81
301
2K
Sick. Let’s do it x.
If we abolished negative gearing tomorrow, it would have a miniscule impact on house prices.
24
197
2K
More than a few people on here have said that they agree with the sentiment behind the things I’m saying but not the way I’m going about it - just wanna remind you that you’re welcome to do it differently x.
90
137
2K
I’ve never been quiet about the fact I’m immensely privileged, the fact that I’m a white male living in an immensely racist and sexist colonial project, that I’m university educated and went to a private school when I was a child. I think people like me with that privilege have.
532
266
2K
If only there were something we could do other than be gravely concerned.
Australia is gravely concerned about escalation in the Middle East. Further hostilities put civilians at risk. The security situation in Lebanon could rapidly deteriorate. Australians in Lebanon should leave immediately while commercial flights are available.
49
558
2K
Squatting is good, actually. This was all an effort to try normalise something that is incredibly important to so many people (except the parcel locker stuff, that was an accident) - but you really don’t care about them simply because you think you’re better than them.
143
208
2K
Did I accidentally turn @StevePriceMedia into a socialist at the end there? From “abandoned houses don’t exist” to “we should force the sale of empty homes” is a pretty drastic turnaround.
62
123
2K
Me: we should probably acknowledge this housing system is unfair and we’re going to have to make some changes. This person: “you literally want to kill us”
114
212
2K
Love that we’ve spent $24m on consultants and $6m on executive salaries and not built a single home under the HAFF
156
540
2K
Lots of Americans pissed about the empty homes list all the way over here in Australia, might start an American one too x.
123
148
2K
Just a reminder to everyone that the violence, as always, was initiated by police. Credit: Chelsea Catherine
525
544
2K
The vic shadow housing minister @r_riordanmp said me encouraging people to enter abandoned homes is “grossly unfair” - you know what’s actually unfair? Homelessness.
86
244
2K
Something that is genuinely wild to me, is that all the Americans being like “we can’t have squatters here because we have STAND UR GROUND laws” don’t realise that in some states this same law means a squatter could fully legally shoot them if they rocked up to the house they.
84
160
2K
I believe in a world where your housing security doesn't depend on the status of your parents - and so should you.
194
287
2K
Some comments in a thread about a recent report stating 3 million people in Australia are at risk of homelessness
38
398
2K
Landlords provide housing the same way scalpers provide tickets.
64
248
2K
Yeah I really wonder what these union members reckon I think about socialism
Would love jords to tell some of the big cro cfmeu blokes how much he loves socialism.
39
56
2K
If I’m pulling myself up by my bootstraps and squatting in an empty home, why are the conservatives so angry lol.
203
116
2K
“The rents are rising but the [cost of living] is hitting landlords too.” - then sell your fucking investment properties, Jeremy.
106
166
2K
If landlords can require a bond from tenants to pay for things when the tenants leave, then tenants should be able to require a bond from the landlord that can be used to fix the stuff in the landlord’s investment properties. No more of this “the landlord can’t afford it” - the.
79
206
2K
Thanks for having me x.
. @purplepingers joined us to run us through how he is listing vacant properties to help people with no home get a roof over their head, legally.
127
198
2K
Requiring someone to work 36 hours a week for no pay just to get a roof over their head is beyond exploitation.
222
322
2K
Equating Babet’s racist and homophobic slurs with @SenatorThorpe protesting colonial power is a calculatedly evil move.
#BREAKING 🚨 Labor moves motions to censure Lidia Thorpe and Ralph Babet for protest against King Charles III and ‘use of hate speech’ respectively.
61
375
2K
Heavily armoured cops were literally shooting unarmed protesters and tear gassing and OC spraying but this reporter is like check out this weapon of mass destruction I found.
Activists claim today was all about peace but a police officer has shown @7NewsMelbourne the types of items that have been thrown at officers and the mounted branch this morning.
171
245
2K
Wild that Americans think it’s a far left idea that everyone should have a home.
150
146
2K
Imagine paying $800 a week in rent for the landlord to get three quotes on a front door and then decide to simply not fix it
80
192
2K
Just a reminder, if you don’t want someone to adversely possess your house - then you can simply just not let it sit empty for 12-15 years lol.
53
159
2K
Nothing makes me happier than seeing a director of a major @Raine_Horne franchise getting upset in my comments.
76
150
2K
Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of a cancer cell. “Market value” isn’t legitimate in a market where the “product” you are buying is an essential human need and a human right whose cost has been artificially inflated by real estate ghouls and greedy landlords.
73
345
2K
Just had a real estate agent call to complain that someone has refused to do business with them due to a review on Great 🥰.
72
125
2K
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, the fact that rich people can own multiple properties (and even leave some abandoned) before every indigenous person in Australia has the chance to own a home, is ridiculous. No one should be able to own an investment property before.
would love to see you also acknowledge the displacement of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander folks that's part of (so called) Australia's history considering this is the land you're actually on.
448
237
2K
Imagine how good it would be if the ATO sent landlords’ maintenance claims on their tax returns to renters for approval. Like hey, did this actually happen? Of course not. Straight to jail. X.
60
188
2K
Threatening someone with violence actually is illegal, unlike squatting babe 😘.Any investment properties you’d care to share? X
@purplepingers Yeah well it will be coming to an end. Also if you keep your crap up, it won’t be pretty for you. 😄😎.
82
86
2K
Gentle reminder that our housing crisis was caused by greed. It was caused by decades of government failure, and it was caused by the landlords in parliament who hoard the houses that we live in. Photo credit @MattH093
140
329
2K