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   Kit Rhett Aultman (roadriverrail@signs.codes)'s status on Thursday, 31-Aug-2023 01:39:06 JST Kit Rhett Aultman

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   @waitworry Yes, and this is precisely the point. Having a massive class of people living in permanent tenancy was a great way to have the preconditions for communist sympathy. A socialized mortgage system designed to let lots of "the right people" have their own little patch produced a middle class invested in the status quo as a matter of course. Of course, now that US politics no longer requires that, home ownership is slipping away.

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     Claire-hime (waitworry@jorts.horse)'s status on Thursday, 31-Aug-2023 01:39:14 JST Claire-hime

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     an event I have burned into my brain from when I was like 12 is my stepmom throwing a fit because some black family moved into her condominium complex

     according to her this was totes not about her being racist (I have serious doubts about that ofc) but because she was afraid the banks were trying to block bust her precious neighborhood

     anyway ever since then I've realized home ownership takes people to some really fucked up places

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     Claire-hime (waitworry@jorts.horse)'s status on Thursday, 31-Aug-2023 01:39:22 JST Claire-hime

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     do people become more conservative with age? no they become more conservative when they buy a house and start worrying about if black people minding their own business is going to fuck with their property values

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     Claire-hime (waitworry@jorts.horse)'s status on Thursday, 31-Aug-2023 01:39:33 JST Claire-hime

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     once someone starts to seriously think about "property values" they're going to turn into a huge piece of shit who is going to support the most fucked up public policies imaginable

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     Claire-hime (waitworry@jorts.horse)'s status on Thursday, 31-Aug-2023 01:39:41 JST Claire-hime

     I feel like probably 90% of the bad things about capitalism come directly from treating houses as investments and not places where people live