^^ 45 seconds more from this highly articulate, fast-talking man, who deserves a huge audience:
Agreed...
Re: Rent
Posted: Fri Jun 16, 2017 12:06 am
by Iamwhomiam
Grrr... I can't get any to play, dagnabit! And can't find them on YT.
Fucking infuriating, it's so in your face, "We'll be rid of the likes of you and your kind, just you wait and see." A most ancient form of gentrification to eliminate competition and claim property rights over human rights. Possession through aggression.
Grrr... I can't get any to play, dagnabit! And can't find them on YT.
sometimes that happens on my machine, and often if I open a different browser, that alleviates the problem.
Re: Rent
Posted: Fri Jun 16, 2017 4:50 am
by kool maudit
The inflation of property prices and the corresponding rise in rents is a Baby Boomer bubble of the most destructive sort, reflecting the profligacy of the generation.
It has also indirectly crippled the cultural classes as they still operate (although this is diminishing as the internet is now the world's largest city) out of the traditional media- and art-capitals, whose pricing structures now invite contributions from only the bourgeoisie and their pets.
We need to see the problem of homelessness as only one end of a spectrum of evil that has the massive subsidies to owners at the other. It is a problem that will be as difficult and painful to solve as slavery.
Slavery as an evil shared many of the qualities of the present housing situation – it benefited the wealthy, created an underclass and denied them human rights. The solution was painful, for abolition often required that slave owners abandon their investment with no recompense.
To change our attitudes to housing will be no less of a challenge to us than slavery was for the reformers, not only because institutional evil is hard to recognise but also because so many of us benefit personally from the present situation.
I love the way he doesn't crawl or beg to be loved or simulate "media-friendliness" or try to ingratiate myself in any way, how he retains his ability to think clearly & speak eloquently without in any way concealing his righteous anger and his justified contempt for these "media professionals" (who I think are from the BBC).
- Anyone here living in the UK who saw this on TV? I'd be amazed if it was ever broadcast.
Re: Rent
Posted: Fri Jun 16, 2017 1:39 pm
by Cordelia
During this carefully staged photo-op “meaningful gesture”, The Queen doesn’t even register when someone screams (though she smiles), but she and the others ‘care’.
We need to see the problem of homelessness as only one end of a spectrum of evil that has the massive subsidies to owners at the other. It is a problem that will be as difficult and painful to solve as slavery.
Slavery as an evil shared many of the qualities of the present housing situation – it benefited the wealthy, created an underclass and denied them human rights. The solution was painful, for abolition often required that slave owners abandon their investment with no recompense.
To change our attitudes to housing will be no less of a challenge to us than slavery was for the reformers, not only because institutional evil is hard to recognise but also because so many of us benefit personally from the present situation.
In the first instance it's as easy as, "are you a rentier or not?" In the second instance, do you expect others to abide by agreements that you yourself in the same circumstances would never countenance? In the third, do you believe that the artificially induced dependency of the general population is the best use of all of our time and resources? The worlds population is an engine idling, there's so much we can do, so much we're capable of. All of that is harnessed to war economies, in particular the United States of America. What we suffer from is a distinct, advanced and abject lack of vision. In a word, greed. Deal with it Wombat. You guys own it.
jesus christ, that BBC reporter with his unforgivably stupid question ("Why do you think people are so angry?"), which he repeats and repeats and repeats like a robot, and his utter refusal to answer her incredulous question to him in return: "No. No. No. Why do YOU think they're angry? You're a reporter. Have you actually watched the news?"
Are these hacks actively trying to provoke a punch or a slap, so that "violence" can become the news?
Harvey, you appear foolish when you contradict what you've stated in your very next sentence.
("The worlds population is an engine idling, there's so much we can do, so much we're capable of.) All of that is harnessed to war economies..."
"What we suffer from is a distinct, advanced and abject lack of vision."
It would be impossible to tie all the world's war economies together without a clear vision and the extensive planning necessary to bring about projected expected results. Ask Donald. He'll tell you he's got an awesome plan conceived with 20-20 vision.
Also, "In the third, do you believe that the artificially induced dependency of the general population is the best use of all of our time and resources?"
Say what you mean, which is not this diversion quoted above. You really mean artificially induced (regulation or law) giving (raising a tax) is not the best use of yours or anyone's personal resources to pay for social programs and education.
Think of it like blackmail if you must, to keep the starving homeless from hobbling you or worse, dispossessing you of your hard-earned (possibly inherited) property and wealth you've garnered as a landlord. Or some other corporate capitalist whose found a better way to suck dry the pockets of the perpetually poor.
Grizzly, thanks for the advice. I'll try that next time. Seems that would probably be much quicker to do than searching it out on the web, which can really be frustrating