Eric Adams doing everything he can to prevent Mamdani from enacting rent control is fundamentally anti-democratic, and toxically pro-landlord, but I won’t hold my breath about it, that’s NYC baseline
It also heavily implies that Adams, Cuomo, and the Dem leadership have resigned themselves to a Mamdani victory
It’s pretty amazing how the Dems wouldn’t lift a finger to prevent Trump from taking over everything before he came into office, but they’re going so hard against Mamdani. Tells you where their priorities are.
The Dems are really going harder on stopping rent control in NYC than they have ever gone on stopping American fascism. You really can’t make this stuff up. I’m pretty cynical, but this is not only evil, it’s also spiteful & makes them look weak.
@sidereal rent control is a fascist policy! It is demanding State control of private activity!
@volkris if this is a joke it isn’t funny or accurate or insightful
@thesquirrelfish not really.
Contrast it with something like copyright. Copyright is a function of state regulation saying that only one person can claim ownership of ideas, an artificial restriction created by the state and delineated by law.
On the other hand, it's not the state saying that, I don't know, only one person can drive a car at once. That's a result of nature. Only one person can control a physical item at once.
Private property arises out of the natural concept of scarcity. Here is a thing. It can only exist at one place at a time, it can only move one way at a time. That is physical law of nature territory.
Property law is merely recognition of that reality.
It's based on premises or assumptions that are complete bullshit; essentially the ancap delusional fantasy of capitalism without state, something that has never existed and cannot exist.
references:
https://kolektiva.social/@RD4Anarchy/110357349860939196
There's no need to stretch things. No need to look for any kind of conspiracy theory.
It's simply that, here's a thing, and we can count the number of things that this thing is, it is only one thing, we can count to one, and that's that.
All of these theories that complicate trying to reach some political objective, but no, we can count to one. No need to stretch, we'll count these, and we get to one, and that's the end.
Sometimes simple realities are the way to go.
@RD4Anarchy @volkris@qoto.org @sidereal
I’ve had this person blocked for a while and I’m pretty sure it’s because I suspected them of attempting to insert covert fascism on fedi
In that they will explicitly deny being a fascist while defending or downplaying fascism at every turn.
@HeavenlyPossum @RD4Anarchy booooooooooooo
"In that they will explicitly deny being a fascist while defending or downplaying fascism at every turn."
Ah. A centrist, you say....
;)
@HeavenlyPossum @sidereal @BetaCuck4Lyfe
When I first came across this exchange I thought I recognized the name and had a feeling I'd left a personal note on the profile. I checked and sure enough:
PERSONAL NOTE
claimed that Trump ordering museums etc to "remove improper ideology" is "not the descent into fascism so many frantic about. It's just dumb marketing from a snake oil salesman." Also thinks Trump admin is making things better for science in the US.
@RD4Anarchy Yeah that sounds about right, you really don't seem to understand the concept that here's a thing and only one person can have it at one time.
That's the underlying fact behind property. And yes, you don't seem to appreciate it.
The point is, if you can count to one, you can understand property. That is, if a person isn't just too busy trying to use government to force to their advantage.
@RD4Anarchy start anywhere!
If my reply is so packed with falsehoods, it shouldn't be hard to start laying them out.
Please! Show me the errors in my ways!
@volkris@qoto.org
None are so ready to find fault with others as those who do things worthy of blame themselves (as Mark Twain schools us)
You are like a pig begging to learn to sing and blaming others cuz u can't learn
Sealioning all the way: it's tiresome and DEFINITELY someone not worth engaging with
I'd explain to you why what you're saying is fucking stupid, only if you paid me
Cuz I've seen you make bad faith arguments up and down threads for a while now so hold this block.
To whom it may concern:
The concept of ownership (especially in the context of what we call "real estate": artificial and violently imposed divisions of the planet and biosphere, a whole of which we are all inextricably a part and on which we all depend) is not some sort of natural law or mathematical principle. It is a social construct, and one that is not even universal among human cultures.
references:
https://kolektiva.social/@RD4Anarchy/111891044015665650
https://kolektiva.social/@RD4Anarchy/110357297989011151
https://kolektiva.social/@RD4Anarchy/110357303559108070
@volkris @RD4Anarchy @sidereal
Okay. There is ONE planet Earth.
And yet, billions of us have to figure out how to share it at the same time. Go figure.
@violetmadder @volkris @RD4Anarchy @sidereal Capitalism has a whole zoo of ways of dividing up ownership of a single thing. Company shares, for example.
@ghouston @volkris @RD4Anarchy @sidereal
That's not what sharing used to mean. At all.
@violetmadder Yes, exactly!
@volkris @RD4Anarchy @sidereal
You saw me use the word "share" there, right? Because that's the opposite of what you had just said.
@RD4Anarchy @volkris @sidereal ⏫ that makes two of us.. I stopped reading about halfway into the first paragraph because I was like I'm pretty sure that rd's response is going to be wtf dym
And I was right so I saved time :-)
@volkris private property isn't a private activity. All property law is a function of state regulations.