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The rentier class (Michael Hudson) just sits back and collects. It’s not hard working and Responders worship the rich as the citizens are subjugated to idolize the Occupying Forces of Responders. But the rich never did care about the proles (Orwell).

  • Lemminary
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    921 days ago

    Can anyone explain the “no rent on stolen land” bit? I don’t get it. Who stole it if the landlord sold it off and the renter got kicked out?

    • @[email protected]OPM
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      Most treaties with the original owners (American Indians) were broken and ignored.

      Of course, the indigenous did not have the same ideas about “ownership,” preferring open prairies, for example, instead of fences. “We do not own the land, the land owns us.” Why do you possess it? Other causes external to yourself created it and sustain it. It all belongs to Sun-Water. Somehow, owners forget all the externalities and sudden break endless causal chains, contingencies and dependencies, and say they solely deserve it and it belongs exclusively to them.

      Then again, there were Europeans who thought “property is theft” and threw off feudalism. Why should the Lord own our labors and lands, they thought?

      Imagine if you or I turned the tables and had a Manifest Destiny today.

      Ownership is a strange concept. There was a commons when there was a King and Crown. Now there is supposed to be no King but there is no Commons, only Lords with dubious claim gained by trickery and inequity.

    • @Kecessa
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      “no rent on stolen land”

      So… Camping for free on land stolen from natives? 🤔 Or people expect others to let them live in their house for free? 🤔

      • Lemminary
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        621 days ago

        I also thought it had something to do with Native American land for a second but it’d be so bizarre.

  • PP_GIRL_
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    Okay but did you consider bootstraps? Checkmate, liberal.

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      networking bootstrap? Yes, there might be monetize in the internet if they don’t totally f it up.

        • @[email protected]OPM
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          121 days ago

          Don’t know why you quote. Is someone out there extra-judicially, beyond statutes, absolutely enforcing imaginary crimes with a space weapon or something? Weirdo. He should never have another a date the rest of his life!

        • @[email protected]OPM
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          021 days ago

          or just be nonprofit and enjoy the fair use, criticality, education, and information of the digital commons!

          • @[email protected]OPM
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            120 days ago

            The vast majority of attractive people in the world don’t think weed = never have a date the rest of your life and endless berate you. I never do drugs of any kind ever, nor ever have, but I think it is idiotic how some contingent in fascist “LE” is still fighting the Vietnam era counterculture and is obsessed with weed. Here is the Fearless Leader himself: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/16/us/politics/marijuana-schedule-drug-biden.html

            Weed does not cause cerebral hemorrhages. If some one thinks critically of government, it does not necessarily mean they are on drugs. “LE” is a power-tripping crackpot.