OK, this thread is by and large just a puerile waste of time to make fun of extreme woke parlance, but how the f**k are evictions not violence? Like, the Dules of the world are free to call it legitimate violence (every political ideology has its own definition of what violence is and isn't legitimate), but surely if words are to have any meaning then physically removing a person from a place against their will is clearly a violent act?
Have you ever been a landlord?
Well, let's say there is a union construction worker who works for 20 years until he has financial freedom. He didn't graduate college or even high school, he did it the old fashioned way he came from nothing and he made something of himself, he worked 6-7 days a week 12 hours a day, he would make around $75,000 to $115,000 in any given year. In 2010 his father dies and he inherits his home, with what that worker has saved through his years of work and the inheritance he received from his father he is able to buy 2 more homes one for $19,900 that had been foreclosed upon. The man puts about $5,000 into the house to give it a new roof, make sure the flooring is nice, and to increase the quality of life. In the summer of 2011, the guy rents out this home to a person and all is well for a couple of years, sometimes the renter falls behind on his payments, but he always makes them up, then in the summer of 2012 something happens, he stops paying and then month after month this keeps happening so after three months the property owner begins the eviction proceedings and then one day in the fall goes to check out the house and there is nobody there and the door is wide open. So the property owner goes into the house and he finds a great big nothing. The appliances the property owner had supplied were gone, the ceiling fans were gone, the light switches were gone, the walls were smashed up, and the furnace was smashed. So the property owner calls the police, the police say that they will look into it. Now the property owner, who had been a working-class Joe his entire life who is trying to get higher in the ladder, now is out of 3 months rent, thousands of dollars of appliances and repairs, and a tenant. See we don't have to think of this as a hypothetical because it really happened to my father, everything in this is true and it happened in the timeframe given. And the landlords are the bad people.
So yes, Antonio and the rest of the forums residents woke Socialists, I'm sorry that you feel that a person taking a risk and spending their own capital to provide a service to others is a monster. Life is not rosebuds and candy for landlords, they are people and 99% of them are people who have worked hard to get where they are in life.
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