Rent Is A Scam: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
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A poor person in the US has to bend over backwards and degrade themselves in all sorts of official and unofficial ways for a few bucks in welfare, but the Pentagon can spend trillions on a 20-year war that achieves nothing but making assholes rich without being asked a question.
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The bad news is the oligarchic empire is ratcheting up authoritarian control with the goal of trapping us in an Orwellian dystopia so gradually we don't notice, but the good news is they won't succeed because they'll get us all killed via nuclear war or climate collapse first.
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Always blame the manipulators, not the manipulated.
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Q: What is a landlord?
A: A landlord is someone who is paid by a tenant for the privilege of keeping vandals and disuse from destroying their investment property (which they will sell at an immense profit) while complaining about having to do maintenance on their own investment.
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Q: What is rent?
A: Rent is a double-dipping scam wherein a landlord has a tenant pay off the loan on their investment property for them and then evicts that tenant and sells the property for a lot of money.
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People complaining about the US eviction ban are like, "Oh help me, I am a landlord and my investment property isn't yielding free money. I am a lord, I cannot get a job, I cannot work for my hands are like gelatin desserts."
Nobody is entitled to make free money tenenting their investment property. If your rent scam isn't working, sell your investment like a normal investor.
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"If you don't let landlords evict tenants they'll have to sell their property to BlackRock!"
Yeah, that isn't the killer argument you think it is.
It assumes renters care which lord they're exploited by
Selling means you make money, boo hoo
It just means we need a revolution to take back what institutions like BlackRock have stolen.
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"Can you think of a better way to provide shelter?"
Redistribute wealth, redistribute property, eat BlackRock executives alive.
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"You've clearly never owned a rental property."
No I've never exploited a system premised on the continued existence of a permanent rent-paying underclass. That's like telling me I can't criticize child abusers until I've abused a child.
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Hiring mainstream news agencies to help you fight "misinformation" on your social media platform is like hiring David Duke to help you diversify your workforce.
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Mandatory vaccines would be a violation of bodily sovereignty and vaccine passports are authoritarian abuses and people should be allowed to discuss this stuff on the social media platforms everyone uses and the army shouldn't be policing the streets of fucking Sydney.
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The mass media just spent years leading the world on a wild goose chase for Trump-Russia collusion that never existed and now have the absolute gall to act like people are deranged lunatics for not trusting them about elections, viruses and vaccines.
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Global capitalism is beginning to look like the end of a game of Monopoly.
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Right wingers are always very concerned that they're being manipulated into doing stupid left-wing things to advance an authoritarian agenda and not at all concerned that they're being manipulated into doing stupid right-wing things to advance an authoritarian agenda.
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Rightists: The global elites are grabbing up all the power and wealth!
Leftists: Yep. Have been for a while.
Rightists: It's called the Great Reset!
Leftists: Sure you can call it that.
Rightists: We need a global revolution!
Leftists: Yeah we've been saying that since the 1800s.
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I've been writing every day for years about how the oligarchic empire is pushing us toward authoritarian dystopia and extinction and we'll all die if we don't have a global revolution very soon, and the scamdemic people keep yelling at me for not saying this using their jargon.
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Me, every day for years: They're ramping up authoritarian agendas and if we don't all rise up immediately we'll all be killed.
Scamdemic crowd: God DAMMIT Caitlin, why can't you understand that things are SERIOUS now???
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Whenever I say I don't comment on certain aspects of the Covid narrative because I'm bad at science people tell me "Well I'm no good at science and I understand what's going on with Covid perfectly!" Uhh no, that just means you're less real about what you know and don't know.
If it requires no scientific smarts, like knowing soldiers shouldn't be policing civilians in Sydney, then I'm on it. If it does then I'm kind of lost. What's weird is my husband/collaborator is just as bad at that stuff as me; we haven't got a scientific brain between us.
I've been looking at this thing for over a year and there's a lot I just can't wrap my mind around, and I'm not going to just accept other people's analysis on faith if I can't verify it for myself. If you say you get it, you're either better at science than I am or less honest.
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I've been reading all I can about Covid for over a year and I don't know what the fuck is going on or who or what to believe. And I'm fairly savvy. There is simply too much conflicting information and too many lies and too much manipulation. I know only two things: a) my own government has lied to me and the fact that Slate Magazine refers to them as "noble lies" doesn't make them noble; b) I don't want my government, which spreads it's own disinformation (as Slate recently reported), teaming up with big tech to decided what constitutes mis- and disinformation and then censoring it.
We're not all economists, yet we should have the right to criticise the government and industry for economic policy because it affects all of us. We're not all scientists specializing in disease pathology or novel coronaviruses, and yet we still should have the right to criticise governments and pharmaceutical industries for making decisions that affect our personal lives as well. I wouldn't trust myself to develop a vaccine, and yet I have had enough experience and knowledge about pharmaceutical industries and governments not to trust them either. Democracy involves us making decisions about public policy and cannot preclude the essential step of exploring inconvenient truths, dissension, and criticism in a fair and reasonable manner. Yes, I understand that we don't really live in a democracy, but I won't bow to any Ministry of Truth until they accept all kinds of questions before they embrace any singular answer.