Here’s the thing: landlords make a profit, right? Where does that profit come from? There are better and worse landlords, but any time there’s a profit there’s money being taken away from people.
No one is coming after your aunt, but that’s where it comes from. They’re leaching money away from tenants. Some are worse than others, but it is by definition parasitic if you’re making a profit and not providing a service.
True, but like you said, other people answered it correctly with first-hand knowledge. We don’t need useless AI garbage that is just as likely to be incorrect. There’s plenty of users with actual knowledge.
You’re not the one contributing. You’re just taking the answer from something else without having any knowledge on if it’s correct. There’s no reason for it. If that’s all the OP wanted they could have done it themselves. Let someone with actual knowledge answer it, like they have. We don’t need the AI slop.
Why not just write a bot that posts garbage? It’d be less work.
Don’t come here and just post AI generated garbage. Post your own comments or don’t at all. Nothing to add? Fine, just don’t.
Sadly, we don’t live in a fair rule-of-law state in the US, so if they go to trial that’s probably not how this will go. If the justice system were fair the assassin never would have needed to do what he did in the first place. Until the justice system is repaired, I don’t think this person should face a trial. It wouldn’t be fair.
True. I meant that no one is going to mug you or take your things. Yeah, rape isn’t uncommon when people get into more private settings. Being on campus during the day is pretty safe.
It depends on the university, but somewhat. Yeah. It’s a bunch of people with similar requirements all doing the same thing, and a lot of places to eat and do things. They’re pretty cool from my experience. It’s like a small town if everyone in the town was around the same age with similar struggles. You can trust most people and just hang out.
The justification doesn’t really matter. The point is this is the situation the makes “all socialist countries are bad” a belief people hold. It’s wrong. It’s “the only socialist countries who could survive capitalist intervention also did bad things. The ones that didn’t last are forgotten and we can’t know how they’d fare.”
The reason why the Cold War was happening at all was because the US shoved themselves into a role of preventing “communism,” which extended to any leftist government, from spreading. They needed to ensure socialism couldn’t achieve its goals, because if it could then other capitalist countries would see the benefits and follow suit. Obviously the owner class in capitalist nations couldn’t let that happen. You can even see it even within the US with the dismantling of leftist policy.
Socialism isn’t bad. It’s what capitalists forced socialism to be in order to survive that’s bad. Capitalists are the issue with socialism. To use it as an argument for capitalism seems pretty fucked up. It also ignores all the harm done by capitalism. This mostly happens outside of the rich countries though, so most of us don’t interact with it.
Hence why I said leftist, yes. It was an example of what happens to any leftist government, including but not limited to socialists.
Anyone who goes against the interests of capitalists is scary to them. They say (similar to what you said) that they must always fail. If this were true, they wouldn’t be so scared.
How about Guatemala.
Democratically elected leftist president who enacted a minimum wage and was going to redistribute land owned by The United Fruit Company to the people, since they owned most of the nation’s land.
Couped with the support of the CIA and replaced by a dictator who went on to lead a genocide of the native people.
For more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_regime_change_in_Latin_America
Whether socialism results in authoritarianism because of the ideology or circumstances is irrelevant, the fact is that socialism generally ends in authoritarianism. It turns out that it takes a lot of force to transition a country from capitalism to socialism, so it’s not surprising that this transition attracts authoritarians.
The reason is because capitalists oppose it. If the world was ruled by Fascists you’d be saying we should try anything else because anyone opposed to Fascists gets undermined. It’s a fault of capitalism, not socialism.
There have been many elected socialist democracies, but the West undermined them. We can have socialist countries without any issues. It just requires capitalists in the rest of the world not overthrowing them.
Bad public transport is bad. This is done on purpose. It shouldn’t be up to people to deal with bad public transport. It is on us to pressure our governments to improve it. When it’s better people will just use it.
We also need to make people aware of how much money car infrastructure costs. It’s mostly invisible to them, but in reality they pay a ton of money for it. Good public transport would save them money.
Here’s the issue. Capitalist nations are afraid of socialism spreading, so they do everything they can to destroy them. The only ones who have every survived this pressure are authoritarian dictatorships who have isolated themselves from western influence. This creates a situation (that the media, being capitalist, spreads) where socialism always ends up as authoritarian. That doesn’t have to be the case, but it does when anything else is destroyed. It’s ignorant to think that this is the fault of socialism and not circumstances.
I’d be less annoyed with it if it were bad. It’s just the most boring thing. There’s nothing interesting going on. If it were bad there’d be a reason to care about it.
It’s just really annoying because Bethesda used to care about doing something interesting with their games. It’s just increasingly gotten more generic though, and Starfield is the worst of it.
That’s good! I guess that’s the difference between viewing it as a utility vehicle and a recreational one. In the US it’s almost always seen as recreation only.
From my experience, usually they don’t. Even the ones that do aren’t to the same degree as a car is required to. I want biking to be better than driving, so this is not an anti-bike comment. Maybe we need to add a requirement for bikes to have lights like we require for cars?
To be fair, the tank has better turning radius than everything, besides a bike if you count lifting it and rotating it. A tank can turn in place.
The view of a tank is fairly bad though, which is why it’s impressive the truck is worse.
I doubt it’ll make Europe at large side with China, but Russia is going to be in massive debt to China. I’m curious how much power they’ve obtained there already during this war.
By chance, sure. He wouldn’t have known if it wasn’t. Luckily it had a skyline that is often captured in pictures. If that wasn’t there, it’d still answer confidently, but it’d likely be wrong.