Graffiti seen in Barcelona, Catalonia
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I'm sorry that I can't afford to buy a house. Where the fuck else am I supposed to live if not rent? Victim blaming 101.
Ok... What the fuck are you slabbering about? I was standing up for you, moron. I shouldnt have bothered. You deserve to stuck in rentsville with dog shit reading skills like that. Hope they put up more Airbnb, just to fuck YOU over more.
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People who can no longer afford their mortgages would disagree with you.
Edit: I've absolutely no fucking idea why you all think I mean landlords here. You do realise normal people have mortgages right? And if you don't pay them, the bank take your house and make you homeless?
what mortgages? shelter must be a right. people shouldn't be allowed to own other people's homes. everyone should be provided with housing by paying taxes or being covered by social aid systems.
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In Seattle we call these studio apartments, I learned reading this thread that it's not a normal thing. My friends that live in one can't cook without their bed absorbing the smell.
Yeah in the pnw it's gotten a little dystopian to say the least
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That's fair I often go a little too hardcore in my boycotts, and realize I'm left with little to no options in picking up something I need. No Walmart, no Menards, no amazon, and try to avoid target, luckily I've found a few small shops around town that I didn't know existed, simply cause I had to find some things for the house.
Once while driving through the middle of nowhere I found myself getting hungry and all they had was a McDonald's and a dumpy looking gas station. So I passed on and wound up regretting it cause the next town of any significant size was nearly 80 miles away and I found myself getting lightheaded and my vision started getting hazy. Luckily I passed a town with a clean looking gas station before I got to the bigger town and I discovered the magic that is Casey's pizza.
The correct answer isn't left for us to easily choose, but Casey's pizza is one of those cboices. I'd reccomend trying the breakfast pizza with gravy sauce if you have an opportunity sometime.
Keep fighting your fight, and I'll keep pushing on mine. I'm getting close to helping some coworkers see how the economy they voted for is getting worse. I wish I could make basic human rights be more important to them, but The Machine is built to counter that specifically. I'll take what I can get.
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https://www.npr.org/2025/06/16/nx-s1-5434829/spain-tourism-protests-water-pistols-barcelona-mallorca
https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/08/travel/barcelona-tourism-protests-scli-intl
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-p-YGNXEnY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zo6L4dYVRUw
And to top it all off, "TOURISTS GO HOME" is one of the common slogans they use.
Not gonna visit barcelona any time soon with this toxic attitude.
Thanks
Not gonna visit barcelona any time soon with this toxic attitude.
There was a comment here along the lines of ‘make tourists not want to come and your problem is solved’, maybe they want to be toxic to scare everyone off. If that's the case, I hope they will find out if it worked the way they wanted
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thanks to fuckhead illegal hotel owners
Wrong fight, wrong enemies
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I have a pretty good landlord. This isn't an ACAB situation. The problem is the market, IMO, if not capitalism entirely; even if you got rid of landlords (made it illegal to have tenants), housing prices would still be too high to buy a house. Supply-side or demand-side economics are the only viable solution under capitalism.
Blaming the landlord is more of a meme. Don't take it seriously
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You have to realise that landlords aren't the plague. They're the buboes. A symptom.
If you can take your spare money (a concept from days gone by, I know), buy a house for X, rent it out for Y a month, then finally sell it in 20 years for Z, and be 99.99% guaranteed to make more money from it than you can from pretty much any other source, then why wouldn't you?
Remove the incentive for that (homes that don't go up by more than the inflation rate), there will be no need for them to exist.
But in any case, the size of the building projects required would likely be government level anyway, and they can be the "landlord" for anyone not wanting to buy. This was called council houses in the olden days, before Maggie Thatcher killed that.
spare money
I hate you
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People who can no longer afford their mortgages would disagree with you.
Edit: I've absolutely no fucking idea why you all think I mean landlords here. You do realise normal people have mortgages right? And if you don't pay them, the bank take your house and make you homeless?
Landlording isn't a real job. It provides no value to society.
Landlords can change that by simply changing businesses.
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You said a lot of stuff but I don't think any of it would really help someone who isn't on the same page as you already
I don't think I said anything too complicated to understand, we have a problem, people starve but there's a lot of food, people are homeless but there's a lot of houses
People normalize food been trashed while other people starve, this is not normal, and we all know what need to be done, this system does not work for the majority of the people
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The correct answer isn't left for us to easily choose, but Casey's pizza is one of those cboices. I'd reccomend trying the breakfast pizza with gravy sauce if you have an opportunity sometime.
Keep fighting your fight, and I'll keep pushing on mine. I'm getting close to helping some coworkers see how the economy they voted for is getting worse. I wish I could make basic human rights be more important to them, but The Machine is built to counter that specifically. I'll take what I can get.
I've been doing that at work as well. Older Gen x types that don't follow the news much. Right leaning but not far right are usually the highest success ratio for me. "Hey did you see they're doing _______, crazy"
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Do those rentals still exist?
That was some time ago, but I think we stayed in one of those. At least it looked like someone just left for the weekend. Also in a room that probably the mom rent out after the kids moved out. So yes, it's probably still a thing
