I’m not sure how much more blatant the bourgeois propaganda can get. I mean, they are just going completely mask off at this point.
Derek Thompson:
At a time of maximal desperation in the U.S. housing market, giant investment banks, such as BlackRock, are buying up some of the few houses left on the market, boxing families out of the American dream. They’re turning these homes into rental units that they will, in some cases, leave to decay.
Also Derek Thompson:
But this outrage is misdirected.
This dude’s talking about new construction as a solution like we don’t already have more homes than people. In his solution, what’s stopping all the new housing from becoming unaffordable again?
Exactly this. There isn’t a lack of shelter… It’s a lack of affordable shelter. There should be a 100% tax on non-residential property or more.
What a pathetic article. First, the premise is so shaky. It’s based on a straw-man of general American sentiment.
Then, at the end, he asks us to look in the mirror. Yet, there aren’t any solutions expanded upon besides some shitty “build more rentals!!!” What exactly can a normal person do? Is this guy’s audience landlords? Probably.
The problem is the market, not housing. There are more than enough houses for everyone. But since it’s a fucking market, what can you expect but a minority landlord class absorbing the largest amount of housings to artificially limit housing? It’s a clear and predictable outcome. Thompson completely avoids this simple fact in order to blame the consumer of a necessity for the shit show that is investor market capitalism.
A while ago I was arguing with a neo-liberal (irl), and this is basically what they said, when I was saying capitalism is stopping more apartments from being built, along with other ways it contributes to homelessness.
whoa, new feature
It’s actually the first feature I added, but since you need to add !archive, it doesn’t get used as much and most people don’t realize it’s there.
Do you have a list of the functions and commands you’ve created? They’re great, so you want people to know they’re there. Are yours the only bots? Could the bot create and mod a community with the same name, then it/you could put the functions and commands in the sidebar or a stickied comment? (Apologies if this exists and I’ve just missed it.) If there are other bots, it could be a general bot forum…
I’ve made a community for bots and made a post about my bot in it: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/482041.
Nice one!
It’s good to see the examples in the stickied post, as well.
I’m impressed with the bots, too. Talented!
Thanks. I made my bot extremely configurable, so I can add features just by editing the configuration, without editing the code at all. Just today, I made it more powerful by switching to a templating language, which means I can do things like have it recognize multiple links in a comment, rather than just one like it used to. It also allows doing actual logic inside the response, such as adding numbers, editing text, etc.
Currently, there is just Archive and YouTube to Invidious, though I plan to add more. There is my bot and the Parenti bot which is not mine. My bot is easily configurable though, so it can be used to implement the parenti bot with a very simple config file. Currently, there is no community for the bot, but I could make one if people wish. If I do that, I’ll provide my current config in case people want to use it as an example to configure their own instance.
I tried using it earlier; do you need to place the
!archiveright before the link?Testing !archive https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/06/blackrock-ruining-us-housing-market/619224
Here are the archive links you requested:
excellent, hohoho
Testing again https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/06/blackrock-ruining-us-housing-market/619224 !archive
I think I’ve located my problem
Here are the archive links you requested:
…why not both?
