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The Evil Landlord Myth Exposed... The left’s Marxist-inspired caricature of landlords as mega-rich evil overlords crushing “generation rent” is a lie. The real culprits are the state and its elite allies, who profit from a rigged housing market while leftist rhetoric distracts from their complicity. From migration to blue-state policies, the system thrives on inaccessibility, not landlord greed. 1. Landlords: Scapegoats, Not Overlords Landlords house 4.8 million UK households - 20% of the population - because the state gutted social housing, building only 6,463 homes in 2022 against a needed 145,000 (Resolution Foundation, 2023). These small-scale investors face 5-6% mortgage rates, soaring taxes, and 15% higher insurance costs since 2022 (Zoopla, 2024), yet contribute £45 billion annually (UK Government Housing Statistics, 2023). The Marxist “evil rich” trope scapegoats them to mask state failure. 2. The State’s Cash Cow: Profiting from Inaccessibility Cheap housing isn’t in the state’s interest. High prices fuel a £14.1 billion Stamp Duty haul (HMRC, 2023). Landlords pay income tax on rents, unlike homeowners with tax-free gains. A crash would gut budgets. Green belt rules and NIMBY-ism keep prices high - a feature, not a bug, ignored by leftist fantasies. 3. Low-Skilled Migration: Fuelling Demand, Ignored by the Left Low-skilled migration spikes housing demand, yet the left stays silent. Net migration hit 606,000 in 2022, with low-skilled migrants, often in private rentals, driving up rents (Migration Watch UK, 2023). A 1% population increase raises house prices 1% (Migration Advisory Committee, 2018). In London, 67% of private rented households are headed by non-UK-born individuals, many low-skilled (Centre for Policy Studies, 2024). This strains supply - 234,400 homes built in 2023 vs. 340,000 needed (ONS, 2023) - while the left blames landlords, not state oversight. 4. Blue States’ Burden: High Taxes, Low Homeownership In the US, it’s no coincidence that states with the highest taxes and property prices - California, New York, Massachusetts - are blue strongholds where homeownership is least attainable. California’s median home price hit $900,000 in 2024, with a 48% homeownership rate vs. the national 66% (National Association of Realtors, 2024; Census Bureau, 2024). High property taxes and regulations like CEQA choke supply, while Democrat-led policies favour wealthy homeowners and state revenue over renters. The left’s “equity” rhetoric masks this elite-driven inaccessibility. 5. Leftist Blind Spots: Distracting from State Complicity The left’s “tax the rich” mantra is a diversion. Scotland’s 2022–23 rent freeze cut supply, spiking rents 14.1% (Zoopla, 2023). Marxist-inspired policies like rent controls ignore supply shortages and underfunded social housing, shielding the state’s role in perpetuating inaccessibility. 6. Elite Hypocrisy: Politicians and Homeowners Win One in five UK MPs are landlords; 78% of US Congress members own investment properties (UK Parliament Register, 2023; OpenSecrets, 2023). Their wealth - like Jeremy Corbyn’s now £1 million+ Islington home - soars (ONS, 2023). Left-leaning homeowners block projects like San Francisco’s 495-unit affordable housing (San Francisco Chronicle, 2022), guarding their gains while preaching “equality.” 7. Why Rents Soar: State-Enabled Scarcity Rents jumped 11.2% in London, 8-10% in Miami (Zoopla, 2024; Brookings, 2024). Zoning laws, NIMBYs, and rising costs - mortgages, insurance - force landlords to raise rents or exit. Marxist fixes like Sweden’s rent controls create 20-year waitlists (The Local Sweden, 2023). This is state-driven scarcity. 8. Inheritance Tax: Elite Wealth, Untouched Inheritance tax is a sham- only 4% of UK estates pay it (HMRC, 2023). Elites pass property empires tax-free, locking in inequality. Scrapping it entirely would prevent the state from seizing family wealth, enabling more people to inherit homes and build stability, especially for the poorest. 9. A Global Scam China’s elites hoard real estate; Sweden’s controls fuel black markets; Soviet elites grabbed dachas (South China Morning Post, 2023). Leftist equality talk masks elite privilege, with housing as the tool. The Left’s Dangerous Delusion The housing crisis lays bare the left’s hypocrisy. By vilifying landlords, they dodge the real issues: state-driven scarcity, migration-fuelled demand, and high-tax, high-regulation regimes that crush homeownership. Their Marxist class-war slogans and failed policies - like rent controls - deepen inequality, while low taxes, free markets, and deregulation would unleash supply, lower prices, and lift the poorest into homeownership. The left’s rhetoric isn’t just misguided - it’s a betrayal of the very people they claim to champion, propping up a system where elites and the state profit while renters and youth are crushed. It’s time to ditch the dogma and embrace solutions that actually work.

@IrishNaturalist @SpursOfficial So Jews = Israel?

@SpursOfficial Read the room Spurs. The people see the star of david as a symbol of a genocidal warmongering power and rightfully so. Strange choice of imagery at the very very least.

Happy Passover to all our fans celebrating! Chag Sameach 🤍

@dollarbill256 @SpursOfficial So Jews do = Israel?

@SpursOfficial You deserve relegation you genocide supporters

Marco has long been a realist when it comes to NATO. The fact that he’s saying this is material but there’s a deeper thread being woven here. This stems back to the Merkel years with the Russians supporting, motivating, and facilitating mass migration to Europe (alongside NGOs) under the guise of humanitarianism due to the Syrian Civl War (and the continuation of these policies in many Western countries today) as well as the soft power encroachment by countries like Qatar and Iran to prop up “thought leaders” and institutions who promulgate anti-Western ideologies. On the immigration front, all of this was of course a facade, and Western governments have largely felt kneecapped due to their liberalism when it comes to immigration and refugee obligations pursuant to the ECHR, UNHCR, European Court of Human Rights, and the original 1951 Refugee Convention. This has been happening in Europe but has seen entrenchment in other nations (Australia, Canada, etc). This has resulted in material societal disruption, changing voting patterns, and a disruption of harmony seen, for example, in the increase of arson attacks against churches and the sharp rise in anti-Jewish acts against people and property. All of that coalesces around the political establishment, with voting blocs changing over time as people become naturalized citizens and gain the ability vote in the West. Combine that with the soft power influence play in which you have influencers being funded by nations to drip feed anti-Western talking points to vulnerable minds looking to make sense of a complex world, lobby groups who are advocating against war in the pursuit of their nation state backers who want war, and schools and educational programs being funded by these same countries to provide early lesson plans to impact ideology. The irony of this part of the puzzle is that we live in a world with unprecedented access to information. I believe that access has educated some but has been a net negative because its become overwhelming. People are now looking outside of themselves for answers to big questions; they’re looking to influencers and tools (Chat GPT, Claude, etc) instead of figuring things out on their own. We’re now at the end of the mid game of all of this and we’re seeing the fruits of their labor. NATO was on life support before this because events in Ukraine have destabilized the alliance, with the Europeans still not ramping up nearly as fast as they need to when it comes to rearmament to protect both themselves and Ukraine. Ditto for their militaries adapting to the new realities of the Donbas and Strait of Hormuz - a more modular method of war that they are not accustomed to that has resulted in them continuously losing to Ukraine during NATO exercises. Voting blocs have shifted because of all of this and the flanks of the Left/Right are now entirely non-interventionist and anti-war which furthers the political objectives of bad actors and despots who are working tirelessly for Charles Lindbergh style isolationism across the West, while simultaneously stretching the Overton Window and fracturing society. The soft power approach has also paid dividends with Israel being used as a culture war cudgel omnicause to rally both leftists and groypers around a cause once again under the guise of humanitarianism without any sense of the inflection points that shaped the conflict and got us to today. This has been used to activate anti-oppression factions, leftists, marxists, communists, anti-war advocates, environmentalists, influencers, and others into a single spear aimed at the jugular of traditionally Western interests. Power projection, safe borders, safe streets, international bases, domestic political parties. All of these things are connected. That about brings us to today. Twenty years ago this all would have been unthinkable.

@JarrodRodrigue1 Every single time lol

“You’re gay? I have a friend you’d like!” The friend:

@RedQueenEsther @Mr_Andrew_Fox LOL

@HugoandBob @Mr_Andrew_Fox Except this is NATO expelling the US.

The post hoc rationalisation of his blundering is incredible. I told you a year ago his policies would leave America weaker and more isolated, and here we are. Pure idiocy from this administration.

@MarkRuffalo Fuck off you irrelevant cunt.

We need a mass world coalition to stop Israel’s genocidal march throughout the Middle East and the lawless terrorism and apartheid within its own borders. Boycott, Divest, and Sanction is the recipe to stop further violence. It’s Dr Martin Luther King’s strategy of peaceful change. We must deploy it en mass and create a coalition of those who we may not agree with politically on other fronts but find common ground on this rolling justice. It has awoken the moral center in most people.

She has made herself and Sky News an international joke by literally filming Hezbollah flags while claiming there was no evidence of Hezbollah

@TonyB_1997 @anon_opin Sainsbury's is above all as M&S and Waitrose lack the same options

@anon_opin Agree mostly, but Sainsbury is above Tesco.

The hierarchy of supermarkets in the UK is as follows - M&S Food Waitrose Tesco Sainsbury's Morrisons Aldi/Lidl Co-Op Asda Iceland

@anon_opin Sainsbury's is best as you can get the most from it compared to M&S. Waitrose is overrated and their Fruit and Veg is dire so for me they are below Tesco. CoOp is the worst.

@Samarmendiratta @formulalt63 @Ace12Adam Russell was better than Kimi last year. This year I am not so sure it will be as clear cut.

@HugoandBob @formulalt63 @Ace12Adam Russell is clearly better than kimi OVERALL (and im not even a russell fan) but he obv has some bad tracks And its pretty clear russell is gonna dominate in the h2h if not winning the wdc unless you are a new fan

Diabolical from Russell regardless of setup issues or problems, that’s still diabolical

Nothing reveals the truth quite like an unintended admission. Critics of the death-penalty law passed in the Knesset are busy calling it “racist,” insisting it targets Palestinians. But the law itself is clear: it applies to terrorists who carry out murderous attacks. It names an act, not a people. The question writes itself: who made the leap from “terrorist” to “Palestinian”? Not the law. The critics. In trying to expose prejudice, they’ve exposed their own. A law about behavior becomes, in their reading, a law about identity, which tells you far more about their assumptions than about the text. 🫢 dw.com/en/israel-pass…

@formulalt63 @Ace12Adam Two bad races. Lando and Oscar have only had a race together once this season. Oscar beat Lando, I would expect someone who's in his 4th season and challenged for a WDC to beat his team mate on multiple occasions.

@HugoandBob @Ace12Adam One bad race and he gaslighted everyone the last couple years You're buddy's getting leashed by Piastri even harder so I don't wanna hear it

@ZackPolanski You're using images not from Iran you cunt.

Here's what Keir Starmer doesn't want you to know about the war on Iran.

@emzerielo Not watched a qualifying.

is anyone else just not watching f1 as much since the new regs?

@GBX_Press Bending over to the radical islamists and far left in her country. Never ends well hun

Italian Prime Minister Meloni: "I accuse Israel of crossing the red line, I condemn the massacre of Palestinian civilians, and I announce that Italy will support European sanctions against Israel."

Senator Cruz has tweeted the word "Israel" three times since Operation Epic Fury began. You've tweeted it 39 times.

@BellaHende56768 @jackmrankin Are they being educated to kill Muslims through the internationally funded education system? How is this any different to army cadets? There is a difference.

@jackmrankin Meanwhile in Israel..

Despite assurances that the Palestinian Authority would reform its education system, 14-year-olds in the West Bank are still learning Arabic language in the context of killing Jews. Evidence in 🧵

@liamcunningham1 What would be the better argument is for Palestinians to stop trying to kill their neighbours all the time, and focus on their own state to build, and then this policy would never be needed.

When the Knesset yesterday, passed the law approving the death penalty for Palestinians ONLY, they popped champagne bottles in the chamber as they applauded. You read that correctly. Not your problem? It’s complicated? STILL SILENT? SILENCE IS COMPLICITY.

@JohnSimpsonNews Shut up you old cunt

The Geneva Convention says it’s a war crime to target journalists, even if they work for an enemy organisation. It’s also a war crime to target medical workers. After the killing of 3 Lebanese TV journos last week, several medics coming to help them were killed as well.