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[–] [email protected] 90 points 2 months ago (2 children)

If you want to see some actual on-the-ground journalism, the local PSL chapter went there in person and interviewed residents:

https://www.instagram.com/p/C_a9iTKxBOu/

[–] [email protected] 58 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

noooooo you can't do grassroots working class journalism, how will landlords' lawyers get their platform????

[–] [email protected] 44 points 2 months ago

[rips off scooby doo mask] It was the landlords being racist?!

[–] [email protected] 67 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Awww Cenky does a xenophobia. Wonder why they went specifically after vuvuzela for this hawt story Cenk? Couldn't be because are are actively trying to overthrow the country and dehumanize the people to make it more acceptable to do further dastardly shit to them. Couldn't have been they came here in part because od our sanctions on the country. Let's not think of root causes and Empire motives. Gotta keep that froth going Cenk frothingfash

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago

I was looking at the red horn thing in your post waiting for it to move before realizing I should go to sleep.

[–] [email protected] 57 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Famously unbiased legal teams

[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I love how libs were all smug about "just follow the money" when trying to assemble a narrative about Trump fraud and his rat fink helpers like Roger Stone but then when it comes to this shit they're like "yeah the people who are paid by Landgrab Estates say the apartment company did nothing wrong" and take it at face value. Follow the goddamned money, motherfuckers! honk-enraged

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago

I will excuse my friends/family/class/status/hopes/dreams/fantasies, but I draw the line at my enemies! can-excuse-1

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago

My dad was a lawyer… it’s literally their job to spin up scathing spiels based on complete fantasy if need be when preparing these “reports”.

[–] [email protected] 49 points 2 months ago (1 children)

TYT: We're not like mainstream media!

Also TYT:

Honestly I'm not even sure they claim that anymore I haven't watched them in forever and don't plan on watching anytime soon.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 months ago

I know they're mainstream because my normie over 50 stepdad has been watching them a lot for the past year or so.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Cenk is arming up and going in to deal with these dastardly swarthy south americans by himself.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Convincing them to change their ways with :facts-and-logic:

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Damnit we need an emoji for that

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

This is pretty close last-sight

[–] [email protected] 43 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Police in the US can't STOP shooting nonwhite people, but I'm supposed to believe they just 'ceded a bunch of apartment blocks to Venezuelans'?

point-and-laugh-1

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 months ago (1 children)

they had to because colorado is a DEI state. now the venezuelan gangs are DEI landlords, while real landlords worked hard to get where they are. but hey i guess that's just life now on comrade kamarxla's america

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Denver has like the second or thrid worst housing prices in the us. My calculations prove that this is 1488% likely to be an eviction scheme to clear poor people out of rentals so they can jack the prices, or even bulldoze and build condos. We need an emoji of fred taking the mask off a real estate crook.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago

likely to be an eviction scheme to clear poor people out of rentals so they can jack the prices, or even bulldoze and build condos.

Shit, olde timey movie plots are back in vogue.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

No, it doesn't, not even close.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 2 months ago

Such a god damned idiot. Stayed with Ana after her going batshit transphobe so the apple doesn't fall far from the tree.

Scratch a liberal, a fascist bleeds

[–] [email protected] 41 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Holy shit, I'd only seen a couple clips of him arguing with Hasan, I didn't know he was this deranged!

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago (1 children)

We need to study the phenomenon of generational chuddery. It has to be more than rebelling against your elders, why do chud parents raise so many socialists and why do socialist parents raise so many mayo petes?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago
[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago

Just finding out about the origin of their channels name and how he felt on the topic put me on game

[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 months ago

Chunk Yogurt

[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Oh this is what people in the denver socials have been frothingfash about.

Jfc. Just, fucking fascists.

So this is probably a scooby doo real estate scam to evict everyone and bulldoze the proprty to build condos or something, right?

Oh i didn't realize this was cenk.

The aurora pd are the one's who murdered Elijah McClain in cold blood a few years ago. They poisoned him with ketamine and he died begging for his life. Sure, send in the cops, Cenk. " the young turks" really was a clue all along.

This guy went from vaguely leftist to unironic fox news our cities are war zones. Hell of a transformation.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

If there were even the slightest hint of a whisper of an echo of this story being true, APD would run wild with it. But they showed up and even they had to admit it was bullshit.

Like APD has always been notorious out there. So, idk, if they're not using this for scare tactics, then the most nothingest burger.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago (1 children)

From the chuds I've heard talk about it, the APD is in on the DEI conspiracy. Deeply unserious people.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

gd, is the strat for them just to be too exhausting to argue with?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago

Never believe that chuds are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The chuds have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 months ago

Mr. Xi, you missed one

[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Man it's really vindicating to have figured out this guy was full of shit when I was like 16.

"Ceding us territory"

Lmao fuck off you reactionary dumbass.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 months ago

I made an account just so I could complain about this BS story and find other information about it. Anyone who believes this is completely baby brained.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 months ago

What a goddamned tool

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The only gang in Aurora is the Aurora PD

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Right? This shit would be hilarious if it wasn't so grim. How many non-white people are there even in denver, like 7?

I've only seen like three people arrested since i moved here and, shockingly, 33% of those people were black despite black people being some ridiculously tiny fraction of the population in this metro.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I just recently visited Denver, and oddly Aurora, a couple weeks ago and got the exact opposite impression. It looked like there were a ton of minorities in the area. Especially the amount of shops selling ethnic food and the like. As you drove down Broadway, you could see it change from like Hispanic to Korean to Greek I think it was.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

Yeah, like Denver metro isn't as diverse as a lot of cities, but Aurora has housed some of the more diverse areas for like a generation. A lot of immigrant communities have landed there in the last 15 years too.

Aurora's also huge geographically though, so impressions might be different depending on what part of town you stay in.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 months ago

Unrelated: Hey, anyone want to talk about Armenian stuff for a quick sec? Specifically stuff that, apparently, didn't happen.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Shame that Adam Johnson is not on fedi/Lemmy