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[–] 186 points 3 years ago (11 children)

"Landlords entering the party were greeted with shouts of “Parasite!” and “Get a job!”"
Some good news for today.

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    [–] 104 points 3 years ago* (2 children)

    Chants of “See our might, see our power, landlords get no happy hour” ... “Parasite!” and “Get a job!”

    Love it!

    About an hour into the rally, the picketers entered the venue ... Witnesses said a male attendee of the BPOA event [landlord] then slapped a female TANC member [protester] in the face and pushed her.

    Thuggish landlords throwing their weight around? I'm shocked. Interestingly, police who were monitoring refused to enter the venue.

    No one's profits are more important than anyone's right to shelter. While there'll never be justice in a world with landlords, at least there can be some nice music:

    https://youtube.com/watch?v=aCiYmCVikjo

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  • [–] 84 points 3 years ago (7 children)

    Good. The petite bourgeois need to remember that they are part of the problem.

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  • [–] 45 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    Do you mean a room full of narcissistic people couldn’t get along?

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  • [–] [S] 11 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    I'm curious, are you calling all three groups narcissists?

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  • [–] 33 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (3 children)

    Outside the pub, tenant advocates were having conversations with passerby who disagreed with the protest. “Wouldn’t it be bad if we were celebrating landlords losing their homes?” one protester (left) said.

    what a strange thing to say outside an event where landlords are celebrating being able to evict people again.

    edit: i misread the article when i made this comment

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  • [–] 42 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Well that's the point. It'd be bad to celebrate other human beings losing their homes.

    That's why they're protesting outside the landlord celebration of people losing their homes again.

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  • [–] 27 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Would rather know which properties these people own and work full time to ensure they are empty at all costs.

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  • [–] 13 points 3 years ago

    Local clerk of court website can help you with this.

    If you can get their names, you can know the property they personally own.

    And if they're big enough to have a corporate name on the deed, then they will probably be registered with your secretary of state or whichever department handles business filings.

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  • [–] 27 points 3 years ago

    Wow. Capitalism blows.

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  • [–] 20 points 3 years ago

    It's nice to see positive news once in a while

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  • [–] 17 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    She said she then stepped out to request the presence of the police, who had been observing the protest, but they refused to enter the pub.

    Interesting... police refused to step in at the request of the landlords.

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    [–] 16 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Not long now until we're eating the rich. I can't wait!

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  • [–] 14 points 3 years ago

    I wondered about the wisdom of having a high profile landlord party in Berkeley, of all places. Not sure if they could have chosen a much worse place.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 years ago

    Which muppet thought that having a celebration party was a good idea ?

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago

    Berkeley may well be the worst place ever to have a landlord party. Read the room.

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