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[–] 232 points 8 months ago (4 children)

“I’d much rather make a squatter homeless than have a landlord lose property,” James added.

Keeping it classy.

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  • [–] 12 points 8 months ago

    he smells like a nimby. he probably would be at the place when MILLBRAE(rich white residents) were complaining about converting a former hotel into a liviing space for the impoverished that occured like last year.

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    [–] 128 points 8 months ago (5 children)

    “I’d much rather make a squatter homeless than have a landlord lose property,” Jacobs added.

    These are the pieces of shit your politicians listen to every time they increase funding for police enforcement against the homeless, and deny zoning changes, even if it would improve the housing crisis. "theft is always bad no matter what 🤓☝️"

    You have to be genuinely mentally ill to believe that someone going homeless is better than someone with more properties than they need to live in losing one of those properties so someone has a place to live.

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    [–] 118 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    ...with professional-grade tactical gear.
    The gear includes firearms, ballistic full-body armor, flash bangs and smoke grenades, tear gas...

    Where the fuck are you sourcing explosives and tear gas as a civilian, and more importantly...
    Where can I get some? Purely for home defense, of course. Definitely not wanting it for defrost purposes.

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  • [–] 71 points 8 months ago*

    its very important that the property remains empty, you see. if we allowed people to pay too little for it that would drive the prices of our other properties down.

    literally just the passage from grapes of wrath.

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  • [–] 55 points 8 months ago

    this is a puff piece about the kind of gangster who turns up murdered and unmourned

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  • [–] 50 points 8 months ago (10 children)

    “The average squatter has no melee experience,”

    But what about magic? Magic beats melee in the combat triangle.

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    [–] 50 points 8 months ago (7 children)

    I’d much rather make a squatter homeless than have a landlord lose property,” Jacobs added

    I'd much rather make poor people without an option homeless than have a rich asshole lose some money!

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    [–] 49 points 8 months ago (5 children)

    This fool is going to get shot.

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  • [–] 41 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    I assume it's a joke, but the guy said professional tactical gear and firearms apparently, as well as teargas and such. If he's not joking I'd say their odds of going to prison are pretty good. Premeditating and provoking a situation with deadly weapons instead of contacting actual authorities and following the laws/procedure doesn't seem like it would work out well for anyone.

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  • [–] 21 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Isn't that the exact gear that cops use to break up homeless encampments?

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  • [–] 22 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Whether we like it or not, those cops are the proper procedure/authorities in said situation. Thus they are allowed by law. I can't just hire a neighbor to show up to a homeless camp with said gear and expect when something goes wrong for them not to get arrested for murder/battery, and probably be arrested for something else. Paying them to do so probably has a different terminology than an accessory. Might fall under the rico shit, not sure

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    [–] 41 points 8 months ago (5 children)

    Squatters rights are an important part of common law and they serve as a foundational means of ensuring valuable real estate remains in use. Adverse possession requires openly living somewhere for years without permission or resistance from the owner

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    [–] 36 points 8 months ago*

    sword-wielding man

    ASAP Squatter Removal has a 95%+ success rate

    Every now and then, you run into a spearman.

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  • [–] 32 points 8 months ago* (3 children)

    These people think evil quest givers in games are role models, not warnings.

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    [–] 27 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    We must defend the empty properties!

    Also, we must solve the housing crisis by building more houses!

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    [–] 24 points 8 months ago*

    Ads for this type of services show up in craigslist regularly where I live. Named organizations like Viking Acquisitions or FAFO LLC post weekly. I bugged the local newspaper about it, but they were disinterested.

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  • [–] 22 points 8 months ago*

    Then I’ll train and purposely squat so that this stain can be humbled

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  • [–] 22 points 8 months ago (5 children)

    Ok......but what happens when a squatter has a gun?

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    [–] 21 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    Home ownership is now a soulslike? I've been training for this my whole middle-aged life.

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    [–] 18 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Nah fuck squatters too. Everyone sucks here but squatters are just as trashy. We need to have a vacant homes penalty desperately but yeah that won't happen anytime soon if ever in my lifetime.

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  • [–] 16 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

    Everyone here sucks except the squatters.

    Edit: This is very contraversial for some reason nobody cares to defend but consider that a house is first and foremost a tool and squatters are the only people in the story correctly using a house for its only real purpose. I'm not saying they're good people, just that they're the only people not enganged in some kind of elaborate fraud or thinly vieled attempt to murder humans.

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  • [–] 13 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    If you were a tenant and you are getting kicked out you should have different rights like a proper eviction and a court date.

    If you just broke in you should simply be removed by the cops on penalty of law if the landlord lies and you are actually a tenant who was illegally evicted.

    This is what the law in liberal wa state is.

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  • [–] 13 points 8 months ago* (1 child)

    He stabbed me with a sword Mal ... How weird!

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    [–] 11 points 8 months ago* (5 children)

    There seems to be the implication within that quote that because he’s brought a melee weapon, the party being attacked is bound by honor not to use a firearm.

    In fact he’s probably putting himself in much more danger by bringing a sword (thereby providing a self-defense defense) than if he showed up unarmed.

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    [–] 10 points 8 months ago*

    bay area homeowners about to lose homes

    if you have trouble with squatters, i am willing to sell professional advice on how to get them to leave. it never fails.

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