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@ReubenR80027912 @DuvalEaton @DukeandDukeCB @treetownsugar succumb. The thing about social Darwinism (which is still what it doing even if you say you don’t deserve your position) and “strong wins. Let’s protect ‘our own’ - it’s *natural*!”- is that it’s redolent of naziism - Naziism is the “natural” endpoint of embracing the philosophy.

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@ReubenR80027912 @DuvalEaton @DukeandDukeCB @treetownsugar pathetic statement but go off, fearful n weak of character! Rhinoceros is worth reading if ur going to talk about “natural laws”- written in’59, ppl are initially scared n revolted when they see people turning into rhinos, but then the strength and “naturalness” appeals n they…

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@ReubenR80027912 @DuvalEaton @DukeandDukeCB @treetownsugar To retrn to the OP- there’s a reason no one wants to “solve all our problems” by means of not renting to anyone not born here. It wouldn’t solve a thing and the idea that it would relies on a level of othering that ACTUALLY is a horror- if people aren’t up for it, that’s GOOD.

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@ReubenR80027912 @DuvalEaton @DukeandDukeCB @treetownsugar … maybe we should look to the executive *siphoning* money for personal gain before the low wage earner who came here because of the promise that if you work you can raise a family and survive, possibly even be upwardly mobile.

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@ReubenR80027912 @DuvalEaton @DukeandDukeCB @treetownsugar But it’s not, at all, objective fact. I struggle to think of something more subjective actually. You ref natural laws a lot like natural superiority and if you don’t know what that is… yikes. You didn’t invent Social Darwinism - you just tweet it. 😬

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@ReubenR80027912 @DuvalEaton @DukeandDukeCB @treetownsugar Unless *you* (not we) need them for ur *philosophy* which *requires*, centrally, an us v them. But those “philosophies” have been around forever & are part and parcel with tyranny. You can attempt erudition about it, but all you’re espousing in the end is the oldest & the worst.

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@ReubenR80027912 @DuvalEaton @DukeandDukeCB @treetownsugar There is already class that you are born into in the US and the world. Some people are born to wealth, assets and privilege. Some are poor and have to do whatever they can to earn wages. So you have your “needed” differences. No added exclusions necessary.

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@ReubenR80027912 @DuvalEaton @DukeandDukeCB @treetownsugar This is what happens when you get far enough w/ college books to say “we need an external other”, and then STOP THERE. lol.

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@ReubenR80027912 @DuvalEaton @DukeandDukeCB @treetownsugar And again - most people appreciate wages in the form of money that they can spend for goods and services and basics.

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@ReubenR80027912 @DuvalEaton @DukeandDukeCB @treetownsugar Or what if “we” don’t. Speak for yourself. And it’s comparing apples and oranges w European issues. Nativism really is cool because it’s both wrong and xenophobic - it has it all.

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@ReubenR80027912 @DuvalEaton @DukeandDukeCB @treetownsugar All this talk of status and ephemera speak to being very out of touch honestly. What you do seem to have alit upon for engagement is scarcity mentality and scapegoating. Cool philosophy! Reminds me of something…

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@ReubenR80027912 @DuvalEaton @DukeandDukeCB @treetownsugar Wages have value for most people because they sustain their life.

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@DukeandDukeCB @DuvalEaton @ReubenR80027912 @treetownsugar It doesn’t apply to the immigration aspect - not like he wants it to for his fairly fascistic “philosophy”. Meanwhile as we established in our conversation - 1) many but not most stabilized units are near market & 2) landlords favor tenants with assets anyway.

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@DuvalEaton @ReubenR80027912 @DukeandDukeCB @treetownsugar Yes one really wonders about that “and to have meaning philosophically” bit.

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@DuvalEaton @ReubenR80027912 @DukeandDukeCB @treetownsugar None of it’s based in any real economics nor numbers. He bases it mainly on ideas of supply and demand that don’t rlly apply. See above where he says Rent Stabilization is good but WHO should get it? Like, what? That’s now how it works - it isn’t some handout. Facile for funsies.

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@DukeandDukeCB @ReubenR80027912 @treetownsugar I respect that. That’s what brought me here though, whereas I think u have ‘rent stabilization’ flagged or smthg. Thanks for the conversation. Sorry if I called u names or misunderstood you. I am not ready to entirely take all your premises BUT I also was here to say WTF to OP.

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@DukeandDukeCB @ReubenR80027912 @treetownsugar What garbage.

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@DukeandDukeCB @ReubenR80027912 @treetownsugar I wonder what led to the new law on vacancies in 2019. I mean I don’t want to continue this- we agree there’s a problem but differ in our trust of free market and how a change is made. I was commenting on the original post, the “all America’s problems are solved by nativism” post

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@DukeandDukeCB @ReubenR80027912 @treetownsugar But here’s my point: none of this has anything to do with foreigners or immigrants. To suggest the problem’s solved by a mechanism of only renting to ppl born in the US - I actually have no words - it’s v. stupid, let’s say, but does have the bonus of being xenophobic trash, too.

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@DukeandDukeCB @ReubenR80027912 @treetownsugar Here’s a good segment to your points about vacancy and some regular degular landlords: https://t.co/EpL2IdptLw