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Housing is a human right!

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American housing is in crisis. Zohran Mamdani, a democratic socialist newly elected to the New York assembly, joins us to explain how Austrian socialists solved their own housing crisis – and how we can learn from them to build a better world. Watch now on YouTube!

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@icmedia @ryanfreire13 @carterforva @joynice213 A lot of us are actually quite opposed to funding the US military too.

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@Nmaaa_a @GirlMisogynist @thisgirl1407 @rivbutcher So basically nothing.

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@Sulaco22 @carterforva No one on the actual left wants to maintain capitalism in any form.

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@existentialcoms That's why I don't even bother worrying about whether or not something I do will affect my deposit. Need to hang something up? I'm drilling holes.

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@houellebecq_2 @carterforva I don't know how you can post this list as the elements of fascism and at the same time say nothing remotely approaching fascism has ever been a political force in the US. This could easily be a checklist describing today's republican party.

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@edsnook @HumanityReality @usnews The US is refusing to release any evidence to support this claim.

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@MLittrey @llebhsoj1 @ninaturner My insurance covers it at 85%. So my portion is $1500. The out of pocket max on my insurance is $10k per year. That's how people end up with 6 figure debt.

Also, my insurance often tries to refuse to pay leaving me with the full bill.

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@llebhsoj1 @ninaturner The medicine I take costs $10,000 per month.

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@DavidGr30214992 @ninaturner I don't know if she's a Marxist. I hope so, but as long as she supports workers and the people over corporations and the rich elite, I support her.

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@DavidGr30214992 @ninaturner No, I'm a worker. Workers don't have a say in how corporations are run. If your argument is that if you want a say in the decision making all you have to do is become an owner, congratulations, you've proved my point.

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@alexuk86 @GraceAnngab @Mickjon27960563 @MadamemoiselG @ninaturner I understand how renting works. I'm saying that the system should be changed because I fundamentally believe that you should not be able to kick someone out of their home to make a profit.

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@DavidGr30214992 @ninaturner By that logic you could never view someone as a villain because they are also a person. Corporations are not run democratically by the workers and the people. They are controlled by a wealthy elite who will literally do anything to make a profit.

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@Tuscany58677839 @ninaturner You're right that the BBB is not socialism. But you are wrong about trumps tax cuts. Tax cuts for the rich are pure capitalism.

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@JayTThomas17 @CoriBush What's the word for breaking down someone's door and shooting them until their dead?

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@lost_west @terminallyOL Yes.

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@Mickjon27960563 @GraceAnngab @MadamemoiselG @ninaturner All landlords are scum

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@Mickjon27960563 @GraceAnngab @MadamemoiselG @ninaturner You've been nothing but rude in this thread and are a prime example of why landlords are the worst. Get a job.

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@GraceAnngab @MadamemoiselG @ninaturner The point is that housing should not be a profit making venture. You have incentive to build/buy/maintain your own home because you want a nice place to live. I want the same for myself.

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@GraceAnngab @Mickjon27960563 @MadamemoiselG @ninaturner And if we're quoting Orwell:
"Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism, as I understand it."

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@GraceAnngab @Mickjon27960563 @MadamemoiselG @ninaturner Of course the system we currently have will never deliver this. We have a capitalist system designed to keep the poor poor and make the rich richer.