#anti landlord

[ayeforscotland]

Wow, a pensioner bought a home for the Ukrainian refugees staying with her, that’s just so nice. I hope this headline is 100% true and I can move on with my day. There’s some good people in this world.

THAT IS NOT BUYING SOMEONE A HOUSE. THAT’S BECOMING THEIR LANDLORD.

[polyamorousmood]

Polyamory is about love, but it necessarily becomes about survival in a harsh world.

For example, when the heat is out and your landlord is slow to fix it, snuggling with 3 other people becomes less an act of love and more a way to stave off hypothermia.

[bethanythebogwitch]

Hey, kids! It's the Salmon of Wisdom! Let's see what wisdom it has today!

That's some good wisdom. Thank you, Salmon. Come back tomorrow for more wisdom from the Salmon of Wisdom, same salmon time, same salmon channel!

(Image id: a picture of a salmon. It has a speech balloon reading "all landlords are parasites that provide nothing to society")

[nando161mando]

Oops

[northern-punk-lad]

Waiting for my landlord to come fix a problem I reported 7 months ago

[anarchounity]

Do you believe in housing for all?

Absolutely, I'm an ancom. In my ideal world, humans live on small self sustainable communes and money non existent. Everyone contributes to the best of their abilities and skill sets then pools the fruits of their labor to share equally. This includes housing. So, no rent either.

However I'm not opposed to a person owning their house on a plot of land, I think that's perfectly fine (this is also Marx's position). I'm not opposed to a mom and pop shop/family business owning a small store, I think that's totally fine. I'm not opposed to you owning personal items for yourself to use. What I am opposed to is anything *beyond* that.

[kilowogcore]

This is what capitalism does, poozers. Even when ya' build new housin', the super-rich just snatch 'em up an' leave 'em empty. The rich use 'em like off-the-books banks, or rent 'em out fer Air B&Bs.

We need actual housin' fer actual people. An' I love that Poison Ivy tackled this issue.

(Art sampled from "Poison Ivy" Vol. 1 #13 by G. Willow Wilson, Marcio Takara, Guillem March, Kelley Jones, A. L. Kaplan, Arif Prianto, José Villarrubia, Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou, Arianna Turturro, Jessica Berbey, and Ben Abernathy. Edits: Altered Colors and Background.)

[shroobles]

[all-socialism-is-democratic]

In a democracy, taxation is not theft.

Here are some things that ARE theft:

Profit Maximization

Wage Minimization

Passive Income

Interest

Rent

Water Fees

Any government or banking fee

Parking Fees

Healthcare Costs

Education Costs

Public Transportation Costs

Library Fees

[daddyd0nt]

America and its failure to care for the disabled disgusts me. My two best friends are disabled. They are a loving, happy, healthy couple who have a wonderful relationship and are co-parenting my friends son from her previous abusive marriage. It took my friend months to find a house that accepted disability vouchers and his wife spent time in a homeless shelter. They had to send their little daughter (my goddaughter) to live with relatives on the other side of the country because the landlord didn't want a baby in the house and only lets his wife spend the night twice a week. So basically in a world of deadbeat disappearing fathers my friend wants nothing in the world more than to take care of his daughter and raise her and be a good parent and hes been denied that because the only lease that would take his disability voucher came with insane rules that I can't believe are legal. Like if somebody rents a house that should be THEIR house not a museum for them to maintain for your next tenants. But my fiend was essentially condemned to solitude because his landlord is a pig who needs to be stuck Lord Of The Flies style right in the ass with a large tree branch. Ive never met this man and im having violent fantasies about him. I wish all landlords a very pleasant GET A REAL JOB and THE HOUSE IS NOT YOURS WHEN SOMEBODY ELSE HAS AGREED TO RENT IT there should be no stipulations over how often a grown man has his wife over, the square footage of the apartment hes paying for doesnt change when an extra person is over nor does his rent lower if he doesnt have guests so how tf is this pig landlord able to put these insane rules in place that keep my friend from living his life. if you are renting a space you are renting THE SPACE. That space should be yours to do whatever you want. If you want to hang sheets and move 5 other families into it, it should be none of the landlord's business, you are paying the same amount for the exact same square footage. I hope this asshole gets a UTI that makes him piss blood.

[f--e-u-e-r-t-r-u-n-k-e--n]

Sick of it all. Sickness. Collection of notes.

Sickness is a language

Body is a representation

Medicine is a political practice

— Bryan S. Turner, The body and the society

"What I lack is words that correspond to each minute of my state of mind."

— Antonin Artaud, The nerve meter

"Desmesurado enfermo Bárbaro limpio de rutinas y caminos marcados No acepto vuestras sillas de seguridades cómodas Soy el ángel salvaje que cayó una mañana En vuestras plantaciones de preceptos Poeta Anti poeta"

—Vicente Huidobro, Altazor.

"I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked" —Allen Ginsberg, Howl.

"First, we believe that the world must be changed. We desire the most liberatory possible change of the society and the life in which we find ourselves confined. We know that such change is possible by means of pertinent actions". —Report on the Construction of Situations

"In his 1954 book Mental Illness and Personality Foucault combines the subjective experience of the mentally ill person with a sociocultural historical approach to mental illness and suggests that there exists a reciprocal connection between individual perception and sociocultural development. (…) what I call a historical phenomenology that combines the subjective experience of the mentally ill person with a sociocultural historical approach to mental ill-ness." —Line Joranger, Individual perception and cultural development: Foucault's 1954 approach to mental illness and its history

"The former, a lovely maiden in the broad daylight, rocked its cradle, endowed it with a charm and glory of its own. Presently it fell sick, lost itself in the darkness of the Middle Ages, and was hidden away by the Witch in woods and wilds: there, sustained by her compassionate daring, it was made to live anew. (…) Are we quite sure of what has been so often repeated, that the gods of old had come to an end, themselves wearied and sickened of living; that they were so disheartened as almost to send in their resignation; that Christianity had only to blow upon these empty shades? (...) By a vow my mother made in her sickness my youth and my life are bound for ever." —Jules Michelet, La Sorcière.

"At the point of departure, then, one may place the political project of rooting out illegalities, generalizing the punitive function and delimiting, in order to control it, the power to punish. From this there emerge two lines of obiectification of crime and of the criminal. On the one hand, the criminal designated as the enemy of all, whom it is in the interest of all to track down, falls outside the pact, disqualifies himself as a citizen and emerges, bearing within him as it were, a wild fragment of nature; he appears as a villain, a monster, a madman, perhaps, a sick and, before long, 'abnormal' individual. It is as such that, one day, he will belong to a scientific objectification and to the 'treatment' that is correlative to it." —Michel Focault, Discipline and Punish

Nastasya was overcome with a fit of laughter. She was given to laughter and when anything amused her, she laughed inaudibly, quivering and shaking all over till she felt ill. "And have you made much money by your thinking?" she managed to articulate at last. "One can't go out to give lessons without boots. And I'm sick of it." "Don't quarrel with your bread and butter." "They pay so little for lessons. What's the use of a few coppers?" he answered, reluctantly, as though replying to his own thought. —Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment.

"What I’d felt there was true, no doubt about that. The experience had revealed to me, in a brutal way, the unreality of this world, the realized abstraction which is the Spectacle. The whole metaphysical – and thus total and filled out all the way to the existential sphere– dimension of this concept had appeared clearly to me in this private mode of disclosure, and could appear as it really is, as something really strange, posing a problem the essence of which is absolute foreignness, only insofar as it is lived as an experience, as a phenomenon. Habit makes phenomena be forgotten as phenomena, that is, the supra-sensible – must I add that Hegel’s famous affirmation too took on a kind of dazzling conreteness, the power of a revelation? And yet, habit is precisely the characteristic means of commodity metaphysics, its manifestation, which never manifests anything but the forgetting of its character as a manifestation… That’s how the bulging intuition of Absence also reveals that it’s already transcended as such, since it presents itself as a manifestation of the forgetting of the manifestation as such, meaning as the revealing of the commodity mode of disclosure, as the revealing of the Spectacle." —Tiqqun, Phenomenology of Everyday Life

"17.- Sense is the element of the Common, that is, every event, as an irruption of sense, institutes a common. The body that says "I," in truth says «we." A gesture or statement endowed with sense carves a determined community out of a mass of bodies, a community that must itself be taken on in order to take on this gesture or statement.

50.- Empire exists "positively" only in crisis, only as negation and reaction. If we too belong to Empire, it is only because i is impossible to get outside it .

52.-At first glance, Empire seems to be a parodic recollection of the entire, frozen history of a "civilization." And this impression has a certain intuitive correctness. Empire is in fact civilization's last stop before it reaches the end of its line, the final agony in which it sees its life pass before its eyes." —Tiqqun, Introduction to Civil War

"For Americans are finding more and more that they lack muscle and children, that is, not workers but soldiers, and they want at all costs and by every possible means to make and manufacture soldiers with a view to all the planetary wars which might later take place, and which would be intended to demonstrate by the over-whelming virtues of force the superiority of American products, and the fruits of American sweat in all fields of activity and of the superiority of the possible dynamism of force. Because one must produce, one must by all possible means of activity replace nature wherever it can be replaced, one must find a major field of action for human inertia, the worker must have something to keep him busy, new fields of activity must be created, in which we shall see at last the reign of all the fake manufactured products, of all the vile synthetic substitutes in which beatiful real nature has no part." —Antonin Artaud, To Have Done With the Judgement of god

"A study published in the May 2021 issue of the British Journal of Health Psychology looked at health-related guilt in relation to having chronic pain. (…) The research turned up three major themes that had been reported on in the previous research. These included the following.

-Management of chronic pain -Diagnostic uncertainty or legitimizing pain -How the person impacted others by their action or inaction. -The health-related guilt that many people with chronic pain experience is from coping with the condition and the decrease in quality of life that it often brings about. (…) Those who have chronic pain may feel guilty because they are unable to do things they want to do. They may feel that they are letting others down, or they believe they are doing something wrong or intentional. The guilt can lead to more issues, such as depression, making it something that should be addressed." —Steven H. Richeimer, The Impact of Health-Related Guilt and Chronic Pain

"No soy Pasolini pidiendo explicaciones No soy Ginsberg expulsado de Cuba No soy un marica disfrazado de poeta No necesito disfraz Aquí está mi cara Hablo por mi diferencia Defiendo lo que soy y no soy tan raro Me apesta la injusticia y sospecho de esta cueca democrática Pero no me hable del proletariado Porque ser pobre y maricón es peor Hay que ser ácido para soportarlo (…) ¿Van a dejarnos bordar de pájaros las banderas de la patria libre? El fusil se lo dejo a usted que tiene la sangre fría y no es miedo El miedo se me fue pasando De atajar cuchillos (…) Aunque después me odie Por corromper su moral revolucionaria ¿Tiene miedo que se homosexualice la vida? Y no hablo de meterlo y sacarlo Y sacarlo y meterlo solamente Hablo de ternura compañero." —Pedro Lemebel, Hablo por mi diferencia

"In late 2014, I was sick with a chronic condition that, about every 12 to 18 months, gets bad enough to render me, for about five months each time, unable to walk, drive, do my job, sometimes speak or understand language, take a bath without assistance, and leave the bed. This particular flare coincided with the Black Lives Matter protests, which I would have attended unremittingly, had I been able to. I live one block away from MacArthur Park in Los Angeles, a predominantly Latino neighborhood and one colloquially understood to be the place where many immigrants begin their American lives. The park, then, is not surprisingly one of the most active places of protest in the city.

I listened to the sounds of the marches as they drifted up to my window. Attached to the bed, I rose up my sick woman fist, in solidarity.

I started to think about what modes of protest are afforded to sick people – it seemed to me that many for whom Black Lives Matter is especially in service, might not be able to be present for the marches because they were imprisoned by a job, the threat of being fired from their job if they marched, or literal incarceration, and of course the threat of violence and police brutality – but also because of illness or disability, or because they were caring for someone with an illness or disability.

I thought of all the other invisible bodies, with their fists up, tucked away and out of sight. If we take Hannah Arendt’s definition of the political – which is still one of the most dominant in mainstream discourse – as being any action that is performed in public, we must contend with the implications of what that excludes. If being present in public is what is required to be political, then whole swathes of the population can be deemed a-political – simply because they are not physically able to get their bodies into the street.

(…) The Sick Women are all of the dysfunctional, dangerous and in danger, badly behaved, crazy, incurable, traumatized, disordered, diseased, chronic, uninsurable, wretched, undesirable and altogether dysfunctional bodies belonging to women, people of color, poor, ill, neuroatypical, differently-abled, queer, trans, and genderfluid people, who have been historically pathologized, hospitalized, institutionalized, brutalized, rendered unmanageable, and therefore made culturally illegitimate and politically invisible." — Johanna Hedva, Sick Woman Theory

"I’m all for the death of capitalism, but what the hell was this? Sick, pained, expensive, sensitive: these were not words that inspired any revolutionary fervor in me. My anarchism had always been a thing of life, vitality, and beauty. When I think of it energetically, I feel strong rivers of red force, unbridled kinetic power moving reality. It’s a verb, something you do.

My heroes didn’t go to General Assemblies to talk, they robbed banks and shot fascists. They burned down houses or construction equipment instead of engaging in sit-in’s or camping sessions. My anarchism is unapolegetically violent, even gleefully so, and I long for the acrid smoke of a riot like junkies long for meth.

Here appeared to be the quiet, soothing politics of the ill. Anarchist therapy. I was happy to see those confined to a hospital bed could display solidarity in their own way, but I walked away firmly convinced I’d taken a stroll through a world that had no bearing on mine.

Some people’s revolution involved care and love and feelings. Mine involved bullets and fire and blood.

Yet…something lingered, some subtle shift deep within my mind. I began to realize that just because the response of the ill to capitalism might be different from mine, that did not mean the exploitation they lived under was any less brutal." — Dr. Bones, Too Weird to Live: The Case for the Individual in a Sick Woman’s World

"And, left to themselves, men lived long before they understood that they all ought to, and might be, happy. Only in the very latest times have a few of them begun to understand that work ought not to be a bugbear to some and like galley-slavery for others, but should be a common and happy occupation, uniting all men. They have begun to understand that with death constantly threatening each of us, the only reasonable business of every man is to spend the years, months, hours, and minutes, allotted him—in unity and love. They have begun to understand that sickness, far from dividing men, should, on the contrary, give opportunity for loving union with one another." — Leo Tolstoy, Work, Death and Sickness

[tamathena]

If you're a landlord, I hope you know that you are a parasite.

You add nothing of value. All you do is take something that people need and force them to pay for it.

It's not a "job", nor is it a "service", it's theft and exploitation and I sincerely hope you choke.

[gr8rainbowpunk]

Idk but there’s something suspicious about my landlord kicking us out because our neighbors keep complaining about us, right as all the snowbirds are moving in for the winter, when we had never heard about complaints before, multiple of the complaints are straight up lies (saying I park on the grass when I don’t even fucking drive, and claiming neither of us have a job, my mother works a full time job and a part time job and I work part time and am a full time student) when all the complaints to the hoa came from others who rent from her, and she already has someone to move in after us

[wronggalaxy]

I'm as anti landlord as anybody, probably more than a lot of people after having me, my parents, and five of my siblings ages 3-10 forced to the streets by our old one when I was 5 because he couldn't up the price until we were gone, but y'all need to realize not every landlord is a millionaire renting out two dozen houses just because they want to. Some of them are just normal people who have no choice but to rent out their dead parents old house so their children don't starve to death. And until you recognize that, we can never end poverty or give everyone a house.

[nando161mando]

RIP Cathy Rutherford. Glaswegian born and bred and life long trade unionist. A legend by all accounts.

Most of us only ever knew her for one small clip which echoed the feelings of an entire class.

Rest In Power a true queen.

[puppersfluid8xd]

”landlords r the worst, most leech-like, most vampiric thing out there”

woah woah woah back it up buddy, that’s an insult to leeches and vampires everywhere! What’d leeches and vampires do to deserve being compared to such a horrid thing as landlords??