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  • Actual nationalisation would be handled by a government that gives a shit about it. So far we have seen this happen in the early Soviet union and in China.

    The projects you saw were not nationalised housing. They were a minority of state owned housing, geared towards a neoliberal privatised housing sector.

    The fact you call them shit is exactly what what they want. So they can pivot to fully private with no pushback, since their intentional bungling of a tiny stock of state housing went so badly.



  • There is a social understanding of “crime” as “immoral behaviour”. Then there is the actual legal definition of “breaking the law”. We may think police are there to stop immoral behaviour, but they are really there to protect property, through enforcing laws that are mainly established to protect property. Make sense now?

    Because the only other option, to my knowledge, is crime against another person directly, which is pretty well summed up with murder, assault, battery, slander, and libel. There’s a lot of other shitty things a person can do when it comes to property, though.

    I think this just demonstrates how well indoctrinated you’ve been into thinking in terms of property.









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    And in a system predicated on private property, that becomes the most heinous crime.

    The only reason there are laws beside theft and fraud etc, us to give the illusion that police are there to protect people. And also, murder and rape are kinda problematic for the bottom line.