Juice [none/use name]

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Cake day: May 27th, 2022
  • Juice [none/use name]@hexbear.nettoRisa@startrek.website•Sorry I can't help myself.English
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    2 years ago

    Sorry I still don’t get it. Cops embody the violent coercion that is needed to enforce contracts and laws. Laws determine how contracts are made and what penalties for breaking them. Contracts are a legal confabulation that serve several functions, probably most relevant is they are the mechanisms that makes property ownership possible, such as land. Landlords have the personal property “rights” as outlined in property law and defined by the contract. Cops enforce the laws and contracts with violence.

    Cops can only be landlords if they own property and collect rents. Landlords don’t have the ability to use violence to enforce their property rights, they have to call the cops. They both occupy this weird class middle zone that is neither bourgeoisie nor worker: collecting rents doesn’t necessarily make one a capitalist, land isn’t really strictly capital; cops aren’t proletarian workers though at one time they may have been working class with nothing to sell but their labor. Both are crucial to underwriting liberal private property relations which is the basis for capitalist exploitation and the class rule that emanates from it. But landlords have a completely different relation to production than cops, so they don’t occupy the same class position.

    I’m not debating and I’ll read or watch anything recommended to me. I’m also mostly interested in specific and correct formulations of class, I study a lot and have high standards. If this is one of those things that is more agitational than strictly correct, I can live with that but if there is a critical formulation that I’m missing, or if this is a paradigm that other leftists are using to help formulate their views then I would very much like to understand

  • Juice [none/use name]@hexbear.nettoUnited States | News & Politics@lemmy.ml•Housing Costs Are So High That Divorced Couples Are Still Living TogetherEnglish
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    2 years ago

    This is a discussion about an article, which is chock full of examples. What kind of evidence do you need? You don’t need to be convinced, but you also don’t need to jump to the defense of inflating housing and rent costs.

    You also don’t cite any resources to back up your claims, Translation anecdotal evidence is still evidence, especially when compared to your baseless skepticism. Have you ever wondered why such research might not exist, or that not everyone has access to most academic research? Why might researchers who depend on grants to do research, avoid doing research that implicates commercial and real estate developers? large colleges and hospitals often work hand-in-glove with developers, along with city councils. Turns out you don’t always need evidence to infer a truth, we have this thing called abstraction that allows us to make predictions based on analytical methodology. Imagine if physicists required evidence with which to even begin a line of inquiry, we wouldn’t have 1/10 of the knowledge we have now.

    However, skepticism isn’t critique. You can be as skeptical as you want, and I have a right to disagree with you even without evidence. I can find a mountain of evidence that supports just about any claim I might make. Its called an epistemological crisis, and it’s fairly basic as far as logical contradictions go. Asking for evidence can be just as fallacious especially when it doesn’t deal with anything in the article.

    From your tone it sounds like you are insecure (or a landlord/real estate goon), Instead of trying to compete intellectually with strangers on the internet, show some humanity and solidarity with the vast majority of people who are stuck in awful situations, such as the ones described in the article.

    I’m sorry to hear about your experience with abuse. I’ve experienced abuse and trauma, and some of the worst trauma came from the systems of punishment and neglect that “impartially” decide who in society receives the pain and privilege of living in it. So the tone you are picking up is related to the fact that you are defending an abusive system, for which the evidence is undeniable.

  • Juice [none/use name]@hexbear.nettoUnited States | News & Politics@lemmy.ml•Housing Costs Are So High That Divorced Couples Are Still Living TogetherEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Definitely one of the takes of all time. Have you ever been divorced? I’ve watched my friends who were functionally separated from their partners but still live together slide into deep depression, drug abuse, alcoholism. I lived with my ex wife for a while after we separated and it was extremely confusing and traumatic. At the time I was “just trying to keep it together” but both me and my ex made terrible decisions while stuck together. We didn’t even know how toxic our relationship had become, we didn’t realize how much we were hurting each other. I’ve known a lot of people in a lot of situations and these separated but living together arrangements are just awful for everyone involved.

    Life is complicated and everyone is different but i would never advise someone stay living with their ex. If people can’t leave their partner (some of which may be stuck with an abuser or bully, or someone who just ignores them) because of financial reasons, that’s a form of systematic abuse and trauma. Regardless of what people say or think, a very small percentage of couples would be okay with an arrangement like this. If you or anyone ever find yourself in a similar situation, get out of the house and sign the friggin papers ASAP. Don’t do apologism for a broken ass system, help us fix it, or at least show some humanity (“correlative,” jfc.)

  • Juice [none/use name]@hexbear.nettoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•For those who work with the public: What was the worst situation that occurred between you and a customer?English
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    2 years ago

    Oh I have a good one. I worked at a paint store for like 15 years. One day, this guy drives up in a Mercedes, wearing a Burberry scarf, and asks me for “Black Marine Paint.” We were a housepaint store so I told him we didn’t have it, we didn’t sell paint for boats, and what was he wanting to paint. He said he wanted to paint his front door, and the doors at Buckingham palace are painted with black marine paint, and did I know what he meant. I said I didn’t know about the doors on Buckingham palace, and he indignantly says, “What?! It famous like the doors of the White House!” I told him I wasn’t familiar with the doors of the white house either.

    But I start showing him some oil based paint and he seems happy with it. He’s about to buy when he asks what he should do to strip the paint off of his door, since its latex and this new paint is oil. His eyes narrow and he skeptically asks me, “can you put latex over oil?” I said sure, if you use a primer. He gets real angry and, as two new customers walk in, screams, “You’re a fucking idiot!” storms out and gets into his Mercedes which the two women had parked beside.

    They give me a look, I shrug and walk over to help them pick out colors. When they are done they go out to there car, but a minute later come back and ask me I I knew the guy, and to come outside.

    Someone, I presume the Burberry guy, had kicked in the door to their car, leaving a huge foot shaped dent. I assume he thought it was my car or something.

    I’ve definitely had bad experiences at that job, but that entitled freak stands out to in my memory years later