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Microblog Memes

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A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.

Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.

RULES:

  1. Your post must be a screen capture of a microblog-type post that includes the UI of the site it came from, preferably also including the avatar and username of the original poster. Including relevant comments made to the original post is encouraged.
  2. Your post, included comments, or your title/comment should include some kind of commentary or remark on the subject of the screen capture. Your title must include at least one word relevant to your post.
  3. You are encouraged to provide a link back to the source of your screen capture in the body of your post.
  4. Current politics and news are allowed, but discouraged. There MUST be some kind of human commentary/reaction included (either by the original poster or you). Just news articles or headlines will be deleted.
  5. Doctored posts/images and AI are allowed, but discouraged. You MUST indicate this in your post (even if you didn't originally know). If a post is found to be fabricated or edited in any way and it is not properly labeled, it will be deleted.
  6. Be nice. Take political debates to the appropriate communities. Take personal disagreements to private messages.
  7. No advertising, brand promotion, or guerrilla marketing.

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[–] damnedfurry@lemmy.world -1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The reason most renters are renters and not owners is not because there aren't any houses available to purchase.

This would just make countless people homeless as they lose the option to rent, because they can't afford to buy/maintain an entire house.

[–] davidagain@lemmy.world 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It's because the prices are so high! Countless people ARE homeless, and the skyrocketing price of housing is the immediate cause, with the vast profits landlords make the indirect cause. If you can make someone else (tenants) buy houses for you, there is no limit to the number of houses you can buy at no real cost to you, so being a landlord makes insane profits so the prices of houses climb as they're such a money spinner.

[–] damnedfurry@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

What do you think the cost of a house is, just with the cost of the materials and labor to build it, with zero markup?

[–] davidagain@lemmy.world 0 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

A fraction of the cost that they go to market with at the moment. The housing market is overheating and has been doing so for decades. The value is in the scarcity, and the profiteering, not the bricks and mortar.

Renters pay the mortgage and then some. It's iniquitous. If you're the one paying for the house, you should get the house, not someone who just has a better credit rating.