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Saralyn Fosnight's avatar

You omitted what I think is the very worst thing about corporations owning houses. Their rentals are often only Airb&bs, meaning they have effectively taken what should be someone’s home and made it unavailable for a family to rent to live in. I read about this happening in great swathes of New Orleans after Katrina. Whole neighborhoods vanished as residents were priced out of owning or renting in places that once nurtured them. I’m positive it is happening all over the country and is a major contributor to the “housing shortage.” Houses are there but no one can live in them.

So, if you take a vacation, do not rent an Airb&b. That’s an important way people can fight back.

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john king (MY HUMBLE OPINION)'s avatar

Corporate Communism is happening on a global scale.

The wealthiest companies are solidifying their domination of our supply of food, fuel, media, finance, and even housing. During Covid, we were forced to endure massive price increases in every staple, which was blamed on supply chain interruptions. Has anyone witnessed prices decreasing since? Instead, we have a grifting government openly accepting bribes from lobbyists and allowing further destructive consolidation of business interests, usually aided by grants and tax credits.

Trump's erratic tariff policies may seem like the workings of a madman, who spent his life bankrupting businesses, but they serve as an extra form of taxation on consumers. Furthermore the sporadic method of imposing, removing and reimposing tariffs, is allowing Trump's cabal of corrupt cronies to criminally manipulate the markets, and further fleece the public of Billions. The regime's endorsement of Crypto and its removal of any legitimate oversight, is the largest pyramid scheme in history. Bankrupting the public will serve to support its surrender to subservience.

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politicsGamer's avatar

Solid information. Taking a stand and deviating from tendencies programmed from birth will not be easy. This movement must recognize those businesses that are making a stand. All the while boycotting those that are changing at the whim of the Trumpzi party.

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Andre Shumpert's avatar

Well said.

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🧿Merveye's avatar

Exactly the same is happening in the Netherlands too!

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Westwood-Jeffrey's avatar

perfectly ‘

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Andre Shumpert's avatar

Thank you for sharing your thoughtful research. You have exposed some of the immoral practices of our common enemy and inspired US to look at things strategically. People at the No King’s protests are seeing this as well and We The People are beginning to move more cohesively and effectively.

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Zillow1's avatar

It will take a revolution uprising by the public to evolve from this state we are in but we are repeating history as seen in other countries in the past. Change will happen but outcome is determined our choice!

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Fabien Raynaud's avatar

Absolutely—change starts with awareness, but it's driven by action.

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Chantal La Rochelle's avatar

I've understood recently that it's a new form of feudalism...

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Chantal La Rochelle's avatar

Same thing in Montreal, Canada...

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Chantal La Rochelle's avatar

Thanks, Ethan...

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Nola Krosch's avatar

I have been using a credit union for my financial needs since 1989. I am now a proud member of two credit unions.

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ChatterX's avatar

"Fascism was the application to white people of colonial procedures which until then had been reserved exclusively for the Arabs of Algeria, the 'coolies' of India, and the 'ni**ers' of Mrica."

-Aimé Fernand David Césaire

Simply speaking, Fascism is Imperialism brought home..

youtube.com/watch?v=k17q7hdVsTA

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Bobbi's avatar

Yes Greed exists. Yes the Rich ARE getting Richer.

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Westwood-Jeffrey's avatar

glad we’ve got to rehearse these a few times … better impact … learning curve

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The Lex Of It's avatar

Well written. Private equity buyouts and restructuring, which inflate prices and maximize their capital using algorithms and back-room DC whispers, all to skirt anti-monopoly laws, violate the very spirit of this law. Doing it while disregarding the negative impact on real lives… unconscionable‼️

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Christie's avatar

That’s exactly what is happening…

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Ethan Faulkner's avatar

Keeping your money under the mattress is a rational response to a world where everyone has their hand out.

​The problem is, you can't build a fortress out of mattresses.

​The "bad guys" take your money and give you a cage in return. We're asking people to pool their resources to buy the tools and blueprints to build something new.

​Every dollar we get isn't "taken"—it's converted directly into another narrative strike, another piece of the playbook, another brick in the foundation of The Rebuttal.

​You can guard your cash until the walls fall in, or you can help us build a new wall worth standing behind. Your call.

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Ethan Faulkner's avatar

Bahahahaha

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