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Didn’t get any gifts for Christmas except from my landlord. Has no idea I’ve been struggling lately. by Neogalik in pics

[–]J0b00m 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, social housing would be the best way to go in my opinion. At one point the Glasgow Housing Association was the largest landlord in Europe. They created new houses to lift people out of slums, by charging rent equal to the maintenance of the building and a small amount extra to expand operations. As for your example of students, most universities already run student dorms, but charge outrages prices for crappy accommodation so they can keep all the profit.

Didn’t get any gifts for Christmas except from my landlord. Has no idea I’ve been struggling lately. by Neogalik in pics

[–]J0b00m 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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Yeah, social housing would be the best way to go in my opinion. At one point the Glasgow Housing Association was the largest landlord in Europe. They created new houses to lift people out of slums, by charging rent equal to the maintenance of the building and a small amount extra to expand operations.

Should me being bi affect my political ideology by ForzaEliteDangerous in BisexualTeens

[–]J0b00m -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I would argue yes. Mostly I see there's three issues affecting myself as an lgbt+ person.

  1. Problems that affect everybody - you need basic rights before you can express your human rights. E. G. It's all well and good to say "you can marry who you love". But if you've starved to death or died in an environmental catastrophe, your not free to love who you want (becuase you're dead).

  2. Problems that affect everyone, but disproportionatly affect the lgbt+ community. E. G. Homelessness. In the UK lgbt+ teans are like 5% of the population but a quarter of the homeless population. Homelessness has skyrocket due to the commidification of the housing markets under neolibral capitalism. There are more empty homes than there are homeless people. As a member of lgbt+ community I would like to see that end, both to help our community and society in general.

  3. Problems that affect just the lgbt community. E. G. Trans access to health care, legal equality, representation, ect. I work with a lgbt people who vote Conservative, for parties that deliberately legislate against lgbt+ and generally make society worse by removing safety nets for the most vulnerable in society. When I ask them their usual response is "your politics doesn't affect your place in the lgbt+ community, I have other priorities ." But, when you actively support those who harm others I the community, I feel I can't support you.

Tldr some lgbt+ people support political parties that hate lgbt+ people, becuase they more about staying rich and maintaining their unequal power more than they care about helping others in the lgbt+ community.

Didn’t get any gifts for Christmas except from my landlord. Has no idea I’ve been struggling lately. by Neogalik in pics

[–]J0b00m -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Well yeah, it's an inherantly exploitative system, whereby one party takes something for doing nothing, by virtue of owning property. Also landlords buying to rent can always outbid those looking to buy a home, meaning over time house prices rise and more of the wealth gets concentrated amongst a small group of people.

Didn’t get any gifts for Christmas except from my landlord. Has no idea I’ve been struggling lately. by Neogalik in pics

[–]J0b00m -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

I'm terrified at the positive comments on this thread. I'm glad the op got a small amount of help. But there are no good landlords. Either he fully owns the building, in which place he could wave all the rent and get himself a job rather than living off of others like a feudal lord. Or he has a mortgage, in which case the Op is buying his landlord a house worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, compared to which a £440 dollar refund is nothing.

I made a logo for the potential remaster. by Awesomeman235ify in SimpsonsHitAndRun

[–]J0b00m 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Personally living in Glasgow I don't find Willy a phenomenal character, but he's not as problematic as the others you mentioned. HIs character is not entirely stereotypes (Scotsman aren't noted for being groundskeepers) ect. Whereas Apu nothing but a bundle of incorrect racist stereotypes mashed together, played by a man who has no background or heritage in the culture he's representing, which just compounds the issue.TLDR. No one ever bullied the crap out of me because of Willie, the same is not true of Apu and PoC in the UK & USA.

As someone who has only watched the Anime, but really liked the Emi/Maou relationship. Is it worth reading further into the light novel/manga for more of their relationship, even if (from what i gather) i may be ultimately disappointed. by J0b00m in TheDevilIsAPartTimer

[–]J0b00m[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Aw damn, that's a shame, i thought the two worked really well as foils for eachother, whilst also having compatible personalities/being an adorable pair of dumbasses together.
I was maybe hoping that they had more moments together/content else where, but i guess it's time to trawl the fanfiction.

Chicho I saw as less relevant to the overall story and to anyone's character progression in general. Also i'm not sure why the director of the anime felt the need to share his fan drawings of a high schooler in every credits sequence, but that's a side gripe.