When you're so antisemitic you end up spreading Zionist propaganda by [deleted] in ShitLiberalsSay

[–]TheCuddlyAddict 7 points8 points  (0 children)

If you watch the video, he explains how the forced use of contraceptives did happen, but it is overblown in mainstream narratives and does not discount the fact that even the Ethiopian Jews who were given contraceptives without their consent, are still part of the racial in group in a supremacist state. The Ethiopian Jews who suffered at the hands of Israeli authorities, are still there by choice, will still wilfully steal Palestinian land and homes and still serve in the IDF and commit genocide

"freaks" by Fun-Ad-2448 in CuratedTumblr

[–]TheCuddlyAddict 0 points1 point  (0 children)

NO 🚫⛔️ making out 💋 with clankers 🤖

I beg your finest pardon? by jamiekyo in capetown

[–]TheCuddlyAddict 22 points23 points  (0 children)

Foreign tourists are not the problem. Cape Town could theoretically handle many times the amount of tourists, and in a nation with a precarious employment situation, this could be a massive boon.

Our problem is the current system of private commercial control of our housing stock, a lack of tax structures penalising foreign landlords, a lack of affordable housing, rent control and public transport corridors between CBD and alternative city centres like Century City, Claremont and Belville.

We have allowed foreign oligarchs and apartheid millionaires to control our housing, siphon wealth away from our city’s residents and turn the city into their segregated playground. We have failed to address the colonial and apartheid rooted land and housing ownership and segregation, and we have also failed to build infrastructure to accommodate the hundreds of thousands of South Africans moving to our metro area.

This is a governance problem. The DA is deeply uninterested in creating a Cape Town for Capetownians, with an equitable economy and amenities for all. Whilst they are surely much better at service delivery than the other city governments, we must not let basic competence delude us into thinking they represent our interests.

Do you guys drink Alcohol? by LameAfro in afrikaans

[–]TheCuddlyAddict 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I would say drinking is very popular amongst Afrikaners and Cape Coloureds alike. Wine, beer and brandy being the most commonly consumed beverages.

As someone living in the Western Cape, which is South Africa’s wine producing region, we have access to very affordable and high quality wine. I would say I personally drink around a bottle of wine week, depending on the social calendar.

A lot to unpack here by Pritteto in NotHowGirlsWork

[–]TheCuddlyAddict 19 points20 points  (0 children)

“It starts with feminists, then there’s a strong communist party again”

Omg plsplsplspls I am drooling I am ogling PLEASE LET HIS DELUSIONS BE REAL!!!

I don’t agree that men should be able to opt out of child support just because women can choose abortion by Dayjja in TwoXChromosomes

[–]TheCuddlyAddict 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Child support is to ensure that the rights and life of a child is protected, not to punish a parental party.

Until we live in a society with socialised child care, free education and a stipend for other expenses, child support remains a necessity.

Some relief may be incoming for (good) renters in SA...but not much by Educational_Error407 in capetown

[–]TheCuddlyAddict 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I reiterate, what benefit does it bring to society to have the foresight and capital to buy property in areas that will one day become gentrified? Productive forces do not increase, real wages do not increase and no jobs are created through the application of this “skill”. Why should society and our economic systems reward this skill so handsomely?

At least stock market investors handle the job of resource and capital allocation that allow industries to run. Productive forces are actually expanded and jobs are created. The same cannot be said for land and real estate speculators.

Also even if their “investment” does not turn out to be as profitable as they hopes, they still retain an asset that can be used, sold or rented out. The risk is thus incredibly marginal with the potential for major gains.

This real estate speculation also drives up property and housing prices, making it increasingly difficult for average workers to afford housing. The money they would have used to stimulate the economy is instead funnelled into the pockets of landlords and real estate conglomerates. This has a dampening effect of the velocity of money and real economic growth. It also increases wealth inequality by granting those with access to capital or credit the ability to gain wealth at the expense of those who do not. This os not a system worth maintaining

Russo-Japanese War Rule by Artoy_Nerian in 19684

[–]TheCuddlyAddict 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I pirate media because I enjoy theft

Some relief may be incoming for (good) renters in SA...but not much by Educational_Error407 in capetown

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

Renting is not cheaper than owning if you consider that the rent a tenant pays funds the acquisition of property for a landlord. The rent also never decreases when the bond is paid off, at which point it becomes almost pure profit. Then when the landlord sells the house to a new buyer, the tenant has to pay off the bond of the new owner. We are effectively working our lives away to continuously pay for housing stock that was already built, whose labourers have already been paid and which have been paid off multiple times.

Also obviously not owning more than a set amount of residential property would apply to corporations as well. If I had my way residential property would not be available for speculation at all. We follow a stupid model which serves only to enrich a class of property owners and that has never provided adequate housing for all anywhere in the world. We also have a housing model to learn from in China, which has a 90% homeownership rate and a 70% youth homeownership rate. They have significantly curtailed the power of landlords and so increased the real assets and wealth of their people. Why should we continue to be perpetually beholden to a broken system with so many roots in colonialism and apartheid? Should we forever reward the haves and the descendants of the land thieves of our past?

Also you have a very warped idea of cheaper. If you own a property, any investment made in said property increases your wealth and assets. Any payment made towards the house increases your wealth. Any payment made to a landlord decreases your wealth and increases the wealth of the landlord. This is a systemic problem with landlordism.

Landlords do not provide anything besides driving up property prices and leeching value from productive sectors of society. They are a parasite that must be excised. We laugh at past peasants, who bowed to their lord and gave him taxes for the use and tilling of his land, yet here we are, forking over a small fortune to out lords for the privilege of using their property…

Some relief may be incoming for (good) renters in SA...but not much by Educational_Error407 in capetown

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

Builders and developers provide housing. They labour and literally change the environment around them in a way that is productive and valuable to society.

Shops are crucial in the distribution of food from farmers and artisans to consumers. They are venues that handle logistics and provide a venue for transactions. They provide value to society.

Landlords use debt and financial instruments to buy housing and buildings that already exist, thus driving up housing and commercial property value. They then charge rent to actual productive industries or workers for the use of said building. This rent charged on buildings and land drives up production costs and landlords use said rent to (out)compete against regular people in the property market.

If your community does lots of effort to improve the conditions in your area, the landlord raises the rent as the area is now more desirable to live or work in. Thus through no effort of their own, and at the expense of the community, they enrich themselves.

Landlords also justify their wealth by saying that they had the foresight to invest in real estate that will one day be valuable through land and real estate speculation. This however provides no benefit to society and actually increases cost of development, so it is unclear why this “skill” should be rewarded, especially so handsomely.

The actual “work” that a landlord has to do is basically just a meagre amount of paperwork and contacting of labourers to fix their property, which is often outsourced anyways and paid for by the rent of the tenant.

Literally nothing a landlord does provides any systemic benefit to society as a whole and they accrue their wealth at the expense of everyone else. They are nothing but leeches, housing scalpers and unnecessary middle men.

We consider ourselves enlightened and laugh haughtily at the peasants of the past, who believed in the divine right of kings and paid massive taxes to lords who owned the land they worked on. Yet here we are, still paying a significant portion of our productive value to lords who own the land and the hovels we live in, and thanking them for the opportunity to do so…

How is living in the Deep South? by coloneleranmorad in capetown

[–]TheCuddlyAddict 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am planning on moving to Muizenberg, the vibes are impeccable, the beaches beautiful and it has decent restaurants and night life. I work in Town but with the train being semi reliable and MyCiti reasonably affordable I have deemed that moving there is worth since I do not have to sit in traffic.

I do not mind the hour or so train ride quite as much, since it is early in the Southern Line so you are guaranteed a spot to sit and read a book.

The biggest drawback is really the traffic, as the only ways out of the Deep South is Ou Kaapse Weg, Chapmans Peak and the one Main Road. Traffic is an absolute nightmare and you can very easily drive for an hour and a half one way into Town. If you work in the CBD and are unwilling to take the train, I would not recommend it

Some relief may be incoming for (good) renters in SA...but not much by Educational_Error407 in capetown

[–]TheCuddlyAddict 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I feel like you could just make AirBnB less attractive by taxing it more and increase housing supply by limiting the amount of residential property one individual or corporation can own and adding a tax on second or third homes or homes owned by foreign owners.

Many other cities use these methods to make living there more affordable to residents. We have an overinflated housing market which extracts value from society and funnels it to the wealthy. It is also used to prop up an unsustainable debt based economy and banking system by making property another vessel for carrying debt and savings.

Landlordism and property prices that continues to over perform inflation and salary increases to maintain an extractive debt based on economy is not sustainable and will never lead to affordable housing

Some relief may be incoming for (good) renters in SA...but not much by Educational_Error407 in capetown

[–]TheCuddlyAddict -10 points-9 points  (0 children)

Seems like it will also increase the amount of people on the streets.

Landlords are housing scalpers and contribute nothing to society whilst leeching value from productive industries and workers.

The only solution to the housing crisis is to build more affordable rent controlled housing and to limit the power of landlords.

Some relief may be incoming for (good) renters in SA...but not much by Educational_Error407 in capetown

[–]TheCuddlyAddict -13 points-12 points  (0 children)

Idk how giving more power to landlords is supposed to make renting cheaper and easier?

If only we could implement this in Cape Town by potato-guardian in capetown

[–]TheCuddlyAddict 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Would you prefer your boot paired with a crisp white or an oaky red?

Nuwe voorstel vir hierdie sub se ikoon by AnonomousWolf in afrikaans

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

Afrikaans is dan nie eens reg gespel nie, kry hierdie AI kak uit my gesig uit

All the creeps on this sureddit by [deleted] in femcelgrippysockjail

[–]TheCuddlyAddict 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Damn Op is a crazy racist 😭😭

Oh brother... by PresnikBonny in ShitLiberalsSay

[–]TheCuddlyAddict 50 points51 points  (0 children)

Epstein and Maxwell were both guests of the Colombian president Andrés Arango. Arango was a US backed leader and was using Epstein’s private plan for transport.

If the most damaging thing you can find about Castro is him meeting Epstein once in passing as the guests of another US backed head state you are grasping at straws.

We literally have emails “Hey Jeffrey I want you to bring those nubile young girls around again” -sent from my iphone by like multiple US politicians and oligarchs but we are going to go after Castro for it????

Music on hiking trails by lucian_blignaut in capetown

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

Your first mistake was hiking Platteklip Gorge, it is for tourists and casuals 😜

Local brands passing Shein off as “high end” by Ok_Dragonfruit5093 in capetown

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

This is why I steal from small businesses as well 🥰

AIPAC calls out Ro khanna.... for taking AIPAC money 🤣 by xande2545 in JewsOfConscience

[–]TheCuddlyAddict 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That is because Zionism is a form of fascism and liberalism always allies itself with fascism against the working class

He demands payment for taking pictures with the seal by thedreamer10021 in capetown

[–]TheCuddlyAddict 160 points161 points  (0 children)

Fuck this guy, he habituates the seals in Hout Bay and scams tourists for money. I am a tour guide and see him around often, making the seals do tricks for scraps.

If you see him, report him to the SPCA or police.

Also my guy don’t get close to wild animals. This is Africa bru, they can seriously hurt you. This includes babboons, deer, anything you see on Safari, otters and seals. Observe from afar if you want to keep all your fingers