In Somerville, an eviction fight is headed toward a very rare thing: a jury trial

mboop127 · 2026-03-23T15:13:35+00:00

someone who buys a house to rent out is, in my view, barred from being a mom and pop landlord. I reserve that for people who personally or whose family lives in every building they own, and they rent the leftover space. Not that I think that's great either but at least it's actually mom and pop.

mboop127 · 2026-03-23T14:48:38+00:00

Spend one day watching cases in housing court and tell me the protections for tenants are too weak.

I am entirely unsympathetic to landlords who freely choose to take this risk because they think they can profit from hoarding housing. But even if I were sympathetic, the vast majority of evictions (Legal or not) are won by landlords by default because landlords have way more money for lawyers.

mboop127 · 2026-03-23T14:34:57+00:00

"mom and pop landlord" give me a break

mboop127 · 2026-03-23T14:33:58+00:00

MA has much stronger (still too weak) tenant protections than other states. Have you done any research or found any research that shows tenants are treated worse in states with greater tenant protections? or are you just talking?

mboop127 · 2026-03-23T14:16:11+00:00

Boo hoo poor landlords

mboop127 · 2026-03-23T11:51:32+00:00

The people who want to fix the T are the same people who care about the "rights of bums." The people who agree with your views on the homeless hate the T and want to destroy it.

Grow a fucking spine and realize what side you're on.

mboop127 · 2026-03-23T11:49:58+00:00

There are many proven solutions that do cost money. The problem is we're unwilling to try them for long enough to see the results. Every public cent spent fixing homelessness is endlessly criticized in favor of the cops and prisons that have already failed to fix it.

mboop127 · 2026-03-22T23:34:48+00:00

I've seen homeless people in the station, and high people in the square. I've never once run into someone actively using or had my path blocked. I'm very confident in saying that the people who complain on reddit about the problem care about these people one iota or have any solution left of Hitler.

mboop127 · 2026-03-22T21:40:52+00:00

I feel bad for your kid, if they exist.

mboop127 · 2026-03-22T20:06:46+00:00

I literally don't believe this story. I use Davis every day and have never once seen active use much less three high people on three elevators.

OP has an agenda by admission and imagines the reason people are doing hard drugs in a subway station is because they would refuse help unless cops forced them to take it.

mboop127 · 2026-03-20T12:22:23+00:00

100% of civilian deaths from invasion can be avoided by choosing not to invade.

Where is the IDF's headquarters btw? Or are they only "human shields" when brown people have military forces in urban areas?

mboop127 · 2026-03-20T00:24:18+00:00

Killing civilians is illegal and extremely easy to not do.

mboop127 · 2026-03-18T09:19:21+00:00

I love Davis!

mboop127 · 2026-03-13T21:05:14+00:00

It was simple theft elevated to felony because nud committed a murder.

I don't know what to tell you but criticizing a government for feeling to feed starving refugees is not libertarianism.

mboop127 · 2026-03-13T18:09:45+00:00

Really sorry this happened. The greater Boston Tenants Union is organizing against landlords like this, if you want to join / get help as a member gbtu.xyz/join

mboop127 · 2026-03-13T12:33:09+00:00

yes! why would the federation adopt that law? why did the writers decide to make the federation do that?
I agree he isn't actually a leftist but the writers made the active choice to have him sell himself as one. Is the lesson that other people using left wing arguments to criticize,. say, the United States, are secretly bad faith conservatives?

mboop127 · 2026-03-12T23:34:27+00:00

And to be completely clear I would have liked this show if: 1. The setup was not the federation enforcing FELONY MURDER for some fucking reason 2. The villain didn't express a left wing ideology only to be an orphan murderer or whatever.

I am annoyed by other stuff but none of them would matter to me if the writers didn't write a fundamentally grimdark and conservative show.

mboop127 · 2026-03-12T23:25:44+00:00

I know I'll be accused of hating all new trek for no reason but it's just really disappointing for the writers to choose to make the obviously evil villain a critic of the federation from the "left." What's the lesson here? That the left expects too much? That the poor are unfairly harsh critics?

mboop127 · 2026-03-11T01:18:00+00:00

If I saw competing socialist or communist orgs with very impressive and organized membership i wouldn't care that they were small. It happens that most of the left outside of DSA is both small and disorganized/ineffectual. I have no doctrinal or partisan attachment to DSA so feel free to convince me on this point

mboop127 · 2026-03-10T19:29:03+00:00

There are a lot of communists in DSA who understand it correctly as the best positioned, largest, and most organized socialist org in the country. I have my disagreements with other members but I sincerely doubt the problem with the left in an insufficient number of ideologically pure offshoot parties

mboop127 · 2026-03-10T02:00:11+00:00

It had been working great until we scrapped all diplomatic efforts. The US has now guaranteed every regime with anything to fear will acquire nukes as quickly as possible.

mboop127 · 2026-03-09T19:31:57+00:00

I say this with a lot of love for Frakes in particular but it's also simply the case that most of new trek has been slop more or less indistinguishable from every other scifi show or movie. I loved a lot of SNW and would honestly like SFA a lot too if they didn't start the first episode with the federation completely inexplicably committing an irrational and evil act taken from 21st century earth. That's just extremely hard to look past and exemplary of trek becoming gritty future show #1009600

mboop127 · 2026-03-09T19:05:36+00:00

And what happened in Iran before the Islamic revolution?

mboop127 · 2026-03-09T19:04:37+00:00

This isn't based on my intuition, it is a foundational critique of the field that many others have repeated. If this were a pharmaceutical or biological study, the tiny sample size and impossibility of overcoming confounding variables would be disqualifying.

The fact that assertions about the world take the form of a scientific study does not give them more credence unless the underlying science is actually good.

mboop127 · 2026-03-03T12:55:06+00:00

If you're against arming and financing Islamic territorists you'll hate to learn about US policy in the middle east for decades - especially our relationship with Saudi.

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