Anonymous #1 2w

When your still the best from a local business already struggling

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Anonymous #2 2w

The majority of groceries are sold by massive corporations at this point boss. Target, hyvee, and Walmart killed local businesses for the most part in much of the country. People need shelter to survive just as they need food and water. We should not chastise people for wanting to survive.

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Anonymous #1 2w

If it’s my bread that is stolen then I have the right to be upset. If they need bread and I have the bread to give away, then I’m probably happy to help. But if they outright attempt to steal it from me, I should have the right to make sure they face consequences

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Anonymous OP 2w

So people should die on the streets if people aren’t personally feeling charitable enough when housing prices are crazy overinflated? Is that just? Is it right that people should not have their basic needs met so we can continue to treat shelter as an appreciating asset?

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Anonymous #1 2w

Why are you immediately blaming the people and demanding they just let people steal from them? I don’t really vibe with that, I feel like it should be the government’s job to ensure housing is accessible. Most people will happily contribute to the welfare of their community but to expect them to just sit and let their stuff get stolen and then blame them for people starving is weird

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Anonymous #3 2w

Yes, but the government isn’t doing that and I’m not going to pretend like I find it wrong for people to do what they need to do to survive. Also squatting isn’t stealing, they improve unused properties and become owners. If a society has an excess of homes and homeless people it’s a failure of the society and I will not feel bad about people doing what they need to do to survive in an unjust world

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Anonymous #1 2w

I disagree, I don’t think it’s fair to view regular people as being wrong if they are mad when their shit gets taken, regardless of who is taking it. How is that not victim blaming? With regards to actual squatting I’m not opposed to it if the property is vacant. I think it’s stupid to have so much vacancy when there are people freezing and in need of shelter

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Anonymous #1 2w

It’s not about my shelter being an appreciating asset, it’s about the safety knowing that I’m in my own home and don’t have to worry about people I don’t know bothering me. I acknowledge that homeless people don’t have this luxury. However, to blame the housed people for the problems of the homeless is insanity, and to punish the housed for this is just as bad. And the idea that a squatter could rightfully claim ownership of one’s property while the rightful owner isn’t present is ludicrous.

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Anonymous #3 2w

Okay, yes I am victim blaming. Fuck ‘em. I genuinely think landlords are bad society. They do not produce goods or services, they take money from people by virtual of owning things like feudal lord. Just one more time for those in the back, I do not give a fuck about the well being of landlords. I will shed no tears if they have to go and get a real job because they can’t make money being a parasite on everyday people.

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Anonymous #1 2w

*by virtue of owning things, not virtual

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Anonymous OP 2w

Do you think squatters are appearing in homes used as daily occupancies by families or do you think squatters are going into vacant buildings or were renting space and have ceased paying rent? Like the scenario of a homeless guy breaking into and now living in my house is not squatting because squatting requires a certain length of residence and typically some kind of improvements be made upon the property

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