'I have no idea why they are coming down on him. I don't know. It doesn't make any sense.'

A homeowner in Goodyear, Arizona is locked in a dispute with his homeowner’s association over his practice of distributing free cold water from his driveway.

    • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.socialEnglish
      71·
      3 days ago

      Reading letters and things from hundreds of years ago when they hanged and gibbeted pirates on the streets of towns tells me I’d rather them be hanged far away from town so they don’t stink up the place.

      • Deflated0ne@lemmy.worldEnglish
        193·
        3 days ago

        Isn’t it though? Was slavery ended by debate? Did Lincoln send a strongly worded letter to the president of the CSA that tore at his heart strings and made him see the humanity in his slaves? How about the Gilded Age? The unions sat the bosses down and laid out the facts and the oligarchs of the day just let us have the 8hr day, 40hr week, weekends, pensions. All out of the goodness of their hearts.

        Some people just need killing. That’s all there is to it. I’m American. I know how we’re propagandized from the age of comprehension into believing that violence is never the answer. But that’s all it was. Propaganda. It took murder to make United Healthcare provide the service they exist to provide. And it didn’t last 6 months. At that point more murder was necessary but nobody stepped forward.

    • Jimbabwe@lemmy.world
      44·
      3 days ago

      So if I get married and move into a new house and we now have two incomes, so we decide to rent the old house instead of selling it… the answer is death by hanging? For both of us? Kids too? My parents helped me buy the first house… they culpable as well?

          • Deflated0ne@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            12 hours ago

            You wanna talk about reasonable.

            Nowhere in the continental US can a person afford rent on minimum wage working a full time job. Not one state.

            And it’s the fault of landlords jacking up prices because they could get away with it. Not just them. But the problem existed before Covid. Before Private Equity got the idea to buy everything.

            • Jimbabwe@lemmy.world
              1·
              8 hours ago

              Nowhere in the continental US can a person afford rent on minimum wage working a full time job

              This is wrong. You’re talking about the fact that a single person living alone on average cannot afford average rents in any state, but rents can be found at below average prices, and more importantly, many 2-3 room options are affordable when 2-3 minimum wage workers live together and combine their incomes. Living alone is a luxury and frankly, a quite wasteful one. There are more than twice as many people than houses in the USA source so to have everyone living alone would require considerable ruinous environmental destruction and expansion. Maybe YOU should be hanged for suggesting it! (I’m kidding of course)

              And it’s the fault of landlords jacking up prices because they could get away with it.

              Proof? Evidence? You’re going to need to be pretty damn convincing if you want me to join your rally to hang everyone involved.