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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • This best part of that quote, is that it’s the conservatives and the right-wing that are the weak men.

    Weakness in that context is not about being physically strong or working hard. Its weakness that has allowed the owner class to siphon money from the workers for decades. That’s the weakness.

    The blue color men from several generations ago were strong. They put in place worker protections, they gave us the minimum wage, they made it so single income could support a family. They fought, and sometimes died, for the worker.

    And this made soft little boomer and younger conservative babies, who in their softness thought that they were special and hard-working, and that collective action wasn’t needed. They allowed Union protections to be stripped away because they, in their individualism, thought they didn’t need it.

    And now we’ve realized that we need to be strong again, and fight again, to make up for what those weak ass babies lost us.

    And we’re bitter about it.






  • Real estate Management is about rent collection, property maintenance, coordination of finding new tenants, etc. There’s labor there.

    Many single property landlords are also real estate management and handymen of their own properties. And that part of the situation is actual labor.

    In common parlance, people will often conflate these. But I find this dilutes the harm caused by actual landlords, which are mostly large corporations that simply own property and collect income.