From Philosophical Research
Mamdani Promised Affordable Housing — By Hiking Property Taxes?!?
Nickel usage or significance
- Claims that accumulating houses is labor, that appropriating labor is slavery, and slavery is wrong, therefore Zohran Mamdani is an authoritarian
- Video and comments section invoke Fifth Amendment
- Comments section is a fairly good sample of what real United States voters are like. It's not pretty.
- Let's be honest: this man is turning all the nations of the world into genocidal maniacs.
Usage notes
Motifs or claims
- Claiming the right to use a landlord's territory is slavery
- Lowering the value of people's houses is the same as seizing physical objects
- Lowering the value of people's houses is not taking physical objects because case law, and because Agins v. Tiburon
- Agins v. Tiburon / (9k)
- Nothing can be a right if it must be provided by someone else
- If everybody is guaranteed housing, nobody will choose where to live
- Democratic Socialist is an oxymoron
- The result of raising New York City property taxes will be depopulating the city and leaving no one to pay taxes
- Communists only blame the wrong people for problems, and that's why they turn around and harm their own allies
- How can I own my body if there are no property rights?
- Tories believe New York is full of proletarians
- The problem with center-Liberalism is you eventually run out of taxes and there isn't enough money to win the rest of the non-Tory vote (problem with US Democratic Party; Liberal-republicanism)
- Building affordable housing is enshittification
- Zohran Mamdani should have to live in affordable housing
- Affordable housing causes Detroit
- Housing prices came from too many regulations; this is to imply that the Massachusetts plumbing fixture roster and the lead paint inspector requirement made housing unaffordable
- Democracy is the tyranny of the majority over the minority but a republic is decentralized and doesn't do that
- Zohran Mamdani is redlining the city
- The primary thing U.S. people work to create is personal wealth
- The purpose of Kantian ethics is to install cops and slaughter the poor
- Menshevik types come from wealth and comfort, while people who created businesses are less privileged
- People vote for the Democratic Party or Republican Party due to their membership in class subpopulations, but the Republican Party holds all the granting nodes and the Democratic Party holds all the receiving nodes (Toryism)
- Hedge funds own 25% of single family houses in the US
- It's better to tax hedge funds than tax New York City
- Capitalism is the only system where wealth was not acquired by looting or force and was acquired by production (Ayn Rand)
- city control of food and housing — the people who want to destroy you and own everything -> it's very interesting how Tories conceptualize this. "the people who" already implies that everybody who wants affordable housing is a separate population. "destroy you and own everything" implies that the Socialist nationality is actively chunk-competing with the Tory nationality, one of them lives and one of them dies, one of them multiplies and one of them dies.
- The elite have slowly sucked value out of the economy while blaming capitalism
- Menshevism and a republic are not compatible
