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one thing that will never fail to make me stop believing in something is the group of people who believe in it too. not sure what this would be called

its like. someone could say 'i wish there were more lunch options than peas in the school cafeteria i dont really like peas' (imaginary example) and i go yeah me neither. and then someone goes 'yeah peas suck' someone else goes 'they shouldnt even offer peas at all' 'honestly i cant imagine liking peas' 'people who like peas are weird!' 'if you like peas im going to assume you my moral enemy' and its like woah hey guys maybe im going to take a step to the pea likers side because this is getting weird

you know how there used to be all those posts going around like “I don’t know any political theory, it’s not hard to have good politics, it’s called being a decent person” type stuff, where it’s like okay, well, if it works it works. but this year more than ever has convinced me that actually it’s really important to have political values to fall back on even in cases of high emotion, e.g. anti-imperialism or bodily autonomy. feelings like kindness, empathy, concern, just on their own, are politically neutral and can just as easily motivate conservative or even fascist political positions. you know. like what happens to empathy-based politics when it’s people whose lives are very different from yours, or where there’s a culturally-ingrained bias against seeing them as people, or if they are just interpersonally offputting and unlikeable. like how etiquette is for being polite when you’re not “feeling it”, you need something to fall back on, a metric to evaluate what a “just society” looks like for people you don’t personally know and/or like. am I making sense here

all software should be open source wtf. u expect me to run this on my own computer without knowing what its doing???

car manufacturers dont weld the hoods shut to keep ppl from copying their engines. books arent written with a military-grade cipher to avoid plagiarism. and we dont let food have "secret formulas" anymore bc too often one of the "secret ingredients" was fucking lead

when ur distributing a product to the public u forfeit the right to hide whats inside it, u dont get to hand out a black box and expect ppl to just trust u when u totally swear it doesnt have a microphone inside

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Is your local MP a landlord?

You can find the register of interests for the Australian federal parliament here and find out! It'll show you all the properties they own and if they're to live in or if they're investments.

That way you know which politicians stand to directly benefit financially by keeping rents high and housing unaffordable for the rest of us and then VOTE THEM OUT!

Albanese is a landlord with an investment in Dulwich Hill, NSW! Prices for houses there have GONE UP 18.2% IN THE PAST 12 MONTHS! (April 2023-2024) and the average cost of a house there has nearly doubled from $1.4 million in 2019 to over $2.2 million in 2024! That's almost a million dollars more expensive than it used to be in just 5 years!

Would you trust this man to decrease the cost of housing - when he's benefitting off a million dollar increase in personal wealth in just a few years?

What about Peter Dutton? Well his latest register of interests shows an investment in Brisbane CBD (where prices for apartments/units have gone up 8.9% in the past 12 months!).

However - previous register of interests showed a much larger investment portfolio with investments in Kingston ACT and in Queensland: Moreton Island, Palm Beach, Spring Hill, and Camp Mountain.

An article from the Australian Financial Review in 2018 reported that he's been an active property investor since 1992! He buys and sells properties often - including that Palm Beach property that was worth $2.3 million back in 2018. That means he specifically benefits from the Capital Gains Tax discount introduced by the Liberals back in 1999 which overwhelmingly benefits investors who buy and sell houses at a profit. This led to the graph of housing affordability vs wage growth to look like this:

Peter Dutton is a landlord! And not just a passive one - but a one whose personal business interests are in the MILLIONS OF DOLLARS from sales!

Would you trust this man to decrease the cost of housing considering a constant growth of pricing benefits him immensely?

What about Adam Bandt, leader of the Greens? Well no surprises here - he has NO investment properties and is NOT a landlord! He only has one house, which is the one where he lives, and is paying a mortgage on it.

Adam Bandt is just a guy trying to sincerely tackle the housing crisis from the crossbench.

This is Julie Collins, Labor's current Minister for Housing and Homelessness. She owns three properties - two residential for when she's home in Tasmania, and one when she's in Canberra.

The third is an investment property in Queensland (specifically Darling Heights, Toowoomba) she bought in 1992 for $127,000 - and is estimated to have more than QUADRUPLED in value since then. The median price there is currently a pretty modest $544,000.

Houses in that area has gone up 6.7% in the past 12 months.

Now, the thing is that property is under her husband's name - which is why the register of interests also lists spouse's interests. Members can't just put their assets under their partner's name and then not have to report them. So that's why it's a really handy tool for transparency!

What about the Shadow Minister for Housing? If the Liberals and Nationals get into power who do they want to be in charge of housing? Michael Sukkar:

Naturally, he's worse than Labor because he's a Liberal! He has three houses - TWO of which are investments! The Liberal Minister for Housing is hoarding multiple for himself! I don't think he cares too much if the rent gets increased on you.

One is in Ringwood North, where the median price for houses is $1.28 million - but that's after a 9.7% increase in the past 12 months.

The second is just listed as being in Canberra, which is not a suburb so it's unclear how much that property has appreciated in value - but the average for the city of Canberra is 2.1% over the past 12 months which is surprisingly low.

The ACT by the way is the ONLY jurisdiction in Australia with a cap on how high a landlord can increase the rent in one go - all other places allow a landlord to raise it as much as they can get away with. Not at all coincidentally: the ACT is the only jurisdiction in Australia where Greens are in a power-sharing alliance for government with Labor.

Better housing policy starts with Greens in the balance of power. This is not an assumption - this is a provable fact that we can see happening right now. If we can make that happen federally we will finally see real action on the housing crisis.

What about Max Chandler-Mather, the Greens spokesperson for housing and homelessness? Well his register of interest shows he doesn't have ANY property - he's not even a mortgage owner. He rents. He personally gets it because he lives it day to day!

No wonder he and the Greens fought hard to force Labor to amend their $10 billion housing fund to secure an additional $3 billion in funding for social and affordable housing, as well an amendment to ensure that a guaranteed minimum of $500,000 from the fund would be spent on housing, unlike Labor's original plan of investing $10 billion and maybe spending money made off the returns, maybe losing money.

When I say that voting in Greens is the way we fix the housing crisis I'm not making assumptions - I'm pointing out the reality of having a progressive voice in parliament that actually understands what it's like having insecurity of housing. The Greens have ALREADY had a significant difference to housing in Australia!

Max Chandler-Mather's livelihood is personally impacted by the housing shortage and the power of landlords - power that Labor and Liberals do not intend on limiting or regulating.

Albo is selling his investment property in Dulwich! Which the tenant, Jim Flanagan, says "blindsided him"!

As a landlord, Albanese can evict his tenants with no reason or justification - regardless of the rental crisis happening right now. His motivation is to sell the property.

Flanagan has asked to stay saying that eviction "will kill me" and it's a devastating blow.

According to News Corp, the property was bought for $1.175 million in 2015 and is now worth about $2 million - so Albo is going to walk away with SEVERAL HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS IN PROFIT.

But, thanks to the capital gains tax discount, introduced under the Liberal John Howard government, Albanese will only be paying tax on HALF of that profit.

Despite the capital gains tax discount making the housing affordability crisis much worse, and over-proportionately benefitting the wealthy, Albanese has said it's a "bad idea" to get rid of it and said he absolutely won't do it. Well of course not - it's a tax break for him and his landlord friends! Albanese is evicting a tenant in a rental crisis so he can make hundreds of thousands of dollars in profit and get a tax break at the same time!

VOTE OUT THE LANDLORDS!

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