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HaloGuy381 t1_jbpcgor wrote

Reply to comment by ToxicBanana69 in New York landlord becomes legal guardian of 93-year-old Holocaust survivor: 'She had no one else' by Imguran

If you’d like a reminder of how little time has passed: I’m 25. My father was the first of his line born in the US back in 1969 to someone who immigrated to the US after enduring the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands.

The Holocaust was not so long ago. That we seem to have so many eager to repeat that horrific atrocity, whether toward Jews or another minority scapegoat, is deeply disturbing.

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Time_Mage_Prime t1_jbpbnda wrote

Reply to La Niña, which worsens Atlantic hurricanes and Western droughts, is gone by LifeTableWithChairs

So if El Niño, should we expect very hot couple summers ahead? If global temperature trends have already been increasing, and that increase has been stymied by La Niña (see the article's "escalator" analogy), then a warming El Niño in the midst of no-longer-mitigated-by-La-Niña global warming could mean a sudden spike in temps. No?

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SeriousPenguinIssues t1_jbpabeh wrote

Reply to New York landlord becomes legal guardian of 93-year-old Holocaust survivor: 'She had no one else' by Imguran

I have a client out here in California. She is caring for her 94 year old neighbor he recently passed away he was sent to the United States for safety at the beginning of the war. His entire family was wiped out. She was also sent to live in the United States with relatives, her entire family is now gone. Both of their families were wiped out in the holocaust, and they have literally no one else on earth to care for them.

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refreshertowel t1_jbp9mya wrote

Reply to comment by Butt_Bucket in New York landlord becomes legal guardian of 93-year-old Holocaust survivor: 'She had no one else' by Imguran

Land ownership entirely. Forgive my slip of the tongue when I said "my", and let me replace it with "the". The essential being of the land remains the same regardless of what word I use to refer to it. You are neglecting the fact that it is impossible to live in the modern world, bar living in forced squalor, without some semblance of land ownership when you try to play the fact that I participate in the system against my views.

This is a common misunderstanding of people pro-establishment when talking to people anti-establishment: "Well, how can you be against X when you participate in X!" It's because the system is set up so there is no sensible way of living without X. It doesn't mean that a world without X is impossible.

The earth is the earth. It doesn't belong to any specific person, government or nation. An insect "owns" as much of the earth as you or I do.

I believe that national borders enable extreme exploitation of the working class. I believe that land ownership, especially (but not exclusively) when paired with multiple property owners, enables an extraction of wealth towards the ruling class (whether it be through property taxes or rent) from the worker, with no benefit to the overall society beyond some figures in a banking account growing an extra digit or two.

There have been many, many times in the hundreds of thousands of years throughout human history that long periods of harmony have existed without a concept of land ownership and the idea that land being owned is somehow essential to society or life is very incorrect. It's just not compatible with capitalism and all that entails.

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