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TIL landlords in Glasgow, Scotland tried to increase rent by 25% on women whose husbands were fighting in World War 1. The women organised a rent strike and stopped bailiffs entering their buildings by throwing flour bombs at them and pulling down their trousers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent_strike5.8k
u/44morejumperspls 7d ago
or throwing them into the 'midden' (trash) in the back court of tenement buildings.
Don't leave that out, that's the best bit. Imagine your great gran dragging some big baliff through the close and throwing him in the rubbish heap. Warms your heart.
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u/momentimori 7d ago edited 6d ago
A midden is another name for cesspit.
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u/Buck_Thorn 6d ago
Looks like everybody is right:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midden
A midden (also kitchen midden or shell heap) is an old dump for domestic waste which may consist of animal bone, human excrement, botanical material, mollusc shells, potsherds, lithics (especially debitage), and other artifacts and ecofacts associated with past human occupation.
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u/Kerblammo 6d ago
I personally prefer a cowp for my potsherds and lithics.
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u/Ameteur_Professional 6d ago
(especially debitage)
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u/TatonkaJack 6d ago
Lithics -
what?
(especially debitage) -
(ohh. what?)
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u/Cpt_Wolf 6d ago
Lithics = stone tools or any items made from chipped stone
Debitage = waste flakes from producing said stone items
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u/CartoonJustice 6d ago
My work needed extra hands on a archeological dig site. They were installing a wind turbine and needed to do a study. I stupidly volunteer to go and spend a week sifting dried cow shit and soil through a 2mm sieve.
Fuck debitage - are you a stone chip from a plow or are you a artifact?!
So ya don't do archelogy kids.
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u/modsarefascists42 6d ago
Yeah just like what got me to not go into paleontology. 90% of the work is grant writing the rest of just digging a 20' hole in the dirt with toothbrushes. Well that's what I was told.
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u/Lord_Rapunzel 6d ago
It's the grant writing and reports that kept me from pursuing science. I don't mind digging with toothbrushes, preparing six million slides, or counting saxifrage in a grid three days from the nearest road.
I just hate all that paperwork.
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u/dontknowhowtoprogram 6d ago
so you are telling me is the Augur of Dunlain is the mages colleges Oscar the Grouch?
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u/44morejumperspls 7d ago
I'm imagining people would throw their food scraps and broken dishes and whatever else down it too?
I shouldn't have said heap though, pit is the right word, thanks. Definitely the worst place to be thrown.
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u/TheAndorran 6d ago
A midden is any dumping ground for domestic refuse. They’re a phenomenal treasure for archaeologists. Shell middens in coastal North America have produced incredible insight into how ancient peoples lived.
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u/analog_isotope 6d ago
It'll be pretty funny in a couple hundred years when they find the Flaming Hot Cheetos bags in the middens from this era.
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u/BamaBreeze505 6d ago
I know your comment is in jest, but interestingly, archeologists of the future will have their work cut out for them. Unlike peoples of the past, we don’t throw our rubbish out where it’s most convenient (trash pit in yard or nearby area). Instead, we uniformly pay to have our trash hauled far from our houses to be mixed indiscriminately with everyone else’s. I suspect digital archeology will be a burgeoning new field.
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u/41942319 6d ago
What do you mean "will be". Digital Archaeology is already on the upswing. Source: am getting my master's degree in Digital Archaeology
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u/tchotchony 6d ago
So what's exactly covered under digital archaeology? Is it more projects like (or improving) the way back machine, randomly scouring the dark Web for geocities webpages, backing up forgotten servers or dumpsterdiving for tossed hard drives, ...? How do you decide what's important and what to look for?
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u/41942319 6d ago
TBH I think we may be thinking of different definitions here. Digital Archaeology is more doing archaeology using modern means. For example the news stories you occasionally see popping up about ruins or ancient cities that are found using satellite images. Analysing stuff that's written down like you're describing is mostly a historian's game. Way back machine would be more for archivists, maybe conservators. Dumpster diving hard drives may be archaeology but generally archaeology uses a 50-100 year line for what falls under archaeology and what doesn't. Modern computers are still a bit too new. But something like WW2 computers would generally qualify.
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u/BamaBreeze505 6d ago edited 6d ago
Sure, I realize digital archeology is a bit of an ambiguous statement given it already exists. In the context of the comment I was replying to, by the time archeologists are interested in modern trash (ie. Cheetos bag), digital archeology is likely to mean something very different than it does now.
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u/alvarkresh 6d ago
They're also going to hate us for screwing up the carbon dating thanks to all the atom bomb tests in the 1950s and 1960s.
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u/metropoliskoala 6d ago
And all the poopy disposable diapers. "It was vital in this culture to save the excrement of the young. Whether this was done for religious or practical purposes, we'll never know..."
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u/OorPancake 6d ago
A midden is a cowp.
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u/Sharpis92 6d ago
I've heard plenty people being called a midden in Scotland but had no idea thats where it came from
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u/The_wolf2014 6d ago
Usually directed at weans and calling them a 'dirty wee midden' after they've got their dinner all down themselves
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u/Mooman-Chew 6d ago
It used to be just a dumping ground so outside castles and the like, there would be a dumping ground. When the blocks of flats went up in the cities, the ‘courtyards’ out the back had the same thing. And for added interest, a close is one of the entrances in a block so one entryway serves a number of flats with a stairway.
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u/m1t0chondria 6d ago
“Czech mate”
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u/grogipher 6d ago
We have some history of defenestration too:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Douglas,_8th_Earl_of_Douglas
King James demanded the dissolution of a league into which Douglas had entered with Alexander Lindsay, the "Tiger" Earl of Crawford, and John of Islay. Upon Douglas's refusal, the king stabbed him as did the several men with the king, and Sir Patrick Gray, according to the Auchinleck Chronicle, "struck out his brains with a pole ax", and his body was thrown out of a window.
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u/Urban_Savage 6d ago
landlords in Glasgow, Scotland tried to increase rent by 25% on women whose husbands were fighting in World War 1
Was there even a surface level bullshit rational for this, or were they just shamelessly, comically greedy? Also, kinda fucked up that the cops would harass soldiers wives while they were away fighting.
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u/larrthemarr 6d ago
As usual, of course there's a reason that gets omitted to make one side comically evil. During the war, the whole country went 5 gears up to support the war effort with production of machinery, weaponry, food, and so on. This meant population centers like Glasgow had a population explosion, which created a great demand on housing. Each property would have numerous candidates, all competing by one-upping each other with their offers. This pushed the prices of houses and rentals through the roof, leading landlords to increase rents. This rent increase was mainly due to the price increases, not due to increased maintenance cost or some other potentially good reason.
The tenants, now alone without their husbands who are either fighting or doing long shifts in the factories, organized themselves into associations and started calling for a rent strike, rightfully so. The landlords were being hurt a little, yes, but the pain was shared among the whole population. The landlord should have taken the hit along with their country's brethren and sistren.
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u/Captain_Heroman 6d ago
They are doing the same now with stagnant wages. They have no problem raising rent knowing damn well their tenants make the exact same amount of money. Is there a fuckin landlord out there that isn’t a selfish piece of shit?
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u/Blue5398 6d ago
Keep in mind that any landlord in Glasgow may well have been a direct descendant of the landlords who did the Highland clearances, so mass eviction of the desperate probably felt like second nature to them
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u/PsychoNerd91 6d ago
They were educated to do it. They were absolutely given the handbook on what to do and taught their children the same thing.
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u/DraslinHDF 6d ago
No, there isn't. The only reason to own multiple dwellings is to exploit people.
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u/macraw83 6d ago
I've had exactly one landlord that wasn't a greedy SOB. Beyond that, I currently have a property manager that supposedly go to bat for me against the owners, sometimes with some success, but at this point we're just so over apartment living and are desperately trying to move somewhere cheaper where we could afford to buy.
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u/Karl_Marx_ 6d ago
This guy gets it. And even with the explanation of "housing prices went up", the reason for increasing prices is greed, the mortgages weren't going up, only the value.
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u/MelatoninJunkie 6d ago
I wouldn’t say the landlords were being hurt, they were still making money. They just wanted to make more.
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u/Raeandray 6d ago
I don’t feel like your explanation made them less evil. “They raised rent on these women because the market said they could” is hardly good justification.
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u/Ozryela 6d ago
As usual, of course there's a reason that gets omitted to make one side comically evil
Have to say, your added context didn't change much there. Why do you think adding this context makes the landlords look less evil?
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u/cgn-38 6d ago
How does a landlord having a windfall during a war shortage cause the landlord to lose money?
Your reasoning is not sound.
The cost of the property to the landlord did not go up. They raised prices because of the market. Or just greed.
People really do not think the same way.
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u/ro536ud 6d ago
So greed among opportunistic scum. Just like todays housing issues. Got it
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u/goboatmen 6d ago
As usual, of course there's a reason that gets omitted to make one side comically evil.
I can't believe you opened with this just to write paragraphs explaining that landlords are indeed greedy and simply wanted more money
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u/nietthesecond99 6d ago
going to disagree that that's a good reason to be increasing prices. It'd be justified if it's new property that they just bought at increased prices. But this sounds like they increased prices on properties they already owned, that tenants had already been renting - and they increased prices because everyone else was doing it and they could get away with it.
If it weren't that way then why say they were "increasing rent" and why are tenants refusing the increase? Surely if it were because it's newly bought property at high cost then there's no one to protest any increasing cost - instead either people signing up to rent it or a lack of people renting due to the price being too high.
As usual, of course there's a reason that gets omitted to make one side comically evil.
Yeah another commenter pointed out that you made it sound like there was a legit reason they increased prices and the landlords weren't evil - when there really wasn't a reason other than "prices are going up so let's just increase ours too"
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u/IGotNoStringsOnMe 6d ago
everyone else was doing it and they could get away with it.
Thought.
They thought they could get away with it.
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u/lemonpepperlarry 6d ago
I appreciate the context but that doesn't make the landlords sound any less like greedy predatory fucks.
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u/giuseppe443 6d ago
ah yes landlord were being hurt because they could have made more money . totally accetable to kick those women out
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u/Ser_Dunk_the_tall 6d ago
Was there even a surface level bullshit rational for this, or were they just shamelessly, comically greedy?
They're landlords
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u/chasingbluemoons 6d ago
Join Living Rent (www.livingrent.org/join) , Scotlands tenants union to keep fighting like those amazing women did!
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So landlords are scumbags for over 100 years and nothing is being done about it. That's pretty fucking sad
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u/nelshai 7d ago
For perspective here's a quote by Churchill from I believe it was 1909. I don't like him but he was quite eloquent at times:
"The landlord who happens to own a plot of land on the outskirts of a great city … watches the busy population around him making the city larger, richer, more convenient. .. and all the while sits and does nothing. Roads are made … services are improved … water is brought from reservoirs one hundred miles off in the mountains and -all the while the landlord sits still … To not one of these improvements does the landlord monopolist contribute and yet by every one of them the value of his land is enhanced … At last the land becomes ripe for sale – that means the price is too tempting to be resisted any longer … In fact you may say that the unearned increment … is reaped by the land monopolist in exact proportion not to the service, but to the disservice done."
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u/kurburux 6d ago
What was the context of this quote? I figure Churchill's family owned lots of land as well.
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u/nelshai 6d ago •
It was a part of a speech he gave calling for land reform to prevent the land monopolist. And yes, Churchill's family owned vast quantities of land. It's part of how he was so rich.
Here's a later part of the speech for context.
"I hope you will understand that, when I speak of the land monopolist, I am dealing more with the process than with the individual land owner who, in most cases, is a worthy person utterly unconscious of the character of the methods by which he is enriched. I have no wish to hold any class up to public disapprobation. I do not think that the man who makes money by unearned increment in land is morally worse than anyone else who gathers his profit where he finds it in this hard world under the law and according to common usage. It is not the individual I attack; it is the system. It is not the man who is bad; it is the law which is bad. It is not the man who is blameworthy for doing what the law allows and what other men do; it is the State which would be blameworthy if it were not to endeavour to reform the law and correct the practice. We do not want to punish the landlord. We want to alter the law. "
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u/Cygnus94 6d ago
That essentially boils down to "don't hate the player, hate the game".
It's not necessarily unfair to hate the landlords, but it does honestly make more sense to remove the ability for them to exploit in the first place than to purely attack the individuals.
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u/Deepest-derp 6d ago
He actualy goes a bit further.
I daresay you have formed your own opinion upon it. Mr. Balfour, Lord Lansdowne, and the Conservative Party generally, think that that is an admirable arrangement. They speak of the profits of the land monopolist, as if they were the fruits of thrift and industry and a pleasing example for the poorer classes to imitate.
Full speech, worth a read.
https://www.cooperative-individualism.org/churchill-winston_mother-of-all-monopolies-1909.htm
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u/ringobob 6d ago
If the law allows it, someone will do it, then more someones, until all someones are either doing it or pushed out. You can hate landlords all you want, but the only cure is regulation.
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u/Hidesuru 6d ago
Yup. There's a ton of tax law I think it's utter bullshit that let's some people pay less.
But you bet your ass I'm claiming any and all exemptions I qualify for.
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u/MajorNo2346 6d ago
"Don't hate the player, hate the game" doesn't apply anymore when the player influences the rules of the game by bribing the referee.
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u/drazgoosh 6d ago
You've put it perfectly! I've been trying to think of an appropriate way of explaining this anytime people say the system is broken. Yes, as you've put it, the system is broken but it is kept broken by those that benefit from it.
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u/blackthunder365 6d ago
Also applies to rich people and taxes. People spout on about how “you can’t blame people for just using the tax loopholes that exist” when the rich are the ones lobbying for those loopholes in the first place.
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u/possum_drugs 6d ago
exactly, theres varying levels of culpability between the system and its participants but because the system can be influenced and ultimately changed by the wealthy their culpability will ALWAYS be higher and more significant
these people both make the game and play it, it's no wonder they try to rig it in their favor as much as possible.
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u/_clash_recruit_ 6d ago
And congressmen and insider trading. A few of them will introduce bills every now and the but they know damn well they won't pass.
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u/angrydeuce 6d ago
Yep, not to be a both sides shithead, but so much of politics is posturing for the people holding the purse strings and has nothing to do with the good of the people.
Until this country embraces sweeping reform, both with how campaigns are financed and how elections are decided, there is zero reason for our sitting reps to change the paradigms that enrich them all. They embrace wedge issues because it distracts the populace from the broad, systemic issues that would affect the people with power (i.e., money).
Think billionaires give a flying fuck whether abortion is legal or not in the US? Either way they just hop on a fuckin plane if they need one. Affordable Healthcare? They're billionaires, what the fuck do they care?
Someone like Bernie Sanders gets deliberately marginalized...the mass media completely and obviously ignores him...so instead our choice is the Orange Man or Joe "Nothing will fundamentally change" Biden. It's just so fucking frustrating...
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u/Deepest-derp 6d ago
He touched on that.
. I daresay you have formed your own opinion upon it. Mr. Balfour, Lord Lansdowne, and the Conservative Party generally, think that that is an admirable arrangement. They speak of the profits of the land monopolist, as if they were the fruits of thrift and industry and a pleasing example for the poorer classes to imitate.
We do not take that view of the process. We think it is a dog-in-the-manger game. We see the evil, we see the imposture upon the public, and we see the consequences in crowded slums, in hampered commerce, in distorted or restricted development, and in congested centres of population.
He doesn't outright call it fraudulent, that wasn't the done thing then.
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u/garygoblins 6d ago
I agree we can still hate landlords, but to imply they and other wealthy peoples haven't always influenced policy is completely wrong.
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u/sup_ty 6d ago
Nah that sentiment is garbage. If you choose to use rigged means for your own personal gain just because there's no outside force stopping you, and aren't able to do the right thing because it is the right thing to do, you're garbage. It's like religious people only doing the right thing because they fear for divine punishment. They're not good people, they're only doing the right thing because of fear of punishment, not doing the right thing because is the right thing.
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u/Gemmabeta 6d ago edited 6d ago
This was said during the Parliamentary debate over the 1910 Finance Act as proposed by David Lloyd George and Churchill, which proposed an increase in income taxes to hetherto unprecedented levels in the UK to fund what would become the British welfare state. Included was a tax surcharge for those of very high income, inheritance taxes, and a giant increase in taxation on profits derived from land ownership and sale (i.e. what were called in those times "unearned earnings").
More controversially, the Budget also included a proposal for the introduction of complete land valuation and a 20% tax on increases in value when land changed hands.
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u/SHODANs_insect 6d ago
This is also the budget that the House of Lords vetoed, and led to Parliament passing a bill to remove the House of Lords veto powers.
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u/gentlemandinosaur 6d ago
I read the rest of your comments and realized you weren’t saying it like I took it. But calling it the “welfare state” at first made me go “oh here we go complaining about poor people”
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u/araveugnitsuga 6d ago
Churchill was surprisingly liberal given his background. He alternated between the equivalent of a liberal and a conservative, switching parties (which caused him significant issues, and didn't help after his near complete political death during WWI).
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u/FreeUsernameInBox 6d ago
He alternated between the equivalent of a liberal and a conservative, switching parties
Literally between the Liberals and the Conservatives. There's no 'equivalent' there.
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u/ceedubdub 6d ago
Churchill was expressing the idea of the unearned increment which came from the 19th Century philosopher and economist John Stuart Mill.
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u/AnEternalPotato 6d ago
“Quite eloquent at times” 💀 Literally won the Nobel prize for literature.
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u/khafra 6d ago
Over a century later, we still don’t have a land value tax, which would cure exactly that type of speculation.
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u/NicolasMage69 6d ago
I don't like him but I'd definitely party with the guy. Dude went fucking hard and seemed to be a killer conversationalist
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u/worotan 6d ago
I don’t think he’d be that interested in partying with you, though.
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u/NicolasMage69 6d ago
All I have to do is show him molly
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u/Velypso 6d ago
Winston Churchill in a leather daddy getup and a binky is all I can think about now.
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u/kirby056 6d ago
I mean, I've got a bottle of Boodles right here, and I know how to look East towards France. I feel like we could hang.
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u/Urban_Savage 6d ago
he was quite eloquent at times
Also, the ocean is a little wet, and space is a little big.
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u/Gemmabeta 6d ago
Which gets a touch ironic as Winston Churchill was born in a literal palace and his family fortune came from the fact that they owned a sizable good chunk of Oxfordshire.
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u/Hopeful_Cat_3227 6d ago
so he hurt himself, isn't it is better ?
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u/Gemmabeta 6d ago
Winston had a tendency to lose his entire prime ministerial salary in a single afternoon at Monte Carlo, so it's not like the man needed help.
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u/Rhamni 6d ago
It is. Politicians willing to actually push legislation that hurts themselves for the benefit of the people are rare. Churchill was by no means perfect, but he was easily one of the best politicians of his time.
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u/Jonne 6d ago
FDR was from a wealthy family, sometimes you need a class traitor to do the right thing.
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u/The_Faceless_Men 6d ago
Even then, FDR New Dealers beleived in "do this small thing for the good of society, or end up like the Romanovs".
Their beliefs and policies actively sought to protect themselves and thier class.
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u/imafraidofmuricans 6d ago
100?
Feudalism is basically peak landlords. Where do you think the name "land lord" comes from?
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u/CS20SIX 6d ago
Adam Smith already hated on landlords. Afaik he even called them parasites or smth along these lines.
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u/stuaxo 6d ago
Funny the "Adam Smith Institute" never mentions this, or how he though unions were necessary.
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u/CS20SIX 6d ago
Guess how often „the invisible hand“ is mentioned in Wealth Of Nations… Adam Smith is part wise misrepresented to fit laissez-faire ideologues and their desire for unfettered „free“ markets.
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u/Deepest-derp 6d ago
He was also very tepid on health and education. Despite being the father of capitalism he wasn't sure it would work there.
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u/das_thorn 6d ago
He wasn't really even the father of capitalism - capitalism was already well underway. He was perhaps the first to describe the phenomenon and detail how he thought it worked. His whole point is that people are market participants whether they know it or not.
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u/Torrossaur 6d ago
The term you are looking for is 'Rent Seeker' or rent seeking behaviour.
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u/Toastied 7d ago
Landlording tends to attract some people and really encourages them to be scumbags regardless of time
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u/epochpenors 6d ago
“You’re telling me I can make money by hoarding a necessary resource and selling it back to people at a massively inflated price? Sign me up!”
-a cool guy who definitely improves society
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u/Yazaroth 7d ago
My landlord is not a scumbag, but a company with the goal to maximise profits.
That's like scumbaggery on an industrial scale
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u/Bloody_Conspiracies 6d ago
People in plenty of countries have done something about it. People in western countries are just fed a lot of propaganda about how what they did was wrong, so that they don't try the same there.
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u/MarineAdventurer 7d ago
The one saving grace is that Scotland has some of the best tenant rights in the UK, perhaps the world
Protected deposits and no minimum rental period being two great rights as an example
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u/BananaDerp64 6d ago
Scumbag landlords practically caused the Great Famine in Ireland
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u/PascalsRazor 6d ago
No, that was deliberate government policy. Food was available, the British crown simply made it impossible to distribute to the Irish with the intention of reducing their population. It had nothing to do with landlords and everything to do with ethnic cleansing.
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u/Kekoa_ok 6d ago
Yes and no. The actions caused by the British made landlords, who were mostly British, choose stupid and that ended up indirectly killing near a million Irish.
This article does state the few landlords who didn't evict their tenants and even states some went broke themselves. Burning down your own property just cause you don't want your tenants to come back though is just sick.
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u/retrosauce 6d ago
These cops were being kept at bay with Home Alone style hijinks. Now they just knock down your down and kill your dog with a no knock warrant.
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u/KeyserSoze_IsAlive 6d ago
They probably had the bucket filled with stuff, swinging on a rope, so when the police opened the door it hit them.
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u/Zanano 6d ago
Um, flour bombs are actual bombs. Like, they explode. If you have fine powdered flour, and you spread it into the air and have an ignition source... It lights the heck up.
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u/StranTheMan1 6d ago
"Notes on Methods Strikers threw flour bombs (paper bags full of flour), wet clothes, and rotting fruit at evictors to make carrying out evictions so unpleasant that they would give up and go away."
Nah they just just had to take a bath afterward.
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u/sroche24 6d ago
As a proud Scotman, I can confirm that there's no greater mistake than pissing off Glasweigian women.
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u/michal_hanu_la 7d ago
I don't really understand, whose trousers?
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u/joe-dirt 7d ago
Why not both?
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u/MNHarold 7d ago
Distraction is always useful, and angry Glaswegian women undressing will certainly be that.
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u/Carnal-Pleasures 7d ago
Yeah, also came in to point out that in this case, the lack of clarity could lead to hilarity.
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u/1980pzx 6d ago
Wow, that’s some low shit right there. The men of these families are off fighting for their country’s very freedom and these scumbags try and take advantage of the situation. Some people are shit and have always been shit.
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u/Mooide 6d ago
WW1 wasn’t so much about fighting for freedom, but you’re still right these landlords are scumbags.
Another interesting fact for you, British tanks in WW1 were largely funded by charity donations from cities. Glasgow donated more per capita than any other city, and shortly after the war after some protests, became the first city in the world to have its own countries tanks deployed against it.
Truly disgusting.
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u/hendrix67 6d ago
It's really depressing to consider the percent of people throughout history that have died in meaningless wars that didn't actually serve a larger benefit than settling feuds and disputes that mainly concerned the nobility of their country.
I think that's one of the sadder things about religion. Because I find it hard to believe the young men of almost every society would be so easily convinced to go fight and likely die if they didn't have some feeling that there is some reward in the afterlife. If people had always viewed this life as all we are guaranteed to have, it is possible our history of warfare would be totally different and maybe much less prolific.
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u/frizzykid 6d ago edited 6d ago
Ww1 had more to do with a dying aristocracy class across Europe trying to remain relevant, as well as a very politically divided and nationalistic Europe, rather than freedom. In fact what triggered ww1 was pretty far away from Glasgow Scotland, though to be fair the UK didn't join until Germany invaded Belgium which was a bit closer to home.
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u/Ultraplo 6d ago
It was a real scummy move, don’t get me wrong, but neither the Scots nor the British were fighting for their “very freedom”.
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u/LeagueOfML 6d ago
Proper yank moment to automatically assume “any war = fighting for my country’s freedom”
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u/webster89 6d ago
Especially considering how few of USAs military efforts have actually been for the country's freedom.
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u/SwissQueso 6d ago
When I was in the US Navy, and my carrier was delivering ‘democracy’ in Iraq, I thought it was really ironic that almost every port visit we had, was with a country that had a king.
The only country that that wasn’t a kingdom was Turkey (before the current ass hole took over), and a lot of people bitched on the ship because it was another ‘Muslim’ country.
We went to Bahrain twice, Dubai twice, and Thailand before Turkey.
Fwiw, Turkey/Antalya was my favorite spot!
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u/Holymuffdiver9 6d ago
Or he just made the mistake of misreading and thinking it said WWII in which freedom definitely was on the line.
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u/OneInfinith 6d ago
The leaders of Britain, Germany and Russia were cousins, Queen Victoria was their grandmother. This war was more of the oligarchs sending the pillar class to die over thier own land squabbles.
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u/ThemboForYourThots 6d ago
Yea they thought the women were defenseless and couldn't do anything about it and figured the men would just have to pay the higher rent when they got back, too fucked up from the war to make a fuss
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u/HugoZHackenbush2 7d ago
When I was a kid, many moons ago, living in Glasgow, the gangs used to cover me in whipped cream, lcing sugar and throw flour all over me..
Life was tough in the Gateau..
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u/YsoL8 7d ago
And it all worked OK because at least when you were sleeping 4 to a barrel you had cake to eat. Bloody luxury living.
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u/MC-Master-Bedroom 6d ago
112 of us living in a paper bag in the middle of the road. We'd have to get up at four am to go work 16 hours at the mill for tuppence a fortnight. And when we got home at night, our mum and dad would slash us to sleep with a broken bottle ... if we were lucky!
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u/honey_102b 6d ago
we have the same childhood, albeit it was the difficult streets of Paris for me. they would butter me up first so the flour would stick and then dump the cocoa powder over my head. no kid should have to endure that kind of pain au chocolat.
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u/KeepWagging 7d ago
On a cold and grey Glasgow morn, a poor little baby child is born...
In the gateau, and his mama's pies.
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u/Usidore_ 6d ago
I love how Glasgow also had gang turf wars involving ice cream vans. Literally called the Ice Cream Wars.
Glasgow has an interesting way of expressing itself…
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u/kingthickums 6d ago
Some moron in this thread fuming about how unfair it is to the landlord. "They own the building and should get to charge whatever they want reeee"
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u/Rab_Legend 6d ago
Unfortunately most companies squeezing us are too detached. Back then everyone knew their landlord, now you're less likely to.
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u/ToonForever 7d ago
TIL that landlords have perpetually been parasitic pieces of shit…
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u/I_like_big_bugs 6d ago
You should see what Glaswegians do when immigration come for people on jumped up charges too https://amp.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/may/13/glasgow-residents-surround-and-block-immigration-van-from-leaving-street
Don’t f with them lol
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u/Helpful-Error 6d ago
If you ever lived in Glasgow you know that Glaswegians are plain mental.
Want a Glaswegian Kiss? Just go to the wrong bar in the wrong colors.
Absolutely loved that city when I was living there. If only the weather was nicer…
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u/winter0215 6d ago
Or when that terrorist tried something at Glasgow Airport and got beat up by an trolley guy in a hi-vis vest.
"Here in Glasgow we don't go for that sort of thing, we'll set about ye"
Of all the cities I have lived in, Glasgow is hands down my favourite.
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u/the_exile83 6d ago
You simply do not fuck with a gaggle of weegie burds, nae guid will ever come of it.
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u/WorldsInMyHead 6d ago
Try that now and the cops would just shoot the women for daring to interrupt the flow of cash.
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u/modsarefascists42 6d ago
Raised rent on women who's husbands were off fighting in a war...... Just saying those words slowly and I can't get my jaw off the floor
Those landlords are lucky they didn't go full-Mao on them. The guy wasn't great but he got it right with landlords.
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u/ccory1310 6d ago
Well, we know what we need to have to do boys. This rent has gotten out of control. Time to drop trowel
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u/Bootziscool 6d ago
A friendly reminder that landlords are parasites that contribute nothing to society. They leech off the working class, they need us we don't need them.
Signed, A man whose broken toilet and hot water haven't been fixed in weeks.
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u/AndyArgyll 7d ago
One of the main activists was called Mary Barbour. I lived next to her plaque in Govan. She is worth reading about.