• CatoPosting [comrade/them, he/him]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    Just pretty weird to me for a person with Mao in their name to be defending a landlord, any landlord. If the man is truly that disabled, let his kid sell the man’s house and put him in a rest home of decent repute, or move him in with them.

    • MaoTheLawn [any, any]@hexbear.net
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      1 year ago

      To be honest I don’t even think Mao would’ve been appalled by this landlord. Rogue take I know, but read up on accounts of landlords in 50’s China. Enslaving, raping, pillaging, torturing. Compare what they do to what this old man is doing. I don’t even think rural peasants in the throes of revolution would’ve considered killing this defenseless old man.

      If they dispossessed him of his house - well, alright - the conditions in which landlording has become normalized have now changed. It’s fair. I just think this is not one of those scenarios, and the guy who stole the house off him probably isn’t some epic internet leftist. Probably just a generic swindler.