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UltraGiGaGigantic ,

“The Chinese oligarchs are taking over!” - American oligarchs probably

slickgoat ,

*Land of the free!

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uis ,

©®™

FiniteBanjo ,

Copyright and Trademark symbols basically mean the same thing, the R symbol means Registered Trademark and is much more enforced.

UltraGiGaGigantic ,

Free to exploit the working class.

cupcakezealot ,
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    PopShark ,

    I used to not be political but seriously fuck these people

    UltraGiGaGigantic ,

    The class war continues, weather or not you fight back.

    solidgrue ,
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    Software problems require software solutions.

    //not affiliated, not endorsing

    far_university1990 ,

    Paid and not foss :/

    uis ,

    Paid is minor inconvenience, not foss is major problem

    PopShark ,

    This is true I agree but it’s a chance at least… something always > nothing.

    PopShark ,

    Thank you friend. I like flying my drone to help me with a lot of anxiety and stress I have I fucking broke my arm eating shit on my bike I can’t do too much physical shit but flying drones I can do it has kept me sane I swear to God almighty I used to be a “fuck politics” blah blah person but I can’t take this anymore

    Lost_My_Mind ,

    Yeah, it’s real nice and all to say you want to combat chinese business interests threatening to swallow american ones whole, but then I can’t buy a house, and my rent is going up because these same business interests are buying houses in every major city by the thousands.

    Then, they either renovate them, or let them sit vacant. The renovated ones get rented out at exorbant rates. And since they own such a significant number of these homes, the rents EVERYWHERE rise dramatically. And then you see all these vacant houses. Never rented. Never sold. They become drug havens for the cities homeless. But it doesn’t lower property values, because it’s all artificially high.

    So now you’re paying higher city taxes, and living near a house that has regular gunshots out onto the streets. The cops won’t address it, because they know how dangerous those houses are. But you still have to rent an apartment near one.

    But it’s ok guys. The government is banning tiktok, and drones.

    BarbecueCowboy ,

    Those are all legitimate concerns, but I’m not sure the effort required to fix real estate prices, crime, and income equality is comparable to the amount of effort required to ban a social media site and some drones from a country that might not have our best interests in mind.

    I’m trying to be optimistic about the ban, I’d love to see the drone industry take off in the us and I’d love to see what we could accomplish. It’s not a huge industry and I honestly can’t name a single US drone manufacturer, but I really hope that won’t be the case in a year or two.

    Lost_My_Mind ,

    I don’t know about the other states/cities, but in my city it would be real simple. Just ban companies from buying real estate. Maybe an individual can own 6 houses. I’m not saying that people can’t own and rent out houses. I’m saying ban it so that company can’t buy entire neighborhoods, and then monopolize the prices.

    ripcord ,
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    How would that work for, say, apartment complexes? Allow co-ops (which are typically corporations)?

    Lost_My_Mind ,

    I’m specifically talking about houses. Although you do raise a good point that companies shouldn’t be allowed to own out of market apartment buildings. Meaning if your company is based in Chicago (for example) you can only buy apartment buildings in your area. And there should probably also be a limit on what percentage of your market you should be allowed to own. But either way they couldn’t also own buildings in NYC, L.A, Miami, ect.

    KevonLooney ,

    That’s the problem, you’re only talking about houses (and probably in an expensive part of the country). Apartments are a simple solution to that in expensive places. Also there are lots of houses under $300K , just not where you’re looking.

    I had a better idea that would allow people to buy their own homes that they are currently renting:

    1. Every home gets appraised to determine what it would sell for. This is done by the county and is used for property taxes too.
    2. Every renter is allowed to buy a percentage of their primary residence from the owner. The owner has no choice in this. It’s a requirement for being able to rent a property.
    3. Renters can pay as little as $100 extra per month and the county puts their percentage ownership on the deed. If the home is sold, the renter can’t be kicked out involuntarily. If they do leave, they get the percentage of home value they own.

    Pros:

    • This would avoid the issue of high interest rates hurting primary homeownership.
    • This would blunt the impact of corporate landlords having a monopoly where they refuse to sell. They are forced to sell at a fair price.
    • This would create a simple decision between owning their home and spending money on luxuries or eating out.

    Cons:

    • This would hurt small landlords who would have their property bought out from under them. This is actually a good thing because the benefits of rising property values are now shared.
    • The implementation is hard. This is actually a good thing because bad landlords would sell property they didn’t want to manage, lowering prices for renters who want to buy.
    • It would cost the county money to hire appraisers. But this could be paid for by increased property taxes due to better appraisals.
    • Property taxes would go up for landlords. But this would be good, as it encourages them to sell the property. This appraisal process and increased property taxes wouldn’t affect people who just lived in their home without charging rent.
    morriscox ,
    1. If the house is sold and the renter doesn’t have to leave then how is the new owner going to deal with that? In either case how would eviction work?
    Maggoty ,

    Passing a law? Yeah it’s pretty much the same workload.

    ripcord ,
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    “We can’t work on problem because something unrelated is worse and broken”, then? We can only talk about that when discussing any problem?

    Lost_My_Mind ,

    I’m viewing it more as “We have problem, and other related problem. We’re only going to do surface level solutions to be able to say at least we tried when elections come up”.

    ShepherdPie ,

    “We have a hole in the side of the ship, but I, your elected leader, have liberally sprayed a can of flex seal on the hole.”

    masterspace , (edited )

    No, in this case it’s the same problem.

    We’re talking about banning DJI because the Chinese government subsidizes manufacturing useful things, whereas the US’ approach to corporate policy is to ban anything that prevents a billionaire from getting richer, and now the US is mad that China mysteriously got a better drone industry.

    Either the US should reform itself until it prioritizes building useful shit cheaply instead of enriching finance industry assholes or it should shut. the. fuck. up.

    0x0 ,

    Can’t find it now but there’s a website that lets you search airbnb listings by city. In my city it was quite interesting to sort those listings per owner… the top 5 were mostly corpos.

    PopShark ,

    For the love of fucking fuck please goddamnit I was just starting to enjoy flying mine fuck everyone in congress who voted for this fuck everyone and everything in general rn fr

    Maggoty ,

    If we had a real SCOTUS then both this and the TikTok ban would be dead on day one for clearly violating the prohibition on Bills of Attainder in the Constitution.

    NatakuNox ,
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    I’m so glad they are focusing on the things we really need

    33550336 ,
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    Good.

    Allero ,

    Bad.

    TechNerdWizard42 ,

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    Freedumb!

    Require licensing, registration, live gps tracking, and geofencing with a proprietary app because Freedumb people ruled that’s what the free market needs.

    They then rule, nah. Actually just ban em all.

    And now even if you bought them, buy them elsewhere, or just try to use them on a US device you won’t be able to. Selling them is illegal both from a company and on third party resale if it passes. Even police departments that are using them as spies and have the DJI alerting system installed all over town to track and log everybody in the sky, will need to get rid of it. But I doubt they will, of course it will be exempted for the pigs in blue.

    If you can’t beat em, or even match their capabilities, ban em or implement 100%+ tarrifs. New American motto of the “free” market.

    someguy3 ,

    Drone maker DJI is based in China and controls over 70% of the world’s drone market share, a combination that threatens U.S. lawmakers. As we first reported in April, 6% of DJI stock lies in the hands of Chinese state-owned businesses, which has led to fears of Chinese government backdoors, national security risks, and other fears of Chinese surveillance using the company’s drones.

    Elise Stefanik, the Republican representative from New York who sponsors the anti-DJI legislation, said of the drones, “DJI presents an unacceptable national security risk, and it is past time that drones made by Communist China are removed from America.” Of course, this unacceptable risk h

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