Comments by "Ficus-lovin\x27 Capybara N\x27 pals • 🌟 • 25 yrs ago" (@YourCapybaraAmigo_17yrsago) on "VICE News" channel.

  1.  @mikeparker6322  instead of submitting to an unjust system take a stand and say "no this is wrong." See my post. I defend fair rules but this story is going too far. Taking away plants and wind chimes? How asinine and unjust. Fight the unjust systems, don't submit to them. You'll feel better when you do even if you lose. I'd rather go down fighting then roll over and let an exploiter deep drill me where the sun don't shine.
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  2.  @mikeparker6322  Well that's not very helpful thinking is it bro?? That's just not true. Thinking like that counts you out before you even start. All bullshit ends eventually. All unjust systems/rules/laws get overthrown or changed eventually. Sometimes sometimes it takes a lot longer than we hope, sometime sooner. Sometimes things evolve peacefully, sometimes they don't. All we can do is get in the fight. You might win or you might lose, but the important thing is to give it our all. Worse come to worst- I could kill my enemy- I'd prefer it not to come to that but if things got real extreme I would do what had to be done. I don't think it's going to come anything near that but like I said I'm just mentally prepared if things get really really out there. You have to be. In the meantime there's a lot of other things to be done. There's court fights, there's activity in the streets, there's voting, there's behind the scenes work, there's activities that may not be legal- there's a lot that can be done whether on this one issue or in response to a broader spectrum of items. The important thing is to be active and take a stand. I mean worst case scenario if you get killed at least you know you died fighting for a just cause and that's a good way to go. That's very honorable way to go. The point is to just to try do everything you can. If you think something is wrong we should do everything we can to try to change it. It's not always easy that's for damn sure but it is simple. And I'm not saying I always do that, I got work I got things to do I got everyday life to take care of like anybody else, I'm not always able to be out there but even when I can't actively participate I try to stay involved in the ways I can and prepare for the next time that I can get more directly involved.
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  3.  @Loosie_fur  you're wrong. Every state should be able to provide various strata of housing for every income strata. I understand housing overhaul is cheaper in Texas that's great. But why should people have to move 1,000 miles away just to be able to keep a roof over the head? Look deeper into the root causes of these issues. It's not right to expect somebody to displace themselves out of an entire State because of greedy developers and financial exploiters.
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  4.  @randomstuffwithnofluff7472  loool. Look I agree her attitude was a little rude, and she could have been better about it, and if that's all that this guy was doing I would have no problem with it. It's not a big deal to ask someone to put their dog on a leash. When they walk outside. However the jacking up of the rents and the displacing of people who are extremely low income is the crime that's happening here. So I agree with you, but that doesn't really refer or resolve the bigger issue that's happening here that's forcing these people basically into homelessness and displacing them.
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  5.  @JamesWilliams-jf3hd  you don't think they work hard at their jobs????
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  6.  @aaronbrown6890  well you're not entirely wrong about some people. There's some pretty trash people out there and it sucks getting caught up with them and having them treat you like trash or stab you in the back with no remorse. I've been thru a lot of that and its a whole bag of d*cks. But there are good people too. Just be careful about shutting yourself down too much. There are some really good trustworthy people out there; sometimes it's just hard to find them.
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  7. I have no problem usually with Evangelical believers, they're usually kind people who mean well. The only issue I have is that they seem to be a particularly vulnerable group to manipulation by Right and Far Right politicians. It's sad. They are easily convinced to vote again their own best interest economically, to vote against providing or protecting human rights to all people regardless of race, national origin, other belief system, or LGBT status. If Jesus really existed he would be a Socialist and he was. He stood for the poor and the downtrodden. He stood for equality of all. He wouldn't want anyone to be left behind and he sure as hell wouldn't want any fascist to come to power. I have no problem with evangelicals personally, I just think it's unfortunate that they become easy and willing political stooges for right-wing politicians and this seems to be the case in every country. It certainly true here in the US and it seems clear it's just as true down in Brazil. I wonder how many evangelicals voted for that quasi-Nazi, indigenous-hating, Amazon forest-destroying SOB evildoer and semi-fascist, Jair Bolsonaro. If only people could wear their moral corruption and their lack of a moral center on the outside of their body so we could easily them for who they really are. Thanks to Bolsonaro as just as his counterpart where I live in the US, Mr. Trump, Brazil has been damaged and countless ways. And yet I wonder how many millions STILL voted for that hyper-corrupt, ruthless destroyer in this past election, and how many of that group would identify as religiously Evangelical.
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  8.  @mikeydmz1588  and if those laws are exploitative, cruel, or unjust? What then? Just be a slave and obey without thinking? Even when it harms you and your family? No I think not. I'll fight for justice and liberation, thanks.
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  9.  @jjg1501  you are wrong. People do deserve many things. Your type of thinking is at the root of many of these problems. would you like to talk more? Cuz this is one of my favorite subjects and I could probably go on for the next 40 years of my life. So let's hit it.
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  10.  @PatrickGotHands  their job is here. Why should they have to relocate out of the state that they love and that they've lived in for generations? They moved to a trailer park so they could have affordable rent. Now some evil person wants to come and destroy what opportunity they had to survive and that's fine by you? People shouldn't have to move out of a state to be able to survive. just a few years ago there are many affordable places in California. Not every place in California is Beverly hills. Wake up. Your attitude is incorrect.
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  11.  @analyticalmindset  I know I would.
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  12.  @aaronbrown6890  they have no right to increase rents past what the current residents can afford. He didn't have to buy that property. I agree there should be some reasonable rules but not unreasonable ones. Shockingly, even a poor person's life has value although I know our current auntie life capitalistic system says otherwise. They have the right to afford where they live. They know they can't afford luxury they didn't ask for it. They only ask that they be left alone in their humble trailer to live as they see fit as long as they make the rent. How low can people go? Now we're extorting unaffordable rents from the poorest people in this country? Where does this go? Corporate ownership of any low income property should be flatly illegal!
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  13.  @aaronbrown6890  the court has the authority to demand that the trailer park clean up its excess trash and make itself more livable, but they should never have approved the sale and if they were going to approve the sale you should have mandated that not one penny was going to be increased in rent. there's a way to do one thing without cutting everyone's throat who lives there. PERIOD.A
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  14.  @sarabeacher  it's descending into a third world s-hole at the speed of light
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  15.  @PatrickGotHands  you're exactly right- their are options are limited. they don't have any other options of where they live. They're already living in humble trailers. The only other step is being homeless on the street. And if that happens as it's likely going to happen now thanks to that evil judge, will the city leave them alone as the city literally out them there? Or will the police come and make their lives hell because police are evil monsters to the core and need no excuse to persecute those who are weak? Yeah I honestly wonder. the city basically said "if you don't have enough money to pay our exorbitant rents in Fresno and we just ripped your housing away from you, too bad so sad go somewhere else and die we don't want to see you." This kind of banal cruelty and casual evil is becoming par for the course in today's society. We are truly in a savage moral decline of everything that makes us human as a society.
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  16.  @aaronbrown6890  yes I like to encourage people and be positive unless I have reason to be otherwise. Is there a problem with that? I guess you think that's pretty lame. That's fine by me. You're the one missing out if you can't understand empathy.
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  17.  @siddhesh  life can be good here for many people, but not so good for others. If only we had an actual democracy not a "faux-ocracy" it might be decent for everyone, but sadly that's not the case ...... 😒
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  18. America, where I live. It's not actually a democracy. It's a corporatocracy.
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  19.  @joshuadelbelbelluz8325  It's great for some people. There are many nice communities here. It's just becoming harder and harder for poor people to survive. Homelessness is an all-time high. Even middle-income households are feeling the pinch in the cost of healthcare and higher education. The economic problems here for about 60-70% of the population are severe and/or growing.
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  20.  @myronschabe  fine. For you. This dude doesn't care and doesn't need it. You do, fine. He doesn't. I mean is that ok with you??
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  21. I'll grant them the benefit of the doubt that most missionaries think they're helping. But it seems clearly in most if not all cases they are not. I appreciate that they have a faith that they believe deeply in and that gives them a purpose for living. But that does not give them a right to insinuate it into cultures and communities that don't want it and certainly don't need it. Just because a particular culture doesn't embrace Christianity doesn't mean it isn't beautiful and it isn't developing exactly the way that their Jesus would want. Bottom line, it's wrong to force our beliefs on anyone. Even if we do it with the best of intentions it's still cultural assimilation and/or genocide. It's wrong. Indigenous communities should be respected and appreciated. They live in ancient ways and harmony with the earth. didn't God say to be good stewards of the earth? We only have one planet. That certainly what indigenous and primitive communities are doing. I hope that the governments of these places continue to put limitations or bands on foreign, white, Christian groups coming into their community. They should at least be forced to limit their proselytizing. If they want to help the tribes and material ways, that is fine and no doubt appreciated. But they shouldn't make the help dependent on their willingness to listen to sermons or religious teaching. I don't even have a problem with them leaving Bibles as long as they don't pressure or use any tactics to try to coerce them to accept the Christian faith. And they certainly have no place judging or criticizing any of the tribe or communities long-standing traditional customs or practices.* *The only time I would ever make an exception to this rule is in areas of North Africa within communities that still practice FGM. I'm sorry I won't respect your cultures in that case because that is a hateful and traumatic and injurious process that no one should be subject to. But we're talking mostly about South America here and I have seen zero evidence that FGM exists in South America. If it does anywhere no matter the kind of community it should be stamped out immediately by any means necessary. Outside of that and outside of forced underage, or acts of intentional violence to women or children, we have NO moral right to intervene ever for any reason. None of those practices seems to be an issue for any of the communities profiled here.
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  22. She was evil. She deserves to have that pretty entitled upper class face bashed in. This is the problem working class and poor people always have. Judges will never side with you. There are no moral judges in america. They all come from the upper class they have zero empathy and they look down on poor people. You think they're going to rule in their favor on a measure that's going to help them? The judges are sometimes even worse than the direct corporate exploiters. Because we're not for the judges rulings, none of this could legally happen. They all deserve death or free helicopter ride.
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  23. Seems so. And here we are. How sad.
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  24.  @JABroc  I don't know even where to start with this bruh. This isn't the jungle this isn't evolution this isn't primordial earth. You cannot apply that kind of value system or view frame into judging the situation. There are standards of decency, justice and human rights. Notice where I defend the existence of reasonable and sensible rules. But no I don't defend what they're doing pushing these people out. Where else are they to go? You have to stand up for human rights. Petty rules should not exist and they should not have to be follow up here it is unfair to say don't decorate your living space with something nice and pleasant like a wind chime. That's disgusting and ridiculous. There's no justifiable practical need for that rule. Cleaning up trash? Certainly. if they want to have new management on the property I don't necessarily oppose that but the rent should not be raised more than Maybe $50 tops. in fact I would prefer not at all. This is a humble trailer park these people don't have a lot of choices being low income. If you rip this away from the weakest and poorest and most vulnerable people they only have one of their place to go, and that's the street. and then the city comes around and harasses them and makes their life hell and treats them like dog s*** because they're homeless as if they did that on purpose as if homeless people aren't really people they're just objects that can be spit on. That judge is an evil b** who deserves to have her Barbie dream House set on fire. Everyone deserves housing they can afford. There's no excuse to charge high rent in a trailer park. Trailer parks are for the low income. housing is a human right. These people aren't asking for it for free. Who stands up for their rights and their dignity to exist??. We ALL have to fight for each other. It's gotta be "all of us in this together- I'll look out for you and you look out for me; we all look out for each other", not "how can I exploit you today??" Or "well this doesn't affect me so I don't care?" That only lasts so long until one day it does affect you. Housing exploiters are coming to the suburbs! it's not just a poor people's problem anymore. This is a bad problem and it needs to be pushed back on now. Please reevaluate your point of view and see these people as human beings. Put yourself in their shoes.
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  25.  @mikeparker6322  lol. Ok slave. Everyone deserves to have a say. And we will protest and fight back in whichever way we have both legal and otherwise. Enjoy your servitude. I will fight. You can always join us. We always take new comers. I'm a civil libertarian I don't like being ruled. I'm not content to be obedient to those who I know are morally inferior to myself. I obey natural law- not the laws of corrupt men. You want to be compliant and obedient and be a pawn without activating on your own behalf? That's your prerogative. I will not do that. 🤷 That ain't me sis
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  26.  @mikeparker6322  I hear you. Well I mean I'm sure you did what you could in your time. So now it's time for the next generation to step up and do what we can. Whether or not this particular community gets to retain the ability to live in their trailers at their previous rent, while very important to me, isn't as important as the overall question of why the HELL are we allowing every basic necessity in life to be made increasingly unavailable for people in the bottom 60% of incomes? Obviously these are serious questions that I'm sure I'm not the first to point to as needing immediate change. Some say only a fundamental shift to communism will work, where the profit motive doesn't exist. While that may or may not be true, for the immediate future we need to think on a little smaller scale. Nothing that big will happen in our lifetime BUT we can get laws changed and reignite the Left movement (prioritizing people, the earth & justice) in this country. That's where I'm at right now. Regarding housing policy, what anyone should be in support of whether they're a homeowner or renter; is hard and fast rent control, strict limits on how many individual units a private or corporate landlord can hold, and WAY tougher regulation on corporate landlords including bans on ANY kind of low-income housing, rent limits, increase limits, eviction protections, and mandatory moratoriums for necessitating circumstances.
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  27. Anything like food assistance there?
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  28. If this continues at this rate up to 30% of the United States won't be housed in five years. Hoovervilles will be a reality, and most local city councils won't like this, so my question is: when will they start sending out the death squads???? It's almost getting near that bad and a lot of municipalities. They're targeting, persecution, and mistreatment of the homeless is getting shameful and commonplace. Since help is off the menu, I'm just wondering how long until they decide it's time for the final solution.
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  29. They already are.
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  30.  @christopherhazell420  lol. Imagine believing in that "being saved" bullshit. So everyone's going to hell who isn't exactly like you and doesn't embrace you're EXACT version of bible-stuff? Right?? Grow up. How ridiculous!! Please learn to think for yourself one of these days.
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  31. True. Nothing wrong with leash laws. I will pray you stay safe and you're park isn't pirated by these scum.
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  32. Only Leftists like ME would defend your innate rights to prosper and be in control of your own destiny, free of unjustified outside influence, as well your human right to economic and political justice. Looks like you don't know who the real enemy is. Someone's told you a bunch of lies and I mean a BUNCH.
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  33. I'm sorry you've been sold such a bill of goods against us Left justice-fighters, but you shouldn't oppose social progress. Why do you want to stay in the dark age?? What do you have against social justice???? Without people fighting for justice for all, you yourself would have few to no civil rights. Without progress economically, we would still be living in caves. Is that what you want? I want you to live any way you want, but you are dead wrong about us Leftists. The hate you refer to, ITS ALL COMING FROM THE FAR RIGHT. I suggest you educate and deprogram yourself as soon as possible. Us Leftists are all about love, compassion, and social justice. Hate is what we fight against.
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  34. No kidding!! Only the ruthless law of extreme profit matters here.
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  35. I live in CA. The politicians don't care. Both parties are just as guilty. THEY TAKE THE BRIBES AND THAT'S ALL THEY CARE ABOUT. I'm just wondering when they're going to send out the death squads, because as we all get progressively displaced we're going to end up in Hoovervilles, American slums. From there there's nowhere else to go. Should I presume the politicians are planning to send out the death squads at that point since they're not planning to house us, increase our benefits or wages, or stop this kind of predation by these corporate monsters. Gavin, just be honest with us man. when will we be seeing the death squads? I would ask every governor in politician in America this question right now. If this continues at this rate up to 30-40% of the United States won't be housed in five years. Hoovervilles will be a reality, and most local city councils won't like this so my question is when will you send out the American death squads????
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  36. This is an absolutely nonsensical statement and you should never speak again. In fact you should seek to end your existence on this plane as soon as possible. I won't tell anybody that it took you until you 24 years old to figure out how to tie your own shoes.
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  37. AFFORDABLE HOUSING IS A HUMAN RIGHT. FAIR RULES YES, (CLEAN UP TRASH, ETC) CORPORATE HOUSING PIRACY NO!!! SHAME ON EVIL CITY COUNCILS AND EVIL JUDGES. WITH UNJUST POLICIES, EXPLOITATION AT ALL ENDS INCLUDING INFLATION, AND EVIL PRIVILEGED HEARTLESS JUDGES, POOR PEOPLE IN THIS COUNTRY ARE BEING SLOWLY EXTERMINATED ONE BY ONE. POOR PEOPLE DON'T EVEN HAVE A CHANCE ANYMORE. SHAME ON THAT JUDGE. LETS MAKE HER HOMELESS OR JACK UP THE COST OF HER MORTGAGE BEYOND WHAT EVEN SHE CAN PAY, AND LET'S SEE HOW SHE LIKES IT. I VOTE FOR A FIREBOMBING OF HER RESIDENCE (WHEN NO ONE IS HOME). WHO'S IN???
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  38. I can't upvote this enough.
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  39. I posted no profane words, why are you censoring me #YouTube??
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  40. I read it! Nothing's going to change until we get politicians who have a conscience and a soul. ALL the current political structure bends over and deepthroats these corporate interests that profit from destroying people's futures and homes. So until we get people of conscience in office, sadly the laws will never change and people who aren't rich will always be vulnerable to evil banks and predatory landlords and corporate pirates. Would you agree???
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  41. If they could afford it I'm sure they would. You're right it's extremely low compared to other rents but these people could be on benefits which sometimes only go as high as $900 a month and those who do work might only be making minimum wage and might have trouble even paying that. So while it does sound very low to us based on our incredibly inflated standard that we've all been brainwashed to accept, for them it still could be too much.
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  42.  @siddhesh  US is not a real democracy. We have some voting yes but by and large, all the politicians care about from the local to the Federal are bribes from Big Money interests. BRIBERY AND WHOLESALE CORRUPTION IS LEGAL IN THE US AND MOREOVER IS WHAT IS CONSIDERED NORMAL HERE. Govt in the US IS voted on, but our votes don't really matter. Only the Rich Business Interests and Pig Unions (police) matter to politicians here. The political structure in the US only serves Large Corporatizations and Wall Street Interests. It's a corrupt 4th-world PLUTOCRACY, let no one tell you different. Most of the people here are decent, but the political structure including heartless judges like the one profiled in this video, are completely amoral, corrupt, and utterly anti-life in their decisions and policies. If I could drop a dirty bomb on every city council chamber, Governor's Mansion and DC, I'd probably do it. It's basically like being ruled by a very cruel, very ruthless, and very efficient criminal syndicate. That sounds dramatic but I can promise you I am NOT exaggerating. For people who don't see this it's just because they've been fortunate enough never to have been poor or had to struggle financially. I'm happy for them, but they don't see how it really is for the rest of us who HAVE had to struggle and have been the victim of these cruel and exploitative policies that have affected us in one or more ways, i.e. as shown in this video, and other similar situations.
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  43.  @treebeardtheent2200  👏👏👏👏
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  44.  @John-xq4xb  I guarantee most of those people were working for their income. Your comment is useless and unhelpful and represents a flawed philosophy of life. They were working and they were making their rent before this parasite moved in, pulled the rug of from under them and now they're facing homelessness because of that person's greed. It's wrong. you are refusing to look at the root cause of these problems thinking oh we're all just responsible for ourselves we can just pull ourselves up from our non-existent bootstraps. You're too simple minded to put the blame where it really belongs when it comes to these issues. I bet your little mommy and daddy always told you well you could be a billionaire son you just have to work really hard for it. that bogus b***** has been brain worms that have eaten up people's brains for generations and it's so misleading and just not true. And it allows the true financial predators off the hook when they create systems like this that exploit the most vulnerable in society.
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  45.  @PatrickGotHands  this kind of capitalism is evil and nothing you can say can justify it. What happened here was W-R-O-N-G. the judge was an evil monster who tried to cover her willful callousness claiming the residents didn't have a good enough plan. I doubt that. I have a feeling their plan was more than sufficient, and if it needed a few improvements that could have easily been done. No that was a cop out and she's a Deplorable heartless predatory gangster in a robe for doing that. They could have easily improved their plan with a little professional advice and perhaps a reasonable amount of extra time. She planned to rule against the residents no matter HOW professional and well thought out their plan was. Claiming their plan was insufficient was just her latest smokescreen to try to morally excuse her deplorableness and the corruption of her character. Asking the residents to maintain their trailer park in better condition is one thing. Ripping it out from under them and selling it back to them at twice the price is another. The second is what's called a Ponzi scheme and it's immoral and it's wrong.
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  46.  @treebeardtheent2200  thanks for the substantial post. I'll digest and respond. In my values people definitely deserve good things and basic provisions and human rights. Equal access and equal opportunity. That's why I'm a die-hard hard Leftist, a managed-market Socialist. But I get where you're coming from. Be careful not to deepthro0t the founding writers too much. They were elitist, they owned slaves, they were anything but giants. They had many many faults. They didn't think the Constitution were last more than 20 years without heavy revisions and here we are 250 years later like a bunch of utter jackasses acting like it's the word of God written in stone. Personally I don't care if we tear it to down and start over. If we can think for ourselves what does it matter what they thought? We can use it for inspiration if we want but after all it should ONLY be a starting point. Better yet - let's just think for OURSELVES and restructure our society in the way WE decide best serves the needs of everyone in today's world. Get back to you on the rest, peace.
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  47.  @treebeardtheent2200  freedom for who??? It ain't never been all that free for POC and poor whites. Lol But I get where you're coming from.
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  48.  @gnarlytothemax  YES THEY ARE. YOU'RE ATTITUDE IS THE PROBLEM. CHANGE IT.
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  49.  @kensims4086  oh my god. Where do you live??
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  50.  @treebeardtheent2200  drugs are not a big problem. Yes some homeless use them but so what?? That's a personal choice, it's none of anyone's business. So do millions of housed people. Don't believe the govt lies for 60 years telling you how dangerous drugs are. Most people who use aren't addicted (some are, most aren't), and don't turn into murderous psychos just bec they get high. Just something to keep in mind. When city councils want to demonize the homeless the first thing they'll say is "oh God the drugs!" You have to ask yourself why drugs are so relentlessly/infinitely demonized and attacked in this country and alcohol isn't? Well there's a few answers but one main one. If you research that question for a little bit I think it will become very clear to you if it hasn't already.
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