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[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 3 points 23 minutes ago

Home ownership is now a soulslike? I've been training for this my whole middle-aged life.

[–] michaelmrose@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago

If you were a tenant and you are getting kicked out you should have different rights like a proper eviction and a court date.

If you just broke in you should simply be removed by the cops on penalty of law if the landlord lies and you are actually a tenant who was illegally evicted.

This is what the law in liberal wa state is.

[–] postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 1 points 59 minutes ago

Well, this is how they will develop melee experience.

And then we will all be carring swords again.

At least guns are egalitarian.

Yes, I am ducking.

[–] g0d0fm15ch13f@lemmy.world 8 points 3 hours ago

donning full plate armor and a dagger "Luckily I'm no average squatter"

[–] Poxlox@lemmy.world 9 points 3 hours ago

Nah fuck squatters too. Everyone sucks here but squatters are just as trashy. We need to have a vacant homes penalty desperately but yeah that won't happen anytime soon if ever in my lifetime.

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 33 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

I’d much rather make a squatter homeless than have a landlord lose property,” Jacobs added

I'd much rather make poor people without an option homeless than have a rich asshole lose some money!

[–] ronl2k@lemmy.world -1 points 29 minutes ago

Do you think broke people should feel the same way about banks? Just take their assets because they're in need? Besides, I'm not sure most squatters are poor. They tend to fill a captured house with new furniture quickly.

[–] RubberElectrons@lemmy.world 6 points 4 hours ago

Right? Like, what in the fuck?

[–] FosterMolasses@leminal.space 22 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

We must defend the empty properties!

Also, we must solve the housing crisis by building more houses!

[–] Madison420@lemmy.world 11 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

It's gonna be really funny when dude gets charged with menacing and extortion.

[–] Mirshe@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

This might also count under assault, depending on state laws. Someone turns up at my door with a fucking sword, a gun, and a belt full of chemical weapons, I'm definitely going to feel like he's there to harm me, whether or not he says he is.

[–] ronl2k@lemmy.world 1 points 27 minutes ago

TBF, the article never really describes exactly what the man does with all his equipment. We don't even know if he'll be the aggressor.

[–] Bakkoda@lemmy.zip 8 points 8 hours ago

He's gonna meet a former mall ninja/disciple of the sword fedora wearing meth head and he gonna die.

[–] KonalaKoala@lemmy.world -1 points 2 hours ago

What about hiring a bat-wielding man to scare squatters out of your vacant home by swinging the bat from time to time like Jack Torrance in Stanley Kubrick's horror film The Shining (1980) and exclaiming, "All I want to do is bash your brains in, bash them right the hell in!", to see if that will scare the squatters out of a home they don't own?

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Totally random and off topic, but that dude looks like ~~a yoked up version of~~ Josh Strife Hayes.

Update: Apparently its been a while since I've watched Josh, he may actually be more yoked up than this dude.

Hayes has yoked up so much by seemingly working a fitness routine into his regular gaming habit that he apparently a lot of people think he's on steroids???

[–] RebekahWSD@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

This is news to me and now I have to go read about it because I also use to watch him???

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 hour ago

Yeah, I guess its Josh 'Swole' Hayes these days, lol.

Its incredible how much he's like, the mirror image of Asmongold, his negation.

[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 15 points 13 hours ago

Everyone here sucks except the squatters.

[–] n0respect@lemmy.world 12 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)

He stabbed me with a sword Mal ... How weird!

[–] haribar@sopuli.xyz 2 points 5 hours ago

You can't stop the signal, Mal.

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