Henry Scott Tuke, Under The Western Sun, 1917 --probably Tom White Is One Of These Figures

Rlbert Bliss, Boy with a green oar, 1962

Cabin Boy, 🎨 by Henry Scott Tuke

It is interesting to note that rents are typically substantially more than a mortgage would cost to buy said house. However, renters often are disenfranchised from the system for various reasons (maybe they are on benefits or low waged etc). BUT they manage to pay these exorbitant rents, so why not give them the mortgage to buy that house and pay the mortgage in the same way as they pay rent?

If you really feel this way, warn other people who are planning to become landlords that it's a bad idea. Tell them to leave homes for people who actually want to live in them, and to find something else to invest in.

But you don't do that. You brag on landlord forums about how much money you make and how little work you do. You only complain when your desire to exploit others isn't quite as profitable as you would like.

Henry Scott Tuke, A bathing group, 1914

I fucking hate that the general response to RFK Jr's eugenist take on autistic people is "autistic people do pay taxes, autistic people do work, autistic people do date!"

Some autistic people don't and that shouldn't make them less worthy of life. Some autistic people do need constant help and support and that shouldn't make them less worthy of life.

Once again we're falling in the right wing trap of :

They make a hateful, fascist statement

Instead of focusing on the fact that it is hateful and fascist we try to show them that they are factually wrong

We throw our own allies and the most vulnerable of us under the bus in the process

We legitimise an only slightly less hateful, fascist view as we go

They have completed their goal of making us accept the still hateful, fascist second version, hurrah. What a victory.

Right now what we're getting to with that is that autistic people who can work and pay taxes are okay, and the others aren't. Fuck this shit.

Same thing happens with the people who are being deported ("they have a visa!", "they didn't even have a criminal record!" -> even if they didn't have a visa, even if they did have a criminal record, deporting them and detaining them in what's essentially a concentration camp wouldn't be okay, you absolute tools of fascism.)

Robert Bliss, Young man, 1972

Robert Bliss, Boy in grey swim trunks seen from behind, on a blue bacckground, ca. 1960