Three years ago, lawyer Jordan van den Berg was an obscure TikTok creator who made videos that mocked real estate agents.

But today the 28-year-old is one of the most high-profile activists in Australia.

Posting under the moniker Purple Pingers, Mr van den Berg has been taking on the nation’s housing crisis by highlighting shocking renting conditions, poor behaviour from landlords, and what he calls government failures.

It is his vigilante-style approach - which includes helping people find vacant homes to squat in, and exposing bad rentals in a public database - that has won over a legion of fans.

Some have dubbed him the Robin Hood of renters.

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Can someone explain all this “everyone is good but straight white men in America” bullshit to me? How is the world “everything but America”? Why is racism anything possibly negative about a race except free range on white people? Why is it that I’m so privileged that I’m not allowed in a homeless shelter in a small town because they’re all living in grants for target minorities/disabilities/women/addicts?

If I didn’t know any better, and I don’t, I’d think the world is playing spades and white Americans are the dealer.

World News should be things that concern the whole world and include things originating from space even!

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Because there are already communities for American news (News) and American politics (Politics), other communities were needed to give non-US centric news room to breathe.

The last thing anyone wants is another community that’s Donald Trump and Elon Musk top to bottom.

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There are already communities for news for literally every country. Why is America left out with North Korea to be excluded?

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America isn’t left out. “News” is exclusively US News. “Politics” is exclusively US Politics.

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Can someone explain all this “everyone is good but straight white men in America” bullshit to me?

I think it’s a rather natural reaction to strait white males beeing in power for all of the modern time and therefor beeing the ones that were made to set the rules and, even more importantly, decide what the discourse looks like. Hence the view on women, minorities, non “White” countries, etc is heavily formed by their views.

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Can someone explain how you went from “This sub is for news about not America, if you want news about America there’s a whole sub for that” to “straight white men are victims of systemic injustice”?

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It seems like there is a step in between, like, “America is the victim of injustice because it isn’t given priority status in the world news sub that has to be distinct because all the other news subs end up being about America.” Some sort of persecution complex?

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being a victim is great as long as you’re not actually a victim. you get to be outraged and make demands of people and, because no one is actually victimizing you at all, there’s no downside!

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“Isn’t given priority status” is totally the same as “specifically banned here”. Move them goalposts harder.

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It went to that because you decided to misrepresent what I said. You did that because you don’t have a response for my actual position and needed something easy to attack.

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Can someone explain all this “everyone is good but straight white men in America” bullshit to me?

Yes: when you’ve become accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression.

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You specifically are not allowed here because equality.

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who said you’re not allowed here, or anywhere?

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Anyone is welcome to be here. Americans just aren’t allowed to make this another community dominated by American-centric news.

Why is the “News” magazine for American news and not world news? Why is there no “American News” magazine?

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Bro. Go outside.

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