It’s crazy! Like, even if for some reason we want to keep the whole landlord thing going, there are guardrails you could put up to prevent them from rotting out the cores of our cities.

Like, make it so the current tenant gets the right to keep paying the current rate until the landlord finds someone who’s willing to pay the higher one. If someone wants it, great, fine, you can close the old business and let the new tenant open. But if you can’t find a new tenant for the higher rent, don’t let the building literally rot instead.

Nah man I don’t think I can agree. My enemies are ontologically evil and I’m not gonna say there are no actions against them that are wrong, but moderate assault on the person who is having hundreds killed right outside the building at that very moment is not over the line for me.

All I was thinking during that scene was “I hope he has a blaster with him”

I looked at some stats because I was curious after this, more common yes, worse no. The US has a very high number of house fires, but a very low number of deaths per fire, and ends up pretty average on fire deaths per capita.

Presumably this is because we’ve taken these measures to make sure people can get out when fires do happen.

I stand gently corrected. I do believe my point still stands for the tornadoes part though, which is a problem basically everywhere east of the Rocky Mountains aside from Maine

Also it is cheaper, and since we have figured out how to manage wooden buildings in a way that gives us a very average number of fire deaths, I see no reason to switch. It does mean we need to keep requirements like “two fire escape staircases” though.

I want to add on top of what everyone else said that in most of North America you don’t want to build houses out of stone/brick/concrete.

North America has more tornadoes than anywhere else on earth, by a lot. Tornadoes do not give a fuck what you made your house out of, they will pick it up and throw it at you. And if you’re gonna have to dig yourself out from under what used to be your house, you’d rather it be pretty light.

A good chunk of the area where tornadoes don’t happen, the west coast, earthquakes happen regularly and again, you do not want to build houses out of hard materials, you want buildings that can shake and sway and not fall down.

Cost is certainly a factor too, historically the US has had more access to cheap lumber than Europe has because the Roman’s didn’t chop down all our trees 2000 years ago.

Taking all that into account wood frame construction totally makes sense here, but does have the problem of making things more flammable, and so we have to take other precautions for that. Looking up some stats right now, the US does have more building fires than most other countries, but how likely you are to die in one of those fires is far lower, and it evens out to the US being right in the middle as far as fire deaths go.

Genuinely when these thugs show up people need to start fucking shooting at them.

No badge, no warrant, they should be assumed to have no relation to the federal government, they should be shot on sight for attempted kidnapping.

Outside leftist spaces is there a groundswell of “I can’t say what I want to happen to these people” sentiment?

Yes. And that’s why whenever I see polls saying things like “A majority of Americans approve of Trump’s ICE actions” I’m always just skeptical of the quality of the poll.

Next time you’re talking to someone in their twenties drop one of the following phrases: “When it happens” “The Big Day” “When you hear The News.” The average American is anxiously awaiting being told that Trump or Elon have been shot and killed like a child on Christmas Eve.

Ooooh that’s a really good one I like that

I hope they die, but in the absence of that I would appreciate prosecutions.

Anything to make the lives of ICE agents worse and shorter I will take

They should be saying it for two reasons.

One, they should actually do it, it’ll be very popular, and it’s the morally correct thing to do.

Two, whether or not they actually do it when they get power, if they want to win (very questionable) it is a good strategy that people will like and will get them votes.

The same reasons Kamala should’ve called out Biden’s inaction on Gaza. Yes you should actually follow through on your campaign promises but also even if you don’t plan to you should lie, you’re a politician, that’s the job.