1/ The more I think about the failure to extend the eviction moratorium, the more I think there were powerful forces working against it. Too many people are saying “Hey it wasn’t us, “It wasn’t us, “It wasn’t us.”
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2/ They didn’t *want* to extend the moratorium. And why? Because the very people most at risk of eviction are the people they want to go back to work at the low paying jobs that are available now.

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3/ Lifting the moratorium is a way of saying “OK, you had your break, now get back to work.” Extending the moratorium would have given people more of a chance to consider other options, to be part of a collective challenge to the chronic reality of survival wages.
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4/ They didn’t expect too big a reaction to this & as usual they failed to consider long-term consequences. But the reaction is real; it’s important to keep it up. I hope someone will wake up & make this right for the sake of those effected & for the sake of our political future.
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This has been the push since Wave 1 of Covid with the glamorization of "essential workers" who in turn became the front line of infections and deaths and at the hands of the corporate machine that has now devolved to requiring vaccines that are ineffective at slowing transmission
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The tyranny of the majority (or tyranny of the masses) is an inherent weakness to majority rule in which the majority of an electorate pursues exclusively its own objectives at the expense of those of the minority factions. John Stuart Mill on Liberty 1859.
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Amazing
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🛎🛎🛎‼️
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And if they don't go back to work, they're arrested and FORCED into work. Let alone whether those low paying jobs can let you afford rent and avoid eviction in the first place.
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You have to say who you think “they” is or these Tweets are useless. I’m sorry but it’s true.
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This is exactly correct. They see it as incentive to get people back to work. Insane.
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Market manipulation
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Absolutely. Same reason GOP governors stole our UI benefits and Biden did nothing about it. The government, no matter who is in charge, needs desperate workers.
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BlackRock are the largest representatives and all of Kamalas backers
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