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WhiteDog
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
France8650 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-10-07 19:33:18
October 07 2015 19:28 GMT
#6301
On October 08 2015 04:26 Incognoto wrote:
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On October 08 2015 04:19 Incognoto wrote:
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On October 08 2015 04:07 Incognoto wrote:
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On October 08 2015 03:43 WhiteDog wrote:
On October 08 2015 03:10 Incognoto wrote:
On October 08 2015 01:11 WhiteDog wrote:
On October 07 2015 23:09 Incognoto wrote:
On October 07 2015 18:04 WhiteDog wrote:
They tore down their shirts ho my god cry me a river.

France has become an increasingly barbaric and depressing country. The people here are sick to the head, it's a cultural thing. I used to get sad about being bashed for being French (it's happened before when I lived in the USA) during the Iraq war. Now I've come to realize that French bashing is probably entirely justified. It makes me a little numb inside to realize that I'm actually a part of this shit country.

And you read Le Monde and the inrockuptibles ? You hate your country deep down because we're so bad and all, "it's cultural". "We" are guilty, whatever it is, even we do the right thing (iraq ?).
God damn how stupid those arguments are. Two guy get their shirt destroyed and suddenly it's our entirely culture that is barbaric. 67 million people and a few hundred years of history resumed in one argument over 5000 people getting fired that sadly lead to the end of that poor shirt's life.

Please, leave the country and go see how civilized other countries are. Do yourself a favor.


You're RIGHT.

Personal and physical attacks are always such a nice and lovely thing.

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What do you mean they czn get away ? They did something illegal, I'm pretty sure the authorities are doing everythibg for the individuals being prosecuted. What else do you want ?


You see what I mean now? The French are pretty hateful and happy when these sorts of occurrences take place. Lynching is nice; you're an asshole if you complain about it.

My God. This is France's problem. Hate and spite are so rampant. You have extremist parties getting more and more attention, you have lynches which are approved of by the French. Fuck. It's a disgrace to see that this sort of behavior is applauded in France. Yeah, it's barbaric and I'm going to fucking call it out if I want to because as a French person, I do give a shit about what French people do.

Edit: So I read the thread up until now and yeah pretty much confirms my views. I was being somewhat cynical but the unfortunate reality is that a large amount of French people truly believe that lynching and mob justice is the right way to do things. It's fucking pathetic. Comparing the scum of the cgt to the revolutionaries of 1789 is tasteless, crude, boring and disrespectful.

"He's rich, so it is JUSTIFIED that we physically assault him". My fucking God. I can't believe the stuff I read. It's like people and their private property don't even matter. The HR guy from Air France pays his taxes, probably x10 more than the shits who assaulted him, what more do you want from him? Strip him, beat him, make him pay? Disgusting. There's some "fraternité" right there.

It's this appalling mentality which is making France into the shithole of today. Him versus me. The rich vs the poor. The French versus immigrants. Fucking shit, the lot of it. Some French people have no fucking self-respect and make the entire country look bad with their antics. Absolutely terrible. Horrible.

Read yourself please.


Hey, I'm not the one who is condoning physical violence and the destruction of property, in the name of some false "social equality" shit which is spouted by some demagogic, corrupt politicians and syndicates. On the other hand, you and a lot of French people seem to actively cheer on such destructive and toxic behavior. Don't feel bad if you get called out for it.

Whatever. To me you reek ignorance and just cry like a kid everytime you talk about France.
I don't feel bad at all, I am actually okay with destruction of property when fighting for social equality. From a strategic standpoint, history actually proved that destroying property actually work in a social conflict.
What I love in your post is that - somehow - my position on politics is representative of the french spirit. I don't think at all that I am representative of the "french culture" - if that was the case the political situation would be much different...
You, on the other hand, are pretty representative of that class of french people that would have loved to live in another country, ignorant about their own history and values, secretly hating on their french "brothers" and jalous of the "discipline" and the "civilized" behavior some other country seems to display. Your behavior is (to me) parasite-like, and I don't like it that much.


Saying I hate France is a pretty low and personal insult, really at this point I don't give two shits what you think of me or my views of my country. I do reserve the right to violently criticize my country when it's doing something wrong.

Other countries are indeed doing some things right, much more than the crap we're doing in France, flinging shit at each like deranged monkeys. Divide and conquer, the government has achieved this perfectly. Tell me more garbage about things are going quite nicely in France as of right now: unemployment is going down, extremist parties are silly through their mere existence, immigrants are treated fairly, young people are finding prosperous new jobs in France (instead of going to foreign countries, lul).

Delusional. We're up shit-creek. Of course I'm not going to sugar-coat my views on France. We're going straight into a wall and we're going to drag down Europe with us.

Let's not sugar coat over the words you use : you said that france had barbaric culture. You are not criticizing anything, you're stigmatizing, and stupidly at that. Now you're actually trying to change the subject and argue that it's the government that is responsible.

In the tradition that Le Monde and the inrockuptible created for the privileged youth, here is the typical french that you propose : lazy (unemployment), racist (national front), and succeptible to lynch people out of jalousy (communist).


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France has become an increasingly barbaric and depressing country.


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It's a disgrace to see that this sort of behavior is applauded in France. Yeah, it's barbaric and I'm going to fucking call it out if I want to because as a French person, I do give a shit about what French people do.


Why not quote me instead?

Subsequently, learn to read English. I said that the country (or rather, its atmosphere) is becoming increasingly barbaric, with more and more lynching, destruction of property, rise of crime rate (I'm quite sure that you haven't had your home broken into 8 times over the past few years?), rise of extremist parties.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005_French_riots

Yeah, to me that's barbaric.

We had lynching this week. You're approving it, saying it's justified. I say fuck that. I don't condone behavior I would never permit myself. I'm not the one who is physically assaulting people, destroying property and causing a stir of shit. However, a fair amount of French people are. So yeah i'm going to call it out. Yes, i'm also going to call out the government because they are catalyzing this disgusting crap with their own incompetence (or maybe they want to force the French to choose between them or the FN? who knows?).

Hey, you know what, let's stop mucking up the thread with this garbage discussion either way. If you still have something you need to get off your chest, send me a PM. That way other people in this thread can go back to having a real discussion instead of being forced to read this garbage.

Ho sorry :
The people here are sick to the head, it's a cultural thing.


Indeed, I said that. I don't think that French culture is perfect. Far from it even. If you think that French culture (or any other culture really) is perfect and doesn't need to grow and develop, then you are deluded.

I don't even know what is "french culture". Can you please show me how what happened in Air France, the tower eiffel, the 1789 revolution and François Hollande driving throughout paris to meet his mistress are all part of a unified "culture" that can explain everything we are, our qualities and our "sickness" ? Show me the logic of France, our encyclopedia, please.

Joking aside, I don't have anything normative to say about France history, we did a lot of bad things and good things. Saying that we are "sick to the head" is something else entirely - especially if you pick out a few event and neglect the rest out of ignorance. Again, you're not criticizing anything, just stigmatizing.
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Makro
Profile Joined March 2011
France16890 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-10-08 16:29:53
October 08 2015 16:28 GMT
#6302
On October 07 2015 13:50 Incognoto wrote:
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In France it is considered perfectly normal to lynch people (and hate people) who have higher income than you do. I overheard so many people cheering and being happy about the incident in my entourage.

France has become an increasingly barbaric and depressing country. The people here are sick to the head, it's a cultural thing. I used to get sad about being bashed for being French (it's happened before when I lived in the USA) during the Iraq war. Now I've come to realize that French bashing is probably entirely justified. It makes me a little numb inside to realize that I'm actually a part of this shit country.

That's actually one of the frenchiest post i have ever witnessed. Figaro material.
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CuddlyCuteKitten
Profile Joined January 2004
Sweden2715 Posts
October 09 2015 16:57 GMT
#6303
Swedish goverment has previously stated that its much better to take care of the refuges in Sweden where we can give them a decent life than to spend the money more efficently in the refuge camps where it does more good. Because we have the resources and its not humane to let people live in tents.

They just had a press conference this morning saying that every avalible possible and impossible building is occupied and that they have ordered the construction of tent camps for tens of thousands of refuges.

Well. Winter is coming. And it gets a hell of a lot colder up here than in Turkey. I wonder how the people who got lured up to Sweden are going to feel when they realise how utterly fucked they are.
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maartendq
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
Belgium3115 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-10-09 17:26:43
October 09 2015 17:22 GMT
#6304
On October 10 2015 01:57 CuddlyCuteKitten wrote:
Swedish goverment has previously stated that its much better to take care of the refuges in Sweden where we can give them a decent life than to spend the money more efficently in the refuge camps where it does more good. Because we have the resources and its not humane to let people live in tents.

They just had a press conference this morning saying that every avalible possible and impossible building is occupied and that they have ordered the construction of tent camps for tens of thousands of refuges.

Well. Winter is coming. And it gets a hell of a lot colder up here than in Turkey. I wonder how the people who got lured up to Sweden are going to feel when they realise how utterly fucked they are.

That principle of finding tent camps inhumane is all good and well until the amount of refugees coming in exceeds the number you can actually shelter "humanely". Even if they all get processes and all those that got their refugee status application denied are deported, there is still a complete lack of available social housing for those people. In my country the waiting list for Belgians is already several tens of thousands of people long.

In Germany some states are apparently already resorting to "annexing" private property (empty office buildings), neighbourhood centres and sports halls to house those people. I have a feeling local communities won't be too happy to see their communal infrastructure unusable for an indetermined amount of time. In the meantime there is an increasing number of reports of mass fights and religious discrimination by muslim fundamentalists in those refugee camps, and a complete lack of manpower to register everyone in a timely manner. This really is turning into a mess.

I wonder if and when when Western European governments will get off their moral high ground and start dealing with these kind of issues in a more down-to-earth (i.e. less emotional) kind of way. Claiming that your country "can handle" taking care of 800,000 to 1,000,000 barely educated (to Western European standards), non-German-speaking and culturally incredibly different refugees per year is fooling yourself in my opinion. Winter is coming and a great many of those people will have to spend winter living in tents. Not exactly a good prospect for them.
Nyxisto
Profile Joined August 2010
Germany6287 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-10-09 17:33:27
October 09 2015 17:32 GMT
#6305
I don't see what's wrong with forcing owners to rent out their property (they are not annexing anything). Apartments exist for people to live in them, they are not just an asset you can invest your money in while two streets away people live in tents. That's fucking ridiculous. Property rights are limited, they entail obligations. The only problem I have with it is that they've only started it doing it now, that should probably have happened a long time ago.
dismiss
Profile Blog Joined March 2009
United Kingdom3341 Posts
October 09 2015 17:41 GMT
#6306
I don't know, I'd be pretty annoyed if they effectively annexed my property. That's really what it is, as the owners don't have control over it for what looks to be years to come. It also potentially devalues it for a huge part of its worth and prohibits the owners from utilising their assets as they see fit. It's a HUGE infringement on the owners' rights.

How would you feel if they mandated you share your car 50% of the time with refugees when you're not actively using it?
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Nyxisto
Profile Joined August 2010
Germany6287 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-10-09 17:57:06
October 09 2015 17:55 GMT
#6307
I'm a poor college student and I don't own a car : ( , but if we had a drastic car emergency and people needed to get somewhere important I guess I would be okay if someone took my car for a while, after all I would be getting compensated. These apartments are paid for after all. The only right they can not exercise is to leave their apartment empty, which is a silly right to have for something that people are supposed to live in.
Yurie
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
12037 Posts
October 09 2015 17:57 GMT
#6308
On October 10 2015 02:41 dismiss wrote:
I don't know, I'd be pretty annoyed if they effectively annexed my property. That's really what it is, as the owners don't have control over it for what looks to be years to come. It also potentially devalues it for a huge part of its worth and prohibits the owners from utilising their assets as they see fit. It's a HUGE infringement on the owners' rights.

How would you feel if they mandated you share your car 50% of the time with refugees when you're not actively using it?


Sounds like a very good idea. Sharing 75%+ with a sum equal to value decrease would be a great advantage to the society at large. Less money spent on new cars and less parking places being needed near work places.
dismiss
Profile Blog Joined March 2009
United Kingdom3341 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-10-09 18:19:37
October 09 2015 18:14 GMT
#6309
On October 10 2015 02:55 Nyxisto wrote:
I'm a poor college student and I don't own a car : ( , but if we had a drastic car emergency and people needed to get somewhere important I guess I would be okay if someone took my car for a while, after all I would be getting compensated. These apartments are paid for after all. The only right they can not exercise is to leave their apartment empty, which is a silly right to have for something that people are supposed to live in.

They're paid for way below what they would net otherwise, if they were rented out normally. It will also be quite hard to sell them again.
Don't you think it's silly to dismiss any use for them flat out because some of them are empty right now? And yes, a lot of them are assets rather than homes for people/companies owning them I don't see why we should deny them their right to own property no matter how silly you personally think it is.
I feel like I should also mention that this isn't exclusively about empty office buildings out in the middle of nowhere but for example highly coveted and expensive apartments in Hamburgs city centre as well.
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Dangermousecatdog
Profile Joined December 2010
United Kingdom7084 Posts
October 09 2015 18:15 GMT
#6310
Lets be serious. Anybody who can afford to own empty offices are likely to be living in luxury. We are talking about millionaires here. It's going to be hard to feel sympathetic when you are forced to rent them out to refugees and are compensated for it.
Plansix
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
United States60190 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-10-09 18:25:23
October 09 2015 18:21 GMT
#6311
On October 10 2015 03:15 Dangermousecatdog wrote:
Lets be serious. Anybody who can afford to own empty offices are likely to be living in luxury. We are talking about millionaires here. It's going to be hard to feel sympathetic when you are forced to rent them out to refugees and are compensated for it.

In the US we refer to empty, unused office buildings as “urban blight”. Its not really a thing people get upset about when the government takes over and does something with it. And they rare owned individuals.

Also, how many refugees do we need to take for you to take Trump and Carson off our hands?

Edit: Also, the land of the Free, USA, 'merica, has the similar rules for unused private property and if the government can put it to use. And eminent domain too.
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Nyxisto
Profile Joined August 2010
Germany6287 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-10-09 18:22:37
October 09 2015 18:21 GMT
#6312
On October 10 2015 03:14 dismiss wrote:
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On October 10 2015 02:55 Nyxisto wrote:
I'm a poor college student and I don't own a car : ( , but if we had a drastic car emergency and people needed to get somewhere important I guess I would be okay if someone took my car for a while, after all I would be getting compensated. These apartments are paid for after all. The only right they can not exercise is to leave their apartment empty, which is a silly right to have for something that people are supposed to live in.

They're paid for way below what they would net otherwise, if they were rented out normally. It will also be quite hard to sell them again.
Don't you think it's silly to dismiss any use for them flat out because some of them are empty right now? And yes, a lot of them are assets rather than homes for people/companies owning them I don't see why we should deny them their right to own property no matter how silly you personally think it is.


because our constitution literally says that private property needs to serve the public good and that property rights may be limited for that purpose, this isn't just what I "personally think", we have limitation to property rights in Europe for hundreds of years, the idea isn't new.
dismiss
Profile Blog Joined March 2009
United Kingdom3341 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-10-09 18:30:50
October 09 2015 18:24 GMT
#6313
On October 10 2015 03:21 Nyxisto wrote:
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On October 10 2015 03:14 dismiss wrote:
On October 10 2015 02:55 Nyxisto wrote:
I'm a poor college student and I don't own a car : ( , but if we had a drastic car emergency and people needed to get somewhere important I guess I would be okay if someone took my car for a while, after all I would be getting compensated. These apartments are paid for after all. The only right they can not exercise is to leave their apartment empty, which is a silly right to have for something that people are supposed to live in.

They're paid for way below what they would net otherwise, if they were rented out normally. It will also be quite hard to sell them again.
Don't you think it's silly to dismiss any use for them flat out because some of them are empty right now? And yes, a lot of them are assets rather than homes for people/companies owning them I don't see why we should deny them their right to own property no matter how silly you personally think it is.


because our constitution literally says that private property needs to serve the public good and that property rights may be limited for that purpose, this isn't just what I "personally think", we don't have unlimited property rights in Europe for hundreds of years, the idea isn't new.

I'm sure they're currently trying to frantically pass emergency legislation to allow for this annexation because it's already oh so well covered by the German constitution. We've had this discussion before and I did point out in which cases the state has the right to compulsorily expropriate people. You're definitely misinterpreting something here.
As plan6 has already brought this up these scenarios are usually more akin to eminent domain or as a catastrophe relief, not to force people to give up their possessions for some vague public good that you can invoke whenever you feel like it.
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Incognoto
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
France10239 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-10-09 18:38:27
October 09 2015 18:35 GMT
#6314
On October 10 2015 02:32 Nyxisto wrote:
I don't see what's wrong with forcing owners to rent out their property (they are not annexing anything). Apartments exist for people to live in them, they are not just an asset you can invest your money in while two streets away people live in tents. That's fucking ridiculous. Property rights are limited, they entail obligations. The only problem I have with it is that they've only started it doing it now, that should probably have happened a long time ago.


Ah I love it when people start randomly deciding that private property isn't actually private.

Nonetheless, I can see the point of "disaster relief". As long as it remains something exceptional rather than an on-going social event where private property is annexed for "social equity" garbage, then it's much more legitimate as an idea.
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Plansix
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
United States60190 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-10-09 18:36:01
October 09 2015 18:35 GMT
#6315
I think the refugee problem would fall under "catastrophe relief" if the argument was going to be made. And eminent domain can be invoked just because the government wants to widen a road in the US. You get paid market value, but it can't be stopped.

On October 10 2015 03:35 Incognoto wrote:
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On October 10 2015 02:32 Nyxisto wrote:
I don't see what's wrong with forcing owners to rent out their property (they are not annexing anything). Apartments exist for people to live in them, they are not just an asset you can invest your money in while two streets away people live in tents. That's fucking ridiculous. Property rights are limited, they entail obligations. The only problem I have with it is that they've only started it doing it now, that should probably have happened a long time ago.


Ah I love it when people start randomly deciding that private property isn't actually private.

There is nothing random about it.
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Incognoto
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
France10239 Posts
October 09 2015 18:39 GMT
#6316
On October 10 2015 03:35 Plansix wrote:
I think the refugee problem would fall under "catastrophe relief" if the argument was going to be made. And eminent domain can be invoked just because the government wants to widen a road in the US. You get paid market value, but it can't be stopped.

Show nested quote +
On October 10 2015 03:35 Incognoto wrote:
On October 10 2015 02:32 Nyxisto wrote:
I don't see what's wrong with forcing owners to rent out their property (they are not annexing anything). Apartments exist for people to live in them, they are not just an asset you can invest your money in while two streets away people live in tents. That's fucking ridiculous. Property rights are limited, they entail obligations. The only problem I have with it is that they've only started it doing it now, that should probably have happened a long time ago.


Ah I love it when people start randomly deciding that private property isn't actually private.

There is nothing random about it.


Indeed, see my edit.
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dismiss
Profile Blog Joined March 2009
United Kingdom3341 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-10-09 18:48:39
October 09 2015 18:43 GMT
#6317
On October 10 2015 03:35 Plansix wrote:
I think the refugee problem would fall under "catastrophe relief" if the argument was going to be made. And eminent domain can be invoked just because the government wants to widen a road in the US. You get paid market value, but it can't be stopped.

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On October 10 2015 03:35 Incognoto wrote:
On October 10 2015 02:32 Nyxisto wrote:
I don't see what's wrong with forcing owners to rent out their property (they are not annexing anything). Apartments exist for people to live in them, they are not just an asset you can invest your money in while two streets away people live in tents. That's fucking ridiculous. Property rights are limited, they entail obligations. The only problem I have with it is that they've only started it doing it now, that should probably have happened a long time ago.


Ah I love it when people start randomly deciding that private property isn't actually private.

There is nothing random about it.

That's why I said akin and not an exact copy. Basically there are other codices that explain in more detail what the state is allowed to do. Currently those mostly deal with natural disasters, as such the expropriation of houses in the long term is not something easily done and essentially unjustifiable, but the exact legislation here differs by state. Also due to Germany's unfortunate history with this sort of thing the burden of proof the state needs to pass is much higher than what you make it sound like it is in the US.
The thing is Nyxisto tries to apply a very broad and indeed non legalese definition of the common good, which, while maybe desirable to some, doesn't actually reflect the current de jure state of affairs.
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Plansix
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
United States60190 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-10-09 18:49:32
October 09 2015 18:49 GMT
#6318
On October 10 2015 03:43 dismiss wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 10 2015 03:35 Plansix wrote:
I think the refugee problem would fall under "catastrophe relief" if the argument was going to be made. And eminent domain can be invoked just because the government wants to widen a road in the US. You get paid market value, but it can't be stopped.

On October 10 2015 03:35 Incognoto wrote:
On October 10 2015 02:32 Nyxisto wrote:
I don't see what's wrong with forcing owners to rent out their property (they are not annexing anything). Apartments exist for people to live in them, they are not just an asset you can invest your money in while two streets away people live in tents. That's fucking ridiculous. Property rights are limited, they entail obligations. The only problem I have with it is that they've only started it doing it now, that should probably have happened a long time ago.


Ah I love it when people start randomly deciding that private property isn't actually private.

There is nothing random about it.

That's why I said akin and not an exact copy. Basically there are other codices that explain in more detail what the state is allowed to do. Currently those mostly deal with natural disasters, as such the expropriation of houses in the long term is not something easily done and essentially unjustifiable, but the exact legislation here differs by state. Also due to Germany's unfortunate history with this sort of thing the burden of proof the state needs to pass is much higher than what you make it sound like it is in the US.

We have a reasonable standard off proof and it is only used for public works projects, like roads, sewer and other public utilities. But we have other systems in place, like receivership that where the state takes control of a blighted property, fixes it and then puts a massive lien on the property for the owner to pay. This normally results in the owner taking a loss on the property due to failure to upkeep it. That is also a legal action before the court. And it all comes back to "Public Good" as the root cause for these laws.

My home town took ownership of an abandoned house and gave it to refugee family in the 90s. Some relative came back years later bitching, but the property had been abandoned for like 15 years, even though someone was paying the taxes. And its not like the owners are not getting paid more than they were before.
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On October 10 2015 03:49 Plansix wrote:
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On October 10 2015 03:43 dismiss wrote:
On October 10 2015 03:35 Plansix wrote:
I think the refugee problem would fall under "catastrophe relief" if the argument was going to be made. And eminent domain can be invoked just because the government wants to widen a road in the US. You get paid market value, but it can't be stopped.

On October 10 2015 03:35 Incognoto wrote:
On October 10 2015 02:32 Nyxisto wrote:
I don't see what's wrong with forcing owners to rent out their property (they are not annexing anything). Apartments exist for people to live in them, they are not just an asset you can invest your money in while two streets away people live in tents. That's fucking ridiculous. Property rights are limited, they entail obligations. The only problem I have with it is that they've only started it doing it now, that should probably have happened a long time ago.


Ah I love it when people start randomly deciding that private property isn't actually private.

There is nothing random about it.

That's why I said akin and not an exact copy. Basically there are other codices that explain in more detail what the state is allowed to do. Currently those mostly deal with natural disasters, as such the expropriation of houses in the long term is not something easily done and essentially unjustifiable, but the exact legislation here differs by state. Also due to Germany's unfortunate history with this sort of thing the burden of proof the state needs to pass is much higher than what you make it sound like it is in the US.

We have a reasonable standard off proof and it is only used for public works projects, like roads, sewer and other public utilities. But we have other systems in place, like receivership that where the state takes control of a blighted property, fixes it and then puts a massive lien on the property for the owner to pay. This normally results in the owner taking a loss on the property due to failure to upkeep it. That is also a legal action before the court. And it all comes back to "Public Good" as the root cause for these laws.

My home town took ownership of an abandoned house and gave it to refugee family in the 90s. Some relative came back years later bitching, but the property had been abandoned for like 15 years, even though someone was paying the taxes. And its not like the owners are not getting paid more than they were before.

See, that's quite a big difference already. In Germany expropriations have to be based on a specific law pertinent to its case rather than a Verwaltungsakt (the public administration telling you what to do) or prior judgements on similar cases. I apologise for any misunderstandings here, it's quite hard to translate German legal speak into English.
Currently there's no law about renovating unused buildings en masse to make them available as shelter for otherwise homeless people.
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October 09 2015 18:59 GMT
#6320
Problem comes when all empty houses are gone (like over here) or in logistically unfeasable locations (Sweden is huge, abandoned houses are usually in the middle of nowhere).

The most logical thing to appropriate are peoples cherished summer homes. But there are two problems with this:

1) the law doesnt allow you to take private property forever, if you dont have enough now how will you have enough when theres a hundred thousand more refuges. It simply becomes a permanent solution which is illegal.
2) any party which does this will have 0 votes next election and anti immigration party will be far above 50 %
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