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[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Well this here GenXer wishes he could have some of that wealth. Unless 'have a mortgage' constitutes wealth.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Mortgage? No. Equity in a house? Yes.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Equity in a house is not all that helpful when the house is in an undesirable town in an undesirable state.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

My point is just that a mortgage is debt while equity is an asset, so I don't think you should consider a mortgage wealth.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Oh, I see. Yes, I agree.

[–] Azzu@lemm.ee 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

It actually does. The amount paid off at least, since the property is the wealth.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Considering how little we're going to get back when we sell it within the next few months before fleeing to the UK, I would say that I don't think it's wealth.

[–] Azzu@lemm.ee 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Isn't the UK politics pretty similar to US?

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

In the sense that the UK isn't likely to force my queer daughter into a conversion camp in the near future, no.

[–] Azzu@lemm.ee 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I would say it's roughly equally likely

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Right, because Labour, (and the Tories and the Lib Dems) are all totally homophobic just like Republicans.

What the fuck are you talking about?

[–] Azzu@lemm.ee 0 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I'm just saying that I think this particular fear you have is roughly equally likely. Maybe the likelihood of it happening in the US is double or triple than the UK, but I think that would put the likelihood only from 0.01% to 0.03%, so basically the same.

Forcing queers (~8% of the population) in re-education camps would incite riots. They won't do it.

[–] veganpizza69@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBTQ_history_in_the_United_States

You're picturing some movies instead of laws, police, prisons. Perhaps they'll take some inspiration from Putin: https://theconversation.com/putins-russia-first-arrests-under-new-anti-lgbt-laws-mark-new-era-of-repression-226864

These are the legal approaches. The other one is violent assholes murdering queers and then getting away with it somehow. For example, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay_panic_defense

You need to broaden your understanding of dystopian horizons.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Did you listen to the King's speech this year? I doubt it.

Did you know that the King's speech lays out government policy? I also doubt it.

Did you know that the King's speech this year included making conversion therapy illegal? I really doubt it.

Meanwhile, in the U.S., there's project 2025 and prominent republicans literally calling for trans genocide.

Forcing queers (~8% of the population) in re-education camps would incite riots. They won’t do it.

Yeah, remember how that happened in Germany in the 1930s when queer people were put in camps and then there was a big riot and they all got freed? No, neither do I.

Remember how it wasn't even legal to be queer in America until 2003? I do.