Comrade Joan, you should have completed your analysis. Owning land is immoral? Its obvious then, let us abolish private property.

I don’t want to speculate on anyone else’s financial or housing situations, especially during what is turning out to be an economic crisis for many Americans. Personal desperation may have fueled the writer’s comments for all I know, which isn’t good journalism, but this is Dirt Bag. Fwiw, I’m a renter who will never…

This sort of purity testing BS is going to be what buries the left in the end and keeps the Republicans in power.

It was great when people like Danny Thomas and Jerry Lewis advocated for causes they really believed in. You could see their commitment and dedication, and they stuck with it for decades.

Omg, I know it shouldn’t but I’ve been cooped up and feeling sort of punchy like all y’all, and that reminder about how Penn did the interview with El Chapo made me laugh out loud! El Chapo! I’m obviously not making light of any danger that resulted from his ignorance, but that is some seriously insane arrogance.

Good to see that, despite COVID-19 fears, Jezebel is able to soldier on and smear Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard at every opportunity. They waived rent for April? Fuck them for owning property in the first place!

I’m reasonably sure that the article was sarcastic.  But I’m gonna lean into it anyways.  How dare they charge people to live on their property? Celebrities should not have the kind of money to do that.  They should be ashamed of themselves.

I think the problem most people have isn’t with “the mere mention of a Marxist analysis on the subject,” it’s with calling out individuals like this for merely participating in the capitalist system, when Bell and Shepard are not the villains here and in fact trying to be good landlords. And that Dirt Bag, where most…

“it should be easily agreed upon that accumulating rental profit from the wages of people likely making far, far less than you is at best a tad questionable.”

This is getting fucking ridiculous. Yes, rents need to be controlled so people can’t hike the every year and make cities unlivable, but there is nothing inherently immoral about owning properties and renting them out at a fair price. I’m dizzy from the amount of times I rolled my eyes reading this idiocy. 

This has to be one of the dumbest things I have ever read, not just on this site but any site.

Amen - there’s absolutely nothing wrong with the Bell-Shepards owning some apartments. In fact, as rental housing stock in LA goes, you’re much better off having a celebrity couple like them for landlords (they’ll fix things, if only to avoid bad press) than some real estate investment ghoul like Steve Mnuchin who…

Probably because so much of what passes for being progressive online is taking ideologically sexy but wildly unrealistic positions and then shitting all over people who don’t match those positions 100%

WTF

“They’re going to waive the rent for the month of April”

Shes probably pissed her landlord won’t and is taking it out on them. 

Agreed. Most people would not have a place to without rental properties. Slumlords are bad but anybody trying make an honest living renting out home or apartments are not the bad guys.

I’m not sure if Joan is attempting to be an agent provocateur or if she truly believes it’s wrong for anyone to own property and charge rent. Nevertheless, I don’t think we can all agree that accumulating rental profit from the wages of people likely making far, far less than you is at best a tad questionable.

I have no issues with Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard owning a building and I think they’re being really good landlords by not charging rent for April. It’s decent and I wish my apartment complex would do the same.

I don’t feel “comfortable” with this either. None of us are comfortable with this! It fucking blows. People are losing their jobs, their businesses, soon their homes. Even those lucky enough not to be in that situation are giving up everyday freedoms they took for granted. Most of us are more than a little worried…

Thanks for writing “martial law” correctly, because I’ve been wondering what the hell Evangeline Lilly was talking about! The only government programm named “Marshall” I remember from history was the Marshall Plan, which was a financial stimulus to Western European countries* after WWII, and I didn’t understand why…