Landlord torches New York home after tenants stop paying rent, become squatters
Landlord torches New York home after tenants stop paying rent, become squatters: authorities
Brooklyn landlord Rafiqul Islam faces arson and attempted murder charges
Eww fox news
But they only have the most business-relevant of all business news! Like this crime where the accused is not white! Very businessy; much finance.
This never happened. Or did it?
Fox News has testified in court multiple times that their "news" is not fact-based and that no reasonable person could confuse their stories as factual. So... It's a fairly safe bet that this story is bullshit, based on Fox News' own sworn statements.
Fuck these Fox News affiliate links.
No.
Companies don't make sweeping, damaging admissions in a court defense. No broadcaster would admit that all of their news is not news. They only make statements about the facts at issue. It's a bad idea to admit anything beyond the scope of the case at issue. Anyone saying that a news agency admits they aren't news has a bridge to sell.
The arguments made by fox were that their pundit, Tucker Carlson made exaggerated statements during his punditry show. And the courts agreed that those false statements were not defamatory, because reasonable viewers would not expect a political pundit to be factual, because dishonest exaggeration is what political punditry is.
MSNBC made very similar arguments in court. Rachel Maddow got a lawsuit from One America News Network dismissed under very similar circumstances. You don't get factual information from pundits. Doesn't matter what political leanings the network claims to have. Pundits are all liars, that's what they do.
Fox does awful journalism. You probably shouldn't trust their reporting, but not because they admitted in court that their pundit did punditry before they fired him.
Oof. Maddow and Faux are NOT two sides of the same coin.
You have accurately communicated the facts and I believe adherence to truth, even if you don't like that truth, is the only way to be better than the typical OANN and Fox News crowd. I even found a corroborating article for the skeptics.
https://thedispatch.com/article/fact-checking-a-claim-that-fox-news/
When people disparage facts they don't like based simply on the fact they don't like them, they're furthering a post-truth society.
What kind of a ghoul do you have to be to commit arson and attempt murder (of two adults and six children) over unpaid rent? Like, you're a landlord. Get used to rent issues or get a real job.
The elemental core of fascism is the belief that you deserve the benefits of other people's suffering. You haven't experienced rage until you've watched someone get slapped in the face by someone they deep down believe is inferior to them.
Arson & murder aside, there's a housing crisis.
You can own property, and be homeless and broke.
Examples:
But to be clear: fuck this guy.
Just also fuck your "get used to theft with no recourse" attitude. We need places to rent - not everyone wants to own a house. You can argue the price of rent, but don't pretend it isn't a real job. They are providing a valuable service, and have expenses to do so. I'm in a city with a huge housing shortage - people are lined up trying to rent places. People are auction-like bidding against other potential tenants (technically illegal) to pay more rent in order to get a place to sleep. We need more rentals. If it's not worth it, they'll sell. Which means one less house for rent, making the problem worse.
And again: fuck this arsonist murderous ahole.
Real Mensa candidate here.
Fox? No thanks
Hot take: people are more important than property, and anyone who thinks not paying for a basic human right is worth murdering over is a piece of shit who should be shunned from society.
Dude arson endangers not just the lives of the residents of that building but those of adjacent buildings. Fires spread. Even if you could justify the death of the squatters arson is far from any justifiable mechanism.
He tried to kill 6 children. What is wrong with you?
And they had not paid rent since January? I will never understand the notion that some people, regular people, not billionaires, deserve to lose income while some people deserve free housing because of "family". While he obviously went a bit overboard, I can't imagine there wasn't some desperation in his actions because he had not been paid rent for months on end.
Found the landlord / bootlicker
You're advocating for murder. Consider your choices
While I can try and understand your position. These people basically stole his investment. Arson and murder is not the correct solution.
Evicting them is the correct solution, and if that is too hard for him then maybe he is in the wrong business.
Being a landlord is risky I suppose. You shouldn’t invest if you can’t take the loss.
Easier to deal with insurance than evict? 🤔
The prison sentence might even be shorter than the eviction process would have been...
Insurance won’t pay- trying to claim your house that you intentionally torched is insurance fraud.
I think the idea was he thought he could get away with the arson, or that he could blame the tenants for the arson.