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Just gonna rant.

A big part of property investment in Australia is buyer's agents and property influencers identifying any cheap market, usually rural or a low SEO part of a city, and bidding up the hell out of it. They'll scan for any significant business investment happening near a town and do a pre-emptive strike of buying up everything and jacking up the rents as high as they can possibly go. This is made profitable by the fact that new waves of property investors will jump in until the market reaches a threshold of being as unaffordable as any other part of Australia.

Needless to say this type of "investment" does nothing but make life worse for the usually quite low paid locals.

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Two current Jewish controversies:

The online far-right freaking out over a 19 year old being exposed for telling Jewish company owners he refuses to work for Jews. Many of his supporters justify this simply by saying Jews are bad ergo the 19 year old is justified in saying so.

The Lancet medical journal is spearheading an effort to expel the Israeli medical authority from the global medical community, something which was only ever previously done for South Africa and Rhodesia, and will probably not ever be done for any other country except possibly Israel.

Jews are at the center of a pincer attack between a far-right that is open and honest about simply despising Jews and not having any

Go anywhere on the internet and you'll mostly find people who don't want to be told what to do whether by the government, corporations, whatever religion they grew up in, etc. They claim to be liberal or libertarian. However, the situation completely flips in the case of Jews, and people become angry that Jews do not wish to convert non-Jews into Jews and this is described with insert demonising language here e.g., we are "ethnic supremacists", we are arrogant "chosen people".

Judaism is far more liberal and libertarian than the two other big Abrahamic religions. Why is it so rare to see this praised as a good quality... aside from, ya know, anti-semitism?