>You don't have any right to say who comes and goes to your neighbours' properties, any more than they have any right to say who comes and goes to your property.
But I do have a say in what types of commerce are allowed to take place in my community, or my country for that matter.
And although I am normally a laissez faire capitalist, I would love to see Airbnb utterly destroyed through lawsuits and over-regulation. Why? For political reasons. The latest tactic of the left is to attack any commercial entity that has the temerity to express any pro-Trump sentiments. And I think the only way for the right to counter that is to employ the exact same tactic, a hundred-fold, against companies who publicly oppose Trump, or political agendas supported by the right. And Airbnb, led by the smug boy-billionaire Brian Chesky, falls squarely in that category.
There are numerous stories[1] of people's lives being turned upside down as a result of using Airbnb. I think televised congressional hearings are called for. And there are probably billions of dollars worth of commerce that are going untaxed as a result of Airbnb. I don't think a few click-through TOS agreements should shield them from responsibility.
As far as politics, you're playing that game of false-equivalence that I thought we'd kind of moved past. Pro- and Anti-Trump aren't just two teams with different uniforms.
Maybe they're not. Maybe one team is totally right and the other one is totally wrong. But we will never agree on which is which. We all have our own political biases and prejudices which prevent any of us from making a sensible judgment on the matter.
And that's why it behooves all of us to act like we're all teams with different uniforms, most of the time, even when we secretly think the other guys are stupid and wrong -- only by tolerating our political differences can we have a workable society.
>As far as politics, you're playing that game of false-equivalence that I thought we'd kind of moved past. Pro- and Anti-Trump aren't just two teams with different uniforms.
I don't even know what that means.
I'm only advocating using the same tactics against the left that they use against the right.
I would love to see Airbnb's $30 billion valuation go all the way down to zero. That won't happen, of course, because even if their business were effectively outlawed in the US, they could still do business abroad. But it would sure wipe the smug off of some left-wing SV billionaires' faces if Airbnb were to become poison to future investors, and derail their eventual IPO.
>Qualities of unhelpful politics (both conservative and liberal):
Whether it's "unhelpful" or not depends on what you're trying to accomplish. I would like to see Airbnb go out of business, and its smug, leftist, billionaire SV investors suffer huge financial losses. I think a parade of tearful witnesses giving testimony to congress about the horrors of their Airbnb experiences would be very helpful to achieving that goal.
But I do have a say in what types of commerce are allowed to take place in my community, or my country for that matter.
And although I am normally a laissez faire capitalist, I would love to see Airbnb utterly destroyed through lawsuits and over-regulation. Why? For political reasons. The latest tactic of the left is to attack any commercial entity that has the temerity to express any pro-Trump sentiments. And I think the only way for the right to counter that is to employ the exact same tactic, a hundred-fold, against companies who publicly oppose Trump, or political agendas supported by the right. And Airbnb, led by the smug boy-billionaire Brian Chesky, falls squarely in that category.
There are numerous stories[1] of people's lives being turned upside down as a result of using Airbnb. I think televised congressional hearings are called for. And there are probably billions of dollars worth of commerce that are going untaxed as a result of Airbnb. I don't think a few click-through TOS agreements should shield them from responsibility.
1. http://www.airbnbhell.com/