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Cold calling real estate agents - is there a law against it? (aussie.zone)
submitted 10 months ago by trk@aussie.zone to c/australia@aussie.zone
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Some real estate dickhead just rang my mobile (which is not advertised anywhere) saying they were "just in the area" and wanted to do an appraisal on a house we own in .

It's an agency we don't use for any purpose, have never used for any purpose, and have never approached for any reason.

Is there some sort of legal issue with some smarmy sales knob looking up property owner details and cold calling them?

Makes me feel all gross that their grubby mitts are pawing through my deets somewhere in the hope of being able to stick a tongue up my bum and get a taste of some back door cash.

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[–] Marsupial@quokk.au -1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

I’ve been to China, and I’ve hosted countless Chinese teachers and students over the years. I’m well informed on what China is.

Taking a lot of people out of poverty is great, but that could have just as easily been done without the mock trials, cult of personality, massacres, or cannibalism.

Authoritarian regimes are not and never will be the answer, they are the enemy of the people. Defending or simping for them makes you also one of those enemies.

And while ML's might promote that economic nonsense, an anarchist would understand:

"All is for all! If the man and the woman bear their fair share of work, they have a right to their fair share of all that is produced by all, and that share is enough to secure them well-being. No more of such vague formulas as “The right to work,” or “To each the whole result of his labour.” What we proclaim is THE RIGHT TO WELL-BEING: WELL-BEING FOR ALL!"

[–] Nakoichi@aussie.zone 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

"cannibalism" bro that is some racist ass bullshit. Kindly please stop talking.

From each according to their ability, to each according to their need.

I don't know what you're smoking but you sound a lot like a racist reactionary libertarian.

Also you are the one being vague.

Quokka, more like crakkka

[–] Marsupial@quokk.au 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

It’s not racism, you’re just ignorant of Chinese history.

The official record shows an estimated death toll from 100,000 to 150,000. Methods of slaughter included beheading, beating, live burial, stoning, drowning, boiling, and disemboweling.

[...]

In certain areas including Wuxuan County and Wuming District, massive human cannibalism occurred even though no famine existed

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

Even the CCP acknowledges the cannibalism, yet you deny it and cry racism.

It’s becoming blatantly obvious you don’t actually know much about China (or anarchism if you keep parroting ML), so I’m going to end this here.

[–] novibe@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

The mock trials was during the cultural revolution, which was a movement born from the students and had nothing to do with Mao or the CPC. And again, cannibalism is just a ridiculous accusation to throw, as if that happened it would’ve only happened during the great famine, which was mostly caused by natural events.

I don’t “defend” or “simp” anyone. I just look objectively at facts and can do so without the bias and judgement of American fascist think tanks. One of the benefits of being from the global south I guess.

Also, authoritarian is extremely misleading. That is a useless category. China is no more authoritarian than France or the US. The chairman in the CPC has as much power or likely less than the US president.

Local democracy in China is leagues above what’s in the US and Europe.

[–] Marsupial@quokk.au 2 points 10 months ago

Mao directly called for the Cultural Revolution and was instrumental in it, alongside his pathetic little red book.

And no, the Guangxi Massacre's and the cannibalism happened years after and not in places of famine.

France and the US are authoritarian, but not to the same degree as China. You can freely and publicly criticise the government in those countries, good luck doing that in China.

Local democracy in China is a joke, orders are top down from party officials and carried out by prefecture leaders. It's almost as much as a sham as Western representative democracy.