Landlord torches New York home after tenants stop paying rent, become squatters

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.

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.

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:

• https://7news.com.au/business/housing/us-landlord-living-in-a-van-unable-to-evict-seattle-tenant-who-refuses-to-pay-rent-and-is-advertising-house-on-airbnb-c-12355491
• https://www.cbsnews.com/news/eviction-ban-landlord-homelessness-tenants-rent/

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.

Personally I like reading from as many sources as possible. I like to compare biases. You're obviously free to ignore whatever you want.