• Fedegenerate@fedinsfw.app
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    https://feddit.uk/comment/27885522

    Thank you, that was a whole song and dance that was entirely unnecessary.

    Obviously they’re empty.

    Let’s just say that some are habitable. Therefore they’re relevant. Therefore you cherry picked correct?

    You don’t know how many abandoned houses there are (see thread), you don’t know how many are of any of the houses are habitable (see comment)

    You cannot use partial quotes to cherry pick arguments. So back to my next question you ignored, why are you cherry picking?

    You, of course don’t know how many any of the examples are, so your ignorance as to how many there are, or if they’re habitable is no excuse for why you chose some examples and omitted others.

    Answer this one and we’ll zip up to the first time I asked again.

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      According to your source 97% of house are occupied. Your whole argument that empty houses are a massive problem is false.

      The answer to housing shortage isn’t going going to be found in current housing stock.

      Build more.

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        Ah, you’re back to deflecting again. How boring.

        This is the comment thread we are currently in:

        Those 700k aren’t just sat there empty.

        >>There are various reasons why a home may be vacant, including that they’re up for sale, in probate, or under renovation  
        

        That is the argument we’re currently unpicking. You can deflect all you want.

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          People die, houses go through probate, it can take years.

          Perhaps learn something about the subject you refuse to engage in.

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            People die, houses go through probate, it can take years.

            More deflection.

            Perhaps learn something about the subject you refuse to engage in.

            Here’s the subject you’re refusing to engage in:

            That’s nice. I asked you why you chose to cherry pick the article and take partial quotes. Could you answer that please? Do you consider a house that’s abandoned as unoccupied? Stop cherry picking please.

            Is this going to be like the abandoned house thing again? Where it takes you 20hrs to answer whether they’re occupied? That was such a dull thread.

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                It is deflection, and I’ve demonstrated to you why.

                Now once again: why did you cherry pick the original article?

                Now jog on

                You know you came to me right? You can stop at any time.

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                    Ok, my argument was that when we poors fight only the wealthy win. I understand it fine, do you? You don’t seem to.

                    But anyways here was your comment which cherry picked the article:

                    Those 700k aren’t just sat there empty.

                    >>There are various reasons why a home may be vacant, including that they’re up for sale, in probate, or under renovation  
                    

                    That isn’t the full sentence is it? You left off some relevant information didn’t you? That’s called cherry picking isn’t it?

                    Oh look, I told you what I wanted you to do:

                    No partial quotes please:

                    >>There are various reasons why a home may be vacant, including that they’re up for sale, in probate, under renovation, **are occupied solely during the week or at the weekend, have been bought as an investment or have simply been abandoned.**  
                    

                    I’ll ask you again: why are you resorting to cherry picking? I thought you wanted to jog on?