• @Son_of_dad
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    -117 months ago

    How do homeless encampments improve a city? Anyways, you’re also free to invite a homeless person to sleep on your couch or camp out on your yard, but I know you won’t

    • @TotallynotJessica
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      They improve a city by forcing people to reckon with the natural result of our system. When encampments are removed, it doesn’t get rid of homelessness. The people just get pushed somewhere else. The only way to get rid of homelessness is to make everyone have a home. This can be done by preventing people from losing their homes, giving the basic human right of shelter, or by killing anybody without a home. Removing encampments is much closer to that final solution, as forcing people to leave public property with violence endangers their lives.

      You ask me to give voluntary charity because you think becoming homeless is a individual problem instead of a collective problem. You’ve bought into the personal responsibility bullshit that brought us to our current dystopia. You think we can have a free lunch, supporting a system that ensures people lose and getting upset that those losers visibly exist. Sorry, but the price must always be paid, and you’re upset that you even need to pay a fraction of it. It’s basic economics.

    • @Viking_Hippie
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      27 months ago

      That’s just anti-immigrant propaganda bullshit with a couple words changed.

      If you’re going to build a xenophobic strawman, at least try to make it more original.

      • @Son_of_dad
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        07 months ago

        You’re playing the race card here!

        • @Viking_Hippie
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          17 months ago

          Nope. Just pointing out that you’re copying the same xenophobic rhetoric used by people scared of immigrants which you literally are.

          • @Son_of_dad
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            -17 months ago

            I would say “I’m an immigrant” cause I came from another country in the continent, but then I realized I’m 60% native and still in my continent, so you’re right. I’m not an immigrant, I’m an original. And you’re right, I hate some immigrants, but not the brown ones, I hate the colonizers like you who think they’re fit to call natives in their own continent racist

            • @Viking_Hippie
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              17 months ago

              Fun fact: I’m not a colonizer (or the descendant of any). My ancestors are farmers that stayed here in Denmark.

              Another fun fact: your racial heritage has absolutely nothing to do with the fact that you’re using the exact same rhetoric as anti-immigrant racists.

              If I had a dollar for every time some right wing troglodyte asked “I bet you wouldn’t let them stay at YOUR house” as an (invalid) argument for keeping out immigrants, I’d be able to buy Massachusetts and put in a fair offer for Vermont too.

              • @Son_of_dad
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                Lol Danish guy saying his people didn’t colonize, and your culture is steeped in white supremacy yet you’re calling a native racist. Stop projecting. Your people literally tried to colonize mine and we chased your ass out

                • @Viking_Hippie
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                  17 months ago

                  Lol Danish guy saying his people didn’t colonize

                  I did no such thing. I just said that I’m descended from the ones that stayed here.

                  your culture is steeped in white supremacy

                  Not to anywhere near as high a degree as American culture. Also, just because racism exists in my country doesn’t mean that I approve of it. To conclude so with no evidence is bigotry.

                  you’re calling a native racist

                  I am not, no. I specifically said that you’re using the same argument as racists, not that you ARE racist.

                  Your people literally tried to colonize mine and we chased your ass out

                  Again, I’m anti-colinialist and descended from those that stayed at home. And, not that it really matters for anything but accuracy, but the Danish colonizers weren’t actually chased out. They were BOUGHT out when the US bought what is now known as the Virgin Islands.

                  I suggest you improve your reading comprehension and also study some history. Maybe also familiarize yourself a bit with modern Europe rather than pretend it’s still the 1700s over here.