• @[email protected]
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    Can’t afford a home, probably gonna be illegal to be homeless. Guess they should just kill themselves then.

    Fuck the modern conservative movement. No empathy for the downtrodden.

    • @johsny
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      335 months ago

      It is illegal to kill yourself.

      • @[email protected]
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        Born too early to enjoy fully automated luxury gay space communism, born too late to participate in affordable housing, born just in time to go to jail for conspiracy to commit suicide because living is too expensive.

    • 100_kg_90_de_belin
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      The next step is blending them into a nutrient-rich slush that will be fed to people in workhouses

      • @Sam_Bass
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        25 months ago

        Too much pork fat to be healthy

      • @TBi
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        15 months ago

        That’s a very Soylent remark…

    • @[email protected]
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      I don’t think this is just about conservatives, it’s also about the owner class and their quality of life. But def significant overlap.

      https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/16/us-homeless-encampments-companies-profiting-sweeps

      Revealed: how companies made $100m clearing California homeless camps Public spending on private sweep contractors is soaring across the state – and unhoused people allege poor treatment

      This reminds of the gross, despicable private detention and private prison industry in America.

      • @Maggoty
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        35 months ago

        They’re connected. How many times can you get detained overnight and have your entire life belongings destroyed before you fight the police officer detaining you?

  • @Shanedino
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    635 months ago

    Would these people rather homeless people break into places and sleeping inside? This seems like the only plausible alternative.

    • @Soup
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      Of course they would. Homeless people aren’t criminals and they can’t make being homeless a crime, per se, so they just do as much as they can to drive them towards crimes. It’ll be safer to avoid being caught if they break in and can be hidden but if they do get caught it’ll be horrendous. They’ll put them in slave camps-I’m sorry, “jails” and away we go.

      It is the most heinous shit imaginable and these broken monsters get off to it.

    • @dustyData
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      Watch closely as they make providing shelter illegal as well (just like they made providing food illegal). The cruelty is the point.

  • Hyperreality
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    Sounds like a great idea.

    Of course, if it’s a crime to be homeless, it’s also a crime to force or coerce someone into commiting that crime.

    I look forward to the officials and landlords responsible to be jailed for each crime they helped commit.

  • @BigMikeInAustin
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    345 months ago

    I know this guy who goes to the New York state courthouse everyday to sleep. He doesn’t even try to hide. He does it in an occupied court room during a trial, on tax-paid furniture.

    • @rhandyrhoads
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      I will say I’m somewhat optimistic about this case. Yes the current supreme court has a heavy partisan lean, but I’ve seen some decisions from the court which my pessimistic side didn’t expect to go the way they did.

  • @nomnomdeplume
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    Where do we put them if every city, every village, every town lacks compassion and passes a law identical to this

    This is why there needs to be a national effort around this, rather than this patchwork approach which often just (expensively&wastefully) moves the problem around without solving it.

  • @[email protected]
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    195 months ago

    So, they won’t help them and won’t let them be on the streets? Man, homeless folks need to learn to levitate then, so they can sleep in the air instead.

  • @[email protected]
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    165 months ago

    This seems like a no-brainer to me… though it probably isn’t. Obviously you have a constitutional right to sleep, wherever you can make space for yourself. If these cities and downs don’t want people sleeping outside, they need to provide indoor space for people who haven’t actually committed crimes. We treat our criminals better than we treat our homeless.

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      fuck their laws, I think, is the ruling here. just fuck them completely. we do not have a society. your conscience is the only guide.

  • @HeChomk
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    155 months ago

    Something something, sanctuary districts, something something, Bell Riots. Almost on schedule. WW3 next, then first contact.

    • @dustyData
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      65 months ago

      Unfortunately, due to a budget restriction, first contact has been canceled. Please accept our apology in the form of nuclear winter.

    • flicker
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      Bell.

      But yes this seems exactly like the precursor to the Bell Riots…

      • @[email protected]
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        35 months ago

        Had to look it up, Jesus that’s a bit too on the nose.

        Alright, I need to finally watch Star Trek through and through.

  • @Sam_Bass
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    45 months ago

    They really love pushing buttons dont they

    • @[email protected]
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      25 months ago

      Given these people have nowhere to go why not set aside some public land that allows long term encampments or maybe if it’s a concern about the safety of these encampments, the government could acquire an empty office building and retrofit it with modest accommodations for these peoples.

      Or you could just admit it’s not about helping these people it’s about making them go away.

      • Buelldozer
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        Those are both reasonable solutions and I’m not arguing against them. I just pointed out that this fight isn’t about banning homeless people from sleeping outside. It’s more nuanced than that.