I say this as someone who fully supports my tax dollars going to help fund services for the homeless:
At least where I live, homeless people are a menace. They treat the neighborhood like a giant trash bin (and I mean that literally), are verbally and sometimes physically confrontative with residents, and generally respect the area as little as they respect themselves. Until I bought a condo here I never felt the need to carry a weapon, but now I do, after having had some scary brushes with our local homeless.
They make it very hard for people to want to support them.
That said, I’d still much rather see our public funds go to provide housing and mental health facilities for them rather than fund a new stadium or some other dumbass billionaire bullshit. The added bonus is that providing for the homeless costs much less than enforcement.
The state spends tons more money on making it harder for these people than it does on making them easier. If that reversed, this would not be an issue.
Yup.
We Americans love our law code to reflect our cruelty, and in the case of homeless people, we pay more for it sadly.
Prisons are designed, outside the scope of entrapment, to house, clothe, and feed a dense resident population. The resources spent on security could easily be diverted to quality of life improvements.
The organizations that run private prisons off tax subsidies could easily be retooled, in part, to the logistical administration of homeless shelters. They already have on-site detox programs.
You could even retool the current exploitative work programs into trade training.
At least where I live, homeless people are a menace.
It’s possible there are more around that you can’t see. I check out r/homeless subreddit occasionally, and the people there say that the obvious, mess-making and rude homeless population gives the rest a bad name. Many unhoused people choose to stay out of sight, stash their belongings somewhere and then clean themselves up when going out and about. Many even have jobs.
And yeah, more funds should go towards getting housing and other help to all homeless people, regardless of who they are and how they act.
I sympathize with your view. We can I understand that their situation is a result of conscious policies and not their own moral failings while also expressing frustration at the heavy imposition their neglect imposes on families and neighbors that also had nothing to do with their situation.
Liberals love to mythologize the unhoused suffering as some noble burden to deflect from the gross injustice that it is.
That’s the difference between facing a problem in real life, versus discussing a problem in the abstract online. The ugly truth of the situation is quite often a lot more difficult to face IRL than it is from the comfort of our couches. It’s easy to say “defund the police”, it’s quite another thing to face the mentally ill who refuse all of the services offered after defending the police, who desire nothing more than to shit on the sidewalk in front of your condo, and yell at the street signs all day.
You think more money for cops is going to solve homelessness?
Absolutely not.
Louder! I often get the impression that most people have never had to actually deal with the homeless, and I don’t mean passing them on the street.
When I worked downtown I was constantly on guard. About got into a fist fight 3 times. Downtown is one of the rare places I always carry a gun.
Mostly, people are homeless because they can’t handle the bare minimum of living in society. Of course there are all the exceptions we care to being up, but they almost all have one more more of these qualities: antisocial, aggressive, substance abuse problems, mental problems, or are flat out too stupid.
So what do we do with such people? It’s a sticky problem. Seems we could go a long way by simply housing them and giving them money. That easily gives the hard luck cases the boost they need. But others are always going to be a problem.
It’s solvable, and we’ve seen Finland do it. There are only roughly 1,000 willfully homeless people in all of Finland, and there will always be a small sliver of them anywhere, because some people are nomadic by nature.
Two independent studies in California both found around 70% of unhoused were productive members of society before accident or illness caused them to lose their job, insurance and home. Structural impediments prevent the unhoused from getting back into employment and housing. In majority of cases substance abuse came as a response to their situation, not as the cause.
Has it been pointed out yet that this is fake? I’m too lazy to look.
I genuinely don’t believe this is real. If it was something as simple as “spikes extend at 11 pm” or something I might, but electrifying? No way.
Not to mention how there is paint insulating any electrification so if this is real it must be nothing more than a scare tactic to scare people from sitting on it on those times
Idk, but fake like how? The image is fake and made by AI? Or it is a real bench with a real sign but the information on the sign does not reflect reality? Or some other combination of fake? I’m too lazy to read past your comment to find out.
I’m too lazy to read past your comment to find out.
And I’m too lazy to even consider which particular fake it is, much less reply to you about it. Have a great day!
I think we all need a vacay.
by what, is zeus gonna snipe somebody ass or something?? 💀
How is this even legal?
I’m surprised i have to say it, but apparently i do:
Don’t believe every image you see on the internet.
Sadly these days, it’s harder than ever to distinguish satire and genuine right wing policies. Admittedly this one breaks the laws of physics a bit, but republicans firmly reject science as a source of information so again, this is much more plausible than it would have been before Trump.
