• TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com
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    1 month ago

    Why aren’t people bullying mayors over this shit ?

    How can a mayor call themselves a leader with homeless people in their town ?

    Leader of heartless puke-faces.

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      At least here in Los Angeles, there’s state-level regulation and budgetary constraints that limit what the mayor can do. And the city council is in the pocket of landlords.

      In the middle ages we could blame a single king. Now it’s a lot more complicated, between politicians and the people who bribe them.

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      Because news agencies and social engineering campaigns have created the common opinion that homeless people aren’t people, or if they are, they’re homeless because of their own poor choices. Plus, lots of people spend most of their time trying not to be homeless themselves, and then of course there’s a large part of the population that just doesn’t give a fuck, as long as it’s not them.

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      How is a mayor responsible for junkies and mentally unstable people unfit for society?

      What do you want them to do?

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          How many homeless people do you let crash on your couch and eat out of your fridge?

          Or is it only ok if someone else pays for it?

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            The issue is that tax payers are already paying for it. It cost money for cops to go out and arrest people, then process them. The homeless person ain’t going to show up to court later, and the tax payer usually eats the cost of all that plus any anti homeless benches or windows.

            I think if that the cost gets directed toward housing and food, so they have a stable place to grow from, it would be a better option in the long run.

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                  Step 1) defund police to provide free house and food to socially unfit people
                  Step 2) socially unfit people trash the place because that’s what junkies do.
                  Step 3) omg what is the police doing
                  Step 4) it’s defunded.
                  Step 5) who could have seen it coming?

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                  You will, because you’ll need to evict the junkies out of the place they’re trashing.

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            Currently, my taxes go into destroying homeless encampments and arresting them, so we could probably use that money for housing and feeding them instead.

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        The best they , do you know how worthwhile to save someone from mental illness ? I mean cashdollarbills, even if you don’t care about humans. Just the increase in property values from not having to look at their beat down mugs.

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    For all those dogs know, that mayor could be doing all that they can with the resources they have. But if it’s a national issue, then it’s effectively like trying to extinguish a forest fire with a squirt gun. Go after the Big Dog President.

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      For all those dogs know, the President is just a figurehead to placate the people into believing they have a measure of power while the corporations craft legislation which is forced through Congress by the power of their bribes political contributions.

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      I mean most funding for homelessness comes from local and state agencies, not federal.

      So it’s more like go after big dog state senators and neighbors who vote against shit like education taxes because no state, federal, or nonprofits have figures out a way to enact nonlocal taxes so public education is more well rounded rather than being shitty in poor places which is self reinforced.

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      Especially the people who own for their money by charging a levy to other people for using their things, exactly like a tax, without a hint of irony.

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        Yeah, but if we made rich people pay their share of the tax burden, that would be “socialism” or something.

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        Things must be getting bad bc instead of a greeter checking recipes, not my walmart has loss prevention guys dressed like vested mall cops.

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          Supposedly they are having record thefts, which is part of the reason they’ve increased prices.

          But from what I can find, there hasn’t been an increase in theft reports to the police, and I would think their insurance requires a police report if they want to file claims on this apparent rash of thefts.

          I think it’s all bullshit, and it’s going to come out in a few years that all the major big box stores colluded to raise their pricing as an attempt to squeeze more profit out of a dying economy that is also shifting away from them.

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    Because there is a famine after we sent the farmers to the gulag or we destroyed the crops following nonsense “closer cropping” instructions from a leader who doesn’t understand farming