If it sounds familiar, Star Trek DS9 called this back in the 90s. And the episode was set in 2024.
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President Shitface wants to throw homeless people into concentration camps
- Thread starter DrForester
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If it sounds familiar, Star Trek DS9 called this back in the 90s. And the episode was set in 2024.
There is more than enough housing available to house the homeless. It's just all in the hands of landlords and flippers.
People said that about deliberately putting children into camps too when even when their parents are not a danger to them.
under nearly any other administration I'd think this could be OK
like yeah, giving the homeless a proper residence and food and healthcare and whatnot could help them out a lot
but I don't think that's what this administration has in mind
like yeah, giving the homeless a proper residence and food and healthcare and whatnot could help them out a lot
but I don't think that's what this administration has in mind
My first two reactions to reading this topic line:
"Of course he does"
and
"Just like that Deep Space Nine Episode"
"Of course he does"
and
"Just like that Deep Space Nine Episode"
States already have these kind of programs and places for them to go. SF also at one point had a bunch of SRO but they're all but gone thanks to the housing boom
A federal plan for this would just be some form of jail.
yeah it would be better to just invest into more local state-run facilities
Start with immigrants because they're illegal, move on to the homeless because they're a nuisance, soon we'll be relocating the mentally disabled, then, before you know it, they'll move on to political enemies and we'll be blaming Democrats.
So when do people stop saying I am the problem because I keep saying the Dems do nothing and we need to take more action?
Like it or not we're getting to the "there was no one left when they came for me stage" and everyone still sitting on their asses.
Like it or not we're getting to the "there was no one left when they came for me stage" and everyone still sitting on their asses.
I have no doubt that conversations have been happening between the private prison and the debt collection industries.
After all, America is designed to keep everyone in perpetual debt. So everyone is a potential "customer" of private prisons.
People are misreading the story. By "government backed facilities" he means the Govt paying him $1,000 a night for each person to stay at one of his failing hotels.
Considering how automation and globalization will disrupt our current economic realities, and make it next to impossible for a large set of the population to have any kind of work that could pay them a living wage, that's a pretty interesting take on a possible 21st century history. It's fairly nuanced, too, it doesn't portray the society as outright evil, just uncaring. They don't know what else to do with those people, but are unwilling to change the way their society works.
God I love DS9. Miss it too. Wish we had Sci-Fi shows on that level today.
Now now, don't rock the boat. We must go one tiny little step at a time.
Honestly they kind of look like cozy for folks living a transient life or on a temporary basis. Whether it is worth $1200 though... I would probably go insane if I had live like that for years at a time.
It already is an actual thing. Hong Kong has the worst and good rendition of that model. So does Japan (if Hitman taught me anything). So it is not surprising at all.
Funny, Citations Needed just released a 2 part podcast on how the Right demonizes the homeless.
