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President Shitface wants to throw homeless people into concentration camps
- Thread starter DrForester
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Yep, I have seen that video and raised a quite a few existential queries in me.
Some of them are probably busy rounding up people into FEMA camps.
Hey, prisons can be quite profitable. The trick is getting them populated without flagrantly violating peoples' rights. The war on drugs worked great for that, but maybe now we need some new ideas. Most people don't really care about the homeless, so it's not irrational. Cruel and inhumane, sure, but not irrational.
It's more about how shitty the media's coverage of homeless people is, but yes it's a good breakdown of what's wrong with how we view homelessness in this country.
The fact that this is even being talked about is barbaric. If it was the federal government coming in and building actual housing for the homeless that would be different, but we all know it's not going to be that.
What do you mean "that one place"? Charging people to be in jail is common practice in the US.
Because we know what the 'free housing' this admin provided to undocumented immigrants and refugees looks like.
His advisor on homelessness isn't an affordable housing or homeless provider expert, it's Rudy Giuliani. And they've proposed steep cuts to federal rental assistance every year. And they've locked children up in concentration camps separated from their families. Why give them the benefit of the doubt?
The way western culture treats the homeless is totally in line with these kinds of inhumane solutions.
I saw some drinking water once. Out of a fucking bottle no less. Plus, they were wearing clothes, and used public transportation.
It's almost like owning a cell phone it's kinda vital in our society.
Is there like a running list of seemingly prescient media foreseeing our current nightmare?
And of course, the theater is in focusing on the homeless in California, as if this is solely a blue state phenomenon...
It's definitely not going well here in Indianapolis and we're the home state of Mike Pence. In fact, it's pretty bad.
Wtf are you implying with this exactly? Some of them have cars too. Where they sleep. Because they are homeless.
And you know, this -
Yep, the anti homeless spikes etc kinda sums it up. Outta sight and outta mind.
Something tells me the Trump admin homeless policy will look a little like what this church in California was doing: California church leaders indicted for kidnapping and forced labor of homeless
Remember that article that was posted a few months back about how successful a pilot program to solve homelessness was, and the solution was pretty simple too: give people homes, don't put up unnecessary barriers and restrictions, support them in rebuilding their lives.
As with all social programs there were a bunch of upset people raging about how impossible it would be to pay for this solution, then it turned out to be cheaper than the estimated current cost per homeless person because as expected a large number of permanent homeless people isn't cheap for the state.
Just like education, just like healthcare, it's always fucking cheaper and better for society to properly solve these problems, but someone out there stands to make a buck keeping the status quo either as a political boogeyman or literally selling these services so nothing will change.
As with all social programs there were a bunch of upset people raging about how impossible it would be to pay for this solution, then it turned out to be cheaper than the estimated current cost per homeless person because as expected a large number of permanent homeless people isn't cheap for the state.
Just like education, just like healthcare, it's always fucking cheaper and better for society to properly solve these problems, but someone out there stands to make a buck keeping the status quo either as a political boogeyman or literally selling these services so nothing will change.
It's really just hatred of the poor, a complete and total lack of empathy.
Yoooooo
That was the first thing I thought of. Glad I'm not the only weird one.
Oh Rudy is involved? Welp we know that will go only one way. A national no broken window campaign
It really does boil down to that gif of the 3 dudes eating cookies, convince the middle class it's the poor people living on scraps that are taking away from their fair share and the rich can feast on it all.
Who is making stuff up? "Federal facilities" has one extremely clear meaning for this administration. We already know what those look like.
Yep.
Since we know Putin won't allow him to do anything to IRan/Syria, etc...
We're about to focus on state problems, easy wins like homeless. No one likes homeless people. This is gunna be a bit of a dreadful slam dunk for his base, and frankly, a lot of liberal NIMBYS.
You can get a free cell phone with a certain number of minutes/texts if you make under a certain amount of
money. Not sure if this is a Washington exclusive thing or not.
Oof I messed up the multi quote. Was responding to the person you quoted, as well as you.
Ya know what really upsets me also is that his fanbase is gonna claim "WELL IT'S NOT A CONCENTRATION CAMP! THEY RE NOT KILLING PEOPLE THERE LIKE THE NAZIS DID!"
Except ya know...a group of people locked up in one area..a CONCENTRATION of people! That's exactly what a CCamp is! We had them back in WW2 where we locked up Japanese and Japanese Americans!
Except ya know...a group of people locked up in one area..a CONCENTRATION of people! That's exactly what a CCamp is! We had them back in WW2 where we locked up Japanese and Japanese Americans!
It's OK, the whole point is that homeless people having phones is not weird or somehow invalidating their need.
