100%. And the Supreme Court just dropped a decision that basically outlaws homelessness. It's like they think arresting homeless people will solve the problem of why so many people in our country remain so vulnerable. And it's not like our for-profit prison system isn't already over crowded. And this week we are going to celebrate our independence by lighting explosives on fire. So, yeah, things are great.
I wonder if future generations of Americans will look back on these days with misty nostalgia or utter horror and confusion.... Isn't it *great* living through History.... [not]
The funny thing is in 2020 I remember thinking "How screwed up is it that one day THIS time in history will be seen as the good old days" -- scoot forward 3 years andi t was true for me. Friends died, dear friends moved away, Harmony Club closed, town was a quarter-destroyed by the tornado. Now our choirmaster and organist are moving away, and so our choir has has probably done its last Easters & Christmasses.
On the sleeping outside thing -- we're not talking about some mother and her kids sleeping in the van. The streets of LA, SF, PDX, etc are lined with mentally ill drug addicts who routinely harrass and attack people. There's a reason people keep leaving Seattle and Portland, and it's exactly that_ concentrations of violent and mentally unwell people who are filling sidewalks instead of being put in aslyums and given care. Loads of footage of this, not to mention google maps. One channell: https://www.youtube.com/@TylerOliveira
As someone who deals wih homeless people every day, trust me -- it's not always "poor victims of fate to a meany-man system". Some people do not want to be helped. I have seen people time and again taken to rehab, cleaned up, given shelters -- only to throw away these opportunities away. And it doesn't matter if sleeping outside is illegal in places like these, because the cops won't necessarily enforce the laws. Some SF/LA cops aren't enforcing existing laws now!
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So true. But we're all guilty of that.
Indeed. But it doesn't have to be this way....
100%. And the Supreme Court just dropped a decision that basically outlaws homelessness. It's like they think arresting homeless people will solve the problem of why so many people in our country remain so vulnerable. And it's not like our for-profit prison system isn't already over crowded. And this week we are going to celebrate our independence by lighting explosives on fire. So, yeah, things are great.
I wonder if future generations of Americans will look back on these days with misty nostalgia or utter horror and confusion.... Isn't it *great* living through History.... [not]
The funny thing is in 2020 I remember thinking "How screwed up is it that one day THIS time in history will be seen as the good old days" -- scoot forward 3 years andi t was true for me. Friends died, dear friends moved away, Harmony Club closed, town was a quarter-destroyed by the tornado. Now our choirmaster and organist are moving away, and so our choir has has probably done its last Easters & Christmasses.
On the sleeping outside thing -- we're not talking about some mother and her kids sleeping in the van. The streets of LA, SF, PDX, etc are lined with mentally ill drug addicts who routinely harrass and attack people. There's a reason people keep leaving Seattle and Portland, and it's exactly that_ concentrations of violent and mentally unwell people who are filling sidewalks instead of being put in aslyums and given care. Loads of footage of this, not to mention google maps. One channell: https://www.youtube.com/@TylerOliveira
As someone who deals wih homeless people every day, trust me -- it's not always "poor victims of fate to a meany-man system". Some people do not want to be helped. I have seen people time and again taken to rehab, cleaned up, given shelters -- only to throw away these opportunities away. And it doesn't matter if sleeping outside is illegal in places like these, because the cops won't necessarily enforce the laws. Some SF/LA cops aren't enforcing existing laws now!
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