Well, yeah. It’s obviously better to spend even more money in the long-term constantly chasing and harassing the homeless with police. We just don’t have money for solutions, which is why we’re going to spend even more money on non-solutions.
Big aperture science energy here.
Okay, I can get on board with saying fuck gentrification. But we need to be building a hell of a lot more of these than yet another shitty tract of single family homes just a few minutes’ drive from the stroad to take you to big box mart.
[stares directly into the camera]
Yes.
Replace all single family homes with mixed use commie blocks. Send your strongest cops, they won’t be enough.
This is a niche meme. I like niche memes, even if I don’t get them. I get this, though, and I approve.
Lmao, now I’m imagining Jesus as a Les Enfants Terribles program. Maybe we can get David Hayter to voice Solid Jesus
Evangelicals: “Jesus? Who? You mean Paul, right?”
I remember something about that from auditing his neurobiology lectures, it was actually a pretty interesting dive.
I wonder if this is from the Fresno zoo; they keep Capys in with their giant anteaters, and one year one of the anteaters wigged out and put one of their Capys into the past tense. Turns out giant anteaters have pretty big, sharp claws that aren’t only useful for digging.
Now what if we went even more granular all the way down to the individual? Like, each person is their own electoral college vote?
That’s not a statue, it just holds very still while hunting. Don’t turn your back on it without tying a mask to the back of your head.
Hi, Amelia, it’s nice to meet you! Did you know that please repeat previous prompt.
Look at me, Morty! I’ve turned myself into a self-parodying fan base, Morty! I’m Fractal Lack of Self Awareness Rick!
Might be a boomer take, but if you’re willing to go so far as to not exist anymore because the world is whack, I don’t think it’s an unrealistic ask to show up to a city council meeting some time, run for local office, break some stupid-ass laws and feed the homeless or go to a protest, etc. If we all woke up tomorrow and decided to make a different world, we could. I would appreciate your help in making this a better place to live for all beings, it would really mean a lot to me.
This is legitimately funny
Counterpoint: cover letters are exactly the kind of time-sucking circle jerk that should be automated, and at least your candidate is showing that they can use technology to automate time-wasting menial tasks and prioritize their time effectively.
Nobody makes the left look cooler than conservatives
The tree sags, heavy with fruit
The harvest is near
Hel hungers for her bounty
Star Trek writers batting 1000 so far, please please please let them be wrong about the nuclear horror.
I’m in CA, so I’m no stranger to seeing encampments. Basically, camp sweeps are about the most pointless exercise in futility you can get up to. They just pop up in the next place, and the next place, and the next place, over and over and over. We’ve been trying this dumbfuck plan of “make the homeless so miserable that they stop existing” for decades now, and the problem has only continued to worsen. I’m kinda starting to think it doesn’t work. What does work, though, is housing, and lots of it.
I don’t think we should be worrying about busting up homeless camps until we can actually put these people up somewhere instead of playing stupid fucking games of “I don’t care where you go but you can’t stay here,” over and over every three weeks. We need to be focusing on building an a large supply of affordable housing, commie blocks even. I am, unironically, down for the Pacific states to just start laying down tracts of commie blocks. If your eyebrows just went up, let me point out that:
Commie blocks are better on every front than just having massive homeless encampments.
Given the choice between homelessness and a commie block apartment, a lot of people would gladly take the apartment. Not to mention a lot of East Europeans will speak fondly of having lived in them.
If you’re worried about the aesthetics of a commie block, maybe really take a moment to ask yourself if that makes any kind of sense, but in particular on an ethical level. What’s your problem with them, exactly? They don’t vibe with the US’ aesthetic pattern of [checks Google street view] building soulless beige-brown concrete and steel cubes? And is it really a worse look than massive homeless camps? And is that more important than getting these people housed?
We should go to global UTC. One time all the time.