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حمید پیام عباسی@crazypeople.online to Memes@lemmy.ml · 16 hours ago

Should we house the homeless?

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Should we house the homeless?

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حمید پیام عباسی@crazypeople.online to Memes@lemmy.ml · 16 hours ago
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  • Ava@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    Well, there WAS that thing a couple of months ago where Kilmeade said the quiet part out loud, suggesting we should execute them.

  • That Weird Vegan she/her@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    Homeless people should NOT exist in a world with trillionaires. Fuck the rich so hard.

    • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world
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      Phrase that differently or the wealthy will get the wrong idea.

      • That Weird Vegan she/her@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        nah, I’m not a minor

    • mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      Here’s a reminder that there are nearly 14,000,000 vacant houses in America, and less than 650,000 homeless people. The math comes out to ~22 vacant houses for every single homeless person. I’ll give you one guess which income bracket owns the vast majority of those vacant houses…

      • That Weird Vegan she/her@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        I’ll give you one guess which income bracket owns the vast majority of those vacant houses…

        it’s poor people, right? right?

        • papalonian@lemmy.world
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          Well duh, they’re on the street because they’re experiencing decision paralysis on what house to live in that day.

    • HugeNerd@lemmy.ca
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      Alright, so let’s kill 'em!

      (Ambiguity is on purpose.)

      • BanMe@lemmy.world
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        They know goddamn well a big contingent is willing to if they had the opportunity, so they’ve gone to great lengths to avoid such possibilities.

        This should intrigue people who like a challenge idk

  • /home/pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    My area mentioned?

    https://abc7.com/post/orange-county-supervisors-approve-anti-camping-ordinance-allowing-arrest-homeless/18117855/

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    It’s “expensive” in the “right” way. The costs are paid by taxes, which are largely supplied by the 99%. The revenue, by contrast, is privatized, going to corporations owned by the 1%.

    So it’s only “expensive” for the masses, which lawmakers don’t care about.

    • Avid Amoeba@lemmy.ca
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      Just another way to extract surplus created by the 99%.

    • Flickerby@lemmy.zip
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      Not to mention the slave labor they gain out of it.

      • blockheadjt@sh.itjust.works
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        I was lumping that into “revenue”

      • HugeNerd@lemmy.ca
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        👆 👆 These two guys/girls/dudes/men/women get it.

  • LeeeroooyJeeenkiiins [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    no, we should arm the homeless

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      How else do we keep cops from fucking with them?

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    It’s not that expensive if you use them as slave labor and ignore their human rights… Well, still expensive for the tax payers, but who cares for those peasants? /s

    • HugeNerd@lemmy.ca
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      How about organs? I’m about done with this liver and I could use a bigger penis.

    • Adkml [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      This isn’t talked about enough. Also plays in to why the job market is shit, people are pissed about competing with immigrants making $12/ hr but not the literal slave labor thays like $2/ hr.

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    It isn’t even really about the privatization. They just want the ability to game the investment scam system.

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    I’m unfamiliar with this bal—Is it a country or an ism?

    • Alaskaball [comrade/them, any]@hexbear.net
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      Anarcho-capitalism, which is just capitalism unchained by any and all sort of regulation of a state. And I mean that literally. Slavery? Fair game. Children? Property of the parents and a commodity for the markets. Collective bargaining and workers rights? Unprofitable for the shareholders. Human rights? Only for corporations. Justice? Money makes right. Monopoly on violence? Belongs to the bagholder.

      Long story short, it’s just fascism for nerds.

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        also unfortunately has taken for itself the label of libertarianism in the american adjacent cultural sphere so people don’t even know about niche left libertarian shit like market socialism or like that guy who did the Cincinnati Time Store, further solidifying capitalism as “the only system” that makes sense to them

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      An ‘-ism’. Specifically anarcho-capitalism.

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        I regret asking, but thank you for the clarification

  • RedSnt 👓♂️🧩 🧠 🖥️@feddit.dk
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    How about house them in a way that take away their voting rights and use them as cheap labor? Member how prisoners were used to fight the Palisades fires in January?

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      How about house them in a way that take away their voting rights and use them as cheap labor? Member how prisoners were used to fight the Palisades fires in January?

      Don’t forget the expensive housing is provided by a for-profit prison system. It’s expensive for taxpayers, but someone else is getting rich.

  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    Obviously, the solution is US slavery

    US prison workers produce $11bn worth of goods and services a year for pittance

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      And it only costs $80bn to do so!

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        One of the most obvious illustrations how capitalism socialise costs and privatises profits.

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    The cruelty is part of the fun! Plus prison = free slave labor!

    /s

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      Providing housing and paying them a shit wage is slave labor too but you get the benefit of them paying their money back into the company store so it’s cheaper.

  • NatakuNox@lemmy.world
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    Truth. The cheapest option is housing and mental health care.

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      In particular if you look at the long term (even just a couple of years): many homeless just need a little help to start climbing the ladder again. So housing and mental care would allow them to quickly become productive members of society. Prisons just lock them into a circle of poverty.

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    Meanwhile in AES states like the DPRK:

    Homeless? Never heard of her

  • Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca
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    Move them into “Sanctuary Districts”.

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    You gotta feed those private prison shareholders!

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