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The people who allow this to be call themselves the compassionate ones...
- Thread starter Duffy LaCoronilla
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A pussy or titty picture gets deleted but that gets to stay?
That is fucking madness.
That is fucking madness.
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Uh that old dumb falacy again.
What does that got to do with anything?
The solution to the homeless problem requires money.
But you are not interested in solutions, you're interested in telling people to pull themselves by the bootsraps.
It's so bizzare that those who bitch the most about the homeless people, don't actually want to solve the homeless problem.
Have you considered not being a "flat earther" about everything? There's a huge world beyond the tip of your nose.
Yes, because just throwing money at problems ALWAYS fixed them
Yes, homelessness is about mental health and substance abuse but I think concetrating on those issues alone is missing the big picture.
This problem is a product of the way this society functions and the lack of civility and civicness.
Homeless problem is caused by the sidelining, marginalizing and disintegration of civicness in relation to the formal institutions, which is a result of the personal attitudes on display in this thread. For civicness to be a logic of public authority there needs to be a convergence of formal, institutional and informal, personal manifestations of civicness and this needs to be sufficiently robust to prevent widespread homelessness. But no, blaming the homeless is much more fun. The emphasis is always on punishment.
Majority don't seem to give a sh!t about others or common good in society.
"Empathy is cancer" and if you want to spend money on solving the issue, you should "personally give money to panhandlers".
Oh also, labor camps!
As long as there's no safety net and people think that homelessness is a choice, nothing will change.
This problem is a product of the way this society functions and the lack of civility and civicness.
Homeless problem is caused by the sidelining, marginalizing and disintegration of civicness in relation to the formal institutions, which is a result of the personal attitudes on display in this thread. For civicness to be a logic of public authority there needs to be a convergence of formal, institutional and informal, personal manifestations of civicness and this needs to be sufficiently robust to prevent widespread homelessness. But no, blaming the homeless is much more fun. The emphasis is always on punishment.
Majority don't seem to give a sh!t about others or common good in society.
"Empathy is cancer" and if you want to spend money on solving the issue, you should "personally give money to panhandlers".
Oh also, labor camps!
As long as there's no safety net and people think that homelessness is a choice, nothing will change.
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How many homeless people are squatting in your living room?
Safety net doesn't exist in this country, compared to other Western countries, it's laughable.
This here is the problem:
What are you doing to fix the problem? Why won't you make sacrifices before nominating everyone else to make sacrifices?
I'm paying taxes dummy.
Putting 3 homeless people in my living room will not solve the problem.
This is the dumbest falacy you people use.
The false notion that personal charity is a substitute for social programs is part of the reason this problem exists in the first place.
We went from shutting down the loony bins to having no real alternative
wouldn’t it be nice if there were mental institutions that were humane that people could just want into with no questions asked, not have to apply or fill out forms (which are beyond the capacity of the profoundly mentally ill to process)?
why couldn’t we have this?
wouldn’t it be nice if there were mental institutions that were humane that people could just want into with no questions asked, not have to apply or fill out forms (which are beyond the capacity of the profoundly mentally ill to process)?
why couldn’t we have this?
No, It's far better to blame homelessness and every problem on the people you hated to begin with.
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I’ve posted my idea on this several times.
If you live in the streets and refuse services you are to be declared a danger to yourself and others (clearly the person in the photo above is both) and you should be forcibly institutionalized and detoxed until it is determined by mental health professionals that you can live somewhere other than in the streets.
We don’t need to change a single law. We just need to recognize that the chronically homeless are in fact a danger to themselves and others. The law already allows forced institutionalizing of such people.
LA city (just the city) has spent billions (with a B) in just the last couple years on “housing” and it has had absolutely zero effect.
the politicians who run these shithole third world cities here in the US are using the homeless as props to virtue signal their compassion. Meanwhile their props are dying in the streets daily.
It’s fucking gross and should be criminal. I agree with Dr. Drew when he says that the leaders of LA, SF and Seattle (and more) should no longer be protected from liability or prosecution on this.
Forcing the chronically homeless into mental health facilities is far more compassionate to both the homeless and the people who live and work among them.
There is a large cottage industry of non-profits who reap all the benefits of the funds allocated for combating homelessness and the heads of these non-profits pay themselves 6 figure salaries. They have a huge financial incentive to continue business as usual. If homelessness is more or less solved you put this industry out of business and they fight tooth and nail to not let that happen.
Any questions?
You have to make the institutions better than before
Actual trained people who understand the conditions they’re dealing with and who know how to de escalate conflict
Not minimum wage orderlies who use brute force and terror
If you’re not willing to spend real money to make it a humane environment it will be a hellhole for these people
Actual trained people who understand the conditions they’re dealing with and who know how to de escalate conflict
Not minimum wage orderlies who use brute force and terror
If you’re not willing to spend real money to make it a humane environment it will be a hellhole for these people