Chapo said that if it was put to a vote, the majority of Americans, chuds and libs alike, would vote for all the homeless to just "go away" in some unspecified way, as long as it was done quietly and out of sight.
I think they were right.
Hardly. We just use prisons. Millions of Americans shoved into prisons, from coast to coast.
"They move in" yes because they're always outsiders, an invading horde, never people from those communities.
:this: One of the reasons why encampments are so messy is because they are destroyed periodically. The poor in this country are not allowed to build their own shelter of any kind.
This even if you don’t like the homeless, give them homes. It solves so many social problems. I hate the “fuck you I got mine attitude” that permeates all of American culture.
I see people complaining about homeless people going to the bathroom outside (by dumpsters or trees specifically).
BITCH THERE ARE NO PUBLIC RESTROOMS IN THIS CITY! WHERE ELSE ARE THRY GONNA SHIT? THEIR HOMES?!
I understand this desire, but the cost of land is so high in the Bay that giving folks a place entails buying new land with astronomical sums of money or repurposing already-scarce public land (read: parks) for homeless, which turns it into a zero-sum game likely to breed more animosity.
Now, could the cities simply not have sold off all their land ages ago? Yes. Could the cities simply not have abused their power of eminent domain to build freeways so much that blowback led to a significant curtailing of the latitude of this power? Also yes.
But now we're here, and don't act like leftists don't also get mad when cities are like "here's a Tuff Shed under a freeway overpass".
I hear you, I understand you, I hate all of you and propose a different solution :mao-wave:
So much of that land is just parking lots for strip malls of national chain retailers and fuddruckers
Less so in Oakland, but yes. In Oakland specifically the few big box parking lots there are (mostly in Emeryville) were de-industrialization "urban renewal" projects, so it's definitely all connected.
If we're using the environment as some type of bullshit excuse, it is also absolutely worse how they tear these down every couple weeks and throw them away and people have to go and get new ones for them to be torn up again. Fuck them
as always, the white moderate will say the slogans and then perpetuate the violence
It's really something how true that first page of State and Revolution holds up over a hundred years later. And by something I mean depressing.
"During the lifetime of great revolutionaries, the oppressing classes constantly hounded them, received their theories with the most savage malice, the most furious hatred and the most unscrupulous campaigns of lies and slander. After their death, attempts are made to convert them into harmless icons, to canonize them, so to say, and to hallow their names to a certain extent for the “consolation” of the oppressed classes and with the object of duping the latter, while at the same time robbing the revolutionary theory of its substance, blunting its revolutionary edge and vulgarizing it."
upvote to oof instantly
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White liberals pretending to be progressive while wanting to pogrom the poor, iconic duo yada yada.
Deep in the hood, aka 15 miles away from the inner-city but I hang around black people twitter so I'm one of them.
Oakland/the bay is a humanitarian disaster, but to blame that on the victims of the disaster...isn't there a word for that?
I love it and hate it here. Like it's so hard to live here in so many ways and we got these fucking fake ass cultural appropriators like this fuckin guy making things 100x worse in so many ways. They all think they're good people too.
Even my mostly conservative family have better takes on homeless people here. They liver through Reagan failures while the governor and can actually pinpoint when things got a lot worse for mental health and homeless. They still like the guy cause brainworms but they don't hate the homeless like these fuckin libs do. They actually have an ounce of sympathy because they understand material conditions much better than these transplants
If you give the homeless homes, then there won't be homeless any more :)
What a prick. Talking about homeless people like they're weeds or some invasive species. Genuinely terrifying how easily people dehumanise the most vulnerable among us
Fuck that gentrifier, people exactly like him are the ones calling cops on families at Lake Merritt bbqing with charcoal grills. Not even exaggerating in the least.
Maybe they wouldn’t leave trash in the park if THEY ACTUALLY HAD A FUCKING HOUSE TO LIVE IN INSTEAD OF THE FUCKING PARK
Maybe we should give them homes so they don't "pollute the environment"?
destroying the rare and precious public lawn monoculture :BibleThump:
