Yeah, I've actually been thinking this exact thought lately. That, and seeing how the world has handled this pandemic pretty much guarantees we're never going to reach a world collective and get off this rock or make life on this rock any better.
it will get worse before it gets better :doomer: but it will get to a point that it's so intolerable we will have nothing to lose and we'll take the risk to make it better. or maybe not us, but some poor comrade schmuck's kids.
Police only got another couple decades before they start looking like this. https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-BtG-QTz1prM/T0KruNyG5mI/AAAAAAAAAGU/wQ2Y9pd45xg/s1600/farpoint_hd_273.jpg
they kinda did; many cities threw a bone to the struggling ho/motel industry by having them house the homeless. i know portland expanded it's tiny-homes-on-pallets-in-vacant-lots strategy
That would mean providing a bare minimum of food and shelter for them, thereby rewarding laziness, insulting hard working tax payers and disrespecting personal responsibility.
I mean they did, in a low-key semi coercive way. Like people said, all kinds of official camps and mini house lots and motel voucher programs have crept up, while cities are doing sweeps to force people out of their meagre shelter in to the freezing winter temperatures, presumably in order to kill them in a way that gives the city a fig leaf of plausible deniability.
The "Great Filter" in Fermi's paradox is capitalism.
Yeah, I've actually been thinking this exact thought lately. That, and seeing how the world has handled this pandemic pretty much guarantees we're never going to reach a world collective and get off this rock or make life on this rock any better.
Fuck it, real doomer hours. :doomjak:
it will get worse before it gets better :doomer: but it will get to a point that it's so intolerable we will have nothing to lose and we'll take the risk to make it better. or maybe not us, but some poor comrade schmuck's kids.
Police only got another couple decades before they start looking like this. https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-BtG-QTz1prM/T0KruNyG5mI/AAAAAAAAAGU/wQ2Y9pd45xg/s1600/farpoint_hd_273.jpg
:data-revolutionary:
(data's a link)
Was a little surprised they didn't start putting homeless people into camps at the start of Covid for public safety.
they kinda did; many cities threw a bone to the struggling ho/motel industry by having them house the homeless. i know portland expanded it's tiny-homes-on-pallets-in-vacant-lots strategy
That would mean providing a bare minimum of food and shelter for them, thereby rewarding laziness, insulting hard working tax payers and disrespecting personal responsibility.
I mean they did, in a low-key semi coercive way. Like people said, all kinds of official camps and mini house lots and motel voucher programs have crept up, while cities are doing sweeps to force people out of their meagre shelter in to the freezing winter temperatures, presumably in order to kill them in a way that gives the city a fig leaf of plausible deniability.
:fidel-salute:
If the German revolution succeeded we'd (probably) be living in global socialism by now.
:rosa-shining: :european-soviet:
:sicko-wistful:
:yea:
:posadist-nuke:
:yes-comm: