We're in a worse timeline than the Bell Riots, imo. The Bell Riots were a result of Sanctuary Districts, which at least fed the poor and out-of-work and allowed them to squat in vacant buildings. The US definitely ain't doing that now
In your defense, the two times they show districts it's SF and LA, but I distinctly remember when Bashir is talking to Sisko they talk about how these districts were the widely adopted solution to the US's economic and social issues of the day.
I think the implication was that they only did that after so much of the working class was hollowed out that it would have been revolution earlier if they didn't.
Like, ffs the literal Trump administration sent checks and put a moratorium on evictions. They really really did not want to do that.
They knew if they didn't, they would turn millions of previously secure, fully employed "middle class" people instantly into a literal army, as in an army with guns. Faced with mass government-mandated homelessness, people would have actually just shot cops and refused to leave. The country would be gone by now.
There will be Sanctuary districts. They'll just be dead and desolate small towns. The city land is too valuable to waste as a sanctuary district. Anyone too poor afford the rising rents will just be arrested for being homeless and dumped in some small town around an oil refinery, paper mill, or some other leaking chemical plant that has made the surrounding land too toxic for farmland, which is all owned by bill gates and patrolled by armed security. The farmland is worked by sanctuary district day laborers for a pittance.
We're in a worse timeline than the Bell Riots, imo. The Bell Riots were a result of Sanctuary Districts, which at least fed the poor and out-of-work and allowed them to squat in vacant buildings. The US definitely ain't doing that now
hence the "speed run" part baby :picard-direct-action:
California specifically. It's not all across the US, it's California that does the districts.
California also is contemplating similar housing in real life too, chunking off abandoned properties for homeless use.
The conservatives there were literally pushing for the camps like last year too
If you mean in the show, nearly every major US city has Sanctuary Districts by 2024
Oh rip I've been out nerded. Could've sworn it was just California. I concede to you as the bigger nerd.
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In your defense, the two times they show districts it's SF and LA, but I distinctly remember when Bashir is talking to Sisko they talk about how these districts were the widely adopted solution to the US's economic and social issues of the day.
Yep yep I remember it now too
I think the implication was that they only did that after so much of the working class was hollowed out that it would have been revolution earlier if they didn't.
Like, ffs the literal Trump administration sent checks and put a moratorium on evictions. They really really did not want to do that.
They knew if they didn't, they would turn millions of previously secure, fully employed "middle class" people instantly into a literal army, as in an army with guns. Faced with mass government-mandated homelessness, people would have actually just shot cops and refused to leave. The country would be gone by now.
There will be Sanctuary districts. They'll just be dead and desolate small towns. The city land is too valuable to waste as a sanctuary district. Anyone too poor afford the rising rents will just be arrested for being homeless and dumped in some small town around an oil refinery, paper mill, or some other leaking chemical plant that has made the surrounding land too toxic for farmland, which is all owned by bill gates and patrolled by armed security. The farmland is worked by sanctuary district day laborers for a pittance.