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  • 4zi [he/him, comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    It further penalizes cities with rates of homelessness higher than the state average by taking away state funding for unhoused services.

    How does this even make sense, what the fuck

    • star_wraith [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      My hunch is there's a low key war in MO between country vs cities. The major cities will have the largest number of homeless folks of course, so just another way to try and take further resources away from population centers.

      I've been in a lot rural, conservative parts of the US and rural MO was the worst I think I've been in.

      • 4zi [he/him, comrade/them]
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        2 years ago

        Granted I haven’t lived in Missouri in quite some time, but south/southwestern Missouri was the only place I’ve ever physically felt unsafe, where I saw coded klan shit and a couple Nazi flags, and I’ve spent a ton of time traveling all over rural America. Did a job outside of Springfield once and told my boss to never send me there again or I’ll quit because the client started ranting about politics and started dogwhistling about Jews