https://nitter.net/stltoday/status/1548324577444372481?t=Zjhdtiv-Q0dTj9bvezBs7A&s=19
at this point we may start needing excuses for the lack of terror
The law authorizes the state attorney general to sue cities that don’t enforce the ban. It further penalizes cities with rates of homelessness higher than the state average by taking away state funding for unhoused services.
The measure also bars cities and organizations from using state and federal grants to build permanent housing for the unsheltered. Rather, that money must be directed to build temporary camps.
People wanting to stay at the temporary camps must submit to mental health and substance-use evaluations, which contradicts the current federally backed “Housing First” model, which says no one should have to meet requirements to seek shelter.
So doing the exact opposite of everything we know actually helps the homeless.
The only sorta good part of Missouri is the City of St. Louis (just the "City of St. Louis" county that has like 300k people) and North County. The rest of the state - certainly the white folks at least - are probably on board with this 100%. Death to Missouri.
I admit I get a bit defensive when folks on this site shit on how California addresses homelessness. And no, CA isn't great about it by any stretch. But there is a significant movement both among the people and in the government / state bureaucracy to address homelessness in at least somewhat humane and evidence-based manner. Folks back in the Midwest... the pigs could "disappear" every homeless person and most white folks there wouldn't bat an eye, if not openly cheer it.
I would rather be homeless in California than any chud state, but yeah this entire country despises homeless.
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
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.
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
Please don't forget about KC! We have free public transit and a really good tenant's union!!! Pretty much anywhere else sucks though, star_wraith has it right that the rest of the state is completely different from the two ok spots. SW Missouri is quite unsafe (for a queer) a lot of the time.
My Grandpa was just telling me today how good America has it compared to Cuba. I guarantee that the most fucked up thing the Cuban government has done doesn't even come close to America
Lukewarm take.
If Cuba had done everything Yanks imagine it did, it still wouldn't come close to America's evil. Their fucking opening act was genocide.
The worst I can think that Cuba did was putting Gay people into camps, but even then they stopped doing that, Hell, sodomy was illegal in many states until 2003 and might be illegal again soon.
Oho, I see people have been reading my rants about the Northwest Indian War. :sicko-yes:
https://hexbear.net/post/195617/comment/2457682
The Northwest Indian War was pretty directly caused by events in the Beaver Wars, the French and Indian/Seven Years War, and Native participation in the Revolutionary War. Tribes had a tendency to flip alliances when their own side failed to uphold its own treaties and turned genocidal. So you had tribes in this time period who'd fought alongside Frenchmen, Englishmen, and American Rebels, sometimes in the same generation. Tribes like the Shawnee and Miami saw the French territory of Quebec get sold off to eventually form Ohio, Indiana, and Michigan, while others like the Odawa, Wendat, Lenape, and Ojibwe had been diplaced from East Coast regions and were re-settling in new towns they built in Ohio's Swamps.
Immediately after the Revolutionary War, the British were attempting to maintain some of their forts in Lower Canada/the Northwest Territory, with the plan to pull out slowly and create a native buffer state between the US and Canada (so that the British could maintain their own borders and treaties against US expansion).
So anyway, the US decided to say fuck all that and sent the Kentucky Militia into Ohio and Indiana to burn, rape, pillage, scalp, impale, and be a general nuisance to the local populace (this technically occurred a few decades before the revolution but continued up until the cusp of the Northwest war, which they participated in). It became clear the Kentuckians were such raging hogs that they didn't have the discipline to get the job done. So George Washington formed the first incarnation of the US Army — called the Legion (led by General "Mad" Anthony Wayne) — to formally crush Native resistance in the Northwest Territory.
The campaign was basically a long march toward the Miami capital of Kekionga (now called Fort Wayne) to establish or refortify white settlements and delineate a Military Canton in Ohio Country.
This is where @WhoaSlowDownMaurice post on the Battle of the Wabash comes into play. The Northwest Confederacy very nearly won the war. But at the later Battle of Fallen Timbers, random chance basically changed the situation completely.
The Americans were 3 days late to their own ambush, as the confederacy had set up a solid position in a forest that had recently been hit by a tornado. As a result, a significant number of warriors, who'd been fasting before battle, needed to take a break at the local British fort. The Legion arrived right at that inopportune moment and pushed through the front line. They were nearly shaken once the confederacy re-stabilized their position, but what shots they did get in somehow all managed to hit multiple tribal leaders around the same time. The confederacy actually didn't have that great of losses, but without leadership they began to retreat back to Fort Miami. At that point, the Brits had decided they didn't want to turn a cold war into a hot war and locked everyone out. Their forces were scattered to the north and west and didn't reconvene until Tecumseh (who was a young recuit at the Battle of Fallen Timbers) started his own religious war against white expansion.
https://hexbear.net/post/195617/comment/2457441
America's prosperity comes from the exploitation of the global south and oppressed people domestically; while Cuba suffers from a decades long blockade that effectively shuts them out of the global market. So of course they can't be compared.
But at least if I lived in Cuba, I could go to sleep at night and know that I live in a good country, and not one that is so fucking evil.
There are several groups I've come across doing this but I didn't take note of them. Some are even inside the prisons.
Thank you for not ratting them out~ it’s never too late to enlighten people.
The funny thing is this is supported by a lot of people who themselves would be homeless if they get a medical emergency that bankrupts them.
Evil country. Truly a hell of our own making
Death to America
