That's it, fuck it. I'm entering the war on the homeless on the side of the homeless.
Unironically this is what we need to be doing. Showing up armed to protect them.
Basically yeah. The problem I see is that violence against the homeless is almost always fully state sanctioned or unpoliced stochastic vigilantism. The best I feel like I can meaningfully hope for is to stop something I happen by.
John Brown Gun Club being based again and protecting the homeless in Dallas.
:rage-cry: This is not now we do things in this country
:anarchista-chad: it is now.
It's only going to get worse as neoliberalism continues to erode and whatever threadbare meager social services are gutted for ruthless hyper-late-stage-neo-fascist-capitalism.
:frothingfash::unity::liberalism: "I'm going to be a hero, just like The Punisher!"
Obligatory, "For all his faults, the kind The Punisher would have shot every one of his present stans."
You can't sell 400 sq ft luxury condos as well with "the unhoused" trying to sleep nearby. Media is coming in clutch for the housing market.
Going on Twitter and reading any replies to a tweet about the murder is agonizing. American fascists just get more and more out and proud every time one of these right-wing acts of violence happens. They're deeply evil and malicious people. In order to not continually work yourself into a rage, you have to remember it's just the nature of these psychopaths. it's disgusting that people continue to even pretend there is a "police society" where things are normal. Every one of these acts of violence flies in the face of all the "tolerance-washing" of the US that Democratic politicians and media outlets like NPR try to cover everything in. And it really is like greenwashing. Just hold up a facade of progress until it doesn't matter anymore.
I personally know libs who recognize this and decry it but still believe everything the media says about places like China and Cuba.
I think most people who hate homeless people are conditioned to do so because of their experiences and watching TV. Homeless people are perceived as "icky" and "weird" but it's not because it is their fault, they were failed by capitalism and the capitalist state.
In most countries in the third world which were mixed economies before dissolution of USSR, the so called "middle class" (better paid white collar workers) didn't have contempt for the poor and homeless and that the state should do things to reduce poverty. Neoliberalism made it so that is no longer the case, you are supposed to pick yourselves up.
Most people I know really hate the homeless and it scares the fuck out of me.
