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So fucking sick of people like this. They genuinely believe that every single homeless person in America is a hyper-visible, unmedicated schizophrenic who's too mentally ill to want to get off the street. Never mind that the vast majority are members of the working poor and live in cars, friends' places and transitional housing—doesn't get more invisible than that.

Universal housing would effectively solve the homelessness crisis and every counterargument is actually a supporting one if you have half more than half of a braincell. Yes, a lot of homeless people need additional (i.e. psychiatric) help, BUT THEY ALSO NEED HOUSING because poverty literally exacerbates mental illness. Yes, libraries shouldn't be treated as homeless shelters, which is WHY HOMELESS PEOPLE NEED HOUSING. Yes, a lot of people who're forced to live in squalor on a literal street corner smell, which is why THEY NEED HOUSING so they can have basic dignity and access to a shower.

  • NoGodsNoMasters [they/them, she/her]
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    1 year ago

    But the vast majority of visible homeless people in my town have mental issues, addiction issues

    Wow I thought Reddit really cared about mental health and progressive drug policy. I'm absolutely shocked to find out that only applies to depression and anxiety and cannabis, never would have guessed.

    This is a dark thought but it seems like homeless problems have gotten worse with the distribution of Narcan. I don't want anyone to die but keeping more addicts around has negative effects on society.

    Remember it's very uncivil to make fun of billionaires dying in an unregulated submersible, but being pro letting drug addicts die en masse is a necessary evil for the betterment of society maybe-later-kiddo

    I think I found the American suburbanite most in touch with reality:

    If you’re living this way, you need to get out of there by ANY MEANS NECESSARY. I mean I don’t care what you have to sacrifice to get out of the city. You need to start working on it. This is not normal whatsoever and you’re endangering your children and having your whole family’s life be miserable. You realize that you can have a normal happy family life surrounded by a safe community of good people ? And that’s not something special, that’s actually the bare minimum normal way just how things should be. You’re living in a hellscape for no reason. It’s insanity really to keep tolerating that. Surrounded by filth and disease and removed. I hope you get out.

    Get out and go where? Small towns where there's more crime, more violence, and more homelessness per capita? The utopias you're talking about don't fucking exist dude. The worst places in the world are small rural meth towns. They make the worst parts of SF or Portland look clean and inviting.

    I’m not sure what you’re talking about. I live right now in Glen cove Long Island. It’s like a vacation paradise. Most towns around me are more or less like this. There’s basically no crime around here to speak of. None that I’ve seen or heard of happening. I know it’s there in some of the worse towns, but obviously stay away from those ?

    You live in the suburbs on Long Island, that adds a lot of context to your comments lmao

    Of course it does. Just like any other good suburb. There’s some other good suburbs I am considering moving to as well. I get it suburbs kind of suck. But it’s a million times better than any major city will be. And that’s only going to become more true. Cities are worse than 3rd world countries right now. You can go to many 3rd world countries and you won’t see the removed and homelessness that we have.

    I think that's enough of that thread the Hitler particles are off the charts and I feel that I am going to become the Joker jokerfication

    • FuckYourselfEndless [ze/hir]
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      1 year ago

      Seeing "mental health" increasingly just mean someone's personal homeostasis and ability to be selfish.

      • UlyssesT
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        2 months ago

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    • g_g [she/her, comrade/them]
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      1 year ago

      oof that second one tho. "this is a dark thought but we should do genocide" fucking despicable