Smells faintly like gas chambers.
Widely held opinion: There are a whole lot of homeless people here, it's a serious problem. It's unsafe, unclean, and we need to do something about it. Just ignoring it all and letting people camp wherever they want isn't a viable solution.
Elixir & Jarhyn & Politesse: OMG, you want to murderfy the poor homeless people, you horrible evil nazi, you want to stuff them into gas chambers!!!111!111eleventyone!!!
I didn't actually say that. It's pretty obvious that the Republican "solution" to homelessness is mass incarceration, not execution.
Slavery isn't any better than execution... And let's be real, when Nazi Germany ran out of slave labor positions, they started shoveling everyone else into the gas chambers.
I'm not seeing much difference in the long run, especially since the path to the smokestacks often runs through a work camp or two.
WTH is wrong with you? Nobody has suggested slavery for the homeless either. Please stop pulling made up bullshit out of your ass.
Kinda sounds like you are maybe in favor of incarceration to solve homelessness. Prisoners are often used as labor paid in what can only be recognized as slave wages, if at all.
Maybe I’m misinterpreting what you are proposing?
You know you are.
How could anyone know that, when Emily refuses to clarify what she is proposing in any way? We know a lot about what she opposes, but not what she supports, or believes that her conservative friends support.
Hence the ?
Solving the very broad issue of unhoused people is not likely to be a single one size fits all solution unless we want to simply incarcerate people for the crime of having nowhere to go. Even that begs the question of who is included: Do we imprison infants and children? Forcibly terminate parental rights and put the kids up for adoption—regardless of the enormous and shameful number of children who are looking for families now, to no avail? For starters.
There are many issues that contribute to being unhoused. The cost of re t or home ownership is only one issue, albeit an extremely serious one. Jobs and job training, consistent and accessible healthcare, including treatment for chronic conditions—including substance abuse, mental health issues and more, the persistent lack of protection for renters, the lack of affordable and decent housing are some of the issues.
And addiction, mental health and,
being human.
Sometimes
being human is itself a reason some become homeless. Humans haven't much evolved since our mud hut days. When humans discovered other humans in North America,
some of those humans had thriving tent city cultures.
Living in tent cities is a fundamentally human behavior, and we are in some ways the mentally "unhealthy" ones who spurn that sort of existence. It's amazing that humans have adapted as we have to technology, though much of it is ergonomic to us at least.
I wonder sometimes whether some day, I will be homeless. I would have a place set aside that is not too cold at night, where I am not afraid as I sleep, where I can do the things I will with my time, where inexpensive (possibly injectable) medication is available, and where I have people I can see who move into and out of my life that I can talk with on occasion.
As much I can add to that for myself and everyone else, I would. If someone is going to live without getting anything in return promised to them, they ought at least be able to have as much as a human who set up a tent somewhere before the times anyone existed there who cared to stop them.
I would argue we can do WAY better than that as a society, and we can do as much as I asked above for myself and my own sake: Reliable walls and a secure door controlled by the occupant that exits out into a place where they feel unthreatened, and from which they may come and go for as long as they decide to return, and to wander as far as they may before their space is judged vacant. I would say we should provision food for such people as would be available with some work, and various forms of work/education/care they may engage with (or not).
If I would love to have this, why would I assume that others would not: A place to watch the roaches climb the wall.