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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

"An act of compassion on our part because you all deserve to be murdered on sight"

-normal folks with no issues

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Nah, it's about further wealth transfer to the prison industrial complex. Dead people can't be sold as slaves to farmers.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

Squirrels are granted more freedom and dignity than humans in Florida

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

Sooo. Can we bus them all to DeSantis’ back yard? That’s what one does in these situations, right?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago

"The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread."

Anatole France

[–] [email protected] 113 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 days ago

Lemmy allowing you to edit any part of your post is just so good.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Well the good news is being inside it's really easy. You can be inside a sleeping bag for example.

[–] [email protected] 69 points 2 days ago (1 children)

We don't like your existence, so we're criminalizing it.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 2 days ago

Need more slaves for the prison-industrial complex.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 2 days ago

Party at DeSantis's mansion!

[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 days ago

As a meta aside - please don't use amp links.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 days ago (1 children)

So I guess we'll just die then¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

That's the intended effect here.

Die or leave, either way they can pretend the problem's been solved

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Someone else’s problem according to them. The NIMBYs can’t be bothered to think about it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

Would be nice to see them all organize and descend on Washington, a tent city wave vis a vis the Bonus March in 1932.

I wonder how bad homeless would need to get before major reform. Camps are going to keep popping up until they overwhelm local resources, and then disperse some, a microcosmic cycle of ruralization and urbanization, with greater and greater capacity, and more and more sophisticated systems of public services, trade, and justice, until existing institutions and policies are replaced by popular hobo demand.

What's more, increasing poverty and homelessness is a major social, economic, public wellness, and national security issue that, in addition to not going away anytime soon, is something I think most Americans find compassion for, and even demand action on, when it's face to face, people like themselves.

It's like, as the oceanliner sinks, and the 99% have to fight for a few life boats and a piece of door, while the 1% fly away on a helicopter, the 99% must realize they were always exponentially closer to being in the same boat together than any of them were to being on the helicopter.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

homeless people would have a hard time organizing I think. from what I understand they are spending the day trying to make money and eat. this will affect where they choose to live and how far they'll travel.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

No doubt. I've seen some organizing though. There are some homeless individuals around me who are members of regional organizations at least. They use technology and organize locally.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I hear sometimes there's buses to Martha's vineyard

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Jokes aside, I'm talking about this monstrous stunt from DeSantis from a few years ago:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha%27s_Vineyard_migrant_airlift

Apparently it wasn't a bus, my bad.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Remember that movie where in the future all restaurants were Taco Bell? Well the real future, all public services are police.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

I think that was demolition man, where only taco bell survived the franchise wars

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Even worse: the police are sponsored by/a subsidiary of Taco Bell

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Now you too can be beaten down with a delicious Chulupa Supreme^tm^

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Wielded by Chalupa Batman.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

And be ruthlessly yapped at by tiny dog with a party hat.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago

So now they have to sleep indoors. Then they are not homeless anymore. Problem solved!