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Makes sense. Fine people who have nowhere to go because they have no money. They have no money. How are they going to pay the fine? A child could figure that out.
Can you jail them for not paying their fines? If so, homelessness is solved! 🥳
Exactly.
Great idea. But jails are expensive, you have guards and such you have to pay. Maybe a small house, like a tiny one. Where they can come and go, and maybe find a job and start paying taxes.
But if you put them in jail you can dehumanize them and legitimize their treatment, they are now criminals after all. You can also put them to work for slave wages without causing a social uproar.
Heh. We need to starve the machine.
Homelessness in America is 10 times higher than reported. The majority of people in prison are homeless and go from in prison to homelessness to prison again. But they don't need to imprison people for just being homeless. You make laws that only penalize things homeless people have to do to survive. Like, anti camping laws. Or, eating to close to a road.
And the prison industrial complex needs starving.
You know what? Say "fuck you" to homeless people and tell them they can't be homeless anymore! Force them into housing, create free community kitchens, provide living wages, provide free public transportation, have community closets, subsidize healthcare, destigmatize mental health issues!
It's time to rise up against the homeless and tell them "you can't live this way unless it's by choice!" And then, as a community, take away their access to homelessness without dignity (also, ends hostile architecture) and tell them, "fuck you, we will lift you up when you are downfallen because human beings, having invented homelessness, are easily capable of ending it."
Your actions have caused the for-profit prison system to declare war
They do everything except solve homelessness. So stupid.
Can’t even exist in this country without people fucking with you.
Yup. They want people spending money or going to a job. If you don't participate in the machine, they mark you a criminal.
This has been going on for so many generations, it's sub-subconsious. I'm wondering how we can shift popular mentality around this subject?
I hope so. Appreciate the optimistic thought.
Can we milk the last drop out of the least fortunate among us?
Sometimes I sleep outside in my own backyard because I sleep outside as often as I can. The real problem is lack of access to restrooms etc.
Grants Pass? Yeah that sounds about right. Bunch of Rogue Valley rednecks and Californians.
I say that as a relative of one of those Rogue Valley rednecks.
this post was submitted on 15 Apr 2024
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