I thought _INOs was only a term reserved for politicians.
In any case, I’m quite sure they vote Dem, so I’m not sure DINO quite fits.
FYP.
Southern states are net federal tax receivers. Their tax dollars aren’t going to fund minorities in northern cities. Minorities in northern cities are funding them.
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Cuellar adjacent voters as opposed to Cisneros voters.
Bernie can’t win in the general type people.
basically was doing a lot of work there.
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Man, and I thought I was a nit.
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Hitler was basically a bad dude.
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I liked it better before your typo edit: “Butler was basically a bad dude.” Everyone knows the butler did it.
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Yeah, never change your first answer theory holds true.
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He certainly was!
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Why doesn’t California just setup something in the shitty red county part of the state where they can send all the drug addicts there to live and they can get supervised free drugs and a bunk bed somewhere in a converted 80’s mall/commercial building? Maybe they can use an abandoned prison? That solves like every problem all at once.
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Are there any statistics to back up the idea that there are a bunch of people like this woman? This just strikes me as welfare queen sensationalism used to drive a particular narrative.
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Maybe they should “reserve” some land for them way off where no white people would have to see them. They could even designate these “reservations” as having some tax exemptions. What a deal for the drug addicts!
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It could definitely get dystopian, but I don’t think it’s a good idea to just reject some kind of centralized scaled up place for the homeless. I don’t think there’s any way to deal with the problem without being able to deploy services at scale… and for financial reasons that place isn’t going to be in a major city.
I’m thinking of the WPA camps during the depression but with a ton of mental health resources.
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Or maybe they could “concentrate” them someplace. Maybe with tents? They could have “camps”.
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Again easy to make fun of, but harder to come up with a better option.
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So what is the alternative? Give them a $3000/month stipend for a studio apartment in the most expensive city in America? I’m all for UBI, but it should probably involve them living in Bakersfield not San Francisco/Los Angeles. Also, if you are gonna to make free universal housing in San Francisco, aren’t lots of people going to be interested? How do you determine who gets it and what do you do with the people who don’t get it?
What do you do when someone with the $3000/month apartment stipend gets in a fight with the other paying tenants because of X-Y-Z? They get kicked out and are back on the sidewalk?
These are good points. I think its why the actual best solution includes stuff like the government building apartment buildings and renting them out for way less than market value. It’s a shitty system, but its probably better to plop down affordable government subsidized housing in SF or LA rather than sending people to Bakersfield. There will be lots of unfairness, but not necessarily more than there is now. Sometimes shitty problems require a solution that is just less shitty.
The cost of what you’re describing is like 50x what it could be. With how hard it is politically to get $$ for this issue it seems like cost does have to be a factor.
You’re literally never going to get the people in SF/LA to allow you to build a meaningful number of large government housing developments… and if you do it’ll be smack dab on top of some environmental disaster from three decades ago.
Homelessness isn’t even a single problem. It’s an unholy amalgam of a dozen fairly large problems that have been left totally unattended for decades and are now starting to spill out onto the street in really loud ways.
I don’t see any universe where the budget for solving those problems includes building high rises in any of the top 10 most expensive real estate markets in the US, and I think a rural build it from scratch purpose built option is an extremely strong contender.
We need Job Corps meets the WPO meets community college meets a massive mental health care facility. I have a hard time believing it’s smarter to just do more of what we’ve been doing totally unsuccessfully going forward.
And yes we need to make sure these places don’t have much resemblance to prisons, concentration camps, or reservations. More like a giant communal living situation.
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I agree. The appropriate solutions are not achievable because the US sucks on this stuff.