Let the homeless live in cities with reasonable year-round climates. Bus them from places with harsh winters to places that don’t.
Or how about we just give them housing and social support services.
I’m moving the Overton window by suggesting an extreme solution that will make the NIMBYs think that your idea is reasonable by comparison.
Has moving the Overton window worked in any cases on any politcal topic with the GOP in the last decade? It seems like they just counter the other way and the Nimbys make the rules anyway.
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Dems don’t try.
There will definitely be lots of photo-ops.
I spent a while in Hollywood last night. To see the people living on the streets and to conclude that they are the problem, rather than the society that allows this to happen, is seriously mind-boggling to me.
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Huron Chief Kondiaronk visited France in the 17th Century and was aghast at how Europeans just let people starve. He said:
I have spent six years reflecting on the state of European society and I still can’t think of a single way they act that is not inhuman, and I genuinely think this can only be the case as long as you stick to your distinctions of ‘mine’ and ‘thine’. To imagine one can live in the country of money and preserve one’s soul is like imagining one could preserve one’s life at the bottom of a lake.
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Pretty spot on. Capitalism destroys people’s ability to look out for the whole and in turn destroys the very soul of the people. As long as the final tally of who is ahead is based on the number of dollars in their pocket, greed will always rule the day
More directly in response to why so many people are so harsh to homeless people, it seems pretty often true in general that if people are unfair to someone and have cause to feel guilty about that they will be extra harsh to make it feel like it’s deserved. And if they person they are being unfair to acts up in the slightest people will go nuts and do stuff like try to banish them to the desert.
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Top story on cnn.com right now:
This might be promising, but it seems like the wrong order to clear the neighborhood first, then “scramble” to provide some services.
they’re also scrambling to create safe options for the displaced: leasing more hotel rooms and vacant buildings to convert into shelters, and building an outdoor campground with security, restrooms and hand-washing stations
oh no. how will california get through this?
I think Scott Baio was in a sex ed video I watched in grade school.
Median home price is $728k. Lotta people thinking about leaving over homelessness, but it’s mostly to avoid it for themselves.
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They should pull themselves up by their bootstraps and borrow $500,000 from their parents. It’s called Personal Responsibility.
He was attached to nearly every hot girl in the 80s and 90s.
Maybe right-wing politics is a fetish for some women.
Not the thread for this but: right after I arrived in LA I was working as an assistant at a talent agency. Julie McCullough stopped by to say hello and I freaked out. You may remember her as Kirk Cameron’s girlfriend in Growing Pains, but I knew her from Playboy and Big Bad Mama II and I thought she was about the hottest person alive. My boss knew this, and suggested to her that she show me the town. So she invited me to go with a group to the Hollywood Athletic Club, which at the time was a pool hall but had started doing swing dancing nights. So I went and the group was Julie, her brother, Jimmy Van Patten, Scott Baio, and me. Probably a few others, but that’s what I remember. There is no funny ending to the story, but Scott Baio at the time was perfectly normal and Jimmy Van Patten was hilarious.
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Zapped?
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I think the cameras have really caused a lot of damage.
People need to believe they can learn from the power of community but so much of our current society demands perfection.
Btw, thx for sharing and I’m working hard on my exterior kindness.
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