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It’s not only about getting the policy enacted, imo. It’s about taking the messaging fight to them on our terms, instead of just constantly reacting to R lies. The only way you are ever going to get voters to care is by publicly advocating for what you want. When Trump swings the door wide open to talk about good policy, you take the opportunity. Like, the Dems constantly take the bait on stupid made-up issues like bathroom bills, they shouldn’t shy away from fights that are universally good.
Nah, I Think way more people have friends or family that have been homeless or been very close to it themselves. They have a much more personal link to the problem in that the fear e
Is they may become homeless at some point. People don’t have the same kind of relationship to undocumented immigrants.
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Go on NextDoor. People hate the homeless. And it’s super easy to pretend you are helping people when the actions are really criminalizing and warehousing people. And I disagree with you about the bathroom bill. I think that was a loser for the Republicans. I don’t think there’s even a large number of people on the right who give a shit about that and essentially no independent/swing voters.
“undocumented immigrants”? documents are a technicality. What people don’t like is being around a lot of non-white people who have the audacity to speak Spanish. They don’t care whether they are documented or not. They wouldn’t care about similar numbers of Canadian or European people even if they weren’t documented.
LOL “blowback”. This concept applies only to Dems. Have we ever seen a headline like “Facing Blowback, Trump Clarifies Statements About Immigrants”? Of course not. He doubles down.
Literally no critics are even named in that article, just “Some legal experts and commentators had criticized Biden for his remarks” SMH
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The other problem with the messaging on homelessness is that establishment dems, and really anyone to the right of Bernie, just don’t want to do anything to help homeless people, if it involves giving people money or housing. If it invokes “market solutions” or tax breaks, sign them up, but not anything that would actually help people
bottle returns will still earn you 5c but if you submit a w4 form at the machine proving you earned less than $4000 last year and expect to pay no income tax in the current fiscal year, they’ll pay you 7c
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Hot damn 5% over a year boys!
500 richest families increased their total wealth by 25% this year and wages increased 5%.
Watched Donnie Darko and then watched my kids watch it a few days later. Pretty sure it is one of their favorite movies of all time now. My daughter’s immediate reaction to Sparkle Motion was “OMG, no. Why? They’re like, 5”. That was my exact reaction too, so I was happy to hear it. Solid recommendation. Thanks!
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One of the four or five “homeless” people in Manhattan Beach has a place at his mother’s house, but stays in the streets most of the time.
That doesn’t mean he should be involuntarily committed imo.
Sometimes. Freedom is more important than cleanliness though and giving a lot of these people access to a free shower, bathrooms and food is better than locking them up even in a nice place. For some people not.
You could probably sell a plan to the R’s if it meant people could be held against their will in for-profit mental institutions. This sounds like a skit that Sasha Baron Cohen would do. Interview some douchebag idiot lawmaker in Florida or WV and get him to enthusiastically support the involuntary incarceration of those who need help the most (for profit). I imagine it wouldn’t take much work or time for someone to set this interview up and nobody would be shocked, which is fucking depressing.
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It’s this
Health care for all solves a lot of these issues.
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Well the long-term homeless have their own community. When you get a home, you are no longer part of that community. At the same time, the rest of society looks at even ex-homeless like they’re pieces of shit living off the government. Either have a home and be lonely or be homeless and have a community.
We already do this with mentally ill people.
There is some small percentage of homeless people who have enough mental capacity to be that way by choice. It’s kind of shitty and patronizing to deny them agency and insist they conform to somebody else’s idea of normalcy.
At some point if one is smart enough, it should at least occur to ask the question of who are really the crazy ones.