• Zer0_F0x@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Housing, rehabilitating and educating homeless people costs the same or less than funding their persecution, prosecution and incarceration while solving the problem instead of perpetuating it

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      The people doing this enjoy the cruelty, they feel those that fall through the cracks should be smashed, and when those bodies cleared, the next slightly less poor group will be crushed

      again and again

      Until it’s only the ultra wealthy being served by the grateful remainders of every other class who they deign to allow to survive

      Just like the plan

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      1 month ago

      and the business is the one deciding these things?

      Like. I get it.

      The way we treat homeless people sucks in this country.

      It shouldn’t be that way. But the business isn’t the one setting those policies here. That’s on LA and the CA governments. And while yes, some of the business interests are voicing opinions here… the barber shop and the landlords here aren’t big enough to have any pull. Many are just looking for ways to end it… and would fully support doing housing-first strategies and all that. (because they work.)

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        1 month ago

        Businesses just bought the election for the fucking president. They can buy policy that helps humans.

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          You think every business wanted Trump?

          C’mon. That was a relatively few, large, businesses. Be realistic. The barber that’s looking at losing his business, the others in that building had to leave or close.

          The landlord, who can’t get tenants to move in.

          They probably weren’t trumpers anymore than you were, and I doubt very much they would resist an actual solution to the problems they’re facing.