its great to hear someone else say this. I feel exactly the same. Taxes don't bother me as long as they are used to make a society Im happy to live in.
This isn’t about speech. This is about location. I can see why this would be considered a safety issue. Medians weren’t designed for people to stand in them. They’re designed to separate traffic and facilitate signage, light poles, etc.
I’m against the criminalization of homelessness, but this isn’t that.
Seeing them walking in the road at traffic lights takes me so long to get used to when visiting the US, they’re less intense than the people who hang around outside shops begging though.
I don’t think shuffling them around and making everyone find new places to beg will help anything, the solution is two things. For those fhat need it mental health help plus education and tools to enable simple living, then material helps to get into a dwelling and develop a meaningful and sustainable lifestyle.
They aren’t shuffling them around. They are arresting them and putting them in private prisons, because slavery is still legal in the U.S. if you’re a prisoner and private prisons have quotas.
“People think homeless people are lazy, and they are not lazy. This is hard work.”
It probably is hard being out there in all sorts of weather. But it’s not a productive endeavor, it contributes nothing to society. I can also see it is dangerous and distracting to have people hanging out and moving around so close to traffic. Cars and pedestrians don’t mix well.
“Not a productive endeavor” could be a classification for thousands of businesses that exist and make money. That just seems like a weak justification for attacking a marginalized group.
Safety issues are a concern but for example in my city, firefighters often have a “fill the boot” fundraiser where they run around cars at stoplights trying to get people to put money into a boot that they’re carrying around. This is no different than pan handling, except one group is viewed more favorably than the other and safety doesn’t seem to be such an issue with the favored group.
There needs to be some useful and productive way for homeless to make money, ideally open schemes in which anyone regardless of status can participate without restrictive conditions and expectations.
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Pushing to have zygotes and blastocysts as people is fucking worse. That’s as nonsensical as calling sperm people. There’s not even a neural tube for christ sakes. My toenail has as much personhood. This shit isn’t even biblical.
fuck religion. prove your god is real or stfu. stop letting conservatives have a say in the government of this country. just put your fucking feet down people. stop letting idiots speak.
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