The Democrat Utopia
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BigRedBuster
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Good for him.
Now, what are you going to do with the people?
Now, what are you going to do with the people?
ZRod
Active member
This has always been my... Idk... gripe.
So, you make homelessness illegal. Ok. Now you're just perpetuating the problem. They have no where to go. You're adding or adding-on-to a criminal history, but you're not really helping them in any way. Just punishing them for having a s#!tty hand.
Guy Chamberlin
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Our Bay Area town of 54,000 has a highly visible homeless problem. Because we have a geographic cluster of a Transit Center, two shelters/soup kitchens, a Walgreens, a Safeway, a highway overpass and non-residential open spaces, we take the homeless bullet for the other 200,000 residents of the county, who have virtually none of this.
Everyone agrees its the biggest problem in a place that doesn't have a lot of big problems. Life is pretty good here. But homelessness brings people out on city council meetings and Next Door rants. What is being done? people ask.
Here's what's being done:
The homeless find a place to set up encampments.
Over the next few months they get bigger
People complain, especially the adjacent businesses.
The city moves in and removes the homeless encampments, inform people of the public services available to them, help them find beds in shelters.
There aren't enough beds in shelters. The religious shelters ban drug and alcohol use.
The homeless find a new place to set up encampments.
Rinse and repeat.
Nebfanatic
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Makes me think of the new Benedict Cumberbatch limited series called "Eric".
State Department Spokesperson Matthew Miller said Thursday that "something is seriously wrong" with the way anti-Israel protests are unfolding in the nation's capital.
"Something is seriously wrong when you see people marching through the streets of Washington carrying Hamas banners, literal, literal Hamas banners, carrying the Hamas flag down the streets of Washington, D.C. When you see people spray painting on fountains in Washington that Hamas is coming, when you see them displaying signs calling for the death of Jews, when you see them burning American flags, it's despicable," Miller said.
"It's hateful. It runs contrary to the values of this country, I think especially when you consider what that flag that we saw being burned yesterday stands for," he continued. "And one of the things that stands for is the right to protest, the right to make your views known, make them known peacefully."
"I would say to anyone that is burning an American flag while spray painting pro-Hamas graffiti in Washington to stop and think for a moment about what would happen if they were protesting Hamas's rule in Gaza," Miller added.
"And it's not a question that you have to look very hard for an answer, because we know, because we've seen in the past when people have protested Hamas' rule in Gaza, we've seen how Hamas has responded. They responded with brutal crackdowns, with arrests, with violent repression. Fortunately, that is not who we are in this country," he concluded.
"Something is seriously wrong when you see people marching through the streets of Washington carrying Hamas banners, literal, literal Hamas banners, carrying the Hamas flag down the streets of Washington, D.C. When you see people spray painting on fountains in Washington that Hamas is coming, when you see them displaying signs calling for the death of Jews, when you see them burning American flags, it's despicable," Miller said.
"It's hateful. It runs contrary to the values of this country, I think especially when you consider what that flag that we saw being burned yesterday stands for," he continued. "And one of the things that stands for is the right to protest, the right to make your views known, make them known peacefully."
"I would say to anyone that is burning an American flag while spray painting pro-Hamas graffiti in Washington to stop and think for a moment about what would happen if they were protesting Hamas's rule in Gaza," Miller added.
"And it's not a question that you have to look very hard for an answer, because we know, because we've seen in the past when people have protested Hamas' rule in Gaza, we've seen how Hamas has responded. They responded with brutal crackdowns, with arrests, with violent repression. Fortunately, that is not who we are in this country," he concluded.
Dr. Strangelove
New member
The voters of California need to embrace building more houses.
The voters of California really, really do not want to build more houses.
The voters of California care more about increasing housing prices than they do about making their state better and addressing the homelessness problem.
It's about time these people start being seen as what they are. The protests on elite college campuses were based on ignorance, but hopefully public opinion shifts even more heavily against them.
teachercd
Active member
50% ignorance and 50% a$$h@!eness
It is sad that the public opinion of those ignoholes has not shifted even more.
Lorewarn
New member
if true, it could mean a lot of things, that being one of them. Could also be that the arrests were bulls#!t, or that a supervisor or an ADA or someone didn't think the cases were winnable, etc.
commando
Active member
lol....there are literally videos of people getting arrested yesterday at the riots. i posted a link about 200 people being arrested 2 days ago for their pro hammas protest. maybe some people don't want to see those arrests and just say that only right wingers get arrested...but it's not true and most people know it.
teachercd
Active member
Hopefully the pro-hammi idiots (yes, they are real) are all sent to go serve with the hammies.
ZRod
Active member
Most of the time when there are mass arrest like this the charges end up getting dropped so there's no real punishment involved other than an overnight stay.