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[-] octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 32 points 3 days ago

You know it.

[-] IzzyScissor@lemmy.world 79 points 4 days ago

The initial lawsuit was in a town with ~600 fewer available beds than residents. These people literally did not have anywhere else to go, and our highest court just said 'tough shit'.

Holy fuck, y'all.

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 35 points 4 days ago

Yeah, these are the kind of people who make me question my pacifism 🤬

[-] IzzyScissor@lemmy.world 23 points 4 days ago

I'm furious. I just read through as much as I could and asked GPT for a summary so I didn't miss anything. It's just about as bad as I thought.

The court is literally arguing that they're not criminalizing homelessness, they're just criminalizing 'sleeping in public' but makes no attempt to justify that with the fact that there literally aren't places to go. When Sotomayor tries to argue that cities should be responsible for providing adequate housing, they just hem and haw at 'What even IS adequate? We may never know. Plus, if we give them BEDS, they'll probably want something to keep them WARM too! That's just too much!'

It's abhorrent and inhumane.

[-] interrobang@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 3 days ago

Honest question- i have narcolepsy. I've had sleep attacks in public.

Does this criminalize a symptom of my disability?

[-] frostysauce@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago

That sounds like a significant challenge. One which if it ever gained enough traction to make it to the SC would be struck down setting a precedent to criminalize "mental illness" which would in turn be used as a precedent to criminalize more general ailments.

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[-] crypticthree@lemmy.world 82 points 4 days ago

As seen in Dallas next to a school of divinity

[-] dactylotheca@suppo.fi 29 points 4 days ago

Oh yes, the part in the Bible where Jesus looks at the poor and goes "kys lol"

[-] IzzyScissor@lemmy.world 19 points 4 days ago

Modern-Day Jesus:

So the beggar at the red light began shouting, "Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!"

"Be quiet!" the people in the vehicle behind yelled at him.

But he only shouted louder, "Son of David, have mercy on me!"

When Jesus heard him, he rolled down his window and ordered that the man come near. Jesus asked him, "What do you want me to do for you?"

"Lord," he said, "My only want is for enough coin to eat for today!"

And Jesus said, "If I were to give you coin, surely you would instead use it instead for drugs and alcohol. I shall not grant you this desire. Instead I shall speak unto the land that all shall know of your wicked ways and none will grant you coin again."

Instantly the man cried out, "If you were not to grant me this, Lord, please allow me to pass on from this world onto hell, for truly I am already living there."

And Jesus said, "I do not know the ways of my Father, but surely I know this: Your fate would not have fallen upon you had you followed Jesus, praising God. You have made this bed, and now it is time for you to lay in it."

And the light changed to green, and Jesus sped away. In the din, the beggar could not explain that he was born a disciple and had praised God since taking his first breath. And the people in the vehicle behind who saw it drove past and said, "Get a job", and praised God this fate would surely never befall them.

And the light changed to green, and Jesus sped away in his cybertruck.

FTFY

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[-] RidderSport@feddit.org 17 points 4 days ago

No no my man suicide is a sin. You're supposed to vegetate and suffer in undignified misery until you finally die -just as God has intended for your life to be

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[-] experbia@lemmy.world 8 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

no, no, conservatives will never support this idea. death is too easy an out. why should they allow those that they view as lesser to have an escape from an absolute living hell? no, they intend to make slaves out of them. step one is to criminalize being homeless. then, the homeless can easily become prisoners in horrific private prisons. conveniently, they can now legally be used as slave labor! the prison corporations don't even have to foot the bills - taxpayers will pay enough to keep the prisoners alive (barely), so the work they force them to do is all profit, a capitalist dream. if they won't work, no worries! it's illegal to torture them, of course, but conveniently, the legal definitions of torture do not include being locked alone in a windowless always-lit featureless room indefinitely with only moldy nutriloaf for food that tastes like human shit, so they can just do that as an "encouragement tactic" until they decide to start toiling properly.

incidentally, and entirely unrelatedly I'm sure, they also want really bad to roll back discrimination protections for women, LGBT, and all minorities, so that anyone can be denied work or housing for "any reason". weird. I'm sure it's not because they want to be able to torture and enslave us "undesirables" with complete impunity, because that would really be antithetical to their primary religion's teachings haha

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[-] Neato@ttrpg.network 86 points 4 days ago

No you'll get fined, fail to pay fines, get arrested for failing to pay fines, get sent to prison and work as a slave forever as court fines increase in perpetuity.

Republicans want to bring slavery back wholesale and they are succeeding.

[-] Wogi@lemmy.world 19 points 4 days ago

The American experiment has failed.

[-] RamblingPanda@lemmynsfw.com 13 points 4 days ago

Nonsense. This is the American dream. To be a pleasant one for the rich it has to be a nightmare for others.

[-] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 17 points 4 days ago

It actually doesn't have to be a nightmare for anyone. The rich can have perfectly pleasant lives while everyone is provided for. It's just not the most profitable situation for the rich. To have their best life, everyone else must be miserable.

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[-] Aquila@sh.itjust.works 94 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Gotta fill the ~~slave camps~~ prisons somehow!

[-] NegativeInf@lemmy.world 37 points 4 days ago

How many of the supreme court justices own stakes in for profit prisons?

[-] disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 35 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Forced labor is not exclusive to private prisons. Federal and state prisons employ inmates just the same.

Our nation incarcerates more than 1.2 million people in state and federal prisons, and two out of three of these incarcerated people are also workers.

https://www.aclu.org/news/human-rights/captive-labor-exploitation-of-incarcerated-workers

[-] gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 24 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Jails and prisons also purchase a ton of goods and services from for profit companies, who are all too happy to upcharge ("you can't put a price on safety!"), and the wardens just sign on the dotted line and hand the bill over to taxpayers

This documentary from about 20 years ago went to one of their tradeshows, and even back then they were talking about how it corrections was a billion dollar industry

e; mirror link for Up the Ridge

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[-] rsuri@lemmy.world 50 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

If you're sick of this, in the DC area, and need a saturday activity, reminder that there's a "Mass Poor People’s and Low-Wage Workers’ Assembly and Moral March on Washington, D.C. and to the Polls" in Washington DC tomorrow morning 10 AM. Make it if you can. Yeah I know the title's absurdly long and marching doesn't do shit but what else are we gonna do.

[-] justaderp@lemmy.world 21 points 4 days ago

marching doesn't do shit

It's a beginning.

what else are we gonna do

We'll boycott, strike, riot, and revolt.

[-] rsuri@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Well this is an explicitly peaceful march so leave the rioting for another day

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[-] Draegur@lemm.ee 12 points 3 days ago

Yes. That is literally the plan.

They want to either kill the homeless or jail them so that they can be enslaved for free labor.

[-] podperson@lemm.ee 38 points 4 days ago

So, in many states....

  1. Can't be homeless.
  2. Can't be dead on purpose (suicide's illegal).
  3. Can't have an abortion.
  4. Can't marry a same-sex spouse.
  5. Can't get healthcare if you don't have a job, and even if you can, it's super expensive and not likely to cover everything.

So I guess, just make sure that you're born well-to-do, never make any mistakes, and are a straight, cis-gender man. Really narrows things down and puts life into clear perspective.

[-] NoIWontPickAName@kbin.earth 29 points 4 days ago

Don’t forget they charge for every day in jail

[-] peopleproblems@lemmy.world 17 points 4 days ago

Jeez. It's sort of the worst kind of dystopic future there is.

Concrete walls, iron bars, hard labor, and an ever increasing debt.

Maybe I'm dumb, but how hard would it be to just not agree to work? They gonna beat you to death? Sounds better than being a slave

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[-] Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 4 days ago

AFAIK gay marriage is still legal in all states. Weirdly that’s one they haven’t been able to crack.

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[-] bignate31@lemmy.world 16 points 3 days ago

Well actually you can't die either, that's illegal. Let me know if you find any other options and I'll make sure they get illegal'd as well!

[-] muculent@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago

It's fine we'll just put people into inescapable debt and have their options be a labor camp or a comatose bio-energy source. You will of course incur medical debt for the comatose option.

[-] bignate31@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago

"We will continue to charge you penalties until you can afford to pay us back"

[-] werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 17 points 3 days ago

If you're homeless, go to t Your town's rich people area and sleep near their mansions. La Jolla near San Diego for example. That's also where I humanely drop off animals that get into my basement like possums and trash pandas.

Only when it happens to the rich are rules changed. If you persist, suddenly it will be legal to sleep in the city streets again!

After all, homeless people used to be housed people. The banks took their homes after their bosses too their jobs. Whoever lives in their old house basically is just in the round robin of people.

[-] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 11 points 3 days ago

If everything is illegal then you are already a criminal. Can't get out of it? Commit to it! That's already the problem with the system we have today. Stop making things worst!

[-] pyre@lemmy.world 24 points 4 days ago

i mean, that's literally what they want. they want you dead. that's what conservatives have always wanted.

[-] VOwOxel@discuss.tchncs.de 21 points 4 days ago

Conservatives don't want you dead. They want you working (until you die) - preferably in labor camps (prisons), where you will go for sleeping outside.

[-] pyre@lemmy.world 9 points 4 days ago

politicians and people in power, yes. the conservatives in general, the voters, they just hate you and want you dead.

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[-] FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world 10 points 4 days ago

They want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers

-Carlin

[-] matt1126@feddit.uk 11 points 3 days ago

It makes perfect sense, the supreme court is just subscribing to the same belief of vaunted UK politicians that homelessness is a lifestyle choice. Perfectly reasonable, just choose not to be homeless, problem solved. /s

[-] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 4 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

it's such bullshit that sleeping in your vehicle is illegal, but just leaving your vehicle laying around is considerably less illegal.

edit: legal instead of illegal, average skill issue

[-] Jiggle_Physics@lemmy.world 21 points 4 days ago

There are lots of places where sleeping in your car is not legal.

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[-] NegativeLookBehind@lemmy.world 17 points 4 days ago

You’re allowed to exist, if you pay for it!

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[-] CaptDust@sh.itjust.works 16 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Guess I'll just die

"Great, were glad you understand the message. Just don't die anywhere visible, heh, we don't need corpses stinking up the streets" - SCOTUS, probably

[-] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 15 points 4 days ago

Yes, that is exactly what they want.

[-] buzz86us@lemmy.world 9 points 4 days ago

Yup they'll use the poor as a source for cheap aquarium gravel

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[-] ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 days ago

The dissenting opinions are just painful reads.

[-] Samvega@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 4 days ago

The crime is life. The sentence is death.

[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago

Constitutional originalists and spitting on common law, name a more iconic duo.

All originalists should have to explain why they’re doing something to Thomas Paine

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[-] notanaltaccount@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

We should create an online database of every single government official who enabled this cruelty (criminalizing poverty) in any capacity and make it a public website.

If the political winds change, we.can decide what to do with it later.

There is so much distributed culpability for this cruelty that it's easy to just throw one's hands up in defeat instead of recognizimg their are people who are culpable and could be held to account at some point lawfully.

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