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[–] ringwraithfish@startrek.website 144 points 6 months ago (41 children)

Can't afford a home, probably gonna be illegal to be homeless. Guess they should just kill themselves then.

Fuck the modern conservative movement. No empathy for the downtrodden.

[–] johsny@lemmy.world 33 points 6 months ago (3 children)

It is illegal to kill yourself.

[–] Car@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Born too early to enjoy fully automated luxury gay space communism, born too late to participate in affordable housing, born just in time to go to jail for conspiracy to commit suicide because living is too expensive.

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[–] 100_kg_90_de_belin@feddit.it 16 points 6 months ago (2 children)

The next step is blending them into a nutrient-rich slush that will be fed to people in workhouses

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[–] Maoo@hexbear.net 9 points 6 months ago (10 children)

Get a load of this lib that doesn't know virtually every Dem-run city provides full-throated support for the cops and pushes anti-homeless policies.

You ever stopped a sweep, lib?

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[–] Shanedino@lemmy.world 62 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Would these people rather homeless people break into places and sleeping inside? This seems like the only plausible alternative.

[–] Soup@lemmy.world 39 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Of course they would. Homeless people aren’t criminals and they can’t make being homeless a crime, per se, so they just do as much as they can to drive them towards crimes. It’ll be safer to avoid being caught if they break in and can be hidden but if they do get caught it’ll be horrendous. They’ll put them in slave camps-I’m sorry, “jails” and away we go.

It is the most heinous shit imaginable and these broken monsters get off to it.

[–] huginn@feddit.it 9 points 6 months ago

I mean vagrancy is increasingly being criminalized directly.

[–] dustyData@lemmy.world 17 points 6 months ago

Watch closely as they make providing shelter illegal as well (just like they made providing food illegal). The cruelty is the point.

[–] Bluefalcon@discuss.tchncs.de 48 points 6 months ago

That's right homeless, you can't sleep here. Just go home already.

[–] Hyperreality@kbin.social 43 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Sounds like a great idea.

Of course, if it's a crime to be homeless, it's also a crime to force or coerce someone into commiting that crime.

I look forward to the officials and landlords responsible to be jailed for each crime they helped commit.

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[–] Banzai51@midwest.social 39 points 6 months ago (2 children)

As if we don't know how this Court will decide.

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[–] BigMikeInAustin@lemmy.world 34 points 6 months ago (5 children)

I know this guy who goes to the New York state courthouse everyday to sleep. He doesn't even try to hide. He does it in an occupied court room during a trial, on tax-paid furniture.

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[–] Atelopus-zeteki@kbin.run 31 points 6 months ago

"Let them sleep inside". paraphrasing Marie Antoinette. smh.

[–] nomnomdeplume@lemmy.world 29 points 6 months ago

Where do we put them if every city, every village, every town lacks compassion and passes a law identical to this

This is why there needs to be a national effort around this, rather than this patchwork approach which often just (expensively&wastefully) moves the problem around without solving it.

[–] wombat@hexbear.net 22 points 6 months ago

we may have to start making excuses for the lack of terror

[–] penquin@lemm.ee 21 points 6 months ago

So, they won't help them and won't let them be on the streets? Man, homeless folks need to learn to levitate then, so they can sleep in the air instead.

[–] LoamImprovement@beehaw.org 19 points 6 months ago

How's that old quote go again? "The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread."

[–] anachronist@midwest.social 17 points 6 months ago

This is probably the most prescient episode of Star Trek ever: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Past_Tense_(Star_Trek%3A_Deep_Space_Nine)

Basically Sisko and friends go back in time to America in 2024, where it's illegal to be homeless and they get put in an open air prison.

[–] Coolkidbozzy@hexbear.net 17 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I slept in this town once when I was temporarily homeless. I was lucky enough to not be harassed by cops. Letting people sleep in public spaces doesn't harm anyone except landlords, the housing market, and the hotel/airbnb industry. How the fuck is an unemployed unhoused person supposed to eventually afford rent if they're fined for existing outside?

[–] anonochronomus@hexbear.net 15 points 6 months ago

Have you considered the goal is to exterminate undesirables?

[–] DaSaw@midwest.social 16 points 6 months ago (1 children)

This seems like a no-brainer to me... though it probably isn't. Obviously you have a constitutional right to sleep, wherever you can make space for yourself. If these cities and downs don't want people sleeping outside, they need to provide indoor space for people who haven't actually committed crimes. We treat our criminals better than we treat our homeless.

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[–] HeChomk@lemmy.world 15 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Something something, sanctuary districts, something something, Bell Riots. Almost on schedule. WW3 next, then first contact.

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[–] micnd90@hexbear.net 8 points 6 months ago

hey it's illegal to be poor, stop being poor m'kay, just stop

[–] Ultragigagigantic@lemmy.world 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Belk Riots - September 2024

[–] flicker@lemmy.world 10 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

Bell.

But yes this seems exactly like the precursor to the Bell Riots...

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