Naw brohamley, feminists just love having sex. Kinda like Quakers love to drink, environmentalists love pollution, and Orthodox Jews just can't get enough pork.
I'm curious why you describe it as a "quasi-police state". I don't see any "quasi" - it appears we have a full-on police state in America today.
Government spying on *everyone*. (Reads your mail, listens to your phone calls, tracks your every move.) Stalin-sized Gulag. Torture. Coerced false confessions ("plea bargains"). Ultraviolent police, equipped and trained as an occupying army. Heavy censorship (FB, Twatter, GOOG). Fortified borders to keep us in.
What, if anything, is missing? We totally qualify as a police state today.
There is no magic fairyland where the city council will give you a big suitcase of cash when you arrive.
Most of the towns mentioned in, e.g. this article - https://www.housebeautiful.com... - provide help for financing the purchase of a new home. I believe the reason the homeless do not avail themselves of such generous public policy, is that they lack the big bags of money needed to buy a house.
Take a lane that's currently used for cars, put up those bendy plastic divider poles to make a real separated bike lane, and everyone wins. No one *wants* to ride in the same right of way with pedestrians. But riding in car traffic is life threateningly dangerous.
Freedom is a human right. Pre-sentient distributed cybernetic entities (corporations) have no human rights. They are legal fictions, creatures of the state. They exist to serve us, not the other way 'round.
Subsidized housing is a paternalist welfare state crock of shit.
What we need is a huge increase in housing units. Sufficiently huge to impact regional market prices. We want housing that is affordable for the average working stiff. Not "affordable housing" where ordinary people aren't allowed to live.
Okay, sure, Capitalism/Financialism is doing a shit job building enough housing for the people. So fuck "private enterprise" - let's charter a municipal construction company, seize under-developed land all over town, and build the housing the city so desperately needs.
Oh wait.... That would definitely cure the problem. But the drunken sadistic bourgeoisie of the juridical oligarchy would never allow it. 'Cuz private pooperty. And 'cuz fuck you plebs, you deserve to sleep in the street.
"Responsibility for your own actions comes along with being an adult. Apparently a lot of grown-up kids in Seattle."
Spoken like an irresponsible suburban bumpkin.
Why don't you go home and jerk off to your 401k statement?
The rest of us realize that the suffering of tens of thousands of our brethren IS our problem. We want to live in cities where we needn't step over fellow human beings sleeping on the sidewalk.
You must be a homelessness quango employee. Spending money on homelessness "programs" does nothing to reduce the number of people living in the street. It does, however, pay for a handful of progressives to feel good about themselves while essentially working as jailers.
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Because I lived in the great sewer of humanity that is San Francisco for over a decade.
But how would that maximize short-term profits for the oligarchy?
Naw brohamley, feminists just love having sex. Kinda like Quakers love to drink, environmentalists love pollution, and Orthodox Jews just can't get enough pork.
If you hurl enough sophomoric insults, *someday* a feminist will give you a kiss. Keep trying!
But don't waste too much time on it - you've still got a lot of capitalist boots to lick today.
I'm sure you get lots of "tail" at the Moby Dick bar in Castro... But please remember, not everyone shares your unhinged depravity.
I'm curious why you describe it as a "quasi-police state". I don't see any "quasi" - it appears we have a full-on police state in America today.
Government spying on *everyone*. (Reads your mail, listens to your phone calls, tracks your every move.)
Stalin-sized Gulag.
Torture.
Coerced false confessions ("plea bargains").
Ultraviolent police, equipped and trained as an occupying army.
Heavy censorship (FB, Twatter, GOOG).
Fortified borders to keep us in.
What, if anything, is missing? We totally qualify as a police state today.
Big Brother Google loves us all. He would *never* censor search results to manipulate public opinion!
Yup, I too remember when Google was actually *good* for searching the internet. Ah the good old days...
I, for one, welcome our new sexless, soulless, joyless Feminist overlords.
Lick those Capitalist boots!
There is no magic fairyland where the city council will give you a big suitcase of cash when you arrive.
Most of the towns mentioned in, e.g. this article - https://www.housebeautiful.com... - provide help for financing the purchase of a new home. I believe the reason the homeless do not avail themselves of such generous public policy, is that they lack the big bags of money needed to buy a house.
Take a lane that's currently used for cars, put up those bendy plastic divider poles to make a real separated bike lane, and everyone wins. No one *wants* to ride in the same right of way with pedestrians. But riding in car traffic is life threateningly dangerous.
Fuck the workers! Impoverish the country!
- Margaret Thatcher
Freedom is a human right. Pre-sentient distributed cybernetic entities (corporations) have no human rights. They are legal fictions, creatures of the state. They exist to serve us, not the other way 'round.
But it's burnt! And stale! C'mon, everyone loves burnt stale coffee. Right?
Obviously we should be taxing the homeless and building cheap apartments for corporate moguls. That's sure to work!
Subsidized housing is a paternalist welfare state crock of shit.
What we need is a huge increase in housing units. Sufficiently huge to impact regional market prices. We want housing that is affordable for the average working stiff. Not "affordable housing" where ordinary people aren't allowed to live.
Okay, sure, Capitalism/Financialism is doing a shit job building enough housing for the people. So fuck "private enterprise" - let's charter a municipal construction company, seize under-developed land all over town, and build the housing the city so desperately needs.
Oh wait.... That would definitely cure the problem. But the drunken sadistic bourgeoisie of the juridical oligarchy would never allow it. 'Cuz private pooperty. And 'cuz fuck you plebs, you deserve to sleep in the street.
"Responsibility for your own actions comes along with being an adult. Apparently a lot of grown-up kids in Seattle."
Spoken like an irresponsible suburban bumpkin.
Why don't you go home and jerk off to your 401k statement?
The rest of us realize that the suffering of tens of thousands of our brethren IS our problem. We want to live in cities where we needn't step over fellow human beings sleeping on the sidewalk.
Most unemployment numbers are so cooked they're basically bogus.
Many people believe the real unemployment rate is 3 to 5 times higher than the official number.
Capitalist supply & demand forces work great for gadgets and consumer goods.
Alas, it works like shit for housing, food, industrial capital equipment, infrastructure, culture, and defence.
Fuck you, Boomer. Your attitude is "I've got mine, so screw the rest of you."
So you had at least $10k in capital, and the connections/skills to land a good job. Alas, I fear most homeless folks lack those advantages.
You must be a homelessness quango employee. Spending money on homelessness "programs" does nothing to reduce the number of people living in the street. It does, however, pay for a handful of progressives to feel good about themselves while essentially working as jailers.
Do you suffer from Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS)? Do thoughts of Donald Trump fill your every waking moment, and often intrude on your sleep? Are you unable to resist mentioning President Trump unrelated conversations?
At last there is help! New Donaldizole has been proven safe and clinically effective at treating TDS.
Side effects include deplorability, reduced capacity for self-deception, war weariness, and raging diarrhea.
Ask your doctor about new Donaldizole, and get help today!
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