It's not a binary choice between communism and libertarianism and people online need to understand that. I don't like either of those things and they're not the only choices available.
everyone knows you can either be a marxist or an ancap and that's it
What in the shit are you talking about? Corporatism is a well defined term and it isn't "when private corporations do things". Were you maybe thinking of corporate capitalism?
You don’t understand.
These people probably don't even have hobbies. Gardening is a hobby. Smoking weed is not a hobby.
They do. Have you not heard of consume product and get excited for next product?
I want to see this study on housing benefiting the homeless.
There are so many programs in urban areas designed to drive homeless out of the cities that you probably don't even notice them. You ever noticed how many park benches now have one or more iron "arm-rests" partitioning the bench? That's designed to prevent homeless people from lying down on said bench to sleep. Pissed off that the only fast-food places in town seem to be in the shady-as-hell neighborhoods these days? Any place with a "dollar menu" (see: something a homeless person might eat after begging) is being systemically pushed into said neighborhoods to "fix urban blight". Cities in California will literally pay to bus their homeless to San Fran.
Not sure about that. At least in Europe there are so many opportunities for people not be homeless and to have nice places to sleep at. One of the most common ones being churches (but then they must be clean so many refuse), but there are also social services. In my experience, the people who are driven out are the people who refuse help because I have seen similar programs to the ones you talk about.
I should have been more clear: I'm talking about America, which seems to hope that the homeless crisis will magically solve itself if they just shove it out of sight/that the homeless will all just die off.
A lot of it is the fact that it really isn’t that difficult to not be homeless in most of the US. Generally, people who are long term homeless and are so on public properties are the type to cause trouble, either because they have mental problems or they’re junkies or they’re just a useless person. The best way to minimize homelessness is to disincentivized it.
“The homeless crisis” is far more complicated than “deez dudes ain’t got no home”. A drug crisis that’s getting worse as we continue to normalize drug culture, a mental health crisis that was the result of complete deinstitutionalization and replacing it with “here are some meds, if you don’t take them that’s your problem”, and of course a nationwide deindustrialization crisis that feeds into the former two.
Gee, thanks for putting all of those words in my mouth. I agree with two-thirds of what you said here.
We rage about it because it's our neighborhoods that get flooded with tarp-covered tents and schizoid druggies, stumbling around, leaving their needles everywhere, and stealing everything that isn't tied down. I didn't need to keep my grill's propane tank indoors when I lived in suburban CO. I need it in the glorious leftoid utopias of the PNW. Because the last 2 tanks have been stolen to fuel chop shops in the park next door.