• LillyPip@lemmy.ca
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    4 months ago

    And go where? Someplace else that doesn’t want them?

    Be real, you just want them to die. To be gone, permanently. Don’t address the reasons people are homeless. Don’t provide actual housing. They’ll be fodder for labour camps soon enough, anyhow.

    Nevermind there are currently 28 vacant homes for every one person experiencing homelessness in the U.S., many of which are owned not by individuals but by corporate conglomerates that have no incentive to fill them with people, since they’re a tax write-off.

    Fuck everything about this. In modern society, housing should be a human right. There’s already more than enough to go round.

    e: though now I think about it, what else should we expect from the US’s most famously notorious slumlord?

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      4 months ago

      I have no doubt in my mind that the wealthy view the non-wealthy in the same way that an average person would view an ant. They may not hate it, but they don’t like it, and wouldn’t feel the slightest bit guilty killing one if it happens to be in their way, or killing thousands if they feel as though they’ve “infested” what they view as their property.

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      4 months ago

      Like other dictatorships building golden palaces and keeping their area nice while not giving a fuck about other places.

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      It’s a lot more sinister than that.

      He started with the immigrants, because there was a tenuous theory under which his personal police force was allowed to fuck them up and do whatever they want. Some little speedbumps aside, that worked out okay, no one stopped it. Now he’s talking about federalizing the police force in one particular place, and moving on to the next target, who are citizens, American people, and where there’s not even that vague theory that he’s got a right to be throwing them in detention and letting them die of the natural conditions there.

      If no one stops that, then it moves on to the next group.

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        Idk that’ll basically be everyone the course we’re on…

        Not all our jobs are gonna make it through this mess. Many will be faced with a choice of ‘join ice or be detained.’

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          Consider that the federal agencies are now demanding that state agencies provide information on all the people who receive benefits like SNAP, WIC, Housing assistance, HEAP, etc. Families who qualify for SNAP (foodstamps) also qualify for other benefits including higher ed scholarships. These are usually grant monies that the state is allowed to distribute. Now they want more info… because “waste and fraud” - why not trust the states to determine that??? so after the immigrants, they focus on the homeless… then move on to the poors.