I would love to get rid of the homeless. I don’t like seeing them on the streets shooting up, yelling at people walking by. They are rude, aggressive and scary. They don’t bath and stink up everything. I want them in homes, getting fucked up yelling at people off their balconies instead while they wait for their bath to reach a boil in high quality housing paid by seizing the monopolists money.
This is some fucked up anti-homeless propaganda. You sound like one of those sociopaths on nextdoor, even if you end it with a call to action that would help them. The damage you do by reinforcing the image of the dangerous, drug-addicted homeless person far outweighs the good part imo.
Good I’m glad my sarcasm came through. When tech people and people in general talk about San Francisco’s homeless problem they don’t care about people who are temporary homeless. They are invisible and most get on their feet quickly packed away in some terrible share housing because of the areas poor zoning laws. Tech workers don’t care or think about these people even though that’s 95 percent of the homeless population. They are just another member of the invisible downwardly mobile trend. What you hear people complain about is the long term homeless which by and large are drug addicts or have other problems. I’m not really going to be woke on homelessness, I know to many people and tried to get enough back on their feet. A lot of them have issues and living on the street doesn’t help them.
The thing is San Francisco is mostly unique in how it hates everyone. Unlike places which are a bit better people who would be on the edge end up on the street. by contrast if they lived in Maryland they would be in free housing where they don’t have to scrap by for every little thing and can enjoy some basic creature comforts which as you can imagine makes people a bit more tolerable to be around.If someone has to deal with drug or mental problems having a bed, roof and safety are pretty damn important to keep some scraps mental health. It’s not some inherent problem where it’s in their homeless genes. San Francisco just did some math and for a long time it was cheaper to send the cops on them rather than address any issues around zoning and mass building high quality public housing is outside of the American Overton window combined with the NIMBY team up of mostly rich Hispanic landlords and white landlords concerned about keeping their property values up and preserving the local character of their city while offering superficial support to rent control while failing to address the supply problem.
You can’t post something demeaning to a large swath of people then say, “It was sarcasm, bro!” Differentiating between temporary homeless and long-term homeless makes sense on some level, but the way you’re doing it just strikes me as sophistry. Like you’re giving yourself an excuse to hate people because they don’t want to get well hard enough.
I agree that the homeless should be given places to live. I don’t understand your big run-on sentence about San Francisco American Overton Window NIMBY Hispanic landlords local character. When I tell you “you sound like a sociopath repeating a derogatory message about the homeless” and your response is “I’m not going to get woke on homelessness!” that really makes me question your empathy. You didn’t even make a differentiation until I called you out on it.
Some people are going to be fucked up no matter what. And the way you fixate on making them ‘tolerable to be around’ makes me think you’ll fall behind some weed and seed police program because you’ve already done the work of dehumanizing them in your heart.
