Chapo said that if it was put to a vote, the majority of Americans, chuds and libs alike, would vote for all the homeless to just “go away” in some unspecified way, as long as it was done quietly and out of sight.
I think they were right.
“They move in” yes because they’re always outsiders, an invading horde, never people from those communities.
This even if you don’t like the homeless, give them homes. It solves so many social problems. I hate the “fuck you I got mine attitude” that permeates all of American culture.
I understand this desire, but the cost of land is so high in the Bay that giving folks a place entails buying new land with astronomical sums of money or repurposing already-scarce public land (read: parks) for homeless, which turns it into a zero-sum game likely to breed more animosity.
Now, could the cities simply not have sold off all their land ages ago? Yes. Could the cities simply not have abused their power of eminent domain to build freeways so much that blowback led to a significant curtailing of the latitude of this power? Also yes.
But now we’re here, and don’t act like leftists don’t also get mad when cities are like “here’s a Tuff Shed under a freeway overpass”.
So much of that land is just parking lots for strip malls of national chain retailers and fuddruckers
as always, the white moderate will say the slogans and then perpetuate the violence
It’s really something how true that first page of State and Revolution holds up over a hundred years later. And by something I mean depressing.
“During the lifetime of great revolutionaries, the oppressing classes constantly hounded them, received their theories with the most savage malice, the most furious hatred and the most unscrupulous campaigns of lies and slander. After their death, attempts are made to convert them into harmless icons, to canonize them, so to say, and to hallow their names to a certain extent for the “consolation” of the oppressed classes and with the object of duping the latter, while at the same time robbing the revolutionary theory of its substance, blunting its revolutionary edge and vulgarizing it.”
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