Please do not call the police on the homeless in the USA.
libs would support a program to send homeless people “to a farm upstate” so they never have to think about them again. They’d complain more if we gave them free stuff rather than simply killing the poor
Please do not call the police
on the homelessin the USA.
there is no possible good outcome from doing this
There are situations where indiscriminate violence actually makes a situation better, unfortunately, and in those situations you should call the cops.
It was late at night at my fast food job and both me and my supervisor were closing and the only guy in the lobby was some homeless guy and all of a sudden he starts screaming and crying at the top of his lungs about how no one loves him and how his mom abandoned him and he like he is dying (dude was an alchoholic so he was probably having some withdrawal symptoms or something). Neither of us really give a shit and we’re both just kind of messing around and talking but he doesn’t stop and we’re both like, “yo what if this dude is actually dying?” and then IIRC someone else came in, and he started yelling at them and we were both like “ok lets call 911” and the dispatch decides to send the police because of how we said he was yelling at a customer
keep in mind this guy is like literally 120lbs at the most and is an old drunkard
so we wait and then police literally surround the entire building, they show up with like 5-6 squad cars all pointing their headlights into the lobby and they come in and pull the guy off his seat and start patting him down and interrogating him as a group for what seems like forever
at one point his pants fall down and I see his bony ass and balls
anyway they take him away kinda just picking him by his arms with his feet dragging like he was stood up and the whole time he’s still fucking screaming as loud as he can and both me and my supervisor are like
“what the fuck just happened?” just because of how disproportionate the response was to some old ass man
this is the future Americans are scared of. that their social media feed will just become videos of John Cena apologizing in Chinese and fashionable young women scolding American culture.
It might be one of the few things that could actually break the stranglehold of the decades of propaganda
Lmao no fucking way. That’s literally never going to happen. Americans will still be yelling “we’re the greatest country on earth” after it turns into mad max
She is voicing the thoughts I went through when I visited LA for the first time as someone from Australia. After all this talk in the media and sports about how awesome LA is and that stars want to live there and all that crap, the fucking shock when I saw LA’s streets lined with tents of homeless people who were mostly disabled fucking threw me off so fucking hard. This was many years ago so I can only assume things are even worse. It was on the same level as some cities in third world countries, I couldn’t believe it. Really helped me become 100% skeptical of western media.
I’m from the Bay Area and we have a similiarly bad homeless problem and it was still incredibly shocking for me, and I was like born and raised here and like am used to how shitty the USA is…
I remember I was Ubering back to my hotel after a concert and it was raining pretty heavily and you just saw homeless people huddled in every single spot imaginable among the closed for the evening downtown businesses and it was just such a dystopian scene I was like what the fuck
The Bay Area is probably worse these days, seeing the Tenderloin in San Francisco would make you faint
Having seen people lying in their own piss and shit among the stunning skyline for blocks and blocks in one of the richest cities in the world makes that Parenti clip so stinging for me. I tear up at the end when he says “THEN SLEEP IN THE DOORWAYS OF THE LAND OF THE FREE AND THE HOME OF THE BRAVE”
where is parenti at these days? Why is chomsky getting so much airtime and this king is nowhere to be seen?
Parenti was smart enough to retire and shut the fuck up. Guy went out on top.
I can’t imagine how much whiplash that must have given you lmfao
so I can only assume things are even worse
You know that Star Trek episode with the Bell Riots? It’s really close to that.
Timeline wise, 2 years. Materially we are WELL past the point of the episode, just not in as visually striking a way as walled of portions of every major city for the hundreds and hundreds of homeless. At least the walled cities had a degree of public housing even though it wasn’t nearly enough, there were hallways to sleep in.
I live in a smaller town where our homeless population is almost exclusively made up of couch surfers, but you do occasionally see people sleeping under bridges. One aspect of it is that there are a ton of “utility apartments” located above bars or in leased plazas where the leases are weekly and the regulations are just not enforced for whatever reason. So in effect they’re long-term hotels that you can rent for like $400 a month. They’ve got room for a single-size bed, a toilet, a little shower, and a hot plate. I know a dude who lives in one, sells stolen Marlboro’s out his window, and calls himself Mick Donalds. Super chill dude
Imagine having a train station in any city that you could get on a train and get to your hometown in america
reserve army of labor and a visible threat of what happens if you don’t submit to the wage relationship
