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submitted 2 years ago by gedaliyah@lemmy.world to c/news@lemmy.world

The Oregon case decided Friday is the most significant to come before the high court in decades on the issue and comes as a rising number of people in the U.S. are without a permanent place to live.

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[-] JimmyBigSausage@lemm.ee 64 points 2 years ago

Trying to decide if the war is on homelessness or on the homeless. 🤔

[-] CaptainSpaceman@lemmy.world 37 points 2 years ago

Why decide when you can just make it illegal to be homeless?

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 30 points 2 years ago

If we make it illegal to be homeless, everyone will have a home! It's brilliant!

[-] Neato@ttrpg.network 8 points 2 years ago

We have more empty homes than we do the homeless. If this country wanted a war on homelessness, it'd be over in a year. And that's just the time it'd take to organize the moves. It isn't even entirely correct to say this is a war on the homeless, either. It's much broader than that and this conflict has been going on since time immemorial.

This is the class war and we're losing.

[-] ghostdoggtv@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago
[-] DessertStorms 10 points 2 years ago

Well, no, they aren't fighting homelessness at all, that would mean trying to reduce, not to mention eliminate it.

Capitalists want homelessness, so that they have a whole under class of people to lock up and exploit, and that also serve as a warning to the rest of the working class.

The war is definitely against the homeless, not homelessness.

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