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Newsom Asks Cities to Ban Homeless Encampments, Escalating Crackdown
(www.nytimes.com)
Title is a bit missleading. He's also setting out $3billion for homeless facilities. Better than nothing, he'll probably criminalize homelessness even more than it already is at the same time.
I doubt the $3 billion will do much to reverse the damage California has done with their prison machine, cost of living crisis, and under funded public services. Unless they address the underlying issues the problems are not going to go away.
Surely banning homeless encampments will solve the homelessness problem.
- Create for profit prisons tantamount to slavery
- Make homelessness illegal
- Destroy the economy and make everybody homeless
- PROFIT
Next, we should ban heart disease and cancer...
It's harder to work in the mines with those
Nah, let’s just keep it the way it is and keep the poors illegal, I mean, I feel bad for people with heart disease, if they have health insurance.
Ok sure.
While you're at it, allow cities to commandeer vacancies over 3 months to house the unhoused.
Or is the point to put the squeeze on folks without options or resources to move up economically without providing any solution.
Or is the point to put the squeeze on folks without options or resources to move up economically without providing any solution.
Given Newsom's swing toward the hard right, I'm going with this choice...
And, fuck Newsom. 🤦♀️ 🤷♂️ 🖕
Perhaps we have a brainslug infestation in progress?
Would explain a lot actually...
My money's on more Russian influence.
They don't want them to move up they want them to move out
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Yo, fuck this guy - pivoting to the right? Fuck off.
Pivoting?
Jesus , this guy looking to join Trump's team?
his ex; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhFks_9faQY
his current wife; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer_Siebel_Newsom
Siebel Newsom was registered as a Republican until 2008, before re-registering as No Party Preference. Prior to registering as an independent voter, she accidentally registered with the far-right American Independent Party, before correcting her party to "decline to state".
I think yes, yes he is.
I came here to say this sounds like something Trump or DeSantis would do. Disappointing it is Newsome. We need leaders with solutions, not bigger prisons. (I'm not sure what I would do, but I'm also not the Gov of California hoping to be in the Dem shortlist in 2028).
I'm trying wrap my head around the possibility of voting for Newsome just to keep whoever the Nazis nominate is really painful.
I already did it for Harris, Biden, and Clinton.
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So - when did Newson have a Fetterman-like stroke?
When he realized he could get a bunch of money capitulating to and sane washing hard right wingers with a podcast.
I hope he has one that is substantially worse
He has tried nothing useful and is all out of ideas.
I don't think the first part is true but unfortunately I agree on the second part. The west Coast in general has been struggling with this for a while and the compassionate approach hasn't shown the promised results. Maybe it technically is, but visible homelessness is what gets people elected.
The solution is so simple. Its two pronged. Get them a place to live. Help them with their problems. Its what happened in this country until a republican took apart the system that was designed to do that. It had its problems but the solution shouldn't have been the abandonment of the national mental health system. This homeless problem is 100 percent tied directly to the utter failure of all politicians who ever supported cuts to the mental health system.
The reason they do it is also simple. They are terrified that everyone will know how bad they are on the inside. Not realizing that most of us already know.
Honestly you lost me at the first sentence. It's very obviously a complex problem and to suggest it's simple is just demoralizing to the dedicated civil servants that work so hard to fix it.
And homelessness has always been a problem, I feel like generally people fall into this rosy recollection to a time where it was far harder to document it
Honestly you lost me at the first sentence.
You seem to think that matters. It isn't complex. Its simple. The solutions are simple. By trying to over think the solution you lose sight of the goal. You are commenting without really knowing the history of this subject. Homelessness is a epidemic now due in full to the destruction of the public mental health system. I know this and nothing anyone says will change that. I watched for years as every time my states budget came up they cut the funding.
I watched as those I worked with had to make do with less. I watched people who were getting help to keep them stable lose coverage. The people who would have been institutionalized before the 80's were let loose onto the streets. Frankly the complete lack of understanding is the problem we have with the current sad state of events. Coupled with the outright fear many of the worst minds in our society have for mental health in general its lead us to this path and denying that just guarantees the problem will not be solved. Those minds gravitate toward power. They hone their masks to cover their true nature and get fools to vote for them. They cast blame and over complicate a rather simple matter as far as solutions are concerned. They fear exposure more than anything and think what they are doing is the best thing for them. Not for those fools who vote for them. Just for them.
Don't perpetuate the lie that the homeless situation is complex. Its simple. The people who are victims of it are complex but helping them isn't.
Crazy how California is speed-running a transition from liberal to left to Authoritarian almost as fast as the Federal government is transitioning from conservative to right to Fascism.
Newsom was always a slimy neolib. He was just the lesser evil. The same story plays out constantly all over the US thanks to our broken two-right-wing-parties system, in which both parties are owned and operated by self-serving billionaires.
The sun beams down on a brand-new day
No more welfare tax to pay
Unsightly slums gone up in flashing light
Jobless millions whisked away
At last, we have more room to play
All systems go to kill the poor tonight
Efficiency and progress is ours once more Now that we have the neutron bomb It's nice and quick and clean and gets things done Away with excess enemy With no less value to property No sense in war but perfect sense at home...
we need the infrastructure for the unhoused to be housed. where does he expect the homeless to go?
Next up in 2025, the resurgence of the Hooverville
Trump Towns… Donaldvilles…
Attacking the very poorest of society with all his energy. What a piece of work.
Dude is weird
If you want to get rid of homeless encampments, how about making sure people have a safe place to stay at night?
"Make it invisible, that will surely solve the peoblem"
I shouldn’t be shocked at how swiftly he transitioned, but still, I am.
California is a garden of Eden,
A paradise to live in or see
but believe it or not
you won't find it so hot
if you ain't got the doe ray me.
Ladies and Gentlemen, our 48th President (whether we want him or not)...
Not going to happen. Not because the conservative Democrats won't be able to hoodwink enough primary voters to believe the highest priority is accommodating what they think their shittiest neighbor could (but will not) tolerate, but because in doing so they'll lose the voters they actually need to win and Don Jr. will ascend to the throne.
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He setup the conditions for San Francisco to actually do this. He just wants more cities to do it now.
Sweep all problems under the carpet instead of trying to solve the root problem.
Just say "kill them", fuck! Stop pretending to be anything other than that.
Crazy how fast the internet turns. A few months ago? Everyone loved him for not letting trump do the ego handshakes. Now everyone calls him weird.
It's just so weird that people of a certain mindset and philosophy would praise something they approved of in line with that mindset and condemn something they didn't in line with that mindset.
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