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[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 years ago (2 children)

A lot of people don't understand how bad it is. I've slowly watched the neighborhood I grew up in slowly add more and more housing encampments over the years. In recent years, I've watched it even spread into the outskirts of suburbs.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 years ago (3 children)

We've got people suggesting concentration camps and ghettos for the homeless, too.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Lord, the subreddit for my local area is such a cesspool. On one hand, they'll be all BLM this Indigenous land that, but on the other, straight up talk about shit like that 😐.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago

Liberal identity politics specifically excludes economic marginalization. Otherwise, they'd have think about capitalism, and that's not what liberals ever want to do.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago

The duality of liberal mind. And they don't even see the contradiction

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago

Dems and Republicans will come together to make this a reality. I worry for our unhoused population.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago

In California they want to ship people out to the desert and wash their hands of the problem

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

Yep. I move around a lot, and whereas I used to only see this sickening poverty and homelessness in big cities, its very much hitting mid size and smaller ones now too.