cricket98

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cricket98,

How many homeless people in the USA do you think can work but refuse to? Hint: a lot of them.

cricket98,

Something can be both an investment and a job. If you found a startup, for instance. I just don’t get the meaningless arguments about how maintaining a property isn’t a job. If it requires you to work, then it’s a job.

cricket98,

Why are we gatekeeping the word job? all a job is “a task or piece of work, especially one that is paid” that seems to fit the definition of a homeowner renting out their property.

cricket98, (edited )

It is absolutely a job if you personally handle upkeep. Managing something is still a job. Although if you outsource every aspect of it I would consider it more an investment.

cricket98,

it is a job not an investment

where did I say that

cricket98,

Never before in history have minor disputes been able to be aired to millions of people over the internet. I think it makes the response a bit disproportionate.

cricket98,

That’s a pretty fair response. Although I would say that I am against doxxing people who just happened to show up and didn’t actually enter the capital/participate in any illegal behavior. You can’t predict what the crowd will do and I think we would all agree it’s wrong if a BLM protest got out of hand and they decided to punish everyone who was there simply because they “increased intimidation”.

cricket98,

It was disproven

You said it was disproven, how can something be disproved if you only tested it during a really short time period? Maybe you meant to say “evidence suggests” but that’s much different than something being disproven

cricket98, (edited )
cricket98,

and how is that relevant? can homelessness be a problem and the economy be good at the same time?

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cricket98,

My point is that a lot of homeless people aren’t to be trusted to take care of the space they live in. There would have to be some screening to make sure that these people are capable of not destroying the public good they are being offered for free. I don’t think it’s really debatable that there are some truly awful homeless people, violent, mean, entitled, and not fit to live in a proper society. It’s something people need to face the facts on. So we need to find out how to help the good homeless people before we let the bad ones ruin it for the rest of them.

cricket98,

I disagree that giving drug addicts a free and unlimited supply of drugs is the best way to fight drug addiction. Treatment (with forced holds) I’m a proponent of.

cricket98,

Then don’t get a job that works into the night. Jobs that you work past 6 are the minority of jobs.

cricket98,

if you give houses to homeless people indiscrimately, many of those houses will be uninhabitable in 2 years. What do you do then? Give them another house to wreck?

cricket98,

not really, more like they exist to help prevent people from getting stabbed from a meth addicted homeless person who is convinced you are satan trying to steal their soul

cricket98,

Do you recognize that these sorts of initiatives can have long term affects that are not accurately understood in a small sample sized study over a short period of time?

cricket98, (edited )

why do homeless people care about curfews they don’t have any pressing matters they need to deal with past 9pm other than scoring drugs and committing crimes. nothing good happens past 9pm

cricket98,

there is little incentive for left wing rags to report on these topics

cricket98, (edited )
cricket98,

My point is that you said the argument has been disproven when I believe it has yet to be fully understood.

cricket98,

80’s crime world movies are fascist propaganda by the way.

We’ve really turned the word “fascist propaganda” to mean anything that goes against your worldview. There are definitely crazed homeless people who do not care one bit about committing needless violence. I’ve experienced it first hand. Back when I lived in NYC there were some of the absolutely most deranged people I’ve ever seen in my life, one guy stabbed a indian knick knack stall owner with a piece of glass for legitimately no reason. The guy almost died. It is what it is, but I think burying your head in the sand is not really a viable way forward.

cricket98,

If you were to start giving houses to the homeless, at least 50% of those houses would be uninhabitable within a year.

cricket98,

You can get a curfew exception if you are working.

cricket98,

I didn’t make any claims about housing first policy, read the comment you are replying to. I know you barely looked at the articles because they are not about the same single hotel.

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