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Poor guy was probably just trying to sleep without freezing to death and then these assholes show up.
I swear bro, one more dozer sweep and we'll fix homelessness. Please, bro, just one more, we won't even kill someone this time. I swear bro, we're so close, just one more $40,000 sweep, it's got to work this time, come on, bro
They shoulda warned the campers that they were coming through so it was understood people would be in mortal danger from machines that can't see them covered up.
Can public authorities in the US kill people without consequence as long as they issued a warning? Like the "freeze or I'll shoot" from the movies? (asking from the other side of the Atlantic)
Sort of. Cops aren't supposed to shoot people unless they are threatening someone's safety, but practically they can get away with it in most circumstances quite easily because their judgement is assumed to be correct unless proven false.
You aren't supposed to bulldoze people. Full stop.
yes but I'm sure there are some restrictions. but yeah cops shoot people in the back all the time and rarely see consequences
I wonder how the operator feels.
I was wondering that too. But then, this is the kind of person that's cool with destroying everything people have left at the worst point in their lives so..
If he didn't have that job, he'd be on the other end of that bulldozer.
There are secretaries at UHC.
There are janitors at maralago.
These people aren't the problem.
They kind of are a part of the problem though.
They're like the Russian soldiers on the front line, who would be shot if they retreated. Dangerous but involuntary.
Other jobs exist. Nobody is shooting you when you put in your notice, or don't.
Come on, they most probably had zero choice in the matter... yes, they could have resigned in protest (and in a sense they should have), but we can't require that people be heroes
Please, don't say stuff like that... I've worked jobs where I loathed the company values, but I needed income... One charged more for funerals of "brown" people and had a book on the shelf of the manager's office that said "The Myth of Heterosexual AIDS". I'm pansexual and my partner is an immigrant. A job is not a belief. A job is a way to keep a roof over your head until you find a better one
Yeah, this is exactly why they keep us poor and without security--so we can't act according to our morals. Only theirs.
Always up, never down, and only sideways on exceptions
Guys rule number 1 of the disinformation age... dont meaningfully engage with a post thats only a title and jpeg. Just move on. Demand more of your social media. This is the benefit of an upvote downvote system but it does require our thought and consideration.
Damn thats the shortest article. If you took the quotes out its like 30 words.
Honestly i prefer that.
You're not wrong. This community was started yesterday and had nothing in it. So I tried to help get it started with some content I could quickly throw together. Maybe now that people know that it's here we can improve on it.
Friendly reminder it's cheaper to give homeless people homes, healthcare, and every other basic human necessity than what we are currently doing...
It's just the elites know if there was a safety net, a shit ton of people would dive headfirst into it because wealth inequality is that out of whack.
The threat of being considered subhuman without a job is the only thing keeping a lot of Americans going.
And others would risk a lot for a dream, possibly overtaking these oligarchs in wealth, and that’s too scary for them. They gotta keep those with drive in middle class jobs, getting by and being happy with owning a home instead of taking a risk on a dream.
The thing is if we give them human needs for free then other people won't want to work like slaves for human needs.
If we helped the homeless we would be treating them better than working Americans who waste 5/7ths or more of their lives contributing to this system. And that's hysterically sad
*Murdered
How did he not get woken up by the bulldozer?
deaf. exhaustion. strung out. depressed.
just to name a few.
Seems easy to be evil and want to kill homeless people because you know there's likely someone passed out that won't wake up for anything. Just run a bulldozer through a camp and you're going to get a kill. It's not like a random worker who doesn't deal with the homeless will know to check.
Is there a single homeless person on earth who is worried about or offended by the term homeless, that we had to make up a whole new term that means the exact same thing?
Isn't that kind of the point of changing a lot of these terms? To get us to think about the people that are excluded from the discourse surrounding them? Even if they don't prefer to be called unhoused, at least it starts a conversation of, "well what is their preferred terminology?"
What term is that?
I always liked vagabond.
Shame Ford Prefect wasn't there to help him out