Let’s Outlaw Being Homeless! That’ll Work!
Let’s Outlaw Being Homeless! That’ll Work!
Jail.
That's the answer.
You'll sleep in jail. Possibly for the rest of your life.
Also the cop will beat the shit out of you now for mouthing off.
and in jail each resident will cost tax payers approximately $80,000.00 per year on average.
More in the first year if they manage to fight the charges in court for a little while.
Yes but then we're punishing them and letting some corporation buy their labor(not from them, and not in such a way that covers the costs) and pay them in top ramen. Which is morally better, Jesus says so.
We need armed citizens groups to keep these thugs off our streets.
But prison is so much more expensive... Looks at political donations from prison companies Ah - that'll do it.
Why bother with representation and good policy when you can have corruption, graft, and all the wonders of late stage capitalism.
Jail.
That’s the answer.
The answer to what question though? If it is what's presented here in the comic, I.e. "what to do instead of sleeping on the street", then that's a remarkably American answer, and requires significant stupidity and/or malice.
There are much better approaches.
Yeah we're not talking about ideals, we're talking about the present. Stupidity and malice is pretty much it.
As opposed to the beating you were going to get, for... Reasons.
Very unrealistic. How come he's still alive after talking back to a cop while being black?
Didn't you see the last panel - he's rich.
Might not be American?
Wait y'all have cops that don't just start wailing on that guy for not moving? Cops in my city absolutely call backup and go squad deep when homeless people stand their ground.
Or when they dont. In my twenties I worked with unhoused populations, and someone who I was kind of point of contact for came inafter being missing for a couple weeks. She had really weird injuries. I recognized a few of them, not all, and I'm pretty familiar with broken bodies so that was surprising. Apparently she'd been kidnapped and tortured by cops for at least a week. I found out basically everyone has a few of those. The cops just do that. Theres no reason, There's no jusrification; they just take who they can.
And why should someone who's been thrown away like that give a shit about your comfort? I know when I was thrown away and ended up homeless, I lost a lot of respect for my environment and 'normal' people. I didn't get as bad as a lot of people.
Do you have a good reason for them to care? To care about something other than the next fix? Maybe a future, or a chat with a friend? No? Then maybe shut the hell up about how icky the actual living human beings you let get thrown away like trash make you feel when you have to walk through their fucking homes.
Who the heck is downvoting this? This is such a reflection of our society.
The cop in the comic, probably
They want free prison labor instead of helping people. All programs that gave people shelter and UBI had high success rates of getting people off the streets. If you give people resources and real help. They can be housed, it isn't unsolvable at all.
They want free prison labor instead of helping people.
They don't even really want that, at this point. Prisoners are increasingly geriatric, malnourished, and prone to mental illness, making them unreliable employees at their best and completely unprofitable more often than not.
All programs that gave people shelter and UBI had high success rates of getting people off the streets.
Ah, but you're forgetting the mystery third option. Pack undesirable people into cages during a plague or a heat wave and kill them from behind bars. This is significantly less expensive than either enslaving them at a loss or funding housing/UBI.
Open sufficient shelter and then ban camping.
Sorry, but I’ve worked in SF and Portland and getting yelled at while avoiding shit and syringes is not great.
You'll never get rid of the homeless by building shelters. Some of them don't want to go to one. They can't shoot up or drink in there, and there are other rules to follow too. There are also some other issues of living in a shelter.
What you're describing isn't shelters it's a sad excuse.
Yeah, a shelter is not of much use to someone who has the shakes so bad that he would still feel better if he had his fix while on the street while its freezing.
They need to learn how to elevate and just sleep in the air, man. Fucking homeless people can't learn this one trick.
anti-homeless spikes? Pfft, just learn how to sleep on a bed of nails like those magicians.
There ya go.
Some say there is a missing panel where a acorn hits the cop and he unloads a full mag on the guy.
I love that the cat just joins the rats playing poker.
Background Details Rulz
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Second of all those fat loser fucks would be beating the person in the second panel.
One popular move employed by city cops is to steal all a homeless person's belongings and trash them right before a big freeze or rainstorm or heat wave. This deprives the homeless population of protection from the elements and increases the rate of homeless death by exposure.
There was a Duke Nukem game where all the cops were literally pigs. I thought it was satire/fiction. How wrong I was.
It's such a disappointment. We try to build a system with people to entrust our well-being to and help those in need, but it always goes wrong.
From ancient times and the king's guard, to modern cops in some town. It always becomes corrupted.
“Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority: still more when you superadd the tendency or the certainty of corruption by authority.”
—Lord Acton, Letter to Bishop Creighton (1887)
And then in a few years, after making no efforts to create a space where homeless people can live the way they want or a path for them to get a job and a home, the enforcement of these laws will loosen up and you'll be back to stepping over people on the sidewalk.
Around where I live, there's plenty of shelters, with plenty of open spots where the only requirement is that if you're on drugs you need to go to rehab.
Yes, that's part of the problem. Pay for rehab with what money? Homeless shelters also aren't a solution to homelessness, because shelters are not housing.
The shelters aren't near where people work. They're also often more dangerous than the street.
What is on his T-shirt?
I dunno, but these background details rulz.
Might be "No, you're Spartacus"
Haha. Great. Must be it.
Technically illegal here in the UK too. Shops have put out spikes outside their windows and walls in recent years too. Totally scummy.
Governments outlaw sarcasm first, generally.
