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- plumpy : its not about homes, its helping fix mental health issues so they can support themselves. you are such a rat, u hate homeless people but i will burn ur house down and make u homeless
Massachusetts spent $3 billion on homelessness but didn't build a single home and homelessness doubled in three years : massachusetts
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This hole exists as a safe space for refugees from the Facebook(MetaTM groups of the same name. Of which there have been several iterations. We mostly exist to poke fun at the state of living in poverty. While it oftentimes is unavoidable, we do aspire to not be meanspirited. Over the years we have co-opted the term 'Peak Poor' to being someone who exudes poverty, regardless of their actual net worth. Trump and Elon both exhibit the peak poor ethos from time to time while still being the top 0.000001%. You can do something peak poor and still be a good person or a generally adjusted one. We all have a bit of poor in us.
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there's barely any homeless in the entire state and they managed to piss away nearly a quarter million per head . Absolute grift kings
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They ought to put together a seminar on how to waste so much money so that cities like Portland can pay our bureaucrats to fly out there and attend.
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Giving the homeless 214,285 fent bucks is one way too solve the homeless problem
Trans lives matter
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I love this fricking country.
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Jewish Lives Matter Less Than Palestinian
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@KongsburyDonkboy don't what point you are trying too make because @KongsburyDonkboy is r-slurred
trans lives matter
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Surely all of these crackheads and fentskanks qualify for a mortgage
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And pay for utilities, property tax, pay to upkeep the home itself.
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They could've handed out enough free fentanyl to get them all to overdose within a week
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Let's be fair to our unhoused persons
- I think the process is closer to
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And if we fund starvation?
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No more fats
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Michelle Obama tried
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That shit pissed me off. We still got served the exact same slop, but they took away the salt shakers.
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Average "Vote Blue No Matter Who" voter
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This twenty-billion-dollar punchline and decade-long national embarrassment that killed a woman was not in any way a failure
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It's the same kind of people who will try to argue with you that California High Speed Rail is anything other than a joke and a disaster even though it's gone way past its initial budget and timeline and has still built almost nothing. It's like they're disconnected from the sense that their own money is being wasted by grifters, they live in some magical fantasy land where if you dare criticize the waste it must be because you're a Trumper. The idea that you might just be a political moderate who doesn't want his tax money to be wasted by thieves doesn't enter into their heads.
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Do they have some kind of tic that compels them to defend anywhere run by Ds? Like I live in MA and there are plenty aspects of it I like more than some of the Southern shitholes but pretending this place isn't full of old money, grifters, and corruption would just be ignorant.
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its grift all the way down. a lot of true believers truly benefit from the grift. its not like these guys are the homeless lol
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Massachusetts doesn't have enough houses for real people with jobs. There are entire towns in the western part of the state where there is literally nothing available. I knew multiple people with fulltime jobs who were living in
"Accessory Dwelling Units""in-law apartments"converted sheds and repurposed storage spaces above their parents' garage.Jump in the discussion.
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I've often wondered why new cities arent developed more often
Just take over a town with some existing infrastructure or farm fields and avoid all the lefties and NIMBYs.
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On top of new development being idiotically expensive to begin with, Massachusetts has a super fun town-level designation called Local Historic Districts which declares that your rotting, fent-addled little mill village is actually a special piece of American history that shan't be altered with any of your newfangled modern trimmings, all prospective developers must burn a pile of money on an architecture firm to ensure that Ye Olde Local Character is respected and the town can still choose to vote it down for any reason
By the way, these restrictions apply to private homes as well! Want to build an attached garage, paint your house a color other than white, or demolish the collapsing century-old barn on your property? Frick you!
The best part? All it takes is a 2/3 vote at a single town meeting to declare a Local Historic District. 5 oldfrick local landowners can unilaterally choose to r-slur any and all new development in perpetuity. This is the
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Our new green codes prevent building anything so this was expected
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Neoliberals have turned into complete bike lane loving strags but one thing they are right about is building new housing the only way out
Anything democrats do is just a grift
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You can also just give poor people money, which is actually the cheapest and most effective form of welfare by far, but chuds hate it because it doesn't come with any element of punishment or control.
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It's effective for a short while until the lack of control changes behaviours which in turn makes the handouts unsustainable.
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No, there is actually really good data on this. There are all kinds of people at all income levels who make better or worse choices about all kinds of things, but by far, the cheapest and most effective way to alleviate poverty is to give poor people money.
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lmao, no. That data is beyond dog-shit.
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Sorry to break it too u but markets work better than government planning.
If u give people money they will allocate way more efficiently than if you put a bureaucracy in charge of spending it on their behalf.
Sorry but ur socialist utopia where the government decides what people need doesn't work. If you got educated u would understand this better.
!commenters
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Socialism
works where 
self-interest is not an effective shaping force, like the justice 
system.
@Grue stand with Israel
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bait
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Nope, it's straight facts
Sorry not sorry, commie
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Any more gradeschool libertardian takes you wish to share?
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Yes your a dumby
I'm not a libertarian I'm a liberal which means I believe in freedom of thought, freedom of expression, equality before the law, rule of law and not of men, free enterprise and freedom to pursue one's own happiness
It's a cluster of ideals rooted in enlightenment-era rejection of feudalism and hereditary rule
I also believe in evidence-based approaches to governance and policy rather than ideological approaches, which some would say makes me a neoliberal
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Government planning literally cannot work without the market, since without the market there's no way to value things
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Right, but uneducated people like
@BPplc think that somehow it's better for the government to decide everything and make all the spending decisions for people
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actually there isn't. stupid cute twink
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Sorry to break it too u but markets work better than government planning.
Individual actors allocate resources way more efficiently than a bureaucracy in charge of spending it on their behalf.
Sorry but ur socialist utopia where the government decides what people need doesn't work. If you got educated u would understand this better.
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your mantra is bullshit. keep yourself safe
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Nope it's facts
Sorry commie, central planning failed
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bro, if you pay @KongsburyDonkboy money too be poor, @KongsburyDonkboy is just gonna be poor. Why would @KongsburyDonkboy not do that?
trans lives matter
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The fact that you imagine everyone to be lazy, unmotivated, and uninterested in building a better life for themselves is not evidence that it is so.
There is actually really good data on this. There are all kinds of people at all income levels who make better or worse choices about all kinds of things, but by far, the cheapest and most effective way to alleviate poverty is to give poor people money.
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not everyone, but certainly all poors. they're poor for a reason lol.
I'm not imagining, I'm watching.
You're ignoring your own observable reality in favor of "data" and "studies"
!sophistry there has to be some term for this right?
I saw someone say something like "actually chud they proved punishing crime doesn't deter criminals
"
like who is they??
why are some people so eager to completely ignore things they can see with they own eyes just bc an "expert" says the sky is green?
there's literally only two things fundamental to the concept of reward and punishment: reward and punishment
"There is really good data on this" yeah and there's also millions of poors easily observable in their habitat
They are poor because they are unmotivated and often make exceptionally bad choices.
rich people can't afford to blow 1/10th their net worth on sports betting every year
I just want to know what gets into your head that you can just tune all that out,
just because your worldview demands that all people are equal, blank slates in everyway. They just end up where they do in life out of pure randomness
what a confusing way to live, never able to draw conclusions or self actualize, everything out of your control.
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Wow you seem to be coping
with that poorly.
@Grue stand with israel
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that's why I live in a trailer
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poors goomble to not be poor
riches goomble because they're drunk
the rabbit runs for his life while the fox runs for his lunch
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Sorry to break it too u but markets work better than government planning.
If u give people money they will allocate way more efficiently than if you put a bureaucracy in charge of spending it on their behalf.
Sorry but ur socialist utopia where the government decides what people need doesn't work. If you got educated u would understand this better.
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Ok that's beautiful thank you
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this BIPOC thinks hobos are rational actors
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yeah, @KongsburyDonkboy is not buying it. sorry
and @KongsburyDonkboy don't really care what you're gay data says, @KongsburyDonkboy can just look out @KongsburyDonkboy's window. Trans lives matter
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They'll just piss it away
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homeless kings deserve every penny you earn.
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They certainly deserve it more than cops do
Homeless people beat up minorities for free
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My cute twink city has wasted hundreds of thousands of dollars putting in bike lanes and the bikecels still just scream past you on the fricking sidewalk. Cyclists get the wall.
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Bicyclists where I live will ignore the (very nice!) dedicated fully separate bike path in order to bike in in the street.
It's amazing how dedicated they are as a group to annoying as many people as possible in any given situation.
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We wasted 2.4 million on a bike lane that I've seen maybe 7 bikers on in two years. Drive it daily
Was at a bar on peak weather. Porch monkeying for hours and saw zero bikers
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/r/Pittsburgh has a lot of bike lane drama which is very funny for a city that's cold and snowy half of the year.
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The obvious solution is a very brief but very deadly global pandemic. COVID was an attempt to solve the housing crisis but classic government incompetence led to a private contractor forgetting to include the 75% death gene in the virus.
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When COVID broke out I briefly flirted with the idea that maybe this was a deliberate attempt by the CCP to wipe out China's old people, but I quickly shelved that theory when it became obvious that the CCP was doing everything it could to lock down and contain the virus, instead of just letting it run rampant.
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Bike lanes are for R-SLURS. Bikes in traffic makes more sense and is safer than too narrow dumb bullshit that people will just parallel park in anyway.
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They make sense on sidewalks.
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Letting people build housing is the solution
Not gov building housing
They can subsidize rent all they want but their hands can't be anywhere near development or maintenance
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PUT
THESE
NEIGHBORS
IN
CAVES
Holy frick, it's that fricking simple, rather than up rooting entire ecosystems to houses these motherlovers. You could just widen all these large unused cave systems, corral all the homeless in them, seal them up, and periodically leave donated food, water, and social workers at the entrance. Bronze age neighbors figured this shit out CENTURIES ago. Like what the frick.
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https://www.sacbee.com/news/california/article285017897.html
White extinction is long overdue
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Where do they get these garbage stats? I guarantee tons of those funds went to buying homes for the exaxt people it was always meant to
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Defund the Homeless Industrial Complex
Refund the Beating Hobos With Sticks Complex 
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Why beat hobos with sticks and not the people that disappears millions of bucks in their name
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It's so beautiful in its elegance i might cry
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In agreement
Except that hobos are working men tumbling around looking for work.
Need to beat the fenties with sticks and cartel-execute their dealers
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Boomers would rather set billions on fire than to let companies increase housing supply !neolibs
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same thing to them
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That's not why people are homeless lol
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It is one of the main factors driving dregs into being homeless rather than living in a slum
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I grew up in Massachusetts. Worst fricking state don't even get me frickin stahted.
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New house bill to rename the area "The Absolute State of Massachussets"
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i laughed
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california vs massachusetts GO
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Treating hotels as homeless shelters might be the dumbest liberal invention in the modern era after DEI
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Most successful government initiative
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New plan: don't do anything and hope next winter is harsh
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Maybe this time they'll spend it on fixing homelessness instead
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I'm not joking, you've fricked your sister, you've been doxxed, you've been ridiculed to the extreme by a group of people who get ridiculed by normies 99% of the time. It has never been so over as it is for you right now.
There is no way up left for you. You have no shot left at a thriving career, a caring husband, a loving father or anything else. I would have liked to see you become a useful member of society but come on, if you had the resolve to become one, you would have the tenacity to not frick your sister
You're probably going to die in a meth or heroin OD when you're 40 and your last days would be a painful hallucination of the places you always wanted to visit
It's better to just keep yourself safe when you no there's no way you're escaping this fate. I would suggest blade to the wrist because it matches your aesthetic.
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