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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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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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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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/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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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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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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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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