• Darkard@lemmy.world
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      And don’t forget, if you criminalise those things you can generate more profit for the prison system

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        Not just from the fees prisons charge governments to house the criminals, either. It’s also the profits from the slave labor.

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    the root problem with this way of thinking is believing that people who are saying these things are the same people that want these issues to be solved. deep down, they don’t. these people just like to complain, lol

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      deep down, they don’t. these people just like to complain, lol

      The root problem with this way of thinking is failing to realize that they don’t “just like to complain;” their goal is to deliberately create an oppressed underclass to be exploited.

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    If you believe that laws forbidding gambling, sale of liquor, sale of contraceptives, requiring definite closing hours, enforcing the Sabbath, or any such, are necessary to the welfare of your community, that is your right and I do not ask you to surrender your beliefs or give up your efforts to put over such laws. But remember that such laws are, at most, a preliminary step in doing away with the evils they indict. Moral evils can never be solved by anything as easy as passing laws alone. If you aid in passing such laws without bothering to follow through by digging in to the involved questions of sociology, economics, and psychology which underlie the causes of the evils you are gunning for, you will not only fail to correct the evils you sought to prohibit but will create a dozen new evils as well.

    —Robert A. Heinlein, Take Back Your Government

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    This guy has never been anywhere near an encampment. One of the ones near me is 15 yards from a rather clean public bathroom.

    I regularly see these assholes shitting in the middle of the road instead.

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      As someone who has directly worked with those exact people:

      Address the underlying problems, not the mentally ill victim

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    You can feel morally superior breaking from reality all you want, but around here, there are sidewalk turds literally right next to working public restrooms.

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      Quick guess: undercapacity.

      i assume no one wants to shit on the floor unless there’s a (subjective) reason