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A chat on subreddit /r/NoStupidQuestions
human
Homelessness breeds addiction. 

How many times do you get rejected no matter how hard you try before you say "fuck this place, fuck these people, if this is what theyre about then everything they stand for is just as fucked up. Fuck all of it.  Fuck civility, fuck their comfort, what about mine? Fuck society, Fuck sobriety."

There's so much wasted time when homeless.  So much despair.  It's RATIONAL to do what you can to alleviate that.  Maybe not smart,  but understandable if you have an ounce of empathy. 

It's analogous to the musing "give a man no way to legally protest and all you'll do is guarantee rioting".

Look at who's winning in our society. That's what we value. Look at how we treat our lesser fortunate, THAT'S who we are. If you need a clearer example,  line item the congressional budget. That's who we are.  That's what we represent. And by the cold numbers, we are fucking monsters. 

And now that you know that,  you are just as responsible as everyone else.  To do nothing, or, to maintain the status quo is to choose this, there's no fence to sit on. That's life. You are responsible for everything that comes your way. You either fight for it, allow it, or fight against it. This is why character matters. What you do when no ones watching, and shit, nowadays someones always watching. Or at least listening. 

If the collectively discarded are treated as toxic and dead by the rest of us, how fucking audacious of us to be surprised when they start acting like it. When confronted on emotional stances, and oh yeah, being homeless is emotional, people dig in, entrench and say'fuck you". It's my favorite universal human trait. Expecting Stockholm syndrome or gratitude from these people is naivety of the highest order. 

I don't agree with it but i don't think San Frans homeless shitting in the street is out of line.  I think it's a fucking disgustingly appropriate response to the disgusting inhumanity we allow and legislate.

Maybe Churchill WAS right. America will do the right thing, right after we've tried everything else.

Anything short of flat out, no strings attached, housing the homeless is kicking the can down the road. It's dragging out a lawsuit hoping to bankrupt the other party, except in this case we're hoping they die. Every fucking NIMBY opinion will lead to someone's death. 

Critical mass will be reached at some point and the rejected will organize and get violent. And we'll deserve it, make no mistake. 

Welfare is first and foremost a policing strategy. Infrastructure, Education, Medicine, Housing, these are investments into our nation.

If the American way were so good why do we overthrow other governments to install command economies? How many decades did we pay for Iraq and Afghanistans free health care, all while bankrupting our own people?

Idek if it can be turned around. Burning it all down might be the best choice, hard to say.
gpt
&gt;Welfare is first and foremost a policing strategy. Infrastructure, Education, Medicine, Housing, these are investments into our nation.

Precisely. When Otto Von Bismarck instituted the first modern public health care and welfare system in Europe, it wasn't because he was a Kumbayah bleeding-heart. He saw the rise of revolutionary socialism, and he wanted to nip it in the bud. He wanted to avoid what had happened in France ten years previously, the Paris Commune and all that. It wasn't charity, it was guillotine insurance.