OP: Next time you make a meme about a political issue, don't use a blatant AI-generated photo. There are plenty of real photos you could have used.
Everyone, look at that kid's hands: there are three fingers on the left hand and five on the right, not counting thumbs respectively. And look at the weird creamy way the kid's skin looks: no evidence of pores or extremely fine hairs everywhere. That's AI where it does not belong, friends.
Are there automated censors on Lemmy?
He's misusing the term. What he means is to sound superior, and although I appreciate his spirit -- the Europeans and Canadians speaking up are doing so outside of the context of and therefore against the spirit of the question -- I think it's fine, it's good to have non-Americans with whom to compare responses.
That is the point of the post. There is something very wrong with this country, isn't there?
I don't have insurance because it's too expensive and the thought crossed my mind this morning that something like that could actually happen to me, and if it did, I honestly have no idea what I would do. And then I realize that the society around me would get angry at me and morally condemn me if I did commit a crime to save my own life, and that's when I finally realized that American morality is a fucking sham. It's all designed to convince its subjects to accept being enslaved and murdered to keep the system going, and that's wrong. What good is morality if it only costs you and doesn't benefit you?
Dogs aren't obligate carnivores, they're omnivores.
Why would anyone be surprised?
That Unity employee could have been put up to make those threats to smear the policy's detractors for all we know.
Of course not; they just want the drug addicts and their harmful behaviors out of their sight and away from them. I agree that that's short-sighted, but having been homeless myself and seeing what some of the drug addicts do, I can't blame them.
You can't reasonably defend addicts leaving dirty needles on the sidewalk where kids could get a hold of them, for example. Or arguing or fighting or conducting drug deals in neighborhoods with all of the violence and invective that brings, or intimidating non-addicted residents by being aggressive and violent toward them, or any of that shit.
That kind of behavior is unacceptable whether housed or not and you are wrongly lumping those kinds of people in with all homeless people and then defending the larger "homeless" umbrella. That kind of snake like behavior is some shit some billionaire's PR agency would do, stop it.
If you truly care about ending homelessness and not simply using them as a shield to defend drug addicts, you have to openly and explicitly separate the two yourself in your speech.
Not all homeless people are the same, not all homeless people become homeless for the same reasons, so it is disingenuous to lump in, say, domestic violence survivors and workers priced out of a home with drug addicts under the same term when they're completely different people with completely different needs.
That being said... society actually does need to come up with a better plan to deal with the drug addicts that doesn't involve jailing them for possession or use, or leaving them to struggle on the street. Other people don't want to be exposed to drug use and honestly, they have a right not to be, so you're going to have to balance the addicts' needs with everyone else.
Building separate housing for drug addicts away from everybody else where they're given safe supplies and offered resources to get clean and be re-integrated back into society would probably be the best solution.
Same with those who are unhoused and severely mentally ill. Those types likely need sanitariums where they're cared for the rest of their lives.
Domestic violence survivors need to be relocated far away from their abusers and given housing and employment under new names.
Those who are homeless because they are priced out of housing in the city where they work need to be given section 8 vouchers, or cities and states will have to pass laws forcing all landlords to lower their rent to either a percentage of renter income without being allowed to pick and choose whom they rent to, or a hard upper limit that just so happens to be <= 30% of the average worker's wage.
Different problems require different solutions
The motivation problem isn't the school's fault, it's yours. You choose to not want to learn.
We need a list of all instances that defederate with such trash and only use them, not the others.
We're literally already in one. We've been in a cold civil war for about a decade now (arguably the past few decades), and the war's been growing hotter with every mass shooting and tragedy like this one.
This is how civil wars are fought in the modern age. It's not all fancy suits and muskets. It's large swaths of people with opposing views killing each other over it at every opportunity, like this one.
Why do you think school shootings happen? Or mass shootings in general? The vast majority of them are committed by members of right-wing hate groups and it's part of this civil war they've been waging against the left. The whole point is to eradicate the left or force them to submit to their will.
Justice absolutely is gamified in this shit society.
And this is why we 🏴☠️🏴☠️🏴☠️
Only when people stop giving credence to the argument that you don't actually need to read or learn math or science to get a job and pay your bills.