I don’t need to go through all of trumps offenses for you to know he’s truly a despicable person who has never faced a real consequence his entire life.

Shout out to those who didn’t win the genetic lottery, I’ll cast my lot with you. Real trauma deserves real compassion.

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    I just don’t understand where they’re going to sleep. Like how do you pass this law and not think “okay it’s illegal, so when someone is sleeping outside we’ll fine them/arrest them, then they’ll go…?”. Like there is nowhere for them to go. Take it to the extreme and you arrest them all. But then you’re paying 80k/yr to house them in jail? You have to give them healthcare and feed them… Is the goal is to spend 80k/yr on every homeless person? Public housing is a fraction of the cost. And if you didn’t want to do that, you could just do nothing and let them suffer because you’re a callous conservative. But criminalizing not having a home is the most expensive way to house, feed, and insure the homeless.

    They never spend one second thinking about the outcome. Like a toddler throwing a fit about not wanting to go to sleep. You can’t stay awake forever, but toddlers don’t think into the future so they don’t realise that they’re going to go to sleep eventually regardless. That the only thing they can choose is the time.

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      when someone is sleeping outside we’ll fine them/arrest them, then they’ll go…

      To jail. Because it’s worth $40k/yr/person to build a system that kicks people when they’re down.

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      But then you’re paying 80k/yr to house them in jail?

      No, the taxpayers are paying that. To your buddies owning the prisons and related services, most likely.

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      I don’t know about the level of the crime and how it relates to forced labor, but my first guess would be “more prison slave labor.” Because we’re just that horrible of a nation that I wouldn’t put it past them for this to be the goal. :(

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      To private jails and prisons, people are commodities homeless people moreso because they have no option.