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[–] [email protected] 115 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Jail.

That's the answer.

You'll sleep in jail. Possibly for the rest of your life.

Also the cop will beat the shit out of you now for mouthing off.

[–] [email protected] 56 points 1 year ago (4 children)

and in jail each resident will cost tax payers approximately $80,000.00 per year on average.

[–] [email protected] 52 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sure, but it will make a private security contractor and private prison company have great returns for investors!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Who will pay their ~~bribes to secure a healthy pipeline of human suffering because that's good for their investors~~ donations to encourage more great policies and responsible governance.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

More in the first year if they manage to fight the charges in court for a little while.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Yes but then we're punishing them and letting some corporation buy their labor(not from them, and not in such a way that covers the costs) and pay them in top ramen. Which is morally better, Jesus says so.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

... It's funny that inflation makes that feel like a steal in most sub-urban places now.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

We need armed citizens groups to keep these thugs off our streets.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

But prison is so much more expensive... Looks at political donations from prison companies Ah - that'll do it.

Why bother with representation and good policy when you can have corruption, graft, and all the wonders of late stage capitalism.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Jail.

That’s the answer.

The answer to what question though? If it is what's presented here in the comic, I.e. "what to do instead of sleeping on the street", then that's a remarkably American answer, and requires significant stupidity and/or malice.

There are much better approaches.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

Yeah we're not talking about ideals, we're talking about the present. Stupidity and malice is pretty much it.

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[–] [email protected] 104 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Very unrealistic. How come he's still alive after talking back to a cop while being black?

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago

Didn't you see the last panel - he's rich.

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[–] [email protected] 64 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wait y'all have cops that don't just start wailing on that guy for not moving? Cops in my city absolutely call backup and go squad deep when homeless people stand their ground.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago

Or when they dont. In my twenties I worked with unhoused populations, and someone who I was kind of point of contact for came inafter being missing for a couple weeks. She had really weird injuries. I recognized a few of them, not all, and I'm pretty familiar with broken bodies so that was surprising. Apparently she'd been kidnapped and tortured by cops for at least a week. I found out basically everyone has a few of those. The cops just do that. Theres no reason, There's no jusrification; they just take who they can.

And why should someone who's been thrown away like that give a shit about your comfort? I know when I was thrown away and ended up homeless, I lost a lot of respect for my environment and 'normal' people. I didn't get as bad as a lot of people.

Do you have a good reason for them to care? To care about something other than the next fix? Maybe a future, or a chat with a friend? No? Then maybe shut the hell up about how icky the actual living human beings you let get thrown away like trash make you feel when you have to walk through their fucking homes.

[–] [email protected] 57 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Who the heck is downvoting this? This is such a reflection of our society.

[–] [email protected] 62 points 1 year ago

The cop in the comic, probably

[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Open sufficient shelter and then ban camping.

Sorry, but I’ve worked in SF and Portland and getting yelled at while avoiding shit and syringes is not great.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They want free prison labor instead of helping people. All programs that gave people shelter and UBI had high success rates of getting people off the streets. If you give people resources and real help. They can be housed, it isn't unsolvable at all.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago

Some say there is a missing panel where a acorn hits the cop and he unloads a full mag on the guy.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I love that the cat just joins the rats playing poker.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Background Details Rulz

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

And then in a few years, after making no efforts to create a space where homeless people can live the way they want or a path for them to get a job and a home, the enforcement of these laws will loosen up and you'll be back to stepping over people on the sidewalk.

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