Literally psyops instead of helping. The people who did this are the characters you see getting shot in the movies and don't feel bad about it.
No one in power wants to help the homeless, progressive or regressive. Don't pin this on 'evil' people, no meaningful social service growth has happened in ANY of our lifetimes and I'm fucking ancient by internet standards
What progressives? Are you talking about the US? You guys don’t really have any progressives. The NDP or Green parties here in Canada would do a lot more to help the homeless than our current leading party (LPC)
no meaningful social service growth has happened in ANY of our lifetimes
We just got tax payer funded dental care for a large portion of the population. I only bring this up because I hate the generalisation that we’re all American on the internet
I'm in a homeless shelter in Los Angeles. I am not required to leave during the day. We are provided with 3 meals a day (I always miss breakfast, sometimes miss others). The showers suck, and often run out of hot water. Each bed has an outlet, and an attached locker with various shelves.
The program that made this place happen didn't exist 5 years ago. And sure as shit didn't exist when I was previously homeless 13 years ago.
It's not perfect, but it's movement in the right direction.
All I hear is that those in power are all evil because they refuse to help the homeless. In fact both sides in government work actively to attack the homeless.
Attacks against the homeless are perpetrated by evil people, its just the people you voted for are also evil
So good people are doing this? Or trying to kick the "ugly" away isn't evil, and is moray acceptable?
What's your stance exactly?
What should they be doing? They shouldn't try to keep their businesses going?
This will drive them insane, but it will not deter them.
Soon, the city will be dealing with a bunch of unfortunate folks who are not only poor, but also enraged.
There you go, berserked homeless people!
I love the idea of deterring them as if they have a choice and are just very persistent in exploring their passion, being homeless.....
“Ok, we hear you, but how can we add the irresistible craving to eat human flesh into the mix?” - the business owners, probably.
And then they call the swat team to clear their camps and accidentally concuss and paralyze a few of them
Evey street dweller will shout the lyrics to Baby Shark in every passerby's ears!
"Are you going to help them? Use the money to help anyone, or maybe take this moment to highlight people in need?"
"The fuck? No, I'm going to make their lives worse for having the audacity to be poor and seeking shelter. How dare they ruin my view with their homelessness."
oh, pretty much everyone's a nimby when it comes to the homeless. it sickens me.
Just for the sake of my own learning, how can you help them?
In my personal experience when I've tried to help them they will take free clothes, food, and money... But if they don't want to get off drugs and actually clean up their act then they won't.
How can you help the ones who won't help themselves? In this case the homeless encampment seemingly hurts business and communities.
I donate time and money to homeless shelters and things but the problem is just getting worse where I live. When these encampments pop up existing residents are less safe, and the sense of community as a whole goes down.
These are not bad people, but addiction is hell on earth it seems. I honestly want to know how I could help more than I do, but most people don't know how to fix it either
Someone already wrote a really good answer, but using the money to help fund programs would be a start. Maybe make a safe place where they can hang out that doesn't offend you (not you specifically, just in general). If possible, I would even try and talk with them, become neighbors instead of enimies. While tackling homelessness would take a system wide change, I think sometimes just not adding to the problem and shame is the best we can do.
And I get it, I've had homeless people scream at me, see them urinate outside, not everything humans do is pleasant, and I also wouldn't want all of that right in front of my business. But, at least in this example, there is a ton of empty space, the building itself is mostly empty. Come together and make the rest of the unused property a shelter. That parking lot behind them alone was gigantic and I don't think I saw any cars there, why not let them have part of the parking lot? It just seems easier to be kind and try to work with them than set up a sound system to keep the entire neighborhood up.
Publicly paid for rent free housing. Not group shelters. Full on housing. That's literally all it's ever taken. Season on some free mental and medical Healthcare and you've got a recovery sandwich. Even if they don't end up fixing their lives, the amount it costs the public to just give them this is cheaper than it costs to have the police harass them, build anti-homeless infrastructure, and repair damages caused by the unhoused from defecation or public property damages. The other one-two punch is fixing economic problems, which rent caps, unions, minimum wage being a living wage tied to inflation,, and changing fines to imprisonment for corporations doing crimes will fix a lot of that.
It's too bad this can't happen while corporations can buy the government with "donations" and lobbying (legalized bribery), and massively benefit from homelessness as a way to force people into exploitative work, or imprisonment for cheap legal slave labor (See 13th amendment). Only way I can think to fix that problem is to remove the source of their power, which is to pull money out of the equation. Essentially building communities that work together without money like we used to, though the government has standing orders to kill or break up people who try that (see Malcolm X, M.L.K. Jr., or places like lake Lanier).
Did they pay for the rights to play the song publicly?
So were they deterred? Did this help them find a home?
"We just need to show them that homelessness isn't as comfortable as they think!"
Not so fun fact, ths cia used "i love you" by barney the dinosaur as a method of torture for prisoners during the war on terror and beyond!
The US Military used Metallica in Iraq after 9/11 too.
Oklahoma county jail used baby shark on inmates
How about getting everyone who's upset that they have to see homeless people and blinding them with hot pokers? That should work it out and we wouldn't need to pay royalties.
You are kinder than I would be
Like Jesus, in fact.
Apparently you can't swear in YouTube comments anymore.
When did that happen?
Within the last year. Everyone decided that McDonald's doesn't want burger ads next to no no words and it's ruined the mainstream Internet
Unfortunately the number of toddlers loitering about has tripled
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But I know the phenomenon. They also do this for shopping promenades to deter musicians etc.
This is permission for vandalism.
What little shits
