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You're right, my bad. My comment was directed at the actual OP, though, so you can rest assured the comment wasn't for you

"You see them everywhere." That's it? This opinion feels way too specific for that to be the only thing on your mind lol. Maybe at least some context? Are you from somewhere where people are less tall on average? Is there something you don't like about tall people? Like the other guy said, give us a rant! Let's hear where this is going.

For real though, could you elaborate? Give us a few reasons why. Also, probably would have been a better post for the unpopular opinion community

Thank you for immediately and so willingly proving my point lmao. Sounds like this guy's only "crime" (thanks, SCOTUS! You must have been over the moon with that one) is being homeless. Even the sheriff said he wasn't a danger and his only crime is homelessness. You read "homeless" though, and that was enough for you to say "lock him up!" Then, based on nothing at all, you assume he must be a murderer and inherently dangerous or something. Yet another indication of your feelings towards the homeless in general for no reason. It truly speaks volumes. You're complaining the homeless aren't being thrown in jail just because they didn't want to be forced to stay in some shitty, privatized adult daycare. That's positively ghoulish.

Once again you make the misleading argument about empty beds/shelters when there isn't enough of either for all the homeless people in Portland and the vast majority are filled each night anyway, so even with 100% acceptance of help, Portland would still have lots of homeless people. What then? Portland only has like 250 of these tiny homes in total and much fewer actively available at any given time. Should all the homeless people be thrown in jail when the villages fill up? This all-too-common stance of "you will accept my help or you will be punished, because only I can decide what's best for you," is just shameful. Ironically, the widespread moralism of homelessness is maybe one of the biggest barriers to getting homeless people real, meaningful help. In short, your justifications are lacking in number and relevance, you blame the homeless themselves at every opportunity while ignoring any outside factors, you allow yourself to be swept up by media cherry-picking such as this, and you also treat the homeless as a monolith. So, yeah... I think I stand by what I said.

Did you know between 40-60% of homeless people have jobs? Did you know that only about 25% of homeless people are addicts? Did you know only about 30% of them have severe mental health issues? Homeless people are just like you and me, it's just they simply can't afford rent. Considering how high rents are in most places, it's really not that hard to imagine. And when you consider that most people live paycheck to paycheck, all it takes is one unexpected medical expense, one lost job, one setback to fail to make rent and end up in the streets. Even when they don't have jobs, or are addicts, or are severely mentally ill, that doesn't mean they deserve to be thrown in prison and are no less deserving of care and compassion.

Seeing as how vocal Jordan has been about his disdain and hatred of the homeless in the past, I don't think that's why he posted this article. People don't forget stuff like that, Jordan.

Lmaooo what a pathetic response. If you'd ever pick up anything more advanced than a coloring book, you'd know paragraphs can be longer than 4 sentences. In any case, a single sentence is never a paragraph, so you obviously don't know how to use paragraph breaks. You've shown once more that you're completely unable to string two sentences together. Quoting me for things I didn't say won't help you, either. Also, you're still a monster with dogshit opinions and you're very conspicuously trying to steer the conversation away from that fact.

is the point you are a clown? i agree

You argue like a 10 year old lmao. That's the best you could come up with?

if its author knew how to correctly break the text into them

It's hard to take this seriously coming from the guy who can't even go 2 sentences without a paragraph break. My points still stand.

You went out of your way just to tell everyone that you think former drug addicts aren't deserving of medical care? Not even people who currently do drugs (who are also all 100% deserving of medical treatment btw), anyone who used to do drugs is disqualified, too? It's an absolutely insane take to say "they used to do drugs, so they don't deserve to have teeth." And what of all those people who didn't do drugs, but still need and can't afford dentures or implants? If you can't afford reliable access to dental care from the start, you'll likely be stuck with preventable problems down the line that then become even more expensive to fix. The situations of these people aren't different from former addicts in any meaningful way; they need dental work, but can't afford it. You're ignoring the core issue that important and completely necessary dental work (and medical treatment of all kinds) is too expensive for almost everyone, not just current or former addicts. As a result, many are forced to go without that treatment. That's a bad thing. You saw someone complaining that dental work is unaffordable, and all you could think to say was "Yeah, but they're druggies, so there's no problem here." You've justified a terrible system to yourself because you view the people who were quoted as being beneath you. What's truly dystopian is both that medical care would be out of reach of so many, but also that people would be ok with that as long as it means the "undesirables" don't get to have any. The societal disdain for marginalized human life and the moral superiority complex that fuels it are both absolutely appalling.

Me deciding which insect to use as an example for the wiki article picture 🤔

Do this after you've cooked your food and roasted your marshmallows.

When he tested the look at outdoor Los Angeles shopping mall The Grove, “Nobody recognized me,” Bacon said. But the tide evidently soon turned. “People were kind of pushing past me, not being nice. Nobody said, ‘I love you.’ I had to wait in line to, I don’t know, buy a f***ing coffee or whatever. I was like, This sucks. I want to go back to being famous.”

Lmao this has to be a joke. Is this really what life is like for these people? No one said "I love you" to a stranger at the mall? He had to wait in lines? Maybe the most eye-opening thing about this is that Kevin seemed to expect to be treated more or less the same way he is as a celebrity, just without the selfies, which says to me that he thought everyone gets treated the same way famous people do. Sometimes it's interesting to get a reminder of how out of touch these people really are.

Jordu

Workers are now paid 20+ bucks an hour for fast food

In California, maybe. Everywhere else wages aren't even near that much for fast food. Fast food establishments aren't even really part of the tipping discussion, which may be why California raised the minimum wage only for fast food workers. Having worked those jobs before, I can say that no one there expects a tip and likewise, tips are uncommon. Restaurant workers still have the same minimum wage as before, though. For fast food, don't worry about tipping. If you want to go to a sit-down place, though, don't go if you aren't prepared to tip. It's not like you can't figure out approximately what the tip would be before you go. Don't forget that federal law says food service workers only have to get paid $2.13 an hour of actual wages as long as tips can make up the difference to the national minimum wage of $7.25. It makes a lot of people unhappy when they have to tip, but that's how it is and they knew it before they went out to eat. If you don't like it, don't reward those businesses with your patronage in the first place. Not tipping only results in your wait staff getting stiffed, the boss doesn't care whether you tip or not.

Didn't Netanyahu say just the other day that there'd be no ceasefire until his war goals in Palestine had been achieved?

Considering the jet suits we actually have can only hold enough fuel for a few minutes of flight time, I think I'd agree with the FBI that it's probably just a balloon or a drone made to look like a guy on a jetpack. I've seen drones made to look like Superman or a lawnmower, so it shouldn't be much harder to pull something like this off.

Aw man, it came and I missed it? I need more details. About what time? Where at? Facing which direction? I kept an eye out last night but didn't see anything before bed.

It sucks that they turned this into a story about how great mass surveillance is

260 beds isn't anywhere near enough to shelter every homeless person on the streets, whether in Grants Pass or Portland, which aren't the same place, by the way. The mention of this is especially disgusting when you consider that 260 beds is clearly not nearly enough to solve a homelessness issue for a city and it only serves to falsely lay blame on the homeless. Even if you're staying in a shelter, you're still homeless; they aren't a solution in themselves. Shelters are generally poorly maintained, unhygienic, and unsafe. They're a good place to get all your shit stolen, too. Have you ever been to a homeless shelter? They aren't nice places to be, plus they have all sorts of ridiculous and overly-restrictive rules and policies that have to be followed. Given Portland's homeless population, 260 beds is a total drop in the bucket anyway, so treating that as an available solution that people aren't using is incredibly disingenuous because most of them are being used and there still aren't nearly enough to shelter everyone, even if they were actually worth staying in. Since you brought up Portland, I'll talk a bit about Portland, but don't forget that this story is about Grants Pass, where about a third of all residents pay more than half of their incomes on rent, making Grants Pass one of the most rent-burdened towns in Oregon.

KGW, like most MSMs, tends to have a slant against homeless people, loyally parroting whatever the police and mayor, Ted Wheeler, tell them without a lick of journalistic analysis. They love whining about the homeless at every opportunity they can, but I never see them report on those killed by hypothermia as a direct result of frequent and brutal police sweeps, or when the homeless are often outright murdered by class terrorists.

Instead of doing anything meaningful about the homelessness crisis, Portland invests all of its money into increasing the police budget and putting up anti-homeless architecture instead of tackling rampant rent inflation, or lack of access to mental health treatment, or developers only building luxury apartments, etc. They've experimented with some alternatives, such as little clusters of tiny, one-room shelters, but not in sufficient amounts to make any meaningful difference. Their policies don't actually reduce homelessness at all, it just squeezes those in a tough situation even harder and criminalizes the poorest among us.

You also left out the main fact of the matter that Grants Pass literally outlawed being homeless. Down on your luck and living on the streets? Congratulations, you're also a criminal now. That's outrageous. It is now illegal to be too poor. How this could be justifiable in anyone's mind is shocking to me.

The only two extant monotremes in the whole world have similar anatomies? Shocking! You could make this same meme substituting any other monotreme characteristic, really.