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God works in mysterious ways.
Politicians make laws on the basis of "I'll never be in that situation". But then a son or daughter comes out as LGBTQ+ and all of a sudden laws need to change. A daughter has been raped and all of a sudden laws need to change. They don't make laws to help us. They make laws to control us and sweep away things they don't like.
See: Dick Cheney.
Where's the law to sweep him away?
I'm sure there's plenty, the trick is getting someone to enforce them.
A daughter has been raped and all of a sudden laws need to change.
Nah, they can afford to fly their daughters out.
You know what this reminds me of? There was some cheap ass webcomic in the very early 2000s that had an Amish protagonist. I only remember a single comic where the main character is watching TV and has some pundit say that poor and homeless should be shot. Then our Amish hero sets the pundit's house on fire rendering him homeless.
The pundit declares himself poor without his house and is promptly shot by his own followers because they made good his beliefs on shooting the poor and homeless. It was actually kinda funny.
But that being said, it amazes me just how often people forget the lessons of the past. The great depression seriously changed America's views on poverty being an entirely individual failing for many, many decades. Even into the Nixon administration he had to remind everyone that he was a New Dealer and wasn't going to roll back any of that shit. They had to wait until baby boomers, who did not grow up in the depression and were the ungrateful beneficiaries of the numerous programs in its wake, were the main voting block before beginning to roll that shit back.
It's also kinda incredible just how the libertarian and conservative propaganda apparatus really nullified most criticism of this shit. While that was always case even back in the 1930s, it was never to this extent.
Perhaps http://meninhats.com?
Remains me of when Spawn put the Leader of the KKK in Black face and they lynched him.
The apocalypse makes fools of us all.
This is why I don't really like to punish people or hold grudges, what comes around tends to go around.
That’s a shame. Thoughts and prayers.
ITT a whole lot of people talking shit while their local governments are doing the exact same thing. This is a map from 2015. It's only gotten worse since then.
If what's happening in Florida disgusts you then check your own laws first.
It’s not a political thing, it’s an urban vs. rural thing. Cities tend to have more robust services for the homeless, so naturally homeless people wind up gravitating there.
They’ll find a way to suspend the law so it doesn’t affect victims of the hurricanes and then reinstitute them again later.
"Banned sitting in public"??
"Loitering"
I didn't see that one but I wouldn't be surprised. They keep coming up with inane stuff that only applies to those people.
California: "First time?"
https://theintercept.com/2021/05/07/california-fires-chico-housing-real-estate/
Maybe running a political party off of hate wasn't such a good idea.
Not to ever be a Florida apologist in my entire life, but hating homeless people crosses party lines.
California dems jumped at taking away homeless camps. Not helping them, just destroying the camps. Claim victory, homeless move a few blocks over, or the next town over, without their stuff. It's like a South Park episode.
I'm not saying that the democratic party is good on this front. I'm saying that the republican party, the ruling party of Florida is built on hate, and it's biting them in the ass.
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This is why we need to ban hurricanes.
Nah, we gotta nuke the hurricanes.
It's a win-win. We destroy the hurricanes, and we also reduce our nuclear stockpile. I can see no flaws in this proposal. Checkmate, peaceniks!
What if to stop the hurricanes, we put our nuclear stockpile underneath a steam engine.
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