Seeing a lot of people (rightfully) pissed so I guess I figured I'd add some resources to be able to help with stuff (I'll add more if other people drop more):
People's budget is trying to get money away from pigs and into the community.
It's amazing how all the city subreddits have a shared interest in their seething hate of homeless people
At least for my old hometown's subreddit, the users skew heavily towards either white folks or suburbanites, two demographics that absolutely hate homeless people.
Literally subs full of white collar office workers who embody the PMC I keep hearing doesn't actually exist
City subs are almost always reactionary cesspools because their mod teams and most "famous" posters are almost always undercover marketers trying to run good press for their respective city governments.
When I used to post on the country club known as /r/Detroit, the mod team literally had the admins ban me for suggesting that the mods only allows certain posts or certain viewpoints to bubble to the top of the sub since I was "doxxing" them despite the fact that the information I posted literally came from the mods themselves and one of them is literally employed by the local chamber of commerce lmao (that specific mod also made a youtube video giving marketers tips on how to advertise on reddit since, according to him, "they're all sheep", and bro even used anti-capitalist subs to detect other marketing firm's techniques to capitalize on)
Absolute blood suckers. They still won't let me back on after getting me banned at least 7 more times despite the fact that I actually fucking live here.
Every local government is run by the chamber of commerce and real estate developers, so this doesn't surprise me.
Nothing is shocking, but it details how exactly what you describe occurs, based on Sam’s analysis and personal experience.
The prescription is overall the same though, IMO — abolish capitalism
My city subreddit is shockingly not that bad. It has it's moments, but they don't seem to aggressively hate homeless as other subreddits do.
My cities reddit has like 1 post every 10 days, thankfully not active enough to shit on the homeless.
DSA folks kinda took over ours. Mod team is pissed, couple wheraboors and some sleazy marketing guys trying to make the $20 million in taxes given back to the hotel lobby every year look like a good thing.
The rest is just "whos dog is this"
I don't totally buy the whole "when fascism comes to the US it will be holding a Bible and cross" thing. Personally I think American fascism, if and when it comes, is gonna go after the homeless and very poor. That's one group of people everyone in America is allowed to openly despise. Then they'll go after other marginalized and oppressed people, but they'll just use "means testing" or similar indirect tools.
don’t totally buy the whole “when fascism comes to the US it will be holding a Bible and cross” thing
That already happened and his name was Reagan.
I don’t totally buy the whole “when fascism comes to the US it will be holding a Bible and cross” thing.
The reference is a bit dated. Like, 80 years old now?
During the early Reagan Era and the height of Prosperity Gospel bullshit, it was believable.
Oh I still hear libs repeat it a lot. I just think it misunderstands evangelicals in the present day. IMO as someone who was deep into evangelical culture for 30 years, it's not their religion that drives their politics, it's that they tend to be massive racists, classists, bigots, etc and they launder their views through their religion. Not all evangelicals at all but a majority, I firmly believe.
Sure, sure. The New Atheist shitheads who do the Logic And Reason sociopathic dance are as prone to fascism as any American. And they're as eager to chant the refrain.
I'm just saying Sinclair Lewis can't be blamed for failing to predict this precise moment in history.
Always been here. How can you say a country that genocided it's native people and enslaved africans is not fascist?
American fascism, if and when it comes
If?? It's been here for almost 250 years
Honestly, the bulk of real fascism in the US is clinical and secular. The kind of dead-eyed "imperialism with a pretty face" propaganda libs espouse, with no message or vision for the future except "we need to get rid of the bad people who do bad things." One perfect summation of American fascism is getting "cancelled" for "racism" online for criticizing Obama's drone strikes. It pretends to be woke and progressive but is really just a different coat of paint on the same Hellfire missile. The liberal idea that problems in society are essentially caused by certain people being mean to each other is a consequence of this kind of thinly disguised, meaningless and directionless fascism.
the concept of reddit gold is cringe on its own, but the icons they use are on a different level
It started with introducing Reddit Silver, then Platinum, then just a few limited time icons, then permanent ones, then animated ones.
Then they started giving them to people for free to give to others to cultivate a culture of buying awards.
Now we're here.
Reddit Silver was originated as a joke to parody Reddit Gold.
Capitalism ruins everything. But it especially ruins comedy.
The worst part is it worked perfectly to slip the userbase into thinking that the microtransactions were actually a fun in-joke and that's all.
Once people were used to gifting Reddit Silver, they could be introduced to Reddit Platinum without any of the expected backlash you'd think reddit users would have to their site doing exactly what they hate EA doing
Imagine if those minds could be put to socially valuable labor.
Like asking a fish to learn to fly
Maybe. I think there are structural and deep psychological problems that perpetuate this mentality.
Even Old Reddit had a serious "Memes Always top the feed" problem that admins seemed to embrace rather than resist.
And folks that could be agents for reform always seem to get shown the door (or worse, RIP Aaron Swartz).
We have a deepfried Reddit wholesome seal emote?
We've gone too far, turn back now
probably off to the camps or something they just figure it all gets sorted out in their favor
They moved about 100 people into a heavily restrictive temporary home project in a hotel downtown.
Plenty were arrested. Others just moved somewhere else. Couldn't find numbers on total people in Echo Park.
This person's comment history includes them complaining about homeless people because the user "is employed".
I wish they'd [redacted] in that lake.
Turns out, California is exactly like Sodom and Gomorrah, only for entirely different reasons than righties think it is.
See, guys? The Purge worked! But I bet you'll never see it reported on liberal loving Communist News Network
"People with almost nothing in this world have what little they do have taken from them, scenery is now still scenery just with less have-nots"
"(implicit warning: if you go homeless, we will hate you too and want you gone)"
I mean that could have been a great headline if they got all those homeless people proper shelter, but I reckon that's not what happened.
Nope! Project Roomkey was an expensive grift: Over $100 million spent, less than 2000 housed. The housing sucks -- they don't even let you have the key to your room. It's kept at the security desk. I've heard of 6PM curfews, as well. Totally fucked.
Holy fuck. For $100million they could have bought those 2000 people literal houses...
Most listings around the pond are at 2-3k right now but were probably 3-4k pre COVID.
LA is in a weird spot right now where housing prices are increasing cus old people are dying/moving out and interest rates are super low, but rental prices are dropping because renters income was hurt during the pandemic.
After reading all the gleeful comments and the responses how the homeless deserved this for not trying to do better or for ruining their view, like... how do you not hope for the San Andreas fault to rip them a new one and make them homeless (at best) (in Minecraft). The utter apathy and malice towards people who were dealt a shittier hand than they were. I’d love to know how many of these gentrifiers are natives compared to the homeless people being driven out.
some real big thinkers in that thread holy shit i want to believe this is a bit
and yeah do not read the thread if you value your sanity
