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Maybe he can send trans people to gulags too. After all, Newsom's message seems to be "Hey, I heard you like fascists... vote for me! I can do a fascism too!"

Experience has shown that trying to out-fascist the fascists always works really well for centrists. Anything but the compassionate, progressive politics people desperately want.

In order to actually address the homeless crisis, we would first have to fix U.S. Healthcare.

Or we could leave everything broken, with the wealth still being transferred upwards, and keep funneling the people that have been ground up and spit out into our growing for-profit prison industry...

someone should pose that question to the red states that literally ship their homeless to california and then call CA a shithole for having a homelessness problem.

I loved that they let a ton of people out of jail when they legalized marijuana and vacated a ton of convictions.

But then they literally just turned people out on the street with zero fucking pathways. No money, no home, no phone, just zero fucking resources.

It was an almost overnight explosion of homelessness in San Diego.

Sure they have always had a homeless population (the weather is particularly ideal for living outside most of the year), but nothing like it turned in to.

Clearing camps won't help. Like you said, you need to solve the root problem.

They know. It's the actual goal, not an unfortunate fluke of the system.

How is a city spending $200k per homeless resident and still not providing them with housing?

That's more than 8 years' worth of rent/mortgage at $2k per month. And even longer in a more reasonably-priced home.

I understand there are more expenses than just rent, but I also understand that it's nearly impossible to get a job if you don't have a permanent residence. If we've got a homelessness crisis that includes working families, why wouldn't the states want to help those families?

A rent/mortgage assistance program seems like it would do a lot more long-term good than simply "cleaning up" encampments.

Even if the reasons where mainly substance use and mental illness, those are still societal issues that require societal solutions through better health care access and overall more social security.

It is wild to me that in America "Oh you have a mental illness? Well go die then and don't leave your corpse for me to see!" is somehow a position that is considered acceptable among "progressives". It is deeply reactionary and a hallmark of fascists.

I'm in Canada, Toronto specifically and the Homeless situation here is just as bad as it is in the US. I do volunteer work for a couple homeless outreach programs and I'd say easily since the pandemic the homeless demographic has drastically changed.

The stereotype that homeless people are junkies or mentally ill has shattered. The people I'm working with now are, for now, mentally fit and sober. More women than ever, more elderly, more minorities that in the past generally didn't have many homeless within them because their communities would help prevent them from being homeless i.e. Asians, Muslims, etc

So. Many. Have jobs. So many have families, children, and they are sleeping rough so that they can simply afford to have their kids or older parents or other family members continue to live with whatever roof they can afford over their heads. There are SO many that are sleeping rough because there is simply no room for them to sleep in the tiny studio apartment they can barely afford with their kids, wives, parents, whatever.

I'm handing out food to people who dont' even look homeless. They can't afford to BUY FOOD. All their money goes to rent or other important bills. I'm dealing with people who were on drugs and alchol who then got sober in hopes to get off the streets and find work only to relapse because there is no work or what work they can get isn't anywhere near enough to get them off the streets so they slump RIGHT BACK into that hole because, and they've told me first hand, "There's no point."

Lines are getting longer every month, The portions for food and other things we hand out are getting smaller because NO ONE can afford to donate ANYTHING anymore anywhere near the amount we need to cover the increasingly rising population we're working with.

And none of the politicians could give a flying fuck. None of them. Regardless of what side of the fence they're on and how far away from said fence they are. We could have fixed this years ago, decades ago, but we chose profits over people. We made this bed a long time ago, It's almost your turn to get into it.

For us volunteers this is no longer a battle we're fighting in hopes of winning. No, at this point we've lost. Now we're just hoping we have enough bandages to slow the bleeding as much as possible before we run out.

There's plenty of left leaning Americans who think Doug Ford is a good guy because he says shit about Trump. It shouldn't be surprising.

This is the trick the fascists are playing on us. They've corrupted both sides, and hope we'll believe that the one that is "less fascist" will be able to save us from the one that's "more fascist". NOPE, surprise, it's fascism all the way down! The game is rigged, the trap is sprung, the only winning move is not to play.

If you're familiar with the 4 boxes of liberty, it's time to understand that the ballot box has already failed us and abandon the idea that we can vote our way out of this mess. We're past that. We're firmly in the jury box stage right now and it's not looking too promising with the amount of judicial interference going on, the administration flaunting rulings that don't go in their favor, and the supreme court stacked.

With the fourth box, understand that the first and possibly even most potent ammunition you will ever have access to is free speech. But it will also be the first to run out. Use what's left of it while you still can. Be vocal. Be a shit disturber. Many people need their shit disturbed, some need it to wake them up with the information they're not willing to accept, others need it because they're fascists themselves. Disturb them. Attend protests. Prepare to go on strike. Collective action is more powerful than people give it credit for. The country cannot function without wage-slaves feeling chained to their jobs, clinging to it like a lifeline and too afraid that rocking the boat will see them let go. This is a method of control. Prepare for turmoil and disruption. Find people who can help you and support you when things go south. Seek community and resilience, find people who will look out for you, and do what you can to look out for them. Find ways to organize if you can. There is strength in numbers. The clock is ticking, and it's not going to wait for you to be ready. Get ready now, and get involved. This is everyone's fight, and if you're not already fighting, you're late, get moving.

That's already happening...

Again with the zombie myth that Katie Porter is a progressive. She is even worse than Newsom.

Would bet cash money the DNC selects- I mean uh he fairly wins the DNC primary for next election cycle lol.