Ought to make you reflect, but it doesn't. You don't wanna. You don't wanna stop watching your CHUDs. You wanna go along with the CHUD crowd, because "what am I supposed to do, watch Anita? " because those are the only two choices in the motherfucking universe. The CHUDs make you laugh, and god forbid you laugh at anything other than petty 7 year old playground bully verbal cruelty. God forbid you stop being 7.
It sure is, but the people that have been reading your posts for years know from experience when you're simply disagreeing with something or someone dispassionately, and when that disagreement comes with an element of loathing or disgust or outright hatred.
HAHAHAHAHAHA!! You're boy in a dress!! HAHAHAHAHAHA!! You're boy in a dress!! HAHAHAHAHAHA!! You're boy in a dress!! You have masculine traits, woman who would never fuck me!! Let's check you for a pee-pee!!! HAHAHAHAHAHA!! PEE-PEE!! Get it?!?! Get it!!? I said PEEEE-PEEEEEEE!!!!!!! HAHAHAHAHAHA!! Yeah, UA, you're really fucking sophisticated, and the trans members of the board owe you buckets of respect. "You paint people in the worst possible light!! ". Obi-Wan- You have done that yourself.
Because the mature approach is to be a slave to the superficial perceptions of strangers. God forbid you open the door even a crack for accusations of guilt by tenuous association according to random assholes on the internet. Self-reflection indeed.
If you believe that, you are dead wrong. My disagreement comes from a place of "Do not fucking tell me what to do." Cue some flappy asshole with the usual dumb shit false equivalence with employment or encounters with law enforcement. I must starve, get shot or go to prison, or else my convictions have zero merit.
Y'know, if you really cared about people "telling you what to do," I'd think the majority of your ire would be directed at the state governments trying to tell your fellow adults which gender affirming procedures they're allowed to undergo. Or perhaps at the state governments that are "undermining parental authority" by banning certain medical treatments for minors even when the minor and their parents are in agreement about allowing the treatment. Those are real restrictions on freedom and liberty and such, not just people impotently complaining on social media.
There will always be those who by either bad circumstance or poor decision making find themselves homeless. The issue is not that there are homeless, but why they remain homeless. Clearly some sort of support mechanism needs to exist. You could try building large "apartment" buildings, AKA "the projects" from the 196os, but we've seen what happens there. Crime and abuses. Why? Because the people who wind up in those dwellings have little or no stake in them. They've no skin in the game, to use the vernacular. Worse, they're often trapped in generational poverty. What you need to do is provide not just housing, but training, medical support (physical and psychological), job placement, and various other such. You want to make it so that for the vast majority who require the assistance, it's a springboard to a good life and not a pit of endless despair. You want the people who land in that housing to be there as short a time as possible before they're able to move on to a self-supporting situation. So you've got to budget for things like security, maintenance, upkeep . . . that kind of thing. You can't treat the project like a warehouse for human refuse, you've got to treat it like an accelerator for shooting people back into society. Hell, maybe make it part of a universal basic income scheme. No arbitrary deadlines for when people get kicked out, either. They can stay until they're actually ready to move on. Also, a block of high rises shouldn't be the only form. There should also be something like neighborhoods of tiny homes for those who prefer a bit less sardine can lifestyle. All that said, you'll still have a remainder of people who will just never be able to support themselves. Drug habits, mental illness, physical handicap, whatever. They'll always need help. So the facilities should be set up to provide it. Like a nursing home run properly. You could also use that part of the system to give young people a taste of public service by offering a "candy striper" program to high school kids, or college tuition in exchange for service in the places. Also, you need vigorous and ruthless monitoring and enforcement of your standards and personnel so you don't have support staff running amok and abusing the people they're supposed to be helping. Of course, since this would be a government project, it would be run with borderline incompetence and everything about it would be vastly more complicated than it needed to be, but in the end it's not all that hard. Just expensive.
well, yes and no... yes, there's an expectation of "government incompetence", but the alternative is private sector grift which very quickly makes the services ineffective by cost cutting at the front line. just look at health care to see the difference. As has been pointed out before, Americans spend nearly twice as much on their (limited) health care for slightly lesser results than Canadians' do for universal coverage. Funny thing with UBI costs too.. all that money gets respent almost immediately by recipients on necessities rather than hoarded (yet somehow multiplied in it's stagnance).