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After a handcuffed ride in the back of a police van, a man was left paralyzed and needed his legs amputated, lawsuit alleges (edition.cnn.com)
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Cuffed in the back of a van with no seatbelts. You can get a ticket for not wearing a seatbelt in your car.

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[–] Kalkaline@leminal.space 103 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Call me crazy, but I would be happy to pay extra in taxes to make sure everyone had a roof over their head, healthcare (including dental, vision, mental health care), and their basic needs of life met (including hygiene products). If that comes out of police budgets, so be it.

[–] thesilverpig@lemmy.world 70 points 7 months ago (1 children)

What's crazy is it would likely cost less in taxes to do!

[–] farngis_mcgiles@sh.itjust.works 14 points 7 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

it 100% costs less to house the homeless instead of leaving them on the street. the cruelty is the point

[–] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 9 points 7 months ago

whats more it costs less to also give them money for basic needs as well.

[–] Lommy241@lemmy.world 28 points 7 months ago (2 children)

that's called socialism.

[–] Kalkaline@leminal.space 32 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Maybe that's what I want

[–] n3m37h@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 7 months ago

I live in Canada and I want more socialism but our politicians keep destroying the system because they have rich friends that need help getting richer (Doug Ford I'm looking at you)

[–] Specal@lemmy.world 16 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I know this is a joke but we should stop making it. It confuses the dumbasses.

[–] drivepiler@lemmy.world 14 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Genuine question; How is it a joke? That's pretty much what we do where I'm from, and we're generally considered socialists.

[–] Specal@lemmy.world 12 points 7 months ago (1 children)

If you take an industry, and make it owned and run by the workers, take the NHS of the UK for example. It's paid for by taxes, therefore owned by the public, and is run by the public, that's socialism. But just paying tax alone to have more services isn't socialism. Socialism is defined by the ownership and regulation of business and service by the people.

So paying taxes for the government to pay a private company to do the work is not socialism, for example madicaid in the US.

It doesn't seem like a big difference at first but the results are massively different.

[–] drivepiler@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I see, that is a very good point and an excellent explanation. Thank you.

[–] Specal@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Just want to say when I said "confuses the dumbasses" I wasn't referring to people like yourself, I was talking about hyper capitalists.

[–] drivepiler@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

I figured as much :)

[–] AdmiralShat@programming.dev 23 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah but then you'd get people trying to be homeless on purpose

spoilerThis is a joke, please don't hurt me

Edit: how the fuck does spoiler text work

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 11 points 7 months ago

The sad thing is some people don't think that's a joke.