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Kinda fucked for the people that didnt sow, but yeah, the ones that did shall enjoy the reaping.

The people who actually sowed this are only going to reap a few extra weeks of complaining, "the poors are making the streets so ugly, why won't the police arrest them faster?"

Especially true for those rightwing religious nuts. Their book tells them Hosea 8:7: "For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind."

Not to ever be a Florida apologist in my entire life, but hating homeless people crosses party lines.

https://apnews.com/article/california-newsom-homeless-los-angeles-san-francisco-5b2b3aca9ca56efb444a717d278c1fd9

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.

oops!

It's only a bad idea if you give a shit about the populace.

I can see you haven't interacted with many police in these areas. I wouldn't be surprised in the least by any of that behavior. The cops only protect and serve property, not people.

Nah, it’ll be some 28 year old wannabe Punisher wearing Oakleys whose weekend activities include watching football and abusing his girlfriend.

Nah, we gotta nuke the hurricanes.

See: Dick Cheney.

A daughter has been raped and all of a sudden laws need to change.

Nah, they can afford to fly their daughters out.

Classic "leopards eating face".
https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/Leopards_Eating_People%27s_Faces_Party

There's a shocking number of people who walk this Earth without a functional world model or empathy, and don't feel things until they occur to them personally.

It's almost akin to a sort of brain damage or disorder, I'm not qualified enough to be able to explain what occurs in the brain structurally for this to happen; only that when they're grimacing for getting convicted after they've murdered 40 people (or millions, if it's an oil exec, for example) and wondering why that's happening, you carefully and patiently explain to them that's only part of what they've inflicted upon others and society writ large.

It doesn't create a "just" or even sane society philosophically speaking, and the legislative process has been almost completely subverted by that segment of the population as you'd pointed out, specifically to be dysfunctional.

Maybe we ought to install more mirrors in the legislative branches

Literally the post above this one in my feed.

This is exactly the problem with running on "fuck you, got mine". Side A bans homelessness. Side A ends up homeless somehow. Side B, because they aren't running on hate, has sympathy for the circumstances Side A (and B) have found themselves in and helps. Side A faces no consequences ever (hyperbole). Side A doubles down on banning homelessness.

I'm not trying to argue against what you're saying but fuck does this system suck.

Nope. Just nope. You don't get the "fascists did it" thing when urban camping bans are being passed all over the country in red and blue cities, counties, and states.

Homelessness isn't a conservative wedge issue. It's the one class both parties have deemed it okay to abuse and systemically imprison or kill. And now that we have two large examples of people being made homeless through no fault of their own, you want to disavow it and say it's just the far right?

Fuck no. You take that shame and you sit in it and next time you make it an issue to not support council members, mayors, and state officials who support criminalizing the homeless.

Empathy is for individuals. If someone came to me, maga hat, and truck covered in trump Humber stickers, and said him and his daughter had been displaced by the hurricane and needed help, I would give them a room, food and whatever else I could to help and ask for nothing in return. He has not hurt me (directly) and I have no bad blood with him personally so long as he's not being outright racist or anything around me.

But when we're talking about MAGA as a general group, they have hurt me, they are racist and homophobic and trnasphobic and misogynistic and I will happily revel in the Schadenfreude.

Yup. I will, however, feel less empathy for the people who did vote for these policies

If you feel the urge to argue for collective punishment just shut the fuck up.

I started writing up this lengthy comment about how this article isn't even about people displaced by the storms so much as those who were already homeless before, and how only ~39% of Florida voters are registered Republican, and even then we're talking about whole families and single mothers here, and about government corruption and voter disenfranchisement, but... You said it all, and much more succinctly. Thank you!

I mean, I think it does. A hurricane order expires shortly after the storm is over. It can take months for new shelter to be provided for those that lose their homes. Some people might prefer just to live out of their RV or a tent or whatever to save money while new living arrangements are figured out.

Ya because people can just pick up the shattered pieces of their lives on the governments timeline. They'll remove the hurricane order way too soon resulting in additional people being imprisoned or removed from their "homes" and their land will be sold off to a golf course or oil company.

Remains me of when Spawn put the Leader of the KKK in Black face and they lynched him.

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"??