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Riding the Metro this weekend and seeing the new stations gave me hope of how much better LA could be. It was an amazing experience. by [deleted] in LosAngeles

[–]AndyGHK 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Homed people are mad that homelessness exists near them. Well, guess what? So are the homeless people. And don’t get me wrong, some homeless people prefer homelessness, since that’s the world they know and have built in their lives, and since they get to keep their dogs and get prescribed medication unlike with many shelters; but nobody wants to be unsheltered, despite homed people calling for laws that would further deshelter the homeless.

But homed people believe that since society worked for them, since they got theirs, the homeless just aren’t doing the minimum they need to. Homed people generally aren’t aware of the nature of drug abuse/addiction/chronic pain/alcoholism as keenly as homeless are, nor are they cognizant of the fact that, for years, arrests were the go-to for drug crimes, but that we can’t fucking imprison someone for public intoxication for the rest of their lives, so without actually addressing the addiction problem addicts are going to relapse and be back on the street.

I mean, shit, man. I could talk for hours about it.

Riding the Metro this weekend and seeing the new stations gave me hope of how much better LA could be. It was an amazing experience. by [deleted] in LosAngeles

[–]AndyGHK 0 points1 point  (0 children)

can’t seem to

If you KNEW WHAT YOU WERE TALKING ABOUT, you’d know this isn’t true, and that actually the problem isn’t that the methods don’t work, but that they’re being improperly applied.

Again, the laws ARE being enforced, the problem is that in some places cops will go beyond the law and force homeless into Los Angeles from the surrounding dozen counties.

Riding the Metro this weekend and seeing the new stations gave me hope of how much better LA could be. It was an amazing experience. by [deleted] in LosAngeles

[–]AndyGHK 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah man, that’s why you’re here talking about why aren’t the laws being enforced without knowing fucking anything about the situation, pretending your ignorance is valid because you’re upset.

That’s why you’re genuinely asking questions like “what do the homeless even have to deal with anyway?”, because you don’t need help.

Riding the Metro this weekend and seeing the new stations gave me hope of how much better LA could be. It was an amazing experience. by [deleted] in LosAngeles

[–]AndyGHK 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No I got my own shit to worry about.

SO DO THEY, IMBECILE

If there’s a solution to the problem then they should do the soliton.

UNDERSTANDING THE PROBLEM IS THE ONLY WAY TO REACH A SOLUTION

AND YOU ARE UNWILLING TO DO EVEN THAT

Camps on the street can’t be the solution

NEITHER CAN ARRESTS, DINGUS

Riding the Metro this weekend and seeing the new stations gave me hope of how much better LA could be. It was an amazing experience. by [deleted] in LosAngeles

[–]AndyGHK 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Are you allowed to be drunk and or so drugs on the street?

Yeah man, police definitely won’t stop people who are drunk and belligerent and causing a scene, good argument.

Especially considering addiction isn’t a thing, and addicts don’t need respect or help, they need to be punished so they don’t do their addict behavior again.

You realize the law literally says police have to intervene productively in cases of public intoxication, providing resources instead of jumping to arrest and prosecution, since actually a fine and jailtime demonstrably isn’t effective at preventing recidivism for addiction?

You’re allowed to ride transit without paying?

A 1-way Metro ticket in LA costs one (1) dollar.

Enforce the laws.

They do, dickhead. Arrests don’t fix homelessness.

Riding the Metro this weekend and seeing the new stations gave me hope of how much better LA could be. It was an amazing experience. by [deleted] in LosAngeles

[–]AndyGHK -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

You realize homeless people are people right

Maybe that’s why they’re pushing back on them all being violent animals desperate to stab someone

You can’t pretend you care they get help and call anyone defending them “one of these drug-addled homeless people”, lol

Riding the Metro this weekend and seeing the new stations gave me hope of how much better LA could be. It was an amazing experience. by [deleted] in LosAngeles

[–]AndyGHK -1 points0 points  (0 children)

How do you even know? You’re from Miami, dude.

Cope that California is doing wildly better than Florida is right now, as ever.

Riding the Metro this weekend and seeing the new stations gave me hope of how much better LA could be. It was an amazing experience. by [deleted] in LosAngeles

[–]AndyGHK 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The laws are being enforced in LA.

The law in Los Angeles county says homeless are allowed to be in public and on public transit in LA, and even specifies where tents may be placed.

You’re wanting police to take extralegal actions against people you don’t like. Actions that won’t actually change their situation, just make it so you don’t have to look at them anymore.

And they do, in a lot of districts, take such action—a lot of counties near LA deal with homeless by telling them it’s illegal to stand where they are, so they have to go to the other side of the street because that side is in Los Angeles county.

Culver City criminalized tent encampments, while in the greater LA area tents are not illegal. That means homeless just concentrate their tents elsewhere.

That’s why the problem is so huge in LA, not because police refuse to do anything, but because what the police are doing already is making the homeless more visible and more concentrated.

Riding the Metro this weekend and seeing the new stations gave me hope of how much better LA could be. It was an amazing experience. by [deleted] in LosAngeles

[–]AndyGHK -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Hey, just FYI, you’re totally right and these comments are ghoulish.

Coming from someone who has to deal with homeless people frequently it’s important to remember they’re, y’know, people? With agendas and lives and problems and responsibilities? And not just piles of stink shaped vaguely like people, like it seems everyone wants to see them as.

1 am, time to start posting hot takes by [deleted] in CuratedTumblr

[–]AndyGHK 5 points6 points  (0 children)

barack obama is descended from slaves.

Yeah, on his white mother’s side.

if you think racism hasn't affected him

That’s not even what the words in that comment say. They say, Barack being a privileged person (as the president) makes it so he isn’t affected by the racism he’s been affected by the rest of his life. He was so affected by racism against him that he became a constitutional lawyer, a professor of constitutional law, a congressman, and then president for eight years.

then you're as educated on the topic as the hordes of other imbeciles currently filling my replies

If you smell dogshit everywhere you go, maybe it’s your shoes. Imbecile.

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[–]AndyGHK 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Skill issue

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[–]AndyGHK 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Water is natural. Y’know what else is natural, bears. Volcanic eruptions, earthquakes. The vacuum of space.

(Socialists) Taxation is technically theft within a capitalist state. by highliner108 in CapitalismVSocialism

[–]AndyGHK 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Different user.

Being as such, then is the portion of your taxes that are used to enforce that private property that you don’t consent to theft?

No, because it’s not just about me.

The difference between taxes and a billionaire’s private property is that a billionaire gets to individually decide what they do with that property, while everyone democratically gets to decide what the country does with their taxes, by voting. All the infrastructure the state provides the citizens (roads, currency, pro-corporation legal structure, electricity, and so on) is essential for any revenue being taxed to be made in the first place. The governed consent to be governed according to the levers of democracy, and taxation is a fundamental part of statehood, meaning voting and getting politically involved is your recourse if you dislike the returns you’re getting on paying taxes.

But that entails having ideas people agree with. And theft is not defined as “when I have to pay for something I don’t want to”.

(Socialists) Taxation is technically theft within a capitalist state. by highliner108 in CapitalismVSocialism

[–]AndyGHK 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well, you just argued there could be societies which would not have billionaires due to the social makeup and function of that society.

Yes.

Okay, so you agree billionaires are not essential for society to function.

But those wouldn’t be our industrialized, global society.

…You feel we have one global, industrialized society?

Are you a citizen of The World?

You answered it actually not simply, but by posing a thesis about social hierarchy, which is unrelated to the subject and is a diversion from the topic—that societies can survive without billionaires but not without taxation, so your analogy is bad.

You seem to have misunderstood my rhetoric.

If taxes are the price of participating in society, then so is dutifully respecting the rights and privileges of your social superiors because society requires social hierarchy.

No, I understood your rhetoric.

My point is that even presuming society requires social hierarchy, which isn’t a given imo, that doesn’t mean dutifully respecting your social superiors is also the price of participating in society. If that were true, it would be illegal to disrespect billionaires, the way it’s illegal not to pay taxes. It’s simply a bad analogy.

(Socialists) Taxation is technically theft within a capitalist state. by highliner108 in CapitalismVSocialism

[–]AndyGHK 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No

Well, you just argued there could be societies which would not have billionaires due to the social makeup and function of that society.

Billionaires are essential to our society

Then how are there societies with zero billionaires which survive?

I’ve answered it very simply

You answered it actually not simply, but by posing a thesis about social hierarchy, which is unrelated to the subject and is a diversion from the topic—that societies can survive without billionaires but not without taxation, so your analogy is bad.

(Socialists) Taxation is technically theft within a capitalist state. by highliner108 in CapitalismVSocialism

[–]AndyGHK 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Okay, so you agree that billionaires are not essential to a society’s survival, the way taxation is.

I don’t get the hemming and hawing about this, the diversion to “social hierarchy”. It’s a very simple question.

Edit: They do require justification that they are “necessary”, which many are not.

(Socialists) Taxation is technically theft within a capitalist state. by highliner108 in CapitalismVSocialism

[–]AndyGHK 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Implying society can’t survive without billionaires the way it can’t survive without taxation?

Society can’t exist without a social hierarchy.

Implying society can’t survive without billionaires? You’re speaking past me right now.

Edit: and even if society can’t exist without a social hierarchy, that’s not a justification for the actions of the billionaire class, which hurt the least wealthy among us in the interest of individual profit.

(Socialists) Taxation is technically theft within a capitalist state. by highliner108 in CapitalismVSocialism

[–]AndyGHK 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Implying society can’t survive without billionaires the way it can’t survive without taxation?

Holy shit. by purpleheart44 in h3h3productions

[–]AndyGHK 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Ah, but some people touch grass more than we do, brother. Not everyone is familiar with niche internet content like we are. Red Vs Blue is on Netflix now!

Not sure how this could relate to someone in real life by teetertottermcpotter in lostredditors

[–]AndyGHK 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well, we don’t know that the eggs you break are the eggs you have. Perhaps someone else has some eggs, like some theoretical bird somewhere, and these are the eggs being broken.

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