• bortsampson [he/him, any]@hexbear.net
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      3
      ·
      12 hours ago

      Issue is where you park it, if you don’t have permission to park it where it is that’s trespassing.

      If people are parking on private property in California too fucking bad. You brought this on yourselves. I’ve heard this argument made on Thiel’s personal bootlicker reddit HackerNews. The thing is, if you drill down into most of the comments the people are really complaining about not getting street parking by their houses or the smell. Look, I get it, everyone draining their waste into the stormwater drains is a public health issue and it fucking makes everything smell in the heat. The same people that are complaining are the same ones that refuse to have public housing in their neighborhood or having their taxes raised. God forbid you do the logical thing and solve the problem instead of towing it to Oakland. If it wasn’t absolutely abhorent it would almost be comical. Capitalists drive people into homelessness. Capitalist protection thugs in CIA sell drugs to homeless to fund capitalist protection. Capitalists complain about homeless and drugs.

      • Diuretic_Materialism [he/him]@hexbear.net
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        11
        ·
        1 day ago

        To and extend I’d agree. If you own a bunch of property you’re not using then yes, people should be allowed to use it productively. Idk if I’d want to let people into my apartment to use my toothbrush.

        Perhaps a controversial take: I honestly think the best short term solution to the homelessness problem is just for the city to buy/seize some vacant lots and let them be open camping zones. People get freaked out by this because of the whole “sanctuary zones” from Star Trek thing, but honestly I think it’s probably better than having the population spread across the city living on side walks and parks. If you have one specific location where people can camp you can more easily provide services to them, have toilets and showers, send one of those mobile health clinic things parked there, maybe have some local orgs do soup kitchens to get people food.

        The more permanent solution is to provide people fucking housing but that takes time.