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They already have power. They don’t need a justification for expansion they’ll just do it.

Does it really though? Or have the Republicans already shown they want to go after any and everything they can to tarnish Biden so he just said “Fuck it, y’all get nothing!”

Honestly, whatever. Biden should just go down Trump’s list of “enemies within” and preemptively pardon all of them if only to protect them in the immediate future. Stop going high and start playing Calvin Ball.

I’ve received gift cards to liquor stores before.

Housed people buy drugs and alcohol. Unhoused people buy drugs and alcohol.

Why is it so much more evil for the latter?

Yes, if you have the means.

I work with a mutual aid group that engages in street outreach. I experience a lot of different cases and pretty much all of them would be benefitted by having more money.

Some people have a job, but not a home, and are trying to get housed

Some people have a home, but not a job and are trying to stay housed

Some people have neither and are trying to stay alive

Some people have both, but are so underpaid for the area they are in and are trying to stay housed

Some people are migrants and it is 100% illegal for them to work in the US and their only source of aid is through asking the community

Not one of them enjoys the situation they are in nor has made an explicit choice to be or stay homeless.

A lot of people who panhandle stay in encampments. These provide a small community with a lot of support structures for those there. There’s often someone who knows how to cook anything with any source of heat, someone who knows how to treat wounds, someone who knows what each person in the camp needs, and someone who’s plugged into the broader community and can get things for those who can’t (not all food pantries or lines are accommodating for wheelchair users and those with mobility issues can have trouble waiting for hours for food or even getting there). My point being that even if your contribution doesn’t help the person asking directly, it likely helps someone they know.

And if you’re worried about the whole “they’ll just spend it on drugs” thing, I honestly wouldn’t. Among the people I work with maybe 1/3 of them use drugs and very very few use anything other than weed. Employed and housed people use weed to unwind, why is it so much more evil if you don’t have a house? And if you’re working with the 2/3 of people that don’t use drugs than it’s not really a concern. I do realize that those numbers might be vastly different in areas that were more harshly hit by opioid issues.

It’s called “Fall” cause price fall down!

The whole HS marching band, eh?

Why is letting people decide what to do with their bodies a hard decision?

Same as all the other times it’s been tried then?

Then they should have no concerns following the law?

I’m shocked, shocked, I say, that they understand that losing recess because one kid was drawing on his desk is actually not fair.

You can customize the window type in conky, so you absolutely could configure it to be a normal window.

Maybe start with Alabama which was the first state in recent history to flat out refuse to accept a SCOTUS ruling.

Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.

If you engrained an exception into your ban then you haven’t actually got a ban.

What about conky?

You can have multiple instances running with different configs all drawing on the desktop. In addition to the time you can have a bunch of system monitors running as well if you’re interested.

Slavery was not ended.

I’m not convinced the “it’s up to the states to decide” bit wasn’t a pretense to make it more palatable during the election. Trump says a lot of things, he also does a lot of things. Sometimes he does what he says and othertimes not.

The guy who claimed single responsibility for ending Roe is definitely not pro-choice though.

Also shelters don’t count and you cannot interpret refusal to stay at a shelter as “wanting to be homeless.”

I help out with a street outreach mutual aid group. I’ve not met a single person that wanted to be homeless but I’ve met tons of people that don’t want to fuck with shelters cause:

• they have to get rid of their dog
• they can’t bunk with their partner or children
• they are trans and most of the shelters are religiously affiliated
• there are tight curfews and early kick out times
• no guarantee of consecutive night stays or even a bed, no consistency
• you can’t have friends over
• you can’t have more than one bag
• you must walk outside to a separate communal bathroom–even in a blizzard–if a pee cup is discovered you’ll be kicked out
• you must attend religious services prior to receiving aid
• some shelters are day only

The streets are harsh, but in most cases the shelters are worse. Their only consistent benefit is that they are warm when it’s -20F out and if you keep your head down the police will probably not fuck with you.