Politicians want homeless people to disappear
They are asking the supreme court for help
Hiii, I hope you celebrated MLK Day yesterday by doing epicly rebellious things. Today I’m sharing my feelings on the supreme court planning to hear a case of whether homeless people should be allowed to have a pillow. Onto the news…
News that made me tell you the real meaning of America the Beautiful
The supreme court has agreed to listen to a case that would decide whether homeless people can exist in public. The city of Grants Pass in so-called Oregon wants to make homeless people disappear but a pesky court ruling is preventing them from doing that. The city is now turning to the supreme court to overturn the ruling that says displacing homeless people without giving them shelter is cruel and unusual punishment. Surprisingly, cruel and unusual punishment is illegal under the so-called United States of America’s constitution. Which is why the United States of America likes to make cruelty as usual as possible. When they sing “America the Beautiful”, they don’t mean beautiful in character, they mean beautiful in coming up with new ways to harm vulnerable people.
The city of Grants Pass doesn’t want homeless people to disappear into homes. No, no, that would be too humane. The city wants to ticket homeless people for using blankets, pillows, and tents to make themselves comfortable while sleeping outside in public spaces. Can you imagine seeing someone without a home and thinking I know how I can make your life a whole lot worse? I can’t, but Grants Pass’ motto is apparently, Sleeping outside is not bad enough, how about we take away your pillow.
I’m not surprised that a city in this evil empire is trying to make homeless people disappear instead of putting them in homes. This is the same empire that is bombing a country for trying to prevent genocide. I’m talking about Biden bombing Yemen because Yemen had the nerve to say we don’t think it’s okay to murder people for existing. When people governing a place are cruel enough to fund the murder of people, they are definitely cruel enough to say no pillows for homeless people. Sometimes I wonder if Satan is looking at the people who govern the so-called United States of America and tears up with pride. Or maybe Satan is like wow, that’s even too evil for me.
What’s extra American about this situation is that both Democrats and Republicans are on board with the city of Grants Pass’ cruelty. Both Democrats and Republicans are blaming the existence of homeless encampments on not being able to clear these encampments. When anyone who cares about humans knows the easiest way to get rid of homeless encampments is to give people a home. However, we all know that not caring about humans is a prerequisite to being a politician in this country.
I would like to clarify that I’m not the only person who says giving people homes is the solution to homelessness. The National Homelessness Law Center agrees with me that housing is actually “an evidence based way” to end homelessness. I feel the need to clarify this because apparently saying ending homelessness can be resolved by providing a home is as wild as saying ending sobriety can be resolved by smoking marijuana.
Politicians in this country like to pretend that solving easy problems are so complicated because at the end of the day they fundamentally believe it’s morally right to make people suffer so other people can make money.
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I think you're right--even Satan would cringe at the assorted cruelties US politicians invent (while still sleeping well at night.) I wonder if hell has its own hell, because if it does that's where 99.9% of US politicians belong.