How one Trumpist tech mogul pushed a crackdown on the unhoused all the way to the Supreme Court.
  • WatDabney@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    1 month ago

    The Cicero Institute also advocates legislation allowing new private prisons to enter the market and empowering governors to circumvent elected attorneys general by appointing ​“special prosecutors” to combat ​“public lawlessness.”

    And there we have the actual key to all of this.

    The goal is to reinstitute Victorian workhouses, updated for the modern age of private prisons and officially-sanctioned slave labor.

    That’s it - nothing more. It’s not even an attempt at anything like an actual solution to the growing problem of homelessness - it’s only and entirely that wealthy psychopaths like Lonsdale see homeless people as a resource that’s not currently being exploited and that they want to exploit. Entirely in order to further their own wealth and privilege, they want to imprison these human beings and make them into slaves.

  • demesisx@infosec.pubEnglish
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    1 month ago

    The truth is even more nefarious. BOTH parties are at war with the homeless.

    Which right wingers run Portland, Boston, and LA? They’re arresting homeless people in Portland, Boston, and LA too you know?

    Can we finally admit that we have two right wing parties or do we need to be in prison camps with a gay minority president before people will finally start looking past identity politics?

      • demesisx@infosec.pubEnglish
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        1 month ago

        That’s good. I’ll actually read it now. Thanks for the heads up. I’m so used to identity politics on here that I just expected they were engaging in it since it’s the default here.

        It’s certainly the default from articles you post.

          • demesisx@infosec.pubEnglish
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            1 month ago

            I call it as I see. You’re a notorious DNC establishment-biased poster. I’ve had LOTS of arguments with you about it where I called you out on it. I could link to the hundreds of articles you posted to support my statement if you’d like but all people need to do to check my statement would be to look at your posts.

            • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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              1 month ago

              That is just a lie. I am a socialist.

              I’m also a realist. I don’t expect to get my pony.

              As W.C. Fields once said, “I never vote for, only against.”

              • demesisx@infosec.pubEnglish
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                1 month ago

                You’re a socialist that consistently posts hundreds of articles in full throated support of anti-single payer, genocidal, pro-police militarization, racist, brazenly corrupt, hyper capitalist demagogues with a D next to their name. Just because you’re anti-Trump doesn’t mean you DESERVE that pony.

                I’m actually a socialist and I might have cast a vote for Harris if I lived in Texas (but probably not since I’m in an all blue state) and the best way to not seem like a hypocrite is not to voice your support for this sham two party system. You could just avoid posting these identity politics drenched articles but you do post them then fight with fellow socialists (like myself) telling the truth, calling the Dems corrupt in the comments.