• Someonelol@lemmy.mlOP
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    1 year ago

    I love public rail and took it all over the place when I visited Japan, I even still have the JR Pass ticket in my wallet. If I had one public transportation wish for LA it’s that every freeway have a light rail line like in the 105. As for the homeless situation I am all in for fully funded housing first initiatives and think we haven’t done anywhere near enough for them. That said, the unfortunate state of events between the LA Metro and the city’s homeless allows for some very problematic things to happen in light rail train cars especially during transit. I’ve seen quite a bit of drug use, littering, and even an instance when I had a taser brandished at my face only to find out a second later the guy was trying to sell it to me. I really wish people wouldn’t react so quickly to a post and start accusing them of being some kind of monster.

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      “they certainly don’t hate them enough to chase them away when they are smoking meth on the train” sounds kinda like you think that should be done and that the issue is people not hating the unhoused enough.

      Especially when you come into a space that explicitly advocates for abolishing landlords and start saying that stuff, you should expect ridicule. Instead of complaining about it in other spaces for 5 days and repeatedly doubling down you could just do some very basic self-crit.

      • The dogspaw @midwest.social
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        1 year ago

        So whats your plan other then just let them smoke meth and steal from people obviously something needs to be done but putting your head in the sand and pretending there isn’t actually a problem won’t fix anything

        • ThereRisesARedStar [she/her, they/them]@hexbear.net
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          A socialist state where housing is a guarantee and where poverty doesn’t lead to widespread drug use because it doesn’t exist. Also addiction recovery programs in the transitional state.

          Why. What is yours, push them into a comically large blender? Or a prison, how about a prison?

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            Sure where people have wings and cancer doesn’t exist yes the communist state is so great you choose to live in the west

            • GarbageShoot [he/him]@hexbear.net
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              For as much as the news talks about a declining birth rate, you are aware that people are still born in the west, right?

              “Move”

              You knowing moving isn’t free and it isn’t easy for most people to get a job in a country whose language they don’t speak, right?

              Furthermore, even if someone does move, then you don’t take it as proof they are a hypocrite but rather proof they are delusional, so your original claims is just bad faith bullshit.

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                Well apparently everything is free in the communist utopia of china I’m sure you will do ok as a white dude with no money in china

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              You know that real world socialist states don’t have a homelessness problem anywhere approaching the west, especially the US, right?

              The only fantasy here is in your capitalist realism soaked brain.

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                Right the millions of poor rural Chinese living below the poverty line don’t exist sure if you pretend that the problem doesn’t exist it makes it easier to believe the ccp propaganda

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                  the poverty line is very made up bullshit based on nothing but vibes some economists had, not even any statistics, it should be higher in a lot of places, lower in others where the price of things is lower, but in any case, no one claimed poor rural Chinese people don’t exist, ThereRisesARedStar said they don’t have a homelessness problem anywhere approaching the west, which is true, all of those poor rural Chinese people have homes, hell most of them even own their own homes, they don’t even rent, so, what exactly is your point? China has been the largest alleviator of poverty in modern history, yet, they do still have poverty, it has not been eradicated yet, but, they do not have a homelessness issue due to government initiatives that have worked very hard to make sure there is enough housing for their population (see western propaganda about ghost cities and the reality of how they’re all filled with people now)

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                    Yep figured just ignore facts who needs facts when you can just dogpile and gaslight anyone who doesn’t think xi is gods gift to humanity

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              Bruh do you have any idea how quickly I and so many other people here would pack our bags and move to China if we had the chance

    • AOCapitulator [they/them, she/her]@hexbear.net
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      Oh it’s YOU!

      Hahahahahahaha

      Holy shit lmao, you’re still on this?

      It’s like driving past someone waving around an end of days convert or die sign, and then hours later passing by the same spot and they’re still there

      Go eat some grass nerd

    • ZodiacSF1969@sh.itjust.works
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      Lmao those babies on hexbear are so fragile, of course they’ve come here to attack you.

      And that one mod being like ‘no one mentioned Marxism’. Yeh, hexbear is famously right-wing 🙄🤣