Redditors slowly starting to get it: r/unpopularopinion - I’ve lost a lot of tolerance for the homeless. Note that it took being in their face for years and affecting them personally to finally understand what's going on. Previous to thisyou're an istaphobe if you don't want to step over poop.

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[–]ID10T 10 insightful - 2 fun10 insightful - 1 fun11 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Comments are locked lol. Of course they are. Reddit sucks

[–]Alienhunter 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

They can keep blocking discussion of it but discontent will only continue to mount.

I think the only effective method that isn't morally abhorrent is to go through and institutionalize these people. They need mental health treatment, and they need to be removed from the drugs they are addicted to.

Otherwise it's only a matter of time before some gang decides to just go through and kill them.

[–]UncleWillard56 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

The nature of homelessness seems to have changed too. Homeless people were generally some combination of addiction and mental illness with some folks who, while functional, just didn't want to be part of society; still are. Now it seems there's a general nihilism mixed with entitlement with a dash of selfishness. People just want to get high and when you give them just enough money to where sleeping in a tent in hell is easier and more appealing than actually working and paying taxes, you have a homelessness that's almost militant.

[–]Musty_Smelling_Penis 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Nevermind that the middle-class has been eradicated, the price of living far out weighing the wages, what the fuck do you think is going to happen when people with good jobs cant afford to rent?

[–]UncleWillard56 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

No need to be uncivil. Those are the working poor who are usually one step up from the bottom rung of homelessness, which I was talking about. I'm talking about the very bottom who inhabit Skid Row in LA, the one's shitting and shooting up in San Fran. By giving free money to addicts, what die we expect to happen? They'd magically get better and get jobs? That money would have been far better spent on the working poor, helping them get the housing that was promised. LA alone raised over a billion dollars to build low-income housing and have barely created any. Instead politicians and corporations got that money and there are more homeless than ever.

[–]Femaleisnthateful 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Reddit: mentally ill people aren't dangerous. That's a myth.

Also Reddit: oh all this violent crime? We have an epidemic of mental illness, doncha know?

[–]notafed 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Time to reopen the sanitariums. These people need to be off the streets, their mental illnesses evaluated, and then appropriately housed and treated.

[–]Chipit[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Nope, the ACLU sued to close them all. Can't imprison people who have committed no crime.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joyce_Patricia_Brown

Basically, the ACLU and the usual left-wing suspects went to court to fight for her right to live in a subway grate and throw her feces at passerby.

They won.

[–]notafed 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

and then everyone wonders why there's been a massive uptick in "hostile architecture".

[–]Alienhunter 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

There's a number of crimes you could get them on. Drugs being one of the main ones.

If you sent the cops around to arrest the public drug users and masturbators and whatever you've got a crime to get them institutionalized on.

The non-offensive ones it's probably not effective to force them into institutions, though I think if you provided the option of going to a sanitarium over sleeping on the street many would take it.

The random bum that just wants to sleep on the street but otherwise doesn't do drugs, vandalize, or traumatize citizens in some way isn't a problem really. The problem is when you get loads of them and all the crazy ones.

[–]SerpensInferna 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Has anyone watched "Soft White Underbelly" videos? Cause god damn, that's some heavy shit.

The dude behind the channel breaks it down - all homeless people are drug addicts, across the board. Even if they say they're clean, they're lying. Homelessness doesn't just happen to people. Peal back that layer, you have mental health issues. Lots of libs say the mentally ill aren't violent, but in my experience that is a flat out lie. Asking a sane logical human to trust an illogical human-animal with a lack of higher brain function who will lash out violently without warning is not the move. Sometimes mental illness is genetic, sometimes childhood trauma, frequently it's a combo. So it's a cycle. We shut down the sanitariums, but now what do we do with our people who are unfit for a functioning society? We release them on the street to harass and harm humans who have the ability to exist within an ordered civilization.

Also, there are a lot of homeless, violent negros. Why we continually leave out the race equation when it's so glaringly obvious is beyond me. I can only hope we start to understand it again as a people.

[–]Alienhunter 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I mean is drug addiction not a kind of mental illness?

Do a Singapore style drug enforcement regimen and you'll fix the problems with homelessness very quickly.

[–]Soloninja 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It took me stepping on poop to loose my tolerance. I also loss it more than 8 years ago walking around a city to go to a game

[–]jet199 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

Most people who are homeless are so because they hate other people and don't want any responsibility. Nothing to do with poverty or lack of opportunity.

Now there is definitely some scope to fix the problem by addressing mental health, trauma and addiction but do we really want to go back to locking mad and antisocial people away again.

[–]Chipit[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Most people who are homeless are so because they hate other people

Come now, at least make your lies believable.

[–]Alienhunter 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Nah there's a lot of homeless like this. Their sociopaths but in an anti-social way. Volunteer a bit you'll understand.

[–]jet199 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Maybe you are just a rude and ignorant little shit.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/jun/25/after-25-years-of-being-homeless-i-learned-theres-one-simple-thing-you-can-do-to-help-gregory-p-smith

Time to accept that possibility, Chippy

[–]Musty_Smelling_Penis 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Chippy is right, you're generalizing from one person's story. Where do you live? Im in Vancouver BC, and I havent had a shower in three months

[–]Chipit[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Oh look, it's more personal insults in violation of Saidit TOS. What a surprise.