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Col. Boozy Badger@boozybadger.bsky.social |
A homeless shelter wrote an amicus brief in the Grant’s Pass case. They argued SCOTUS should let the city arrest the homeless because, and I am not shitting you, the ban on doing so meant less people were willing to abide by their “two church services a day and no sex” requirement to sleep inside.
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HotBot
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I can't put into words the mix of rage and disgust I have for this trio of decisions today. Overturning long held precedent on judicial power, giving the green light to cruelty towards the homeless, nitpicking J6 convictions... I am going to pet the cat, who is blissfully unaware of SCOTUS 😾
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Big Puppy Stuart
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i can't think of anything funny, so what the fuck? what the hell is wrong with this dude? Sane people don't file things like this.
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@jojosbizarrelife.bsky.social
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If I was living in Grant's Pass, this ruling would make me much more concerned about crimes of desperation.
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@jojosbizarrelife.bsky.social
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And this is why I fundamentally don't believe in religious charity.
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Jay "Ceasefire" Parr
@crankypacifist.bsky.social
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Jesus Christ.
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Rocko "Raul-bix Cube" Otts
@rocko.bsky.social
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Sounds like Southern Oregon, alright. My dad experienced so much anti-asian racism there when we were driving through during our family road trips back in the 80's. We lived in the Portland area, but it's always shocking to see how ultra-conservative it gets once you leave the metro area
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SpottyAltAcc 🍉
@spottygoober.bsky.social
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What the hell
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Traveller In Black
@traveller-in-black.bsky.social
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Wow, strong Devil's Dictionary Vibes here. "Distance (noun): The only thing the rich want the poor to have, and to keep."
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Col. Boozy Badger
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The Grant’s Pass Rescue Mission: “Pardon me, as the only shelter in this town we have a vested interest in allowing the government to threaten these people with arrest if they don’t want to join our church.”
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Jamie
@jamiestl.bsky.social
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Two services *a day*? Wtf.
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pockets and sedition
@yoboseiyo.bsky.social
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2 services a fucking day? when do they think these people will be able to work? because i guarantee they want these people working, too. never even mind that a lot of people who sleep rough HAVE jobs.....
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@golvio.bsky.social
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Good ol’ Christian Dominionism! 🤮
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Aurora Rene ❤️🔥
@auroraontop.bsky.social
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Ap
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Aurora Rene ❤️🔥
@auroraontop.bsky.social
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Ao
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Miandy
@miandyreading.bsky.social
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😭
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James Jordan
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Is there some version of the Bible these people have that the rest of us aren’t allowed to see? “Jesus welcomed the money lenders into the temple and helped them set up tables. Then he confiscated the loaves and fishes from the deadbeats.”
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@tirenth.bsky.social
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Ah, there's that feeling of intense, unending rage.
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Confirmed Professional Agitator
@mumbly-joe.bsky.social
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a neat trick with shelters like these is how they effectively trap people in homelessness. 2 mandatory religious services daily is 2-4 hours of your day gone, and I'm willing to bet anything they have a strict curfew. Makes it hard to seek work if half your waking hours are spoken for.
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Radio Husky ΘΔ
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Fuck sake
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AnneZo
@annezo.bsky.social
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😠
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Minuit
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So extorting the homeless then. That sounds pretty illegal.
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The Magdalen Writing
@nebroadwe.bsky.social
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No. Just … no. Or as some folks I know have said:
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Seentoomuch
@seentoomuch.bsky.social
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I knew there had to be a Christofascist angle to this ruling.
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TwoHitGood
@twohitgood.bsky.social
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That's less a shelter and more a trap to force their religion on people. Also, Jesus would fucking hate the people leading that mission. They value controlling others more than helping and maybe confuse that control for help...which is just all the more dangerous.
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Zombie Marx
@zombiemarx.bsky.social
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The brazen cruelty of this country doesn't surprise me anymore, though it really should.
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Ferles
@ferles.bsky.social
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wow
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@seosamh.bsky.social
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Sort of like the Christian group in Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Talents
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MEMaatman
@mmaatman.bsky.social
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And that is one of I believe only two shelters in Grant's Pass. So you can see why people's options are limited.
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marcmagus
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People would rather literally sleep on the street than stay at our shelter. The solution is clearly to ban sleeping on the street.
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Ticklebawks 🔜 FetchNW
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And this is reason # 2,848,482,919.6 why every church needs their 501c3 status revoked.
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Coyote
@goldencoyote.bsky.social
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Of course the place is a Rescue Mission. This shit sounds like something Dave Scholl and John Bjorling would have endorsed for ours before they "retired."
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KarenJM
@spinynorma.bsky.social
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I wish I could say this was unbelievable.
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🔞 Micah TF'd into a SKOOOONK!
@micah.pet
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This is fucking sadistic. If I lived up there, I'd steal all of that shelter's money and give it away to the homeless people they claim to serve.
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Andrew Parker
@andrewparker.bsky.social
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“When the police can’t fuck with them homeless people would rather be on the street than following our bullshit, the problem is clearly that the police stopped fucking with them”
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Kerri! ΘΔ
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That sounds like southern oregon! Worst part of the state
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Pyrholidon Enthusiast ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
@pyrholidon.bsky.social
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A homeless shelter I had to make use of for one night wanted to charge you money if you had a phone or a laptop and not completely destitute. They were one of those super religious catholic ones.
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@illimij.bsky.social
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Elon Musk famously pissed about not being able to sleep under a bridge.
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@goldstar971.bsky.social
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oh yeah, the single shelter (Gospel Rescue mission) in Grant's pass bans non-approved socialization between men and women bans service animals, requires you to work 40 hours at the shelter while bars you from looking for work elsewhere requires turning over all your medication to the shelter
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Sensual Kazoo
@sensualkazoo.bsky.social
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My honest opinion is that people like this should be dragged out into the street and shot. Like this is some of the most evil shit you can do.
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Stardust Neon 🏳️🌈
@stardustneon.bsky.social
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They had better hope their God isn’t real, because they are definitely going to hell.
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Serenity Now!
@cpo10za.bsky.social
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I never thought I’d be rooting for a homeless shelter to be shut down…and yet…
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Sam W
@samiw.bsky.social
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Right, so gatekeep charity behind forced adherence to one specific religion. If they don't join the church and sacrifice their personal autonomy, they don't deserve help. Sounds like what Jesus said, yup. Totally his deal. Screw the poor, right?
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Glup Shitto
@nitrofox.bsky.social
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For fuck sake
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LilithLiberated
@lilithliberated.bsky.social
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Where did we ever get the idea? There was anything good in Christianity
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de la Nae (Kelsey)🐀
@delanae.bsky.social
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so what i'm hearing is 1) that city needs a new shelter 2) these people's shelter and church need to be seized or destroyed, their power broken, and their dishonorable and abominable ranks scattered to the wind
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🦬 AudeS, Wrath Month is upon thee
@audes.bsky.social
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why is it that every time I hear the word Christian or Church it's people that Dante gleefully wrote about as denizens of the lower circles of Hell?
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Jack Feerick
@jackfeerick.bsky.social
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"Given the choice, people would rather sleep outside than stay in our shelter, therefore we shouldn't give them a choice" is both a brutal self-own and the core of conservative ideology
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Noctis
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How about we ban starving to solve world hunger next? 🙄
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