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Peter@notalawyer.bsky.social |
the 9th Circuit never said that you can’t, e.g., bust up homeless encampments. They just said that before you do, you need to provide shelter beds, otherwise you’re just being punitive and cruel. An extremely basic a call for decency, but many West Coast city leaders were outraged
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Dan
@dwatson.bsky.social
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“we just want to round them up and dump them at the county line and say don’t come back now”
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Squire Boone
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City leaders are outraged because they have to actually explain to their constituents that their constituents' desire to get rid of these folks without paying for a place for them to go is a them problem. You know. Actually lead their communities.
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derek
@derek.bsky.social
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We really should be focusing on the true victims of this decision. The rich people under bridges.
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Mezentine
@mezentine.bsky.social
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There is simply a missing foundation of shared humanity that I find loathesome. I will never understand these people. It makes it hard for me to take even valid concerns seriously because they feel like a performative veneer over a politics of disgust.
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Nicholas Peterson
@fencingmonkey.bsky.social
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This is an argument I try to deploy against voter ID requirements: the homeless get to vote the same as everyone else, how do you handle that? And of course the answer is "we wouldn't, we're already disenfranchising people who live on native reservations, having no address is even easier, rube."
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Ben Helford
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It reminds me of Korematsu, where the Supreme Court looked at exclusionary zones in isolation, and ignored the part where Japanese-Americans were also not allowed to leave the exclusionary zone. That allowed SCOTUS to just pretend internment wasn't happening.
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Peter
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San Francisco politicians, for instance, made a big stink of this. “The 9th Circuit is saying we have to let homeless people camp in public!” But that was never true, they were only saying you have to provide the people you displace with a place to sleep. A pretty basic requirement!
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