The solution is social welfare programs and a focus on mental health, job placement, and relocation assistance. Give the vast majority of people health care, stable employment, and a safe place to live, and they will thrive.
The solution is not cramming people into prison labor and ripping their constitutional rights from them.
I really don’t understand how this isn’t obvious to everyone.
I can’t help but notice that you really like to cherry pick only the parts of comments you think you have a simple answer to.
How about responding to the meat of the argument rather than trying to just move the goalpost?
Did you miss the entire part of the article talking about how this effectively locks up the court system, deprives US citizens of their constitutional right to representation, and does effectively nothing to actually get people off drugs?
Tell me more about how you like punishing the poor for being poor, though.
Green, the DA, said he felt deflection was a better path to treatment than the criminal system, which can be a slow process, and that the fact that only some people were succeeding was a good sign: “We didn’t [make it] too easy or too hard. We really found that sweet spot.”
Oh fuck you. 70 or so people deflecting out of 1200 arrests is not success you pompous prick, it’s failure.
Why are you attacking me?
The irony of choosing the most pedantic way of saying that they’re not pedantic is pretty amusing though.
The problem with being like… super pedantic about definitions, is that you often miss the forest for the trees.
Illegal or not, seems pretty obvious to me that people saying illegal in this thread and others probably mean “unethically”… which is pretty clearly true.
I guess I don’t understand the mastodon/twitter style feed, I’ve always found that I couldn’t seem to get a feed interesting enough to come back to.
GOP: “We only want to deport the illegals, if they want to be here they should do it legally”
Immigrants: “ok, we’ll come on this program specifically designed to allow a legal pathway to citizenship”
GOP: “No not like that!”
The problem is that It’s a cop out, a ruse, a diversion, a disingenuous misrepresentation of what’s happening here. It’s a flat out straw man.
Casting taking down signs that say “everyone is welcome here” as strengthening our children is simply not an assertion based in reality. Yes, we need to be real with our children so they can be prepared for the real world but this scenario is not applicable to that argument.
I would argue that taking down these signs weakens our children by sending a message that being different is bad—the exact message racists and bigots have been pushing forever. It robs them of a little bit of their humanity and we should not be tolerant of this.
If you don’t see a problem with the sign being up then I’m not sure why you needed to offer a counterpoint that we’re “over sheltering” children. Taking the time to write out a rebuttal sure would seem to indicate that you think the signs coming down are a good thing.
I strongly disagree with you.
Aside from the fact that teaching children to be inclusive and accepting is the path to these things being normal in the future, “well you have to learn to be offended” is the shield of the bully. It’s what people who want to be assholes say to protect their assholery.
But you know what, if someone needs to learn to be offended then maybe it’s the bigots and bullies that need to learn that inclusive language is here to stay and to just deal with it.
Wut? ST is a cult classic.
Safari definitely gets more hate than it deserves. I find it to be perfectly acceptable.
I would prefer more competition though, even though I know today it’ll be a ton of “cram some AI into it” slop.
It’s best not to assume the worst of people, life is complicated and filled with nuance.
I recently moved across state lines. Two days before I had to leave, my cat—freaked out by the move and upset at not being let out at night—tore a screen off of a window and got out. We searched up to the moment of having to leave but could not find him and had to leave him behind.
It really upset us, and I still miss him, but there simply wasn’t another choice.
Lol how did you miss your own point so comically?
You: liberals don’t get anything done they just squabble and their candidates don’t do shit
Them: you’re right we need to get our shit together and pick better candidates who will stop squabbling and get shit done.
You: nO nOt lIkE tHaT!!
Glass can and will break for no apparent reason, even tempered glass.
During manufacturing the glass can take on stress that is not visible but is a ticking time bomb. Temperature differential alone can push that stress past its breaking point.
No. Just, why? Gumby’s whole thing is that he’s made of clay.
Maybe the blockheads finally got him.
Prove it. Show me studies that jail time is an effective deterrent to drug use. Peer reviewed, actual research.
I’ve worked with former addicts for many, many years; I have never had one of them tell me that jail got them straight, but I have had many tell me they came out of jail more addicted than they went in.