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Re:California Spent $17B on Homelessness. It’s Not Working by kelnos on Friday June 02, 2023 @07:16PM (#36172050)
Who cares about someone slapping arbitrary labels of "liberal" or "illiberal" on things? Ultimately we need to find something that actually works, and treats people with compassion. It seems like the big focus is on the second half of that, completely ignoring the first.
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Re:California Spent $17B on Homelessness. It’s Not Working by hotpotamus on Friday June 02, 2023 @09:24PM (#36172788)
I wonder what label will be applied to rounding up people and forcing them to labor? Particularly the minorities?
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Re:California Spent $17B on Homelessness. It’s Not Working by bombcar on Friday June 02, 2023 @11:54PM (#36173554)
We’ve tried the “round up undesirables and put them in work camps.” Work didn’t make them free and it didn’t get a standing ovation overall.
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Re:California Spent $17B on Homelessness. It’s Not Working by hotpotamus on Saturday June 03, 2023 @06:49AM (#36175473)
"Arbeit macht frei" has a storied history to say the least.
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Re:California Spent $17B on Homelessness. It’s Not Working by ericfrenkiel on Saturday June 03, 2023 @12:41AM (#36173775)
The label you are looking for is “duly convicted party,” per the 13th Amendment:

“Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.”

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Re:California Spent $17B on Homelessness. It’s Not Working by hotpotamus on Saturday June 03, 2023 @06:51AM (#36175484)
If you can criminalize their existence, then I suppose it's off to the gulag with them.
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