• 4onTheFloor@lemmy.world
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        2 years ago

        Definitely an American thing. Can confirm. Am American and not proud of this shit. It’s disgusting the way our homeless are treated.

          • ThatWeirdGuy1001@sh.itjust.works
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            2 years ago

            Probably because there are thousands of homes sitting empty with ridiculous price tags due to corporate landlords buying every available property and hiking prices by creating artificial scarcity?

            Or we could invest in the social programs that prevent homelessness from happening to begin which will slowly reduce the homeless population in and of itself.

  • Tb0n3@sh.itjust.works
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    2 years ago

    Everybody in this thread apparently has never had to deal with the homeless. They’re an actual health hazard and hazard in general with many being violent or on drugs.

    • smooth_tea@lemmy.world
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      2 years ago

      That’s exactly why you need to care for them instead of sweeping them under the rug until they’re no longer an inconvenience to you you miserable selfish git.

        • smooth_tea@lemmy.world
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          2 years ago

          Thanks to evil socialism the problem is virtually non-existent where I’m from. Crazy what you can achieve if you don’t throw your veterans and diseased under the bus over corporate greed.

  • JJROKCZ@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    This has been reposted so many times over the years, did they ever end up replacing those benches?

    • SomeoneElse@lemmy.worldOPM
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      2 years ago

      They were reinstalled days later after the backlash. Their spokesperson was spewing all kinds of BS. “The tweet was a mistake” “the benches were unsanitary” etc. I’m not sure if these are the same as the benches before before it looks like they’d be hard to lie down on anyway.