Hadn’t heard this one! I have a little ditty my kiddo and I sang to each other at bus stops:

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Sometimes you show up 5 minutes early.
Sometimes you show up 5 minutes late.
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Neither one (pause for a beat) really much matters.
Unless you’re driving the bus.
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You may want to read up on where the socialist policies that worked came from.

Hint: it wasn’t FDR and he gets credit because the people who did do most of the leg work got hung out to dry in the second red scare.

But no, guards also violently assaulted and even killed people in the camps motivated by racial hate in addition to the broad torture methods applied.

Red states didn’t exist like that back then. Hate crimes were rampant location and often institution independent.

Are you arguing the camps protected people from hate crimes?

Anti-East asian systemic and individual hate was definitely a well documented problem before but it was still a problem during WWII and after.

People actively raided homes and stole property from those whisked away by the military.

clearly, lots of Bluesky liberals agree with Elon Musk's, and I quote, "Suicidal Empathy" rhetoric when it comes to Palestinians on Bluesky. How am I supposed to believe you're any different from that man? His ilk? What happened to your hearts and souls to make you engage in smears and racism?

Last point, I’ll make: if you’re concerned with efficiency and combating fraud, please spend your energy on your legislators to pressure any legal entity to track the mechanisms the scammers are using. Way more effective when the FCC goes after phone carriers for allowing spam texts.

But it costs you nothing to be quiet about things you don’t have actual proof about. It may cost people who may just need a little everything if you aren’t.

As people who at some point in our lives, may have depended on just needing a little help from others, we’re going to point this out.

Gaza aid is not much different. Concentrated charity aid might get where it’s needed most. It also might not. People might be scamming on the edges where direct cash means hurdling over interference and weaponization of charity. They also might not.

You can just give to charity and not talk about how yours is better. If you objectively know something is a scam like Susan Komen or American Red Cross, definitely tell people. But shaming anyone asking for help on fundamental suspicion it could be a scam really punishes people in a tight spot.

Yes, that $10 can help x5 that amount of people get survival meals abroad or possibly (and I really mean possibly) get clean water in drought prone areas but one is not inherently worthy where the other is not. Meds might cover someone for 2 months if they ration. Drought will be there next week.

These things need discretion and accountability but inherently are difficult to nail down with those dimensions.

That said, $10 for someone in your community may be the difference between medication, bus fare for 2 days, or deodorant and is 0.2% of what you donate in foreign aid.

Maybe but it’s also a terrible economic approach to charity and altruism to look at only one methodology to address impact.

Yes, on average, systemic distributions of charity can minimize the small labor costs involved and buy resources in bulk. Also, eggs in one basket can lead to more waste.

Word. Pre and post covid lock down, I had a connecting bus in pioneer square just outside Mission shelter. Then ride down fourth toward the food banks in Georgetown. This shit isn’t fair.

It’s so weird we live in a world where Jeff Foxworthy tells a story about how he finally got how hopeless homelessness is after talking to someone orphaned at 17 after his family all died and could excuse him for turning to drugs…also, there’s a super drug out there that’s magic but steals souls.

The truth of “you never really quit” is a logic trap for sure. But when we’re talking the fent epidemic, average relapse is lot more frequent than someone quitting nicotine alcohol or meth. It’s not even the same conversation really which is saying something because those are beasts themselves.

Maybe. If you mean all users and all levels of addiction, yeah sure.

Long term studies on heavy narcotic addiction are pretty sparse. The best treatments we have still have sizable relapse rates in the first year and actually increase the longer you track the person. If they ever stop, it jumps up

Wow, someone’s cranky.

Science sure does. I’ll share but only if you say sowwy and ask nice.

Humanity?

Always enjoy centrists banging the drum of democratic led progress only to show them everything but medicaid/medicare/ACA was bipartisan or forced by civil unrest.

Lack of Dem leadership let dixiecrats keep segregation until threat of local economic collapse brought CRA across the aisle.

Nope, not without some serious fuckery that destabilizes everything. The city has a lot of tax income weight to throw around but not enough for county pressure.

Nope. We have decades of attempts of data to pull from too.

You’re right it doesn’t matter to them.

So we lean into it. We’re talking about people. Not packages. If Bellevue can’t be bothered, charge them for the privilege.

This isn’t coming back home to a supporting family. The false equivalence doesn’t apply here. We have strong verifiable data trends that show non-elective mandatory recovery does not work, actively does harm to recovery efforts, and costs a shit ton of money.

Totally! Big push around Reagan years. Should have known better even then.

Relapse for narcotics months after release from prison with no elective 2 tiered treatment approach is over 90%.

Let’s be honest here, there is no “curing” addiction. You can treat it your whole life and survive it. But there’s no cure when it controls your life to the point we’re talking about.

I think’s it’s older than that in the US. Didn’t Alabama have mandatory treatment sentences in the 30’s? We know this shit doesn’t work.

They threw away that man’s TEETH. You think he’s gonna knock on the city sponsored shelter door after that?

What’s the safer bet: camping gear in the elements or shelter for one night and then no camping gear in the elements because you caught someone stealing from you but were too loud about it?

You want to tackle the problem of “no more sweeps” sounding bad, you’re going to have to concede to humanize people.

There’s reasons why people avoid shelters and feeding into the “they wanna do drugs and be criminals on welfare” narrative does nothing to understand them.

No fix, only prison.

No shit there’s contraband and safety concerns. But let’s pull back the curtain here that shelters are anything other than pseudo prisons you can be kicked out on the street for any and no reason at any time regardless what you have on you at the moment or what you gave up to get inside.