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Cake day: June 17th, 2023

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  • He asked what would happen in the city if the ordinances were to remain blocked.

    “The city’s hands will be tied. It will be forced to surrender its public spaces, as it [already] has been,” Evangelis said.

    This is the crux of it. The city does not consider the homeless to be the “public”. Can’t be homeless and a citizen at the same time apparently.

    To make this clear, this is a about the government further destroying the entire concept of “public spaces”. Dividing further who counts as “the public”.






  • Umm. I know the point you are trying to make, but making a factual error as part of your argument really undermines the statement. The US senate is currently controlled by Democrats. It’s a slim majority, but it is a Dem majority.

    The HOUSE is controlled by Republicans. Which means the American Bicameral CONGRESS is split between the Democratic senate and Republican House. It doesn’t change your point, and I am not trying to be pedantic, it just makes you sound ill informed and undermines your point.


  • I don’t disagree that violence isn’t the correct answer in this situation, but “Violence never solves anything” is just a nice platitude and is demonstrably false. Most of the rights and privileges we have today only came about through violent means. It is more accurate to say violence doesn’t solve everything.

    Or to put it another way:

    The Magna Carta was a peace treaty.
    The ideas of a democratic republic were born of the French and American Revolutions
    MLK was the peaceful side of a civil rights movement that would not have had the same power without Malcom X and the black panthers.
    Overtime, the 5 day work week, unions and most labor protections came at the expense of a LOT of blood in the United States.
    Women’s Suffrage was not a peaceful movement either.

    In the history of most countries, mass violent protest has been the protest most likely to achieve its goals. Saying “Violence never solves anything” is to turn a blind eye to history.