Boycott US

This is all directly out of the Nazi playbook in the 30s. They didn't start out gassing Jews. They started locking up the mentally ill, disabled people, political opponents, "undesirables" like the LGBTQ community, outsiders like the Roma.

Murdering people was their final solution for what to do with all those prisoners. They started with concentration camps like the one they built in Florida.

They would never need the enormous ICE budget if they were only coming for illegal immigrants (and now homeless people).

Americans HAVE to get off their asses and stop this. Trump and his goons WILL expand the groups they're going after. This WILL get worse. Stop it now.

I've been predicting this for a couple of years now.

It goes hand-in-hand with prison privatization and the increased corporate use of prison slave labor. The goal is essentially to bring back Victorian workhouses while collecting kickbacks.

Guess that means we better start housing the homeless, feeding the hungry and healing the sick.

More acts of social solidarity!!!

I approve of putting homeless people in prisons. After converting the cells to apartments, and replacing guards with social workers, and taking down the fences and barbed wire, and letting them leave when they want.

Social communal housing. I approve of social communal housing. If you remove the "prison" part, the physical facilities are well equipped to house, feed, and clothe people, while also providing physical and mental healthcare, substance rehab, and vocational training. If we quit locking people up for drug possession, we'd have plenty of ready-made facilities to shelter and reintegrate the homeless.

Endemic vagrancy, disorderly behavior, sudden confrontations, and violent attacks have made our cities unsafe. The number of individuals living on the streets in the United States on a single night during the last year of the previous administration — 274,224 — was the highest ever recorded. The overwhelming majority of these individuals are addicted to drugs, have a mental health condition, or both. Nearly two-thirds of homeless individuals report having regularly used hard drugs like methamphetamines, cocaine, or opioids in their lifetimes. An equally large share of homeless individuals reported suffering from mental health conditions. The Federal Government and the States have spent tens of billions of dollars on failed programs that address homelessness but not its root causes, leaving other citizens vulnerable to public safety threats.

Sorry guys, that's mostly true, and the last line is spot on. The one thing that demonstrably works, putting them in housing, has only been tried in limited areas and conservatives loathe "giving".

Most of us here know that it's been shown to be cheaper to house them than pay for what they cost society. One example; When my ex-wife worked the ER she dreaded hard freezes because the homeless would get themselves creamed by cars to score a warm hospital bed.

So something I have been wondering about is related to what they surmise here:

"Hell yeah, we’re bringing back involuntary commitment! (Maybe the draft will be next!)"

So at the start of this administration there was this massive increase in military ads that many people here may not see if they do not see ads. It was crazy how often it was with me seeing it more on platforms that draw younger folk (crunchyroll and CW). Then it stopped. I think because it simply was not working. This makes me wonder very much if some step along the way is to bring back the draft for those without bone spurs.