We can't be giving homeless people free drinking water when there's golf courses to maintain in the desert /s
It's ridiculous how society treats homeless people like pests
this post was submitted on 14 Aug 2025
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In Arizona the water mainly goes to grow alfalfa. In the desert. For the Saudis.
Sure but look at what we're getting out of the deal! Just look at it!
We need to reinforce our free water at businesses law that made the businesses liable if someone is turned away and suffers injury without water
Not all places have this law, although it probably should be a law everywhere. That said, most businesses are able to skirt it fairly easily by giving away tiny cups of water. Some buy tiny cups just for this purpose and nothing else
Golf is a surge upon this earth. Wasting water in deserts. Wasting what could be green space in cities
A scourge, even.
creates them and then treats them like pests.
Better arrest them
Arrest and body cam footage and better they be buttery brown so it gets approved so they can really suffer.
It'll probably be better for them in prison.
Everyone keeps saying this, but these people will not end up in prison, they will end up in a fucking concentration camp with no due process.
This is Arizona remember.
I was homeless in Phoenix in 2008 and it was beyond brutal. The heat was so intense that the soles of my shoes partially melted one day. I used to break into apartment complex pools just to cool down. And then monsoon season is a whole other beast.
That city is a monument to the arrogance of man.
I grew up there. It's definitely hot, but I can say living in a high humidity city in the south can feel much worse.
With low humidity if you're in the shade Phx is great most of the year. You'll sit outside and eat in the 90s. Sure, above 110F is friggin' hot but 95F and 90% humidity in GA or FL or south TX is worse if you're outside, and shade doesn't protect you from humidity. 115F has its own special problems like how hot car door handles and metal seat belt buckles get, but that's better than the hot wet blanket effect you get in the south during the summer.
Oh. I was just making a KotH reference. Ive never been.
You reference was understood.
And I'm sure it's hotter now than 2008 jesus
We live in a true dystopia. The headlines are so insane as to prompt laughter and tears. I especially like this one from the very next post in my feed:
Suspect in Austin Target shooting that killed 3 people was found naked and holding Bible
What will people who study us 1000 years from now think? The sane ones advanced technology in remarkable ways, yet they allowed the most insane among them to lead their society. They used taxes to help fund miraculous pharmaceutical research, but then allowed private companies to reap all the profits, and to price the drugs beyond what the citizens could afford. They were fully aware of their downfall yet somehow powerless to stop it.
What will people who study us 1000 years from now think?
"Wow, things were like this even back then!"
Humans be crazy.
It will not be a problem for long. Mr. Trump will fix it. The homeless will no longer be in the city, so no chance of heat injury
To be fair, a city in the middle of the desert, where men was not supposed to go, taunting the will of god like Babel, might not be the best place to keep homeless people around.
It's not that someone's "keeping them around." They live there.
You are free to assume that I made a deliberte word choice there, or you can just assume that I mean something sensible with it. Whatever suits you best.
I'm not trying to be dense here, but what sensible thing did you mean?
Fair enough, "sensible" is a very subjective term these days, always has been, but now even more. I mean to not leave people out on the street to die in scolding hot temperatures, but rather arrange for decent emergency shelters and ultimately proffesional help to get people back on their feet, or at least off the street.
Ah, that is sensible. Thanks for clarifying, and I agree. Homelessness is a failure of a community. If the climate is already hostile to people who have shelter, we better make damn sure unhoused people are protected too.
And people wonder why there are so many homeless people in California.
If they didn’t want to be burned by the sidewalk, why did they choose to become homeless?
They should have just asked for a bigger allowance from Daddy.
Ain't that America?! Home of the fee baby!
- Find a MAGA idio-er-person you're on... level footing with and bet that next year, temperatures will be higher.
- Wait a year
- Profit
This is what all the people telling the MAGA crowd that there is no global warming are already doing
Instead of helping people, they're villainizing them. Disgusting
I don't understand why the state Governor isn't doing anything about this. Katie Hobbs is a the definition of a DINO
Is this part of the Chinese hoax?
Check the poster and look at their comments.
Can't provide any relief for this. Without an inherent and unrelenting threat to their lives, homeless people would have no motivation to pull themselves up by their bootstraps. /s
that sounds like what I'd expect at this point