• zosu@vlemmy.net
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    1 year ago

    US government: best i can do is remove benches, so homeless people can’t sleep in it. take it or leave it 😉

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          Bro, I live in America okay? There’s no federal law mandating benches be awful. These are all local laws or city ordinances voted for by citizens who are unsympathetic to the homeless.

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            1 year ago

            I don’t understand why you’re defending this shit. Also, that’s still the US gov’s fault.

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              1 year ago

              I am not defending shit dude. I am just saying to put the blame in the right place. The US government didn’t remove benches like the original commenter said, it’s the local citizens who’ve done it or convinced their city to do it.

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                  You are way oversimplifying things lol. There’s a difference between federal (what you call the US government), state (i.e. California), and city governments (i.e. Los Angeles).

                  These bench modifications are done at city level and it’s only because some residents have complained about homelessness in their neighborhoods.

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                    You said it yourself that the US government does not have a rule stopping the abuse of the homeless by local government. That is US government failure.

                    And I do not draw a different between local and federal. It is still the US government, the US system as a whole. Pretending that there is no failure occurring here is nonsensical.

                    And the point wasn’t about bench modifications, but the horrific and obviously visibly failing state of US infrastructure people can see with their own two eyes being completely ignored in favour of anti-homeless shit. But you’ve only focused on the minor point while ignoring the far larger one.

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        yeah, i had no idea which part of the government decides it. just read about it about a month ago