An asshole billionaire fleeing from something is also a situation I can’t comprehend but, on the other hand, fuck 'em.
POSSIBLE CAUSES OF YOUR PROBLEMS: too much left-wing propaganda on lemmy.
Well it’s in the manifesto of solarpunk, not so astonishing. " At its core, Solarpunk is a vision of a future that embodies the best of what humanity can achieve: a post-scarcity, post-hierarchy, post-capitalistic world where humanity sees itself as part of nature and clean energy replaces fossil fuels. The “punk” in Solarpunk is about rebellion, counterculture, post-capitalism, decolonialism and enthusiasm. It is about going in a different direction than the mainstream, which is increasingly going in a scary direction. "
But I’m new on lemmy, not sure how strongly communities has to follow the instance’s rule on that.
This but also those homeless encampments that should make you feel ashamed to be an American for letting your fellow citizens die of exposure, but you get angry at for “lowering local property values”
After decades of gutting all the post Great Depression social safety net, there’s this sense of helplessness and hopelessness wrt homelessness. Like, I’m a college educated professional who just dropped a six-figure down payment and sold a healthy chunk of my next 30 years of salary on a starter home. How the flying fuck is a homeless person supposed to do that?
What do you even do when you find a homeless encampment in your neighborhood? Can’t call the cops, unless you’re trying to kill them. There’s no real municipal organ other than the cops to call. My hands are kinda tied (re: 30 year mortgage paid for with my full-time job) and other than the brief, bite-sized bits of charity I can provide, there’s not a lot I can do. Nobody else in this neighborhood of overpriced starter homes has the luxury to deal with this. There’s no social roadmap for working with homeless people, nothing we’ve been trained to do to help and nobody to turn to.
The fascist response is the one that our municipal government and social structure best provide for. Its incredibly easy to get a dozen cops on the corner to start brutalizing people.
The socialist response is functionally impossible and one that’s often socially taboo. Its incredibly difficult to get anyone connected with public sector services or private charities. If you’re living in an apartment, its not like you can just talk to the landlord about opening up an empty unit next door to help this person off the street. And shy of turning your house into a homeless AirBnB, there’s very little you can do to offer them any long term material aid.
So we tend to see people adopt a fascist mentality, entirely because its the one that’s made the easiest to embrace.
No easier group to scapegoat than one that is literally defined by its complete lack of resources.
Our perpetually massive homeless population is probably part of the slippery slope that eased today’s conservatives into thumping their chest and openly hating and wishing harm on everyone who isn’t them loudly and proudly without so much as a dog whistle.
Are you suggesting that hundreds of thousands people that are not yet have found their waybin the country are not putting a massive strain on the social infrastructure?
Hundreds of thousands compared to what? That’s a rounding error compared to 450 million Europeans for example.
If we’re talking Europe as a whole, there are quite a few more refugees coming here. Around 6 million every year, according to the European Commission.
If we’re talking Europe as a whole, there are quite a few more refugees coming here.
Look at how much money the European states are spending on staffing up their militaries and compare it to what they’re spending to aid refugees out of the wars in North Africa and along the Russian border.
Look at the French involvement in the Libya Civil War from 2014 to 2020. Check out how they’re still trying to fuck around in Algeria and Tunisia. Syria has been subject to “liberation” since the Green Revolution of 2013, and guess what’s happened since.
Now we get an earful about how expensive things have become, as boats full of North African refugees show up on their shores.
That is the total number of refugees hosted in the EU, not the yearly figure.
I generally agree with the sentiment, and I generally view immigration as a positive. That being said, to suggest that immigration doesn’t put any kind of pressure on housing, employment, and social services (at least short term, probably not long term), will defeat your argument before it reaches the ears of the people who need to hear the rest of it.
