He took time out of his work day to help me and my fiancé plan our trip to Sonoma/Napa. He’s always been extremely pleasant and polite whenever I’ve gone there. He’s so passionate about the wine which I think is an underrated part of Marvin. They’re selling that wine at very good prices and don’t impose the same mark ups other restaurants would.

Idk, I don’t pretend to have the solutions to all of society’s ailments. We’ve elected people whose whole job is to lead an organized society. I’ll let them figure it out!

Pretty sure its weekends til 3 pm... try today!

That is terrifying lmao 🤣

Reality is this, society doesn’t give a shit about people that do not have a means of making someone profit. It’s not the armory district it’s the whole country. A giant race to the bottom. Want to know the solution? Simple. The system of enslavement that we live under needs to be destroyed. All the resources for humanity to thrive and progress forward are already in place. We can feed, clothe, care for, and put to meaningful work everyone. We don’t so we can keep the whole “you too can become rich” illusion alive. One of the richest countries in the world and we have people relegated to living on streets and abject poverty. How we treat the most vulnerable says a lot about us as a society. Elderly people cutting pills bc they can’t afford it, working families whose parents each work 60+ hrs a week and never get ahead, people not seeing doctors bc it’s too expensive, police killing people unarmed in traffic stops, grocery shopping costing you more and more each week while wages seem to go nowhere (profits at all time highs and corporate welfare to tune of trillions), retirements fading, home ownership becoming unachievable for most…..all while the economy gets better and better, the rich get richer and richer, and the solution to every problem is give the rich more and more.

We have cancer. The tumors you are seeing in our society point to the larger disease. The poverty that you complain of being exposed to and veil with rationalizations like “we all care/I feel bad” is just a symptom of a much larger disease we are all facing. The system is built to reward the scum behaviors. It rewards naked greed and provides those benefiting from it an endless script of rationalizations to pour on us plebs. Problem is the greedy money zombie segment of our society that wants everything at any cost. Until that is dealt with we will remain complaining about people in 2023 being sidelined and forced to live and shit on the streets. Great thing we are opening a new corporate welfare residential high rise soon tho…..sure the homeless can afford the hundreds of new $2500-3000 studio/1 br apartments they will build.

First hand experience with the population. I don’t know if I would say “a lot”, but certainly more than a few. The reason? They never really say, but whatever it is it’s the same reason they hang out in parks, playgrounds and sidewalks all day and night, in all different weather, despite having places to stay.

You’re the one commenting on the “barely legal teens” subreddit. You shouldn’t be around anyone

Your employer will pay the difference if you don't receive enough tips to cover the minimum wage. So in effect, by tipping, you are subsidizing the employer.

The state senator and rep for the area recently got state funding for professional trash clean-ups around the Armory. https://twitter.com/SamuelWBell/status/1616486479538028546

I feel like turning the Armory into a warming center to address the unhoused crisis is an issue the state rushed into (albeit necessarily because, um, it's really cold in the winter) , didn't realize the scale of the issue and unintended consequences, and are doing what they can (although frustratingly slow or incompetent sometimes). It's never going to be perfect and you can't please everyone.

Not everyone that uses the Armory for shelter is "one of those drug using, drunk poopers" we may get frustrated by. There are people who genuinely need this so they don't freeze to death overnight. They are minding their own business and trying to just get by in this harsh capitalism-f*cked economy we live in. Yes, the Armory doesn't address the mental health or drug use aspect, and so much more, but this is what we/the state can do at this time and it does address a need.

As Dr. Jim O' Connell from Boston Healthcare for the Homeless says when people criticize that his health care focused work doesn't do enough to address the root causes of homelessness : “This is what we do while we’re waiting for the world to change.”

I’m new to RI. I was trying to figure out if it was CT or MA

She knows we know it’s her and she keeps coming back! She’s a strange one, choosing to triple down on being an asshole. Maybe it’s her kink 🤷🏻‍♀️

Genuine question: what’s your source for claiming that a lot of the people at the Armory have somewhere else to live? If that’s the case, why are they not living there?

But, I just don't get how this sales model is supposed to work? Haven't they heard of a "hard no"? You get a hard no, you move on to the next prospect. It's a numbers game. It actually seems like it's wasting their own time to keep bothering people who aren't interested.

I walk/run in the park nearly every day and I was actually thinking to myself last week that I haven't noticed a big increase in any of the things that you mentioned. Idk. The unhoused population is definitely more visible but I haven't been bothered by anyone and I haven't noticed the litter problem get much worse than usual.

What if you quit crying about the state of the park, and go out and pick up some trash? Or organize your neighbors to do it on a larger scale? I’m over in Federal Hill; I might just come help.

What's the solution? You clearly don't want them in your backyard either.

Soooo not in anyone’s backyard means we banish these folks to their own commune somewhere in the sticks? Like everywhere that is part of society is “in someone’s backyard”. That’s such a disingenuous thing to say.

Oh I’m personally not doing a whole lot to help the homeless, that’s what the government and non-profits are for and I have a life to live. I agree that the two things are not exclusive. I’m just tickled by how everyone wants to solve the crisis and house the homeless but nobody wants it in their neighborhood. We see it over and over, most recently I’m thinking of the hotel in Warwick. As you say, it’s VERY easy for folks here to type up their thoughts on the solution to the homelessness crisis for their own woke cred…. Then they turn around and complain. What are you doing to help?

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Pin me to whatever side you wanna pin me on, I’m with you. This not in my back yard nonsense has nothing to do with solving the problem. It’s a cute little thing you say like posting a black box on you social media pages. Thoughts and prayers sayers. What does being homeless have to do with it being okay to shit on the street?This is a mental health/drug issue that isn’t resolved by just giving them a place to stay.

I got at cvs through my insurance (Hope near 7 stars) but it was ten $ for two doses.

You got some wild Connecticut invasion fantasies lmao

The Armory should be full of weapons and ammo for RI citizens incase of attack from our enemies not full of drug addicts and insane people. What happened to the stock pile of ammo and arms? The united states government did a 75 year study that concluded that there is always about 10% of the population that cannot take care of themselves and will be perpetually homeless. So to be harsh, fuck these people. The longer we keep supporting them with fresh needles and "help" that never works the longer we perpetuate their bullshit. Not sorry. The best thing to do is ship them to a warm state and give them loads of fetynel and let nature take its course. Because when it comes down to it no one wants homeless drug addicts fighting, shitting, leaving needles in their neighborhood. No one wants that shit!