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smokeythemechanic t1_j7qjldh wrote

So what's your idea to fix it? I'm all ears, it's not fair to me or anyone else making it work, to have to suffer injustice at the hands of those that won't better themselves. You say that those programs stopped people from the ability to better themselves, I challenge that with less than 10% of those that choose homelessness ever better themselves even briefly even when handed the tools with instructions on how to do so. And it is a choice.

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polarbearrape OP t1_j7qifj3 wrote

Its either some idiot having "fun" or a domestic terrorist doing a test run to cause panic and keep police busy is my guess. This going out combined with the electric grid going down (they did test runs of that already by shooting sub stations) would basically shut the country down. Prime setup for a Jan.6 type event.

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Piggypopsicle2 t1_j7qhyuq wrote

I grew up in central VT and all the black children (and many/almost all of the non-white kids) in our school were adopted into white families. I can't imagine how isolating it feels to be experiencing racism, and not have a parent to go to for lived experience support/advice. I heard about a lot of blatant racism towards these peers. I also found that sports culture was so depended on who participated, my grade level it was toxic for a lot of sports but a few years later I heard it was great.

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headgasketidiot t1_j7qhwj0 wrote

Many of these hotels are not viable as businesses otherwise. Sometimes they go to places like motel 6 and quality inn, but usually it's places like the Shady Lawn in WRJ, which at this point is functionally a substandard apartment complex for people with state temporary housing vouchers.

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Stevo2979 t1_j7qhupv wrote

Such programs like that have been done before going all the way back to the 1800's. All it did was abuse those who were in that situation as cheap labor and as such gave no incentive for those running such programs to allow the homeless to be able to improve themselves.

Homeless or not, people have the right to self determination and sweeping the problem out of public site wont solve anything.

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