Radulfr wrote:QUOTE (Radulfr @ Oct 31 2018, 11:48 AM) Homeless guy in the street gets mocked and insulted, and occasionally kicked when he is down. But hey .. he is still allowed in our city, so don't say he isn't tolerated.
Fun fact: most liberals advocate allocating governmental resources to ensuring that the homeless are housed, especially in inclement weather. In fact, one of the most "liberal" ideas of all time (which you rail against) is the idea that people should be *flat out guaranteed* a job, housing, food, medical care, etc.
The busting down of homeless camps (and the housing policies that lead to homelessness) have been nearly continuously decried by the modern left.
This is supposed to be the moment where you realize just how far to the right you actually are: you're complaining that "leftist" governments (which are actually VERY centrist governments) are "hypocritical." Actually, you're just such a massive cyrptofascist that you don't realize that
the exact policies you are complaining about are policies that
the people on the left have been trying to change for the past two decades at least.
The left hasn't succeeded largely because most of the truly effective measures cost money, which means that we'd have to raise taxes, and somehow the US's right wing has convinced themselves that somehow despite them making less than $100,000 a year on average, taxes on the obscenely rich are going to take away all their money and/or jobs.
Funnily enough, it's trivially easy to see that raising taxes and increased regulation (including labor regulations) don't kill jobs. You can tell because there are
more jobs in the US than there ever have been before which is why the unemployment rate tends to stay at a similar level. You can also tell because
Japan has the 3rd largest industrial output of any nation in the world.
So basically what happens is that the far right of the US spends all of its effort clinging to this idea that somehow the 1880s were this incredibly awesome age of American economic growth and nothing ever went wrong and if it did it was because of those pesky Radical Republicans in office who were busy trying to do marxist @#(! like enforce 8 hour workdays, require secret ballots, keep kids from dying in coal mines, and have any level of occupational safety. This is where you bring up the Dinesh D'souza moronic "so yo ushould keep voting republican" crap because you are *exactly* stupid enough to believe that party positions on labor didn't switch in the early 20th century.
But a weird thing happened in the 1950s: a burgeoning middle class arose out of government requirements of the New Deal which guaranteed jobs, established robust minimum wages, and encouraged unionization. We've spent the last 70 years carefully dismantelling FDR's dream of people not starving to death on the streets (and if you don't think adequate access to food is a matter of national security you are a fig witted *moron* who needs to read more about the alarming rate which people were denied entry into the army in 1941 thanks to issues caused by malnutrition due to the depression that hit a decade earlier). That's not even to BEGIN discussing what's been happening to the Voting Rights Act (and yeah, we're starting to feel that @#(! slip away too... check out the $#@!ery happening in Georgia and North Dakota).
TL/DR:
Radulfr is a cryptofascist who masturbates to pictures of Putin and has no actual idea how reality works in any way. Also he's really upset that I don't "tolerate" him despite the fact that not even once have I booted him off my team no matter how poorly he's flown.
