Comments by "Ficus-lovin\x27 Capybara N\x27 pals • 🌟 • 25 yrs ago" (@YourCapybaraAmigo_17yrsago) on "Cops HARASS Homeless: “Economic Hunger Games”" video.

She needs to run for mayor. It's a long shot but she'd be a valiant voice for the rest of us.
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Forcibly clearing unhoused communities should be illegal. It violates their human rights to dignity and survival. So long as they aren't actively trespassing on private land without permission from the property's owner, they should have every right to congregate where they need to. All human beings have an innate right to survival. You can't torment and persecute somebody because they have issues that prevent them from accessing housing. Or simply because they just lack enough money. It's happening everywhere tragically. Only a federal law or a law in every state individually would work now to protect these people. Looks like local politicians are all the same, heartless corrupt worthless a-holes who only want to serve the very rich. Blue a-holes don't do this on their own usually, they do it when they're given an order from their Chief who in turn is given an order usually from the Mayor.
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Those who have never known struggle and are incapable or unwilling to view the less fortunate with the barest shred of compassion or empathy. Drives me f-ing nuts.
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That's insane. Maybe they were trying to ascertain it was owned so they didn't tow it. It's possible.
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They deserve it. Prove to me they don't. Your BOOT, Sir. 🥾
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It really is! What an apt term. I think we're all stealing it.
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I say way to go, wish it could have been me. One down, about 800,000 to go.
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Yeah conservativism is mental illness and the refuge of the sociopathic, ignorant, or cruel.
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@KB-je7rf it would be nice for a change
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@KB-je7rf that's wonderful KB. God bless you. Those in government almost always come from the privileged strata and only care about representing that segment's interest. If government wanted to do more they would. Doesn't mean we should stop advocating but it's a tough slog because they don't have our empathy. Therefore it's up to us to try to bridge that gap in our communities if we can. Since those in public office don't give a rat's foot about us, we have to do our best to try to be each other's "safety net". Mutual Aid is how we are all going to make it. I wish we had a more cooperative and empathetic society nationwide, but one step at a time. Thank you for having a kind heart and being willing to start this process. I'm so cynical at this point, I hate to State the following but perhaps you can work with your local city council to get them to designate some land for some of the homeless or the worst off in your community, and when you're able you can help them construct some basic housing. Perhaps other contract is your area can pitch in? Otherwise, I'm sure there's plenty of folks locally who are in need of home repairs that can't afford them. Perhaps if you register as a nonprofit you can be the catalyst that brings together different businesses and service providers in town who have a good heart and are willing to donate some of their time in order to help the most needy in your community. I need to take my own advice, I'm trying now to schedule myself in a better way and come up with more ideas of what I can do on a direct one-to-one basis in my own community.
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Pigs are evil. They lack souls and have a pathological need to hurt people. That's why they're so dangerous. They're on the devil's paycheck. Stay safe out there and I hope you don't have to deal with these State-paid predators again. If you do I hope it passes without incident.
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@DrScott666 I know. They're no good and shouldn't exist. Millions of tax dollars WASTED on these menaces and social parasites every year. Sad.
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Cops brutalize the homeless in act or attitude bec they can. These are savages who get off on harming the weak. I'll NEVER pay my public taxes again. I pay directly to my local schools, parks, road dept, etc. I'll NEVER pay to my local warlord would-be totalitarians aka city council or local thug gang. If I go to jail for it I'll deal with it. I WONT BE EXTORTED BY PEOPLE WHO HARM ME AND CAUSE REPEATED PUBLIC ABUSE AND GIVE ME NO POWER OVER PUBLIC POLICY. NOT ONE MORE TIME. I see them as illegitimate and unworthy of the public trust. They are gangsters in place to serve the predatory elite and big business. They will NEVER get another dime from me.
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@NotAPacifist825 wow is that true everywhere? I mean everywhere weed is still illegal? If it is humane. Absolutely inhumane. Is this true of all drug convictions do you know?
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I've never fully understood this nonsense that's been going on the last 50 years with this so-called war on drugs. I mean obviously I know it serves a wonderful purpose of keeping the prison population exploding. But is that all? Like this other gentleman said it even prevent you from getting forms of public assistance. maybe I need to do a little bit more research. I thought I was well educated on this but there's a few tiny pieces of the puzzle I think I'm still not 100% sure on. Other than keeping mass incarceration going and growing, is there another motivation to using drugs as an excuse to enforce poverty on people? Because it's obvious they ARE trying to enforce poverty. Which of course is pretty cruel and pretty hateful, but we aren't dealing with a boy scouts and respectable people here. They're all antisocial sadists and pseudo-sociopaths at this level, I believe. Besides keeping the prison industry booming, I just have no idea who is served by keeping street drug use and drug sales illegal. I really don't but maybe I'm looking right at it and just can't see it. Anyone know? I mean I get it Big Pharma has a big voice in this too but I'm thinking there is more to it than just that. But maybe not. It's just confusing. Well anyone let me know if I've missed anything. regardless of who benefits, I think the sad tragedy is that elected leaders at every level right now by and large are a very destructive dysfunctional kind of person and whoever the answer to seems bound to determine to want to enforce poverty. So I think that's the big threat we're up against. you can enforce poverty through various means some violent some not so violent. But the end goes the same. Some of these vested interests far from wanting to give people more ways into a better standard of living, want to make it a guarantee that some sector of the population will be in very real poverty at any given time. That's quite evil you know, but that's who they are. Because the solutions that would resolve this are simple, well understood by anyone who serious about the issue, and Far Far cheaper than even one month of funding the MIC. So the solutions are relatively simple, easy to do and well-known by all, despite what they may claim to the contrary. They just don't want to implement them because it doesn't serve their agenda. So as always, the Left in this country is up against a very callous predatory type of person. I guess we have to just keep organizing and try to get better people to public office who can make policy changes so that no family or no person in the US is deliberately priced out of or forced to go without one or more of their basic daily survival needs being met.
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@silverdamsen2680 thanks for your comments, I def agree. Some of the 1% may not be, but I am convinced a large majority of the past or present political class is. Perhaps I'm too cynical or maybe not enough. I'm convinced natural sadism and toxic contempt are the only two major emotions the majority of elected politicos feel. Look at how they deep throat the police state, look at their callousness to the most vulnerable, look at how they refuse to back off from austerity and economic unjustness, look at the policies of mass incarceration, look at the decision, as this gentleman referenced, to arbitrarily use past drug convictions to deny someone food assistance, and the examples continue on and on. I think the majority of these people live, eat, and breathe sadism, corruption, deliberate callousness, and quasi-sociopathy every minute of every day of their waking lives. Perhaps I've witnessed too much firsthand or observed too much secondhand, but more and more so every day I'm convinced this is true. We are up against a hard enemy. Some are less bad than others I'm sure but the large majority in my eyes on both sides are scandalous, shameless, ever open to a bribe or payoff, wholly devoid of character, and deliberately hateful/toxic to the non-privileged public. I don't believe they're capable of being reasoned with, not by us. And since we can't buy them off because we're not the wealthy elite, our only choice is to do everything possible to politically organize and replace them .... Which is going to take no small feat.
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@NotAPacifist825 terrible. Unacceptable. I hope that can change in my lifetime.
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