Is this a Fox News talking point? (Defecating in the streets of NYC)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's always been amazing how people in rural red state America always seem to think they know so much more about what's going on in cities they never even visit than the people who actually live there do.

Hubris fueled by propaganda.

Oh, the irony!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Where are the homeless supposed to poop? They’re homeless.

Your front doorstep? Would that work for you?

[Anonymous]

BLAME RONALD REAGAN.

Loved ones cannot force commitment thanks to Ronnie. It’s federal law and there is nothing cities can do about the mentally ill homeless beyond a 72 hour hold in certain circumstances.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's always been amazing how people in rural red state America always seem to think they know so much more about what's going on in cities they never even visit than the people who actually live there do.

Hubris fueled by propaganda.

And your statement is true for so many blue state DCUM posters who frequently make disparaging comments about "rubes" and "uneducated, ignorant, meth-addicted rednecks" in red states.

Yep. Total cognitive dissonance.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:People in the street = crap in the streets.

She's right to be worried. I used to work in some rather forbidding places overseas, and people crapped outside due to a lack of modern plumbing and irregular service for the port-a-johns. The feces becomes airborne and leads to illnesses. You can get an eye infection, esp if you wear contacts.

It's not something we, as a society, should take squatting down. This is a public health issue, not a partisan talking point.

+1 most definitely

+100
Disgusting.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Last year it was San Francisco. According to Fox, everyone was pooping on the street.

Yeah, it’s the Fox go-to put down. So tiresome.

And yet, it's true. Somehow I don't think this thread is going the way the OP (and you, clearly) had hoped.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Where are the homeless supposed to poop? They’re homeless.

False, according to the OP, they don't exist.

Increase taxes or do whatever is needed to provide toilets. If they're too mentally unstable to use a toilet, then provide institutional care.

It's illegal to put mentally ill homeless people in institutions. This is the reason we now have a large, mentally ill homeless population.

We might not be allowed to institutionalize them but we also aren't in any way obligated to put up with them. One way bus ticket to someplace warm.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:BLAME RONALD REAGAN.

Loved ones cannot force commitment thanks to Ronnie. It’s federal law and there is nothing cities can do about the mentally ill homeless beyond a 72 hour hold in certain circumstances.

Locking away people indefinitely because they have a form of mental illness — many of whom are veterans — and pumping them full of antipsychotic medications without proof they are a danger to themselves or others doesn’t seem like a great system that worked very well. Neither did forced sterilization and a battery of other horrors.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Where are the homeless supposed to poop? They’re homeless.

False, according to the OP, they don't exist.

Increase taxes or do whatever is needed to provide toilets. If they're too mentally unstable to use a toilet, then provide institutional care.

It's illegal to put mentally ill homeless people in institutions. This is the reason we now have a large, mentally ill homeless population.

We might not be allowed to institutionalize them but we also aren't in any way obligated to put up with them. One way bus ticket to someplace warm.

Bless your heart.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's always been amazing how people in rural red state America always seem to think they know so much more about what's going on in cities they never even visit than the people who actually live there do.

Hubris fueled by propaganda.

Oh, the irony!

If only. See, the problem is that many of us here in DC originally came from rural redneck communities and we do actually know what we're talking about when it comes to the dead-ends we escaped from.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's always been amazing how people in rural red state America always seem to think they know so much more about what's going on in cities they never even visit than the people who actually live there do.

Hubris fueled by propaganda.

Oh, the irony!

If only. See, the problem is that many of us here in DC originally came from rural redneck communities and we do actually know what we're talking about when it comes to the dead-ends we escaped from.

Yes, and many others in DC have never set foot outside their "safe zone," which ONLY includes large, metropolitan areas. You can see post after post of these urbanites slamming "flyover country" and the people who live there. You may have come from a "redneck" community, but many small towns and rural areas are not full of ignorant rednecks. Not to mention, funny that these people never want to address all the ignorant, low-education people living IN the cities themselves.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's always been amazing how people in rural red state America always seem to think they know so much more about what's going on in cities they never even visit than the people who actually live there do.

Hubris fueled by propaganda.

Oh, the irony!

If only. See, the problem is that many of us here in DC originally came from rural redneck communities and we do actually know what we're talking about when it comes to the dead-ends we escaped from.

Yes, and many others in DC have never set foot outside their "safe zone," which ONLY includes large, metropolitan areas. You can see post after post of these urbanites slamming "flyover country" and the people who live there. You may have come from a "redneck" community, but many small towns and rural areas are not full of ignorant rednecks. Not to mention, funny that these people never want to address all the ignorant, low-education people living IN the cities themselves.

Shows you don't actually know.

The cities are extremely diverse. Far more of us have come from elsewhere, and have traveled extensively around the country and around the world than is the case in your homogenous little community were people act like you need a passport to cross the county line.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Where are the homeless supposed to poop? They’re homeless.

False, according to the OP, they don't exist.

Increase taxes or do whatever is needed to provide toilets. If they're too mentally unstable to use a toilet, then provide institutional care.

It's illegal to put mentally ill homeless people in institutions. This is the reason we now have a large, mentally ill homeless population.

We might not be allowed to institutionalize them but we also aren't in any way obligated to put up with them. One way bus ticket to someplace warm.

Bless your heart.

Screw you too hon. Many of DC's homeless were shipped here from elsewhere. We should send them back home to you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's always been amazing how people in rural red state America always seem to think they know so much more about what's going on in cities they never even visit than the people who actually live there do.

Hubris fueled by propaganda.

Oh, the irony!

If only. See, the problem is that many of us here in DC originally came from rural redneck communities and we do actually know what we're talking about when it comes to the dead-ends we escaped from.

Yes, and many others in DC have never set foot outside their "safe zone," which ONLY includes large, metropolitan areas. You can see post after post of these urbanites slamming "flyover country" and the people who live there. You may have come from a "redneck" community, but many small towns and rural areas are not full of ignorant rednecks. Not to mention, funny that these people never want to address all the ignorant, low-education people living IN the cities themselves.

Shows you don't actually know.

The cities are extremely diverse. Far more of us have come from elsewhere, and have traveled extensively around the country and around the world than is the case in your homogenous little community were people act like you need a passport to cross the county line.

Sure, Jan. We just got back from a multi-country vacation, which we do every summer. But do go on!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:BLAME RONALD REAGAN.

Loved ones cannot force commitment thanks to Ronnie. It’s federal law and there is nothing cities can do about the mentally ill homeless beyond a 72 hour hold in certain circumstances.

Locking away people indefinitely because they have a form of mental illness — many of whom are veterans — and pumping them full of antipsychotic medications without proof they are a danger to themselves or others doesn’t seem like a great system that worked very well. Neither did forced sterilization and a battery of other horrors.

Creating a public health issue by pooping on the street is plenty enough reason.