I was recently requested by a number of parents of disabled children to bring this proposal forward to improve the experience of disabled people in our public parks. To imply that my motivation was to target homeless people is a despicable slur and personally very hurtful.
People in wheelchairs don't need seats, they're literally wheeling a seat around...hence the name "wheel chair". They can pull up right beside the bench.
If it's not about stopping homeless people from sleeping, why awkwardly remove the middle seat? Why not take off the end? People in wheelchairs won't be able to go all the way back since that backrest will block the chair handles.
What's wrong with discouraging homeless from sleeping on park benches? Is "let the homeless sleep on park benches" now a conservative position?
If public parks claimed they locked their public restrooms at night "so birds don't get stuck inside" when it's really to prevent the gays from having sex in them, will "let the gays have sex in public restrooms" become a conservative position?
Show me a salesman who doesn't lie to your face and I'll show you a salesman who will be out of a job soon. Granted how much the salesman has to lie is dependent on how good or bad the product they're selling is, but they all do it.
Whenever cities have "honest discussions" about the homeless no one wants to be "cruel", so they let them sleep on park benches, set up tent cities, live in run-down RVs parked on the street, and do drugs on the street. In the latter case they'll even give them the needles. See: Seattle, San Francisco, or Portland.
Everyone claims this is great and tolerant and progressive, but get them drunk and they admit they aren't entirely on-board with this whole "homeless people can do whatever they want, while I get a ticket for parking a bit too close to a fire hydrant" platform they signed up for. And of course when the tent cities pop up everyone claims it's great and tolerant and progressive but does it have to be so close to my house/school? I paid a lot of money to live in this school district and don't want my kids to step on a used needle.
If "muh handicapped" is the little white lie leftie needs to tell himself to start putting a dent in the rampant homeless problem these cities have, then so be it. They can atone once the homeless problem is dealt with.
See, I get what you're saying and I largely agree, but this is one of those blatant lies that are just insulting to the average person's intelligence. He could've gone with 'It's an art installment' or similar, and gotten far less raised eyebrows.
I feel like a salesman who takes a rusted out husk of a car on two cinderblocks and tries to pitch that 'It runs great, it just needs a little TLC' will lose out on the sale he could've made if he'd just put it out there as scrap metal, as well as any sales from others that might've been suckered in by less obvious lies.
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People in wheelchairs don't need seats, they're literally wheeling a seat around...hence the name "wheel chair". They can pull up right beside the bench.
If it's not about stopping homeless people from sleeping, why awkwardly remove the middle seat? Why not take off the end? People in wheelchairs won't be able to go all the way back since that backrest will block the chair handles.
What's wrong with discouraging homeless from sleeping on park benches? Is "let the homeless sleep on park benches" now a conservative position?
If public parks claimed they locked their public restrooms at night "so birds don't get stuck inside" when it's really to prevent the gays from having sex in them, will "let the gays have sex in public restrooms" become a conservative position?
I mean, not letting politicians lie to your face should be an everyone position.
"Don't piss down my back and tell me it's raining" used to be a pretty universally understood complaint among conservatives.
Policy preferences are important, but punishing self-serving dishonesty in office should always take precedence.
Show me a salesman who doesn't lie to your face and I'll show you a salesman who will be out of a job soon. Granted how much the salesman has to lie is dependent on how good or bad the product they're selling is, but they all do it.
Whenever cities have "honest discussions" about the homeless no one wants to be "cruel", so they let them sleep on park benches, set up tent cities, live in run-down RVs parked on the street, and do drugs on the street. In the latter case they'll even give them the needles. See: Seattle, San Francisco, or Portland.
Everyone claims this is great and tolerant and progressive, but get them drunk and they admit they aren't entirely on-board with this whole "homeless people can do whatever they want, while I get a ticket for parking a bit too close to a fire hydrant" platform they signed up for. And of course when the tent cities pop up everyone claims it's great and tolerant and progressive but does it have to be so close to my house/school? I paid a lot of money to live in this school district and don't want my kids to step on a used needle.
If "muh handicapped" is the little white lie leftie needs to tell himself to start putting a dent in the rampant homeless problem these cities have, then so be it. They can atone once the homeless problem is dealt with.
See, I get what you're saying and I largely agree, but this is one of those blatant lies that are just insulting to the average person's intelligence. He could've gone with 'It's an art installment' or similar, and gotten far less raised eyebrows.
I feel like a salesman who takes a rusted out husk of a car on two cinderblocks and tries to pitch that 'It runs great, it just needs a little TLC' will lose out on the sale he could've made if he'd just put it out there as scrap metal, as well as any sales from others that might've been suckered in by less obvious lies.