Three examples of Not My America from the news just today:
-Convicted murderer paroled in Chicago executes birthday party attendees - https://savemyvideo.org/Nerolyta - video removed from this twitter thread, https://twitter.com/EricSpracklen/status/1617680645697998849. New York Post article on the murders - https://nypost.com/2022/12/14/paroled-felon-charged-with-mass-shooting-in-chicago/
-This is current women's fashion which would have been unthinkable even 10 years ago, hot pink pants with the butt cut out - https://nypost.com/2023/01/24/kate-hudsons-chap-style-butt-leggings-design-ripped-online/
-"Seattle couple explains why they're building a home in the median of I-5 on-ramp". My medical center can be seen in the backround, because of course you can live in the highway median, duh - https://komonews.com/news/local/seattle-couple-explains-why-theyre-building-a-home-in-the-median-of-i-5-on-ramp-homeless-bruce-harrell-south-lake-union-downtown
wtf
There are two types of homeless. There is shelter homeless who may be temporary homeless, which is why I'm not against funding homeless shelters per se (which are comparatively safe by the way, the "homeless don't stay in shelters because they are dangerous" is liberal cope).
The second type of homeless is encampment homeless. They are permanent homeless. These are people who choose drugs over shelter. The reason they don't stay in shelters is shelters won't let you take drugs. It isn't a safety concern. Shelters are about a million times safer than encampments. These people are dangerous, filthy and make the streets dangerous and filthy. And they are the reason that you can fund homeless shelters as much as you fucking want and will not reduce encampments one little bit.
Shelter homeless are pitiable. Encampment homeless are shameful. There is purposeful conflation of these two populations to prevent encampment homeless from being dealt with by misdirecting pity that should be reserved for shelter homeless. And of course there's absolutely no pity for the people who make society actually work and there children who are exposed to the filth and danger. A child (or adult for that matter) should not have to walk over used needles or poo or be exposed to a homeless man jacking off on the sidewalk.