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I think the idea would be to not let homelessness happen in the first place and having strict drug laws that would severely punish people who engage in drugs. Soft-on-drug policies do not work and we've been told lies for last 30 years. The results are extremely clear. The only answer to that doesn't have to be some socialist state of affairs. Plenty of highly capitalistic societies work fine, in fact evidently far better than instituting California-style socialist state.

The whole mechanism is meant to gain votes. There is no humanity here. We have the same interests, to make better and productive citizens. Legalizing marijuana and normalizing hard drugs are doing the opposite.

In next 20 years, we are going to find out the disasters of legalizing marijuana from the standpoint of GDP per capita. It is going to decline as population revels in lethargy and lack of productivity.

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wing-_-nuts3y ago· 1 in thread

So you think harsher criminal sentences for drugs is the answer to reducing homelessness? Have you not seen the broader consequences of the war on drugs since the 1970's? All one has to do is to look to Portugal as a great counter example of this.

Let's be real. The real issue isn't drug use or homelessness. Both of those are deeply rooted in mental health issues, and those aren't getting better without treatment.

Regardless, you've got the right to your own opinion, so I'll wish you well and leave it there.

systemvoltageOP3y ago

Yes. We need much more incarceration that’s proportional to crime rate. We need Federal forces to step in and evacuate SF and Portland. They’re inhabitable.

This is not sustainable. The answer to increase in crime isn’t to become even softer on it. We’ve tried that since 1970’s.

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