Here's what my clients in public housing have to deal with: With no preconditions, violent drug addicts take over public housing, robbing and terrorizing everyone else. They rip out copper wiring to sell for drugs, set the building on fire after they get high & pass out, and rip out plumbing to sell for drugs (it's usually worthless PVC, not copper), causing floods that render all neighboring units uninhabitable due to sewage water and mold in the walls. Gangs move in and turn the public housing into a blood-soaked drug fiefdom, and anyone who isn't a junkie or isn't okay with feces & needles piling up in the hallways moves out for their own safety. Most of those vacant homes you're talking about would be destroyed within months, shattering the housing market and driving up housing & insurance costs for everyone. No property owner would ever agree to this, so you'd have to use threat of government force to take their property and make this terrible idea happen. Your approach isn't compassionate - it's insane, egotistical virtue signaling. "Housing first" with no preconditions (like stop using drugs, start drug treatment) has been tried and is a catastrophic failure. It destroys the families and individuals who actually need public housing to get back on their feet, and favors the most violent and unrepentant drug addicts as well as the drug gangs that facilitate their self-destruction. That's how "simple" it really is.

@Oilfield_Rando It's worth getting an old CRT TV for that, or a good scaler/adapter like a RetroTink. If you get a cheap adapter to connect it to a modern TV, the pixel scaling & signal quality will be totally fucked, and you'll wonder if it looked that bad back in the day.

@JoshRainerGold Nixon was from California, so that seems like a good place to put it, right? They love public works of art there. You're right about the size, too - it would be nice if it was big enough that everyone could enjoy it.

It's not culture war grievances run amok. You can better understand this as being similar to the exclusionary rule in US courts. English courts got so abusive & corrupt in evidence collection that the old system was tossed out, even if it sometimes helped convict real bad guys. Protecting the rights of the innocent is more important than getting every "bad guy". Whatever doubtful value there may have been to "cancelling" people for objectionable views, it has been so thoroughly abused by bad actors (almost entirely from one political faction) to target innocent people that we reject that whole notion of it. We're not just a bunch of vicious, authoritarian simpletons. However, that is an accurate description of the online cancellation mob that got us to this point.

@thomaschattwill Quit whining about what you have to "suffer through." Did Biden hold press conferences calling you a grandma killer? Did you get banned from public places for not taking an ineffective experimental drug? No? Then shut up, and stop telling us what's "normal" or "decent".

@kittypurrzog So much money spent, and yet the problem just keeps getting worse... Isn't it weird that this description fits nearly every liberal "empathy" program that's been running for decades? Goddamn, wake up already - that money doesn't help people. It buys mansions in Arlington, VA.

@FischerKing64 And the climate cult never says anything critical about China. They'll spend a decade and millions of dollars to shut down one coal power plant in the US or Germany, but completely ignore China opening several new coal power plants every WEEK. It's all a scam, always has been.

@Lead_Flinger Not really rotation, but do you have any tips or advice for switching to a new carry gun? I just can't quit my old P99, despite getting proficient with my Glock+dot.

@AMarch4OurLives It sure sounds like you sickos are hoping a mass shooting happens soon, since you think it'll give you clout & more donation money. ... Wow, I think I just accidentally described the entire gun control movement.

@cmkshama Wow, I guess if you insult a country's government enough, they don't have to grant your request to visit. The sense of entitlement you have is so huge it could knock planets out of orbit.

@MailOnline The way that @MailOnline uses mass shooting language to frame government waste & fraud prevention as some kind of blood-soaked murder spree is just...

@wokal_distance In the simplest terms, standing up to these people and defeating them is a life-changing thrill. It works, yes, but it feels soooooo good to see their utter impotence dawning on them. The magic words that stop leftist manipulation are basically just the ending of Labyrinth.

@NewProgressUSA @OfAthenry @RoKhanna Did we try a UBI analog on a massive scale during COVID? Yes. Did that cause hundreds of BILLIONS of dollars of fraud? Yes. Did alcohol abuse, drug abuse, and absenteeism skyrocket after payments went out? Yes. Do you actually care about whether your awful ideas work? No.

@BudLightSadness The courage and spirit to talk about this and face it is hard to come by - you can defeat this demon. God bless you and keep you strong, man.

Guys, listen - we can't keep saying we're going to deport Americans we don't like. It's not right, we shouldn't be using that word. The right word is exile.

The systemic issue here is that the sugar industry is using influence over politicians to subsidize sugar production (so it's way cheaper per calorie than everything else in the store), and the same industry aggressively lobbies to have high-sugar foods covered by SNAP. This means the logical choice for poor people to get the most calories/food at the store is to buy high-sugar products (which are artificially cheap due to the production subsidy), since they can do that with SNAP. We're not talking about a little candy now and then - we're talking about poor people getting the majority of their calories from soda and candy, because that makes the most economic sense under the SNAP program & sugar subsidies. Changing what foods SNAP can be used for would change that equation, just like subsidizing healthy vegetables did in the Healthy Incentives Pilot in 2008. Healthy food just cannot compete with sugar when it's subsidized at the point of sale by SNAP; add in subsidies for sugar production in 2002, and that's how we got here.

@EatMeBoutique @MissZindzi Damn, you REALLY don't want to read that article, huh? The article answers this, but why do you think we have such a catastrophic diabetes and obesity problem amongst poor people in America? Is it just a coincidence that our tax dollars subsidize sugar production & consumption?

@EatMeBoutique @MissZindzi I will post this again: read the fucking article if you actually care about diabetics. I strongly suspect that you don't, just like you don't understand that there are different types of diabetes (one of which is CAUSED by excess sugar consumption).

@LooseLeafLuci @PallaviGunalan Because subsidizing sugar like this ruins people's lives. If SNAP paid for alcohol, SNAP recipients would have catastrophically high alcoholism and cirrhosis rates. SNAP stands for Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program - why should it pay for non-nutritious food?

@historyoarmani2 JFC - consolidating government into a single entity, then making it gigantic and all-pervasive in society, is NOT making it smaller. That's like arguing that three mice are bigger & weigh more than one elephant, just because there are three of them.

@esjesjesj I thought nobody needed to have weapons of war, and we should disarm them or lock them in a cage if they resist. Right? Isn't that what we're supposed to do?