Poor guy was probably just trying to sleep without freezing to death and then these assholes show up.

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    I swear bro, one more dozer sweep and we’ll fix homelessness. Please, bro, just one more, we won’t even kill someone this time. I swear bro, we’re so close, just one more $40,000 sweep, it’s got to work this time, come on, bro

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    Is there a single homeless person on earth who is worried about or offended by the term homeless, that we had to make up a whole new term that means the exact same thing?

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    Seems easy to be evil and want to kill homeless people because you know there’s likely someone passed out that won’t wake up for anything. Just run a bulldozer through a camp and you’re going to get a kill. It’s not like a random worker who doesn’t deal with the homeless will know to check.

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    These people and his superiors do not want to get their hands dirty. That gigantic diesel-powered bulldozer protected the driver from the smell and kept him “clean”.

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    Friendly reminder it’s cheaper to give homeless people homes, healthcare, and every other basic human necessity than what we are currently doing…

    It’s just the elites know if there was a safety net, a shit ton of people would dive headfirst into it because wealth inequality is that out of whack.

    The threat of being considered subhuman without a job is the only thing keeping a lot of Americans going.

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      I was wondering that too. But then, this is the kind of person that’s cool with destroying everything people have left at the worst point in their lives so…

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        If he didn’t have that job, he’d be on the other end of that bulldozer.

        There are secretaries at UHC.

        There are janitors at maralago.

        These people aren’t the problem.

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            They’re like the Russian soldiers on the front line, who would be shot if they retreated. Dangerous but involuntary.

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                People are not in a position to just walk out of their jobs on the spot. I’m sure the job description didn’t say ‘run homeless people out of their camps’. But if you’re already in a job, then the choice is between doing what you’re told and walking out / not being able to feed your family / losing your apartment / becoming homeless.

                Desperate people do desperate things, and depending which study you read, over 50% of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck.

                I don’t disagree with your feelings. Keep that righteous anger. I’ve got it too. I’m just saying you need to focus on the affluent who are pushing the desperate to abuse the desolate. They’re the problem to solve.

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        Please, don’t say stuff like that… I’ve worked jobs where I loathed the company values, but I needed income… One charged more for funerals of “brown” people and had a book on the shelf of the manager’s office that said “The Myth of Heterosexual AIDS”. I’m pansexual and my partner is an immigrant. A job is not a belief. A job is a way to keep a roof over your head until you find a better one

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            Would you have quit if that means you starved? Also your healthcare was immediately ended because it was provided by your job?

            What if you had kids? How do you explain to your child you are not eating today because daddy is a moral person?

            I see your point, and you did good by quitting, but it is not the people to blame here but the system.

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          Yeah, this is exactly why they keep us poor and without security–so we can’t act according to our morals. Only theirs.