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0 pointsnewsclues9mo ago0 comments

The library has become a place for drugs addicts and homeless people who use the free computers to look at porn.

It’s no longer a nice or safe place to go.

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This is true where I live also. This feral subset of the homeless are ruining every nice public space that we used to have. Libraries, parks, trails. Patience and tolerance is wearing thin; everything that is tried to help them is just abused and shit on (often literally). More and more people are starting to say no, we don't want to tolerate this behavior here, if that's how you want to live then do it somewhere else.

fzeroracer9mo ago

If my fellow Americans hated the rich people that are responsible for all of these homeless individuals half as much as they do said homeless then American wouldn't be half as fucked as it is right now.

The homeless problem is all downstream of shit like the Sacklers pushing opioids and creating millions of addicts for profit. Yet they avoided jail and even can start up new businesses.

esseph9mo ago

Reading this makes me extremely nihilistic about humanity.

newscluesOP9mo ago

My nihilism is exacerbated by the people who are actively making the problem worse and viciously attacking anyone who criticizes the problem or proposes solutions.

IMO some activists are exploiting homeless people and drug addicts for power and profit.

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Aurornis9mo ago

Your city sounds depressing. Mine (US) is not like this at all.

The libraries near me are not like this at all.

One library has some homeless people but anyone being disruptive is quickly removed.

We take the kids to the libraries all the time and it’s fine.

egypturnash9mo ago

There's a lot of this. Seattle's main library was explicitly built with the awareness that libraries are one of the few places homeless people can get out of the weather for a while, and has an entire floor full of public-use computers with a lot of pointers to what little social safety net remains.

newscluesOP9mo ago

The depressing part isn’t that it’s happening, but that it continues to occur despite objections, because the “progressive” activists shame any objects and stop any plans or discourse to rectify the problem.

rightbyte9mo ago

I think it is quite pointless to blame activists for a deep systematic problem with our culture. It is like an excuse.

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arolihas9mo ago

What city would that be? In the Northeast? Midwest?

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SoftTalker9mo ago

fzeroracer9mo ago

The homeless problem is all downstream of shit like the Sacklers pushing opioids and creating millions of addicts for profit. Yet they avoided jail and even can start up new businesses.

esseph9mo ago

Reading this makes me extremely nihilistic about humanity.

newscluesOP9mo ago

My nihilism is exacerbated by the people who are actively making the problem worse and viciously attacking anyone who criticizes the problem or proposes solutions.

IMO some activists are exploiting homeless people and drug addicts for power and profit.

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Aurornis9mo ago

Your city sounds depressing. Mine (US) is not like this at all.

The libraries near me are not like this at all.

One library has some homeless people but anyone being disruptive is quickly removed.

We take the kids to the libraries all the time and it’s fine.

egypturnash9mo ago

newscluesOP9mo ago

rightbyte9mo ago

I think it is quite pointless to blame activists for a deep systematic problem with our culture. It is like an excuse.

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arolihas9mo ago

What city would that be? In the Northeast? Midwest?

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse