Californians say that housing is a human right. Here are some photos of what they deliver to their unhoused brothers, sisters, and binary-resisters. Note that the righteous will walk by these scenes on their way to any “Bring in More Low-Skill Immigrants” rally:
Clearly, none of these individuals are illegal migrants. The illegal migrants are being housed at taxpayers’ expense.
George: certainly no human can be an “illegal migrant” because no human is illegal. That said, even if none of those in the pictures were born outside of the U.S. they are still affected by the 80 million-ish migrants who’ve arrived in the U.S. in recent decades. The housing market is one market for both immigrants and native-born.
It is very difficult for people (sometimes myself included) to juxtapose:
“[…] they are still affected by the 80 million-ish migrants” and “certainly no human can be an “illegal migrant” because no human is illegal”
in a neutral/dispassionate manner. This is leading to cognitive dissonance.
we have souls. the domesticated american reminds me right now of Christopher Isherwood.
Allow another american vagrant to answer for us:
I heed not that my earthly lot
hath little of earth in it
That years of love have been forgot
in the hatred of a minute.
I mourn not that the desolate,
are happier, sweet, than I,
But that you should sorrow for my fate,
who am a passer-by.
CA spent lots of money – but it went into the pockets of the politically connected; which in CA means “into the pockets of Democrats”. Many non-profits were headed up ny those paying themselves 6 figures and delivering essentially nothing.
Cities should require anyone sleeping in public spaces to obtain a camping permit. This would facilitate data collection about the homeless, and facilitate connecting them with needed services.
> As regards his more general attitude to the war, you must not rely too much on those feelings of hatred which the humans are so fond of discussing in Christian, or anti-Christian, periodicals. In his anguish, the patient can, of course, be encouraged to revenge himself by some vindictive feelings directed towards the German leaders, and that is good so far as it goes. But it is usually a sort of melodramatic or mythical hatred directed against imaginary scapegoats. He has never met these people in real life-they are lay figures modelled on what he gets from newspapers. The results of such fanciful hatred are often most disappointing, and of all humans the English are in this respect the most deplorable milksops. They are creatures of that miserable sort who loudly proclaim that torture is too good for their enemies and then give tea and cigarettes to the first wounded German pilot who turns up at the back door.
— C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters