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WontStopAtSigns t1_j9h59n2 wrote

Reply to comment by glopmod in Two-thirds of McPherson Square homeless remain on street, D.C. says by SnortingCoffee

Moving the goal posts again? They chose that park to be closer to those things. We still can't let them live there in a shanty town. Even a progressive warrior should understand that.

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glopmod t1_j9h5lcu wrote

The homeless are fucking everywhere in this city. They're there because it's where people who may give them money and food are and they had yet to be pushed out of somewhere else that will be closed for months to train them to be elsewhere. We are pushing a problem on top of, not under, a different rug, deciding to clean that run, and pushing it to another.

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WontStopAtSigns t1_j9h6oa1 wrote

No.

This is not "ignoring the problem" or fixing homeless. They are a dozen vagrants removed from a central park.

We have neither added to or subtracted from the homeless population. They are where they would have been anyway, today.

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glopmod t1_j9h71a1 wrote

Correct. If they leave this park, they go to a different place in the city. Very good. Your insistence that this park be clean for you does not resolve it.

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WontStopAtSigns t1_j9h7ley wrote

Well the park is clean now, so while you work on that other business, my issue is in fact resolved.

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glopmod t1_j9h8jt6 wrote

And a different park is not. In a year, they will come back to this park when the current dirty park is cleaned.

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If your issue is resolved, you lack object permanence.

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