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You can use your phone call for whomever, just know it's not private and you best hope whomever you call will actually help you.

The distinction I was making is that the response to "can you get me a lawyer?" could just be the cops walking out of the room and coming back several hours later and seeing if you've changed your mind. The same thing for "I'll wait till my lawyer is here."

Don't ask. Tell them to get you your lawyer.

When I was about 10 a kid on my block only found out that Santa wasn't real when he was 13. This sent some ripples through the neighborhood families cause he was now also doubting God. So all the good little Christian parents sat down their kids and reassured them that Santa was fake but Jesus was real. 20 years later I'm an agnostic atheist.

Brb, making a truly "if" statement function in my products code base for funsies.

They already have power. They don't need a justification for expansion they'll just do it.

Does it really though? Or have the Republicans already shown they want to go after any and everything they can to tarnish Biden so he just said "Fuck it, y'all get nothing!"

I've received gift cards to liquor stores before.

Housed people buy drugs and alcohol. Unhoused people buy drugs and alcohol.

Why is it so much more evil for the latter?

Yes, if you have the means.

I work with a mutual aid group that engages in street outreach. I experience a lot of different cases and pretty much all of them would be benefitted by having more money.

Some people have a job, but not a home, and are trying to get housed

Some people have a home, but not a job and are trying to stay housed

Some people have neither and are trying to stay alive

Some people have both, but are so underpaid for the area they are in and are trying to stay housed

Some people are migrants and it is 100% illegal for them to work in the US and their only source of aid is through asking the community

Not one of them enjoys the situation they are in nor has made an explicit choice to be or stay homeless.

A lot of people who panhandle stay in encampments. These provide a small community with a lot of support structures for those there. There’s often someone who knows how to cook anything with any source of heat, someone who knows how to treat wounds, someone who knows what each person in the camp needs, and someone who’s plugged into the broader community and can get things for those who can’t (not all food pantries or lines are accommodating for wheelchair users and those with mobility issues can have trouble waiting for hours for food or even getting there). My point being that even if your contribution doesn’t help the person asking directly, it likely helps someone they know.

And if you’re worried about the whole “they’ll just spend it on drugs” thing, I honestly wouldn’t. Among the people I work with maybe 1/3 of them use drugs and very very few use anything other than weed. Employed and housed people use weed to unwind, why is it so much more evil if you don’t have a house? And if you’re working with the 2/3 of people that don’t use drugs than it’s not really a concern. I do realize that those numbers might be vastly different in areas that were more harshly hit by opioid issues.

Maybe start with Alabama which was the first state in recent history to flat out refuse to accept a SCOTUS ruling.

Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.

If you engrained an exception into your ban then you haven't actually got a ban.

Slavery was not ended.

I'm not convinced the "it's up to the states to decide" bit wasn't a pretense to make it more palatable during the election. Trump says a lot of things, he also does a lot of things. Sometimes he does what he says and othertimes not.

The guy who claimed single responsibility for ending Roe is definitely not pro-choice though.

Also shelters don't count and you cannot interpret refusal to stay at a shelter as "wanting to be homeless."

I help out with a street outreach mutual aid group. I've not met a single person that wanted to be homeless but I've met tons of people that don't want to fuck with shelters cause:

• they have to get rid of their dog
• they can't bunk with their partner or children
• they are trans and most of the shelters are religiously affiliated
• there are tight curfews and early kick out times
• no guarantee of consecutive night stays or even a bed, no consistency
• you can't have friends over
• you can't have more than one bag
• you must walk outside to a separate communal bathroom--even in a blizzard--if a pee cup is discovered you'll be kicked out
• you must attend religious services prior to receiving aid
• some shelters are day only

The streets are harsh, but in most cases the shelters are worse. Their only consistent benefit is that they are warm when it's -20F out and if you keep your head down the police will probably not fuck with you.

This has been tried multiple times across numerous jurisdictions. Consistently it's been found that giving poor people money makes them less poor in the long run. This seems to be an unsavory result, however, so politicians let the experiment retire never to actually learn from the results and draft policy.

This experiment is going to work and then nothing will come of it only for another jurisdiction to try exactly the same thing again and find exactly the same results.

The myth of meritocracy is still too prevalent a belief.

No. With over 150,000,000 votes cast he won by about 2,500,000 votes.

We don’t look down upon anyone. We treat everybody with dignity and respect.

Man who just passed a rule looking down on and disrespecting a single specific person.

Good news! The secular world has already investigated it.

There oughta be a hyphen in that title somewhere.

No high-iq individual will work 2 weeks per week with no pay in a society that requires money to live.