We spend so much time and effort trying to disuade the people with “negative behavior” who we have discarded from our “civil society”
Where I live the grocery stores have carts whose wheels lock if you try to take them too far from the store. As if anyone trying to do that would know until they couldn’t push them anymore. Thing is the store doesn’t unlock them. Somehow they make it back and then they end up to front carts. People will try to use them until they realize they can’t be moved. Some do get unlock, but the wheels aren’t round anymore. People dragged them flattening out part of the wheel. If there are no other carts, which happens often because there are so many with locked wheels, you get to click and clack through the store with everyone looking at you like you are some kind of asshole.
There are literally hundreds of cameras. Including ones raised high on trailers in the parking lot. The same pole has blinking blue lights to simulate a police cruiser and a loud speaker reminding you the parking lot is being monitored. Back in the store as you walk in there is an electric gate and a camera and monitor. On which is writing which also reminds you you are being monitored. You have to wait to let them get a picture of you before the gate will open.
But the best of all of this. After you finish checking out your groceries as if you work there, you have to keep your reciept handy before your cart is checked by armed guards. Body armor. A gun. Not the police (as if that would make it better, but at least their job is to “protect and serve” the public) As you walk up they are usually shooting the shit with each other, and they maintain that pleasantness while they check your receipt (as if they actually are). You are at complete ease until you realize you went through a security checkpoint with a riot squad.
All of this. All. Of. This. Because our society sees it as acceptable to punish the entire public for lack of empathy for those who need it most and to prevent petty crime.
Having people shooting themselves up in public bathrooms doesn’t negate the sanitary benefits of having public bathrooms. It’s just an excuse for having poor public services.
Plus if they actually cared about folks shooting up they’d just have blue lights in the bathroom.
Local bars around me all have blue or green restroom lights to keep people from shooting up, makes it nearly impossible to find a vein by sight.
Having trained as a paramedic, I could find a vein on a patient by general anatomy and feel. Not sure if I could do that on myself or not.
We had safe supervised injection sites in my province/City. It was awesome, I live in an area that had three of them, way less people on the street overdosing, way less garbage and fecal matter…and this was with a housing crisis and a rise in homelessness. Our premier just ended this program in April and I’ve noticed a large difference, way more garbage and fecal matter on the street, people are more agitated and things feel less safe. It was nice treating people with minimum decency while it lasted.
The funny thing is we have safe consumption sites for drug use all over the country. They’re called bars.
And I’m willing to bet that the vast majority of people that are pearl clutching about safe injection sites would cry body murder if the same standard was applied to their socially accepted, well regulated and protected drug use.
I was literally taught the term “drugs AND alcohol” in school. Imagine if science class taught you that it was “water AND ice” and that ice is merely adjacent to water.
I think they now teach that alcohol is also a drug, but still.
100% true. Hence they legalized drinking in public parks in all the ‘nice’ neighborhoods but not every park.
Welcome to Ontario.
Yup, everyday it regresses a little more.
What province? I assume this is talking about Canada since you mentioned premier?
This kind of circular bullshit is exactly what makes modern day America pathetic.
There used to be a can-do attitude here in this country. People would look at a problem and go ‘okay lets fucking fix it’ and then we would (or at least fucking try). Now, way too many fucking people just want to sit and bitch about problems and something not being perfect, and refuse to do anything to fix said problems. This can’t-do attitude bullshit is fucking infuriating.
Calling bullshit on this. The US has always been a genocidal settler state with nothing but contempt for the poor especially if you aren’t white.
This romanticism of some bygone “better days” is also part of the problem. Those days you pine for were extremely fucked too, you just weren’t there or if you were you were comfortably middle class and probably white.
Perfect being the enemy of good is how we roll.
teaming up with “we have been living with this problem therefore we don’t need to fix it”
What about this: give homeless people homes
Then they wouldn’t be homeless silly!
Remember: status quo only, no real solutions allowed.
A bit how the governments doesn’t build more houses to meet the demand and make it more affordable but instead make anti homeless benches etc. Almost like it would stop people being homeless
No! Thats socialism! insert explicitives and unhinged rant
What’s crazy us, there’s actually enough existing housing for everyone, at least in the US to have a home. It’s just all owned by massive real estate corporations and left empty. The state doesn’t need to build more housing, they just won’t distribute what’s there. But let’s be real, they don’t want people to stop being homeless. Our prison industry is private and for-profit, they want them to be homeless so they can criminalize and arrest them, so they can make them do cheap/free prison labor.
I live in Vancouver and there are literally no bathrooms, public or private, in the densest parts of the city for this exact reason. I’ve damn near pissed myself on long transit trips because all of the restaurants near transit stations won’t let you use the bathroom even if you buy something.
You used to be able to pay to use the bathroom by buying something, now you can’t relieve yourself even if you wanted to pay. Like build coin operated toilets like they have in Europe at this point because it’s better than literally not having access to any bathrooms at all.
Where I live it is illegal for any place that sells prepared food to not have a bathroom or customer seating.
That’s supposed to be the law here too. Or at least, you don’t have to provide seating but you need to also provide a bathroom if you do. But restaurants ignore it and no one enforces it so it doesn’t matter.
Yeah same goes for recycling. Any place that charges a bottle/can deposit is also supposed to redeem them.
My mom moved to BC two years ago, I’ve had this problem every time i visit. It super sucks, I heavily rely on the free/public bathrooms everywhere in Toronto.
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Nationalize the drug industry.
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No, it’s MY supporting drug use. Get your own!
Been doing rideshare late at night the last week, holy damn I didn’t realize how bad the public bathroom situation was in my town, and I’ve got a car to hunt for one.
We should genuinely have a public bathroom minimum. You want to run a store in town? You gotta make your bathroom open to the public. Don’t care if the people using it are customers or not.
Here in BC, Canada, restaurants are supposed to be legally required to provide bathrooms to customers if they have sit down dining. But if you go to any restaurant within 100m of a transit station and ask to use the bathroom after buying something, they’ll either flat out say they don’t have a customer bathroom or it’s perpetually “out of service.” The vast majority are nice and even apologetic about it (this is Canada after all), but I’ve also had stink eyes and rude "NO"s from plenty of employees for having the audacity to ask for a bathroom like I’m some toilet junkie looking for my next fix.
I’ve read some comments on Reddit from restaurant staff along the lines of “I don’t give a shit what the law says, the workers deserve a private bathroom free from drug addicts more than the customers deserve one.” Which, I can see where they’re coming from and I’d probably feel the same way if I had to work 8+ hours in that restaurant every day, but it really highlights the individualistic nature of Western society. Everyone looks out for their own interests only, and have no qualms about screwing over others for it.
I used to watch that show religiously. This was the last episode I watched, I couldn’t take it anymore.
true story for berlin
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Lol, gottem!
