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   Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 14-Sep-2025 19:36:11 JST Adrianna Tan

   I’ve decided that the problem with American liberal cities’ and their approach to homelessness is, they decided homelessness isn’t the problem but homeless people are. Way to go.

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 14-Sep-2025 20:16:29 JST Adrianna Tan

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     • RolloTreadway

     @RolloTreadway every thing about this country goes back to (1) Calvinism (2) anti-Black obsession (3) toxic individualism (4) money as morality

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     RolloTreadway (rollotreadway@beige.party)'s status on Sunday, 14-Sep-2025 20:16:31 JST RolloTreadway

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     @skinnylatte I always find this extraordinary. Britain is hardly a country that treats homelessness decently, far from it - but the American approach seems completely unhinged. I don't understand it.

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 14-Sep-2025 21:38:31 JST Adrianna Tan

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     I say liberal not because non liberal cities are better but because liberal cities pretend to be

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 15-Sep-2025 01:38:08 JST Adrianna Tan

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     • Chris Johnson

     @cxj I’m not saying this to say I have a solution. I do not. I’m saying this to call attention to the fact that I am disgusted by the views of homelessness of the people who live around me.

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     Chris Johnson (cxj@phpc.social)'s status on Monday, 15-Sep-2025 01:38:10 JST Chris Johnson

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     @skinnylatte I think that’s a valuable distillation into a meme-like phrase because it will help goad rethinking and action. But it’s also inaccurate and unhelpful in that cities “have” the problem, are expected by citizens to “clean it up” but do not have the capability to really solve homelessness — which is a result of national economic and welfare policies. And actually, unfettered capitalism. Local housing policy changes, for example, are only a tiny part.