#the americans threw their tea in the harbour for fractions of the tax we are forced to pay in the north

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Agree except at least in Canada the proper response to homelessness is ***telling the government to get the f out of the way because they are constantly stalling and stopping houses in general from being built which is making the housing market skyrocket and also making people pay blackbook value when they buy used cars and also not allowing people to use trailers and rvs that THEY OWN on their own property (you can only use trailers on campgrounds and in trailer parks) and getting rid of the taxes on the food which is a freaking necessity so people can actually afford their groceries and also maybe giving people a designated space to actually have tent cities instead of allowing them to just pitch tent anywhere and also stop paying municipalities per head so they are no longer incentivized to keep people homeless and also make it legal for people to give handouts to the homeless and and and

For goodness sake, we need to stop trusting the government to fix the problems it made in the first place. At some point we just gotta pick up our bootstraps and do it ourselves

listen. There's a whole mentality shift that needs to happen culture wide here, from the schools to the public infrastructure to pet ownership to the justice system

The proper response to your dog doing a natural behavior you dislike (digging/barking/protecting etc) it to give them an appropriate time and place to engage in that behavior

The proper response to skateboarders damaging infrastructure is to build more and better skate parks, or build skate elements into the public infrastructure on purpose.

The proper response to homeless people sleeping on park benches is to build them houses.

you see how there's like, a commonality at play here?

The proper response to a disruption is to address the root of the disruption directly, not somehow attack the disruption itself -

you don't invent a muffler by swinging a bat at the engine noise, you don't relieve your hunger by punching yourself in the stomach, you don't resolve public unrest by sending armed men to control them and you don't prevent homeless people using bus shelters a roof by removing the bus shelters.

a whole ass shift in a basic mindset, i'm tellin' you. We need it.