Rose was quite red,

She was feeling quite blue.

If your parents caught you giving head,

You would be sad too.

Sorry if I’m not understanding the problem, but if you’re just going to block someone do the following.

1. Go to their profile.

2. There are three dots on a button that gives you a few options. (Next to the red follow and friends button)

3. One is block, there is a separate one that is reporting if you would also like to report harassment to mods.

Lol, boner.

Avatar causing a sensory overload. Needed a break.

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They have complete oversight. It’s the failure of Democrats to demand impeachment and removal.

They should, but it’s also a doomed endeavor. If the can actually muster the support for impeachment with a simple majority (which is already unlikely) removal takes 2/3 vote from the senate. It’s a waste of time. Of course everything else they do is a waste of time so go ahead I guess.

If Clarence Thomas bit the head off a baby on live TV the Republicans wouldn’t vote for removal.

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No the fuck she isn’t.

She’s a leftist who’s sick of being represented by a party that inches closer to the right every day.

And she can speak for herself, the fuck?

I truly appreciate and enjoy your high levels of sassitude.

In high school the principal banned thong sandals because he proclaimed them too distracting and provocative. Was a weird way to tell the student body he had a foot fetish and couldn’t control himself around young women. Great messaging.

Constantly. That’s how capitalism works.

If by too much Christmas cheer you mean driven to nigh murderous rages from working retail during Christmas than yes. Glad I don’t do that anymore.

Have you ever worked on the holidays themselves?

I would rather take the opportunity to slap his face.

You have one wish off the monkey paw, the infamous wishing tool that always subverts your wish in a way to makes it turn out terrible. Do you think you can create a wish that is safe or do you discard it?

Because my partner gets lonely in there by herself. I thought she would get along well with Smile.

The voters of LA passed a billion dollar bill dedicated to help the homeless a few years ago. One of the projects was the shelter I mentioned. The main issue preventing help from being distributed is how a tiny group of landowners can tie up progress for decades in the court.

One of the issues you are missing is how you separate politicians from landowners and corporations. They are the same people, literally. In order to get elected in LA the political campaign will take millions of dollars. Easily funded by the rich, tremendously hard for the poor. There are no debates to toon into, only the papers. All the major papers in LA are owned by…. You guessed it, the same rich people who own the land and politicians. And you need to spread that fight across many districts.

Like I said, the people circumvented th e city council by rallying for a bill that directly funded the homeless. The city council which is tremendously hard to unseat controls the zoning laws and approval processes that can be manipulated to prevent what the people directly voted for and funded.

The system is stacked against the most vulnerable and poor. It requires time and money that common people just don’t have. It requires coordination and media backing which the people lack. The system isn’t broken, it’s working as it was always intended to.

Up a while. Since we celebrate solstice everything is nature themed or non-descript seasonally. Get a lot of mileage from the winter decorations.

New years plans… dropping balls or sleeping?

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The usual -- two dill pickles, a CostCo gift card, and the soundtrack to Oklahoma.

I normally climax on ‘A Girl Who Can’t Say No’.

Election related violence.

If you could snap your fingers and remove every single gun at one time, no exceptions… would you do it?

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Does the state of California have state mental hospitals and permanent care homes for the mentally ill? Offering that with professional care would makes sense and be humane. But forcing privately owned low end motels to do that is highly irresponsible, inhumane, and totally copping out on how to deal with homelessness.

The motel owners should shut down and sell the property to developers.

The state and cities should do their job and take care of the indignant mentally ill homeless, and drug addicts/alcoholics. Deal with those people in a caring professional manner, so they get real help.

Allow me to answer those questions with first hand accounts; The wait list for a top priority individuals (homeless mothers with kids, physical disabilities, ect…) is somewhere between 2-5 years depending on how hard your case worker will pursue it. The mental hospitals are understaffed, churn people out in a week or two, and offer no long term care besides prescription meds which likely do nothing but mask symptoms.

Then you have the staffing issues. The state mental health centers are competing for a tiny pool of nurses and doctors with private businesses. Degrees are prohibitively expensive and the jobs pay dick. Hours are long and hard. There are no qualified staff to run these places.

The other problem is too much land and power is made available to developers. Example would be a few blocks from where I lived in LA was a proposed site of an unhoused shelter. It was a 15 floor abandoned apartment building that had not been occupied in years. The local developers and business owners were worried it would lower their property value and turned the ordeal into a 4 year long legal battle and the project was abandoned. So tens of millions of dollars earmarked for unhoused aid went to lawyers instead and a handful of wealthy assholes canceled a much needed shelter.

Corporations buy up all the land and make it prohibitively expensive to run a non-profit service like housing for those in need. Aggressive government action is needed to get people the help they need and personally that’s way more important that some real estate corporation’s bottom line. The hotels took these deals during Covid and are now trying to backpedal. Screw em’. Took the money to house the unhoused when they needed it, now they want them out so they can increase prices beyond what was contracted with the cities.

Briefly attempted and gave up. It was going sort of like that episode of I love Lucy so I ditched doing it alone and waited for backup. Then I was sent away because I had done such a bad job.

HYE been locked inside a small space like a closet or elevator?

Yup, been in a few fights. Had some people try and start things with me when I was younger. Was pretty skinny. They didn’t know I had a decade of wrestling under my belt though.

Have you ever done a combat type sport? (Wrestling, karate, ect….)

Tap filtered.

Football or futball?

Setting up a D&D campaign because my kid wants to try it. Lots of 20 sided dice rolls.

Ever play D&D or any other table top rpg?

Surprisingly there were much more in terms of sluts when I cooked them in accounting.

Morning, before starting my day.

Well on the point of your hotel article then, it was needed. I moved away from LA after a decade living there. It was already an expensive city before landlords and developers started buying up any affordable housing and increasing the cost of living by almost double over the past 15 years.

These laws are designed to curb the homeless population and actually make the city livable. The infrastructure is already collapsing the the city debts are huge (won’t even get into the fact that the police has created billions of dollars of legal debt that comes out of the general fund for social programs). There is a human rights crisis on the streets of LA and more and more people were become homeless. Many have jobs. I saw a guy emerge from his tent next to my apartment who came out in a full suit and biked a few blocks to work. He just couldn’t find affordable rent on an interns salary.

Free market capitalism is destroying the city and that’s precisely why we needed laws like this to create affordable housing.

Met a young woman who had autism, ptsd, DID, and who’s brain was too scrambled to hold a job. She also suffered from seizures and desperately needed a roof over her head. She crashed with us for a few months while we helped fight for her getting public housing. Her case was marked as top priority for three years before she got a single room living space. Policy needs to be dictated by the needs of the poor, not padding the pockets of the rich.

Listen, thanks for this brain horror to keep me awake. Could have gone without that.

But further question, how did this thread shift from a fucked up birthing story to the LA housing crisis and responses? I feel like a bunch of posts were deleted. How did you get here?

Build-up

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lol

Yeah, that’ll pass right through congress. Right after the ‘Clay Higgins is a very attractive and special boy’ law.

Im sure 3/5th if the states are chomping at the bit to pass this amendment.

This is exactly how Trump won his first term. They are jamming immensely unpopular candidates down our throats while ignoring all polling. Then they’ll do the usual ‘oh no, you have to vote for our guy because it’s the most important election of our lifetime’ bullshit.

For reference, it appears every single election I’ve been alive for has coincidentally been the most important election of our lifetime.

As fun as that is, 90 students is a shit sample size. Split that and you only have 45 in each side. Way too easy for erratic data.

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Apparently, a sarcasm font would come in handy around these here parts. That entire post was sarcasm, Rowan.

Man, this is the internet. A boundless plane of stupidly on full display. A sarcasm font would be very helpful because after the Trump administration you can’t even write a parody article because people will unironically agree with you.

“Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end: then stop.”

-Lewis Carol