This Is Fine

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Why doesn’t she call Joe instead, and tell him to mint that coin?

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I hate this timeline… hate. hate. hate it.

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Not that anyone in the US watching any news channel would know anything about any of this

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No mention either of the rockets fired over Jerusalem from Gaza.

Then maybe the Israeli government can give their citizens some peace and come to the table with the Palestinians, and stop building illegal settlements. They hold almost ALL the cards, have overwhelming fire power, and could do a lot more to bring about peace. The current government is spitting on the graves of the actual peacemakers who led them in the past (Begin and Rabin)… instead they are being led by right wingers who are pushing for greater Israel.

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Don’t worry, everyone knows about those, just like we have all heard about how Indians would for some reason sometimes attack the bold American pioneers.

Given that when there have been actual efforts for peace the rockets have almost stopped, but the settlements have not, at this point it seems like victim blaming to me.

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And no mention from you of the thousand times greater horrors that prompt those relatively puny rockets.

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Maybe she wanted to speak with the SOBs who actually run this country.
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… JFC, it’s a federal program—there is no reason the state government should be involved at all :confused:

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This part explains a lot:

Cities often don’t like older parks because unlike other housing they don’t generate property taxes for municipal services. Rundown parks can also be eyesores, depressing the worth of nearby properties even as the value of the land the mobile homes sit on has increased exponentially

In addition to the stories about billionaires buying these parks and evicting people, the press is also highlighting points that can be used to divide voters. In this case, maybe it’s the elderly being made homeless for something that benefits college students. Then I noticed who is depicted in the article:

Many park residents are Spanish-speaking immigrants earning minimum wage as landscapers or restaurant workers. There are also retirees living on Social Security

Too many reports don’t really clarify the difference between state and federal assistance policies or programs. News about housing, homelessness, or immigration are sometimes mixing apples and oranges. Now we’ve got folks claiming housing asylum seekers should be done after the housing crisis and homelessness are resolved, without noting local and state forces have delayed or defunded affordable housing projects for decades. Increases in local criminalization, fines, and fees are similarly overlooked. The federal government is unlikely to swoop in and fix that NIMBYism. They also usually ignore the profit motive that leads public and private institutions to impoverish people.

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