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There's a lot of
ruincompassion in a Nation, especially a wealthy and liberal one.But not infinitely or indefinitely so. Eventually, even the bleeding hearts stop, if only because they exsanguinated.
For example, see how the sentiment has turned against Middle-Eastern immigrants in the Nordic states, from them once being misunderstood darlings to far more Right-wing and integrationist parties coming into vogue as a battered populace changes their mind.
The same is true for many YIMBYs and people-of-houselessness defenders, who get a rude wakeup call when the homeless are camping in their neighborhood parks, ruining their public transport, and clearly demonstrating that efforts to simply be nice to them by offering housing, shelter or safe drugs are far from sufficient to solve the problem, at least for the worst homeless who are either crazy or too addicted/drug-addled to respect carrots and not sticks.
Of course, this does require things to get worse, and people can be stupidly kind longer than your housing market or appetite for Hep-B can bear, but it can happen and is happening. I've seen plenty of outcry on Twitter from Californians outraged that what their politicians had wrung hands about as an unavoidable problem of the homeless ruining the place mysteriously vanished overnight when Xi Jinping visited. Huh. It seems the state capacity to handle homelessness exists all along, just a lack of will to use it.
While I don't endorse Accelerationism in general, since I'd much prefer finding a solution that isn't "let it all burn to the ground knowing it'll be built back better", I still think that the general ethos has a point, at least when it comes to shocking the complacent into noticing reality.
It's "people experiencing homelessness", deplorable. Report to your local bugpod for re-education.
Excuse me? Is it okay these days to just assume that other people have the privilege of a bugpod to retreat to, especially with the recent budget cuts to education?
In Airstrip One, we have a bugpod in every fifteen minute city. Has Emmanuel Goldstein sabotaged the provision of bugpods in your District?
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