Comment on Trump Seeks to End Permanent Supportive Housing for the Chronically Homeless | More than 300,000 people live in such housing, all chronically homeless and disabled. Many are veterans.

• RedditIsDeddit@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Yes they can.

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  • skozzii@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    They “technically” can, but the system is designed so no ID, no permanent address, no voting, they will find a way to make it nearly impossible and most homeless people don’t have the means to find the poll stations etc and navigate the system that was designed to defeat them.

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    • RedditIsDeddit@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I mean. At least in my city there’s signs that get posted all over the neighborhoods for polling places… I mean… it would be hard to ignore it…

      But I do get your point.

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• altphoto@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Sure. Vote… That’s the problem, the voting thing. Not the fact that there are crazy homeless camping in every city who know exactly who to blame for their despair.

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  • modeler@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Sorry if I wasn’t clear. I was trying to answer the question about why Trump might do this - what’s in it for this regime.

    I mean, the people who will be turfed out onto the streets overwhelmingly vote democrat. By making them homeless, he’s depriving them of their vote. Disenfranchisement is part of his plan.

    And a further thought: making more people homeless and desperate creates chaos and makes his call for stronger law enforcement will resonate with more people.

    His cruelty knows no bounds. And his fascist regime will do anything to rig the vote to retain power.

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    • altphoto@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Uhh, that’s an evil angle I hadn’t thought about. One would think that an American would not go there on purpose. Greed yes, but not planned on purpose. If that’s really the case, wow! Just wow.

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      • modeler@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        The republicans have been rigging the vote for years - how many states have a dem governor but have a republican house? Every one of those is gerrymandered. Who’s going over the voting rolls just before each election and disqualifying thousands under ‘suspicion’ that they’re dead or moved away? Who is simultaneously requiring photo id but simultaneously shutting dmv offices in areas that are predominantly black? There’s layers and layers of this.

        Note: the dems have gerrymandered areas themselves. Gerrymandering is a problem of the first-past-the-post voting system. However it’s IMHO not as bad or blatant as the republican recent attempts - some were thrown out as being obviously racist.

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