Tedesche

Lemmy is Reddit with a different political bias.

Coach Z?

The headline is poorly worded. The article is about how the Israel-Palestine conflict is playing heavily into the mayoral race, and how New York voters care a lot about candidates' positions on it.

Definitely weird, since it’s untrue.

I don’t understand; why wouldn’t the cat just agree and not give a fuck?

Maybe stop labeling them the “enemy” with posts like these?

It sounds like wherever you are does not have adequate services for their homeless population. That’s a serious problem, and I would obviously advocate for the expansion of said services over sleep-prevention measures added to park benches.

But I am a therapist with experience working with homeless people, and contrary to what you apparently think, my experience does give me expertise on their lives. Where I live, they do have options. I’m sorry your state doesn’t serve its homeless population as well as mine. We can both agree that’s a bad thing. What we disagree on is that this simple park benches feature is/isn’t an “attack” on homeless people. I also hold the position that methadone clinics are a disservice to opioid addicts—due to my extensive experience with that population who are still addicted to opioids, and whose methadone clinics actively encourage them to remain on methadone rather than titrate off of it. Are you going to tell me that being against that is an “attack” on heroin addicts?

I’m sorry you’ve had the experiences you’ve had, but my position is entirely defensible, and you haven’t presented me with any evidence to the contrary. Moreover, your contention that I’m a “bad” therapist speaks volumes about your naïveté regarding my profession.

As I said to another commenter, “anti-homeless” measures like these make zero sense if there aren’t resources for the homeless available. I’m sorry, it doesn’t sound like resources were available to you, and that truly sucks. Your state should do better.

However, in places where resources are available, homeless people still sometimes refuse to utilize them, and then measures like this become valid and utilitarian.