Fuck this. If anyone deserves to die in the souless arseholes in charge who let this happen.
Great passive voice: “Bulldozer did a bad thing”. Someone should hold that Bulldozer accountable.
They should’ve used the Yoda voice. “Bad thing, bulldozers did.” Rookies smh
Did the Atlanta city workers get training from the IDF?
What better way to honor the reverend’s legacy than by bulldozing some poors.
Really thought this was going to be a dark onion piece
There are no more dark onions. It’s now real life. 🙃
Is this a new way of dying that’s only possible in the USA?
Achievement get! New death unlocked.
Nah, death by bulldozer shows up in any modern industrialized country that really wants some people out of the way. For instance.
Or you could be like the IDF and just run the bulldozers over already dead bodies so that they’re unrecognizable to their relatives.
IDF bulldozer operators talk about killing innocent people too, not just the dead. One of them killed himself over it, which is the most justice any of them will ever see for mass murder.
The article is gruesome, as a heads up.
Of course nobody has been arrested or charged. Manslaughter? Murder? Come on, at least reckless endangerment? Not if the victim is homeless and the perp is the state, fuck no.
Seems like America has given up on any illusions of upholding human rights.
It wouldn’t be American if it low key didn’t. They’re reaching for the high keys, though.
The GOP are sending those back to the individual states so they can decide.
No they’re not. Don’t buy that bullshit. There may be a couple (relatively unimportant) issues that they leave to the states, like cannabis legalization, so it looks like they’re doing this. But in reality, they will use the federal government as a cudgel against states that do things they don’t like.
They’re already talking about making aid to CA wildfires conditional. These people have no ethics, no scruples, and lack basic empathy.
While you are right, I think the person you’re responding to was being sarcastic.
Hard to tell since that’s literally what people are saying unironically.
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Wow bulldozers did that all by themselves?
BuLlDoZeRs dOnT kIlL pEoPlE
PeOpLe KiLl PeOpLe
Ban assault bulldozers!
Call your representative. Make open carry your bulldozer legal!
And to think we still can’t get decent self driving cars!
Maybe someone forgot the parking break.
I swear bro, we’re going to fix homelessness, just give me one more dozer sweep, bro, I swear it’ll work this time, bro I promise we won’t kill someone again, please, just one more dozer sweep it’s got to work this time
This isn’t even the first time something like this has happened. To my knowledge, this exact same thing happened in Modesto a few years ago. I sincerely doubt those are the only two. Dozer sweeps aren’t cheap, either; I’m pretty sure the city could just house these folks for whatever they’re paying to do the sweep. This is purely about flexing on our most vulnerable population.
there are enough vacant homes in the US to give every homeless person in America person 6 of them and have some spare.
I think this is one of those technically true things where a lot of the vacant homes are way out in the ass end of nowhere where you definitely wouldn’t want to displace somebody with no resources to.
It’s what Jesus would’ve wanted /s
All a part of God’s plan
Thou shalt bulldoze they neighbor to keep the Sabbath holy.
Here’s a couple ideas for dealing with the housing crisis situation, one of the primary causes of the homeless issues in the first place. Since all we ever seem to do is fail at handling symptoms instead of of causes.
- Foreign companies cannot own private housing.
- Domestic companies cannot own more than say 2-3 private homes, this includes any companies that can be connected through another business or individual. This allows individuals to have second homes or a rental property but means rental businesses are dead, they handle larger condos and apartments. Separate homes are meant for families and individual households.
- Tax vacant housing at high rates to facilitate homes actually being loved in. We have largely enough housing for everyone to have a place, but a lot of it sits unused as bullshit real estate holdings.
- For larger cities, tax vacant retail and office space at a high rate and give incentives to remodel it for more housing. Have maximum vacancy time-frames to incentivize utilizing the spaces instead of just setting bullshit pricing no one will ever pay while “looking” for tenants year after year.
But none of this will happen. Because the oligarchs have their money invested in real estate holdings that don’t move or get and use, so they require little to no maintenance. It’s a large reason why half of NYC looks like a shit hole with boarded up retail spots for decades while a cupboard under the stars costs $1800/mo to rent.
Abolishing parking minimums, and, in fact, establishing parking maximums, would be a great, easy, and inexpensive step for most cities in the US. You literally can’t build dense walkable places like old main streets anymore because of zoning codes and (chiefly) parking minimums. If you’re like me, you probably assumed that these codes had their feet in good reasons for existing, but they actually don’t. Parking minimums are often based on numbers that are essentially snatched out of thin air and not evidence-based, and many other cities simply copy what other cities are doing. Aggressive exclusionary zoning often has its feet in racism, and it’s a big reason why only US cities seem to experience urban decay. This is something you can change! Go to your city council meetings, network with people there! Go to your city planning board meetings, read your city’s zoning laws, and go give them very specific shit about it! These offices are infinitely more accessible and responsive than state and federal legislators, and you might be surprised to find that some of them even agree with you! It doesn’t take much effort, it’s pretty much free, and the cops can’t stop you!
How about we just build apartments?
“Just build” only helps the developers who get to build and thus profit more. They’ll just build luxury condos and “investment properties” since that’s the most profitable.
There’s more expensive housing units sitting empty than there are unhoused people. The problem isn’t a lack of housing, it’s a lack of AFFORDABLE housing. That and it’s WAY too easy for landlords to evict people.
Right, let’s build … public housing!
Yep, but still need new protections such as rent control and better enforcement of the ones currently in place.
“Just build public housing” is better than “just build housing”, but stil woefully inadequate to tackle a problem much more complex and insidious than simple supply and demand.
Would really like more rail. It’s the only reason I’m a bit nimby about apartments, too many cars on the road.
Is there not a strong correlation between apartments and rail? I.e. China, Spain, Korea?
Good point, but is it chicken or egg?
I think a lot of cities with truly good public transit developed as walking cities. The population was first, and the transit came after. Not always true - look at Barcelona - but my city (Melbourne Australia) is pretty cleanly defined into the part that developed before everyone had a car (radiating train lines serviced by trams), and areas that came after (radiating train lines serviced by buses, or not serviced at all).
There’s already enough living space. No need for more infrastructure.
Including in the places people want to live in?
Depends where. Not generally true.
I don’t even know what to do with myself, reading this. It’s so fucking nightmarish. Why do we allow this hell to continue? That man should have been in a warm, safe bed. And he could have been if we didn’t hate our own people so much.
They had been trying to get them to shelter
Historically, the city sends social workers and outreach teams to encampments over a period of months before issuing a final order to evacuate. Those teams work to place people in shelters and, ultimately, permanently housing.
The city had been working with people at the encampment since April and had placed many into shelters, said Cathryn Vassell, CEO of the city’s homelessness organization Partners for Home. Atlanta announced an investment of $60m in new public funding – the largest amount in city history – to address homelessness last year.
Let me guess, company in a rush to also not have to provide therapy to bulldozer driver.
How about charges for the reckless bulldozer driver?
Lol therapy for the driver? They’re going to escape fault/blame as a company by some ratfuck tactic like drug testing or another method to escape fault. They’re going to do that not only to avoid taking care of their own employees, but also so they’re not financially liable.
Whatever company you work for ,(directed at everyone, not just you) they will leave you in dust when a certain dollar amount is met they would have to pay.
Unionization is likely the most important thing we can do to improve nearly every aspect of our society. With unionization we could be paid what we’re worth, and have the benefits we need to tackle mental health issues, both would directly impact the probability of us becoming homeless and met with this same fate.
You have infinitely more in common with this poor soul that was murdered by a company/city, than you do with the people stealing your wages and your happiness. Never ever think otherwise.
Stoping this hell requires people to get off the Internet and possibly put themselves in harms way, or risk their livelihoods. Until people want a better life for their fellow man more than they want comfort for themselves, nothing will change.
Personally, I just don’t see that happening in America.
They needed a bulldozer to take down a few tents? They couldn’t just hire a few folks to deconstruct the area? What the fuck.
A handful of underpaid city staffers gently disassembling your home don’t send the same message that 200 tons of steel and diesel barreling through it does.
Bell Riots were supposed to be last year
The Temporal Wars threw a–
You know what? It’s not even worth it. This is truly horrifying.
