It's a crime in Dallas to help homeless people?
this post was submitted on 04 Jul 2024
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Yeah, it's what Jesus would want, didn't you know?
Supply-side Jesus is the worst Jesus.
For the uninitiated: https://www.beliefnet.com/news/2003/09/the-gospel-of-supply-side-jesus.aspx
That last line is truly icing on the cake.
It's generally not allowed to create an ad hoc aid group. It's bullshit.
The "reasoning" is the are no permits/ food safety licenses, etc.
But obviously that's bullshit given the alternatives.
We live in a world where I can see someone doing this in an effort to poison a bunch of homeless people. Of course that's not what is happening here but it's been at yhe back of my mind lately.
You know you're on the wrong side of history when you make it illegal to give to those most in need.
And have to be visibly armed to stop the cops from harassing you for doing so.
And people are banning books.
Armed to deter cops actually sounds like a viable plan in Texas after what we saw at Uvalde
Gotta love how it's illegal to help your community
I've been following some of these folks on social media who do this every couple of weeks. It's crazy. The police were arresting them for giving away food. So they went through the courts and won the right to feed homeless people. Crazy right. The even crazier part is the cops sit across the street every single time they give out free food and hygiene items and harass them, take photos and other ACAB sort of shit. 4-6 cruisers at a time. Insane.
Its only crazy if you don't want to look at why they're doing it square in the eye. Please don't get me wrong, I wouldn't judge anyone doing it, presuming it does apply a little you yourself. I could be wrong of course. The truth is very, very ugly and not something anyone would want to be true.
Despite their claims, the problem was never the cost to the government of feeding the homeless, as can be seen. The reason the police do this is that wage slaves won't be forced back into the worst, most poorly paid jobs we can find if they're not facing death by starvation.
It was the same in the UK, back when they made feeding the homeless illegal and the penalty being being homeless OR without a job for 3 days was being sent to the workhouse where you might well be worked to death.
Its the same thing, centuries apart.
That is the role of the state and capitalists but that is not what is on the mind of an abusive cop. They believe the bullshit.
I had^1^ a friend in middle school who shared my name. We'd hang out together all the time and play Super Mario Bros 3 and ride our bikes all over and shit. Dude was chill. Then he went into the army, came out, and become a cop in Dallas PD.
^1^Had.
Are you ok over there? Do you need something? Like healthcare and a social state?
As a 2A liberal, I LOVE this. Black Panthers did it right, don't change what works!
You love it? You don't look at this and think "This can't possibly be how a reasonable society works"?
When it stops being illegal to help vulnerable people, I'll stop cheering for folks who open carry firearms to deter cops that might otherwise try to stop them.
Of course most of us don't love it. A lot of us live in places where, due to concepts like gerrymandering, we have no political choice, so people have to resort to stuff like this. We love that people are fighting back, not that it has to be this way.
Not everyone agrees the cops should do whatever they want and sorting it out in court later is the way
That's like saying the tolerant can't be intolerant of the intolerant, when in fact they have to be.
And it becomes even more viable when you consider that Popper’s idea is actually based off of a social contract.
Essentially, tolerance is based on a social contract to be tolerant to each other. If someone is being intolerant, they are explicitly and intentionally removing themselves from the contract. Ergo, they no longer fall under protections, and people can then be intolerant of their intolerance.
How people don't understand this concept is incredible to me.
- Regular Ignorance
- Wilful Ignorance
- Bad Faith
Pick One, possibly two.
There will of course be some who haven't considered this perspective and some who disagree.
I'd put money, however, on the vast majority arguing in favour of tolerating intolerance are the people this concept is talking about.
The actively intolerant using the tolerance of others to enact further intolerance.
Every single protest should have an armed contingent in America. That is the only way cops will take you seriously, but make sure you dot the i's and cross the t's, because your permits better be current.
This gives the cops license to start slaughtering protestors. They're allowed to kill if they have a reason to fear for their safety.
Nope. Cops are bullies and cowards by nature. They love to swing their dicks around unarmed, peaceful protesters.
Any sign of any possible resistance or discomfort and they'll suddenly turn into pillars of restraint and caution.
IE look at all the armed Nazi protests, or uvlade or any other of the myriad of examples.
Does being armed actually deter cops in Texas? In my home country being armed is more likely to alert cops
Cops only punch down
Yes, it deters the cops. You have to understand that many or most cops are paranoid, cowards, and bullies. They aren't going around enforcing laws because they think that they need to uphold justice. Rather, they're going around power tripping. And it's not such a great power trip if you have to worry about getting shot because people think that you're dirty.
Of course this is not true for all cops all the time, but it's certainly true for many cops most of the time.
A dozen armed people attract cops.
A couple hundred armed people repel cops.
A single armed guy in a Texas school will attract cops at a medium distance but repel them at a short distance.