David Robertsvolts.wtf@bsky.brid.gy
Oct 5, 2026, 8:07 PMHoly shit.
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- David Robertsvolts.wtf@bsky.brid.gyOct 5, 2026, 8:08 PM
I could hug @anandwrites.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy for this. This is so true but you NEVER hear it in US media. Never. Truly doing god's work.
- David Robertsvolts.wtf@bsky.brid.gyOct 5, 2026, 11:45 PM
Everybody's loving this clip, for good reason, but it should remind everyone that cities therefore have an obligation to build enough housing that all these marginalized and outcast people can come and afford to live in them on minimum wage *without* becoming homeless. YIMBY!
Flaming CheetoPizzaDemon@mastodon.onlineOct 5, 2026, 8:56 PM@volts.wtf I first heard this kind of clap back about 20 years ago. A report came out about homelessness in California. Berkeley did worse than some central town like Tracy or Stockton and their Mayor crowed about it. Berkeley leaders shot back that it's because we don't tell the sheriff to pick up homeless and drop them off in the next jurisdiction. We feed them.
Violet Maddervioletmadder@kolektiva.socialOct 6, 2026, 2:50 PMThere are DOZENS of houses sitting empty, for each houseless person in this country.
Building enough isn't the core problem.
stephen ryner jr. 🦉nuthatch@infosec.exchangeOct 6, 2026, 2:19 AM@volts.wtf “I think he's exactly right, but I want to say a couple of things. One thing about cities that I found in this reporting, cities are very unfairly labeled as these problem centers by Donald Trump and others. And one thing is worth remembering. If you look at the population of, well, all people in cities, particularly people who come to cities from elsewhere, but particularly homeless and other vulnerable people in cities, look at youth homeless, a pretty large chunk of those people who end up in cities were failed in some other parts of this country.
Okay? The fraction of youth homeless or LGBTQ, whatever, pretty high. So there are a lot of families in this country who fail the first duty of family, which is to love your kids more than any other thing. And there's a lot of families in this country that look at some verse in some book and their child's face and choose the verse in the book over their child's face and drive their children out of Nebraska or out of Florida or out of Idaho. And those kids come to San Francisco and those kids come to New York and those kids go to Chicago. And we have friends giving dinners with them.
You live in L.A. You are surrounded by people who have those kind of stories. And so cities, every time someone is sleeping on a subway bench in a city, the rest of America can sort of say, ah, look at these cities. But we are holding a lot of your people who you fail to love and take care of. Thank you.”