this post was submitted on 11 Jul 2024
348 points (99.4% liked)

News

22595 readers
4169 users here now

Welcome to the News community!

Rules:

1. Be civil


Attack the argument, not the person. No racism/sexism/bigotry. Good faith argumentation only. This includes accusing another user of being a bot or paid actor. Trolling is uncivil and is grounds for removal and/or a community ban.


2. All posts should contain a source (url) that is as reliable and unbiased as possible and must only contain one link.


Obvious right or left wing sources will be removed at the mods discretion. We have an actively updated blocklist, which you can see here: https://lemmy.world/post/2246130 if you feel like any website is missing, contact the mods. Supporting links can be added in comments or posted seperately but not to the post body.


3. No bots, spam or self-promotion.


Only approved bots, which follow the guidelines for bots set by the instance, are allowed.


4. Post titles should be the same as the article used as source.


Posts which titles don’t match the source won’t be removed, but the autoMod will notify you, and if your title misrepresents the original article, the post will be deleted. If the site changed their headline, the bot might still contact you, just ignore it, we won’t delete your post.


5. Only recent news is allowed.


Posts must be news from the most recent 30 days.


6. All posts must be news articles.


No opinion pieces, Listicles, editorials or celebrity gossip is allowed. All posts will be judged on a case-by-case basis.


7. No duplicate posts.


If a source you used was already posted by someone else, the autoMod will leave a message. Please remove your post if the autoMod is correct. If the post that matches your post is very old, we refer you to rule 5.


8. Misinformation is prohibited.


Misinformation / propaganda is strictly prohibited. Any comment or post containing or linking to misinformation will be removed. If you feel that your post has been removed in error, credible sources must be provided.


9. No link shorteners.


The auto mod will contact you if a link shortener is detected, please delete your post if they are right.


10. Don't copy entire article in your post body


For copyright reasons, you are not allowed to copy an entire article into your post body. This is an instance wide rule, that is strictly enforced in this community.

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
top 28 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] [email protected] 123 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Back to the landowner class, eh?

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Still have to come up with a way to get the renters off next.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Rent increases moving along nicely.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

And now that homelessness is illegal, the ~~prison~~ slave labor force will be growing

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

“The pursuit of happiness…” if you’re a property owning white male. Going back to our roots, unfortunately.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 month ago

Honestly Republicans are among the lowest income families and most of them rent, requiring land ownership could very well cost Trump the presidency.

[–] [email protected] 60 points 1 month ago (1 children)

And exactly no legal case will be made in relation to this, because you can only make a case if you have standing, and what homeless person has the time or money to do that?

Yes, time, because it takes time to appear in court and work with attorneys, and when you're homeless, you kind of need to spend that time just getting by.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This is what groups like the ACLU are for, though I'd imagine that kind of help really depends on the strategic context. It's difficult to make any case in this climate knowing the highest court is so corrupted.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (2 children)

You'd still have to find a willing petitioner who has standing, and is able to go all the way through the (likely) multi-year process.

Wait a second, I bet you could do that with a vandweller or an RV retiree? But then I am also thinking ... how do you determine what district or state someone is qualified to be registered in if they don't have an address? This gets complicated, I think.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Most homeless people do not start homeless, so they will have established residency somewhere at some point in their lives. Even if it hasn’t been updated since they were kids. You are always assumed a resident of a place until you change it to something else. It doesn’t really expire

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Whatever method they use to charge homeless people with crimes I suppose. They might have to set up a PO box or something somewhere.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

Crimes are charged where the crime took place, where you live doesn't matter.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You can be charged with a crime in a place you don’t have residence.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yes, I'm saying if you can process someone for a crime without a home address you can do it for a lawsuit. It's not some insurmountable hurdle.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

You can’t, it’s different. Charging someone with a crime is easy, and even if the person doesn’t talk or have ID they are given a John Doe identifier and a random number and will go through the criminal proceedings.

In civil cases that information cannot be left blank, otherwise a clerk cannot file it and the courts won’t place it on a docket.

[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The right violates the constitution all the time without consequences. Rule of law really is an illusion at this point.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Always has been an illusion.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

More just selective enforcement

[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 month ago

Yet again they are targeting the vulnerable of society, and trying to disenfranchise them. But if course, the cruelty is the point.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Golly, that sounds unconstitutional as fuck...

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (2 children)

The sad part is it's probably not. We started off only letting land owners vote, I have a feeling were like one self serving interpretation of the law away from going back.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

“I don’t see anywhere in this constitution that says we can’t throw people off the voter rolls! Now, when does my vacation come in?” - Uncle Thomas

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

It is abso-fucking-lutely unconstitutional as hell, but a corrupt supreme court may well make it legal like Palpatine. Your fear is not unfounded.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I bet I can guess the skin color of the average homeless person's skin color in Georgia.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Since when did skin colours have skin colours?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago
[–] stoy 11 points 1 month ago

Just make everyone in the US get a national ID number.

And I don't mean social security number, but a real ID number with checksums and protections built in.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

I guess the rights of Americans are just suggestions. fucking assholes.