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MineralMan

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20. What facilities are they planning to use?

Fri Jul 25, 2025, 10:38 AM

Jul 2025

There aren't any today. There is also nobody to staff such facilities. We shut down all facilities of that type long ago.

So, this is an idea that can go nowhere.

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Trump order pushes forcible hospitalization of homeless people [View all] dalton99a Jul 2025 OP

Didn't Reagan kick homeless out of hospitals and treatment? I don't trust trumpsters to treat Silent Type Jul 2025 #1

. WhiskeyGrinder Jul 2025 #2

Yeah, well they aren't getting treatment now or it's failing. Again don't trust trump, but 60% of homeless Silent Type Jul 2025 #4

Those who are capable of holding employment will be hired out as slave labor... regnaD kciN Jul 2025 #5

So, what's your solution to help homeless that actually has a chance of being enacted? Silent Type Jul 2025 #7

Housing first. WhiskeyGrinder Jul 2025 #15

"it's better than letting people suffer on street as we do now." WhiskeyGrinder Jul 2025 #14

Yes. He dumped them onto the streets in Chicago, etc kerry-is-my-prez Jul 2025 #13

If i remember correctly it was never often followed up with good services etc. electric_blue68 Jul 2025 #39

It was the ACLU that led this in the Supreme Court Melon Jul 2025 #43

First time I agree with Dump Bluesaph Jul 2025 #44

Or they could just build some fucking housing leftstreet Jul 2025 #3

Where are they going to find these hospitals willing to LisaL Jul 2025 #6

So, 19th century asylums but this time it's for PROFIT BABY. Why should prisons Maru Kitteh Jul 2025 #8

+1. The 'hospitals' will be built and run by private prison companies dalton99a Jul 2025 #9

One more way to break the bank. Nt lostnfound Jul 2025 #10

Another evil AF executive order. Initech Jul 2025 #11

I support this if it gets mentally ill homeless off the street Melon Jul 2025 #12

Most people living w Mental Illness Are Non Violent electric_blue68 Jul 2025 #34

Right. But the order allocates federal funding to direct addicts to treatment centers Melon Jul 2025 #35

It's how it will be done that concerns me... electric_blue68 Jul 2025 #37

Next level of Alligator Alcatraz IzzaNuDay Jul 2025 #16

Exactly! peggysue2 Jul 2025 #22

He's bringing a nation to heel, starting with the "low/hanging fruit." Heidi Jul 2025 #23

Isn't he already destroying healthcare access and hospital systems... ananda Jul 2025 #17

I know plenty of people with Bettie Jul 2025 #18

Also, this would create more homeless people who Trump.. ananda Jul 2025 #19

So getting people into treatment ho need it is a bad thing? This finally allocates federal funding to expand Melon Jul 2025 #36

Where are hospitals going to get the space? Bettie Jul 2025 #40

It's not about the admin to me if the alternative Melon Jul 2025 #41

Like they're only rounding up criminals Bettie Jul 2025 #45

That can happen. It happened back when we had mental hospitals. Melon Jul 2025 #46

What facilities are they planning to use? MineralMan Jul 2025 #20

These people are simply incapable of connecting dots. travelingthrulife Jul 2025 #21

By "hospitals," he no doubt means warehouses run by contractors. Heidi Jul 2025 #24

If he gets his way, I hope people understand this will include innocent kids. Passages Jul 2025 #25

Call this what it is, imprisonment indusurb Jul 2025 #26

+1. Imprisonment and burial dalton99a Jul 2025 #27

And aslo Democrats, LGBT+, whoever they say is mentally ill obamanut2012 Jul 2025 #28

First stop to concentration camps bucolic_frolic Jul 2025 #29

Has any other country solved this problem. multigraincracker Jul 2025 #30

Finland has made a good deal of progress with its housing first approach, and housing first combined with wraparound WhiskeyGrinder Jul 2025 #32

Greece closed their mental hospitals and the result Melon Jul 2025 #42

"Hospitals" 😂😂😂 IrishAfricanAmerican Jul 2025 #31

Work camps orangecrush Jul 2025 #33

Isn't Trump the guy EndlessWire Jul 2025 #38