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gulliver

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8. He should be fired for what he said
Sun Sep 14, 2025, 06:32 PM
Sep 2025

Callous? No, it was a frankly psychotic thing to say.

Homelessness is such a hard problem to solve. (I'm glad to see you used the word "homeless" instead of the politically stupid "people experiencing homelessness." )

Very many do belong in different types of mental institutions. And I do blame the Reagan era dismantlement of mental institutions and the rise of Big Pharma solutions for our lack of alternatives today.

But it's not easy. You can't just take two random homeless people and put them in a random apartment complex, for example. That could put a paranoid schizophrenic next door to a family experiencing hard times.

I think a big part of the problem is on the supply side. We need to try to make the world a better place that doesn't generate people with the kinds of problems that end up in homelessness.

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