Current Events > Redditor: "Homeless people should be rounded up and executed"

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LRodC
06/07/21 2:12:13 PM
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https://www.reddit.com/r/unpopularopinion/comments/6syxt2/homeless_people_should_be_rounded_up_and_executed/

They suggest that after 12 months, if homeless people are not employed, they should be executed.

Thoughts on this?
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LordFarquad1312
06/07/21 2:13:35 PM
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Literally advocating genocide.

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eston
06/07/21 2:14:16 PM
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1337toothbrush
06/07/21 2:14:58 PM
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Sheiky-Baby
06/07/21 2:15:07 PM
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this is from 3 years ago. that guy might be homeless now.

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LordFarquad1312
06/07/21 2:15:28 PM
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How about we round up every person with a shit take like this and cut their internet access for a month?

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Xatrion
06/07/21 2:15:29 PM
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What dat? You too poor to afford housing? Lost you job? Evicted?

TO THE GALLOWS WITH THEE.

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CarrieChan
06/07/21 2:16:19 PM
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This topic looks like mod bait.
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gatorsPENSbucs
06/07/21 2:16:35 PM
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From 3 years ago? Seems like someone wanted attention and seems like a slow day on CE

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Zikten
06/07/21 2:17:42 PM
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It's hard for homeless to get employed. Most people don't want to hire them
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FortuneCookie
06/07/21 2:18:04 PM
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Fucking scumbag.
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kage_53
06/07/21 2:19:15 PM
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Wow! Its the rare actual unpopular opinion on that subreddit. Color me impressed. Almost everyone posts actual popular opinions there for karma farming.
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darkprince45
06/07/21 2:19:48 PM
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Wait. This is a low reaction 3 year old post. You was digging for this one lol

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Pepys Monster
06/07/21 2:21:46 PM
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I'm not an expert, but I've heard homeless shelters basically give them some soup and a bed for the night if they're lucky, and don't actually try to get them employed or give them counseling or anything. Shouldn't they do a little more?

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Agnostic420
06/07/21 2:22:31 PM
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LRodC posted...
https://www.reddit.com/r/unpopularopinion/comments/6syxt2/homeless_people_should_be_rounded_up_and_executed/

They suggest that after 12 months, if homeless people are not employed, they should be executed.

Thoughts on this?

thoughts on this? Do we really need thoughts from people here on this question? Or anyone based in reality that isnt a psychopath? Ffs.


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Antifar
06/07/21 2:22:35 PM
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This is bad, but also it is a rando post from 3 years ago.

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darkprince45
06/07/21 2:22:36 PM
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Pepys Monster posted...
I'm not an expert, but I've heard homeless shelters basically give them some soup and a bed for the night if they're lucky, and don't actually try to get them employed or give them counseling or anything. Shouldn't they do a little more?

I mean a shelter is just a shelter. There are different programs that do that


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NinjaWarrior455
06/07/21 2:23:10 PM
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Pepys Monster posted...
I'm not an expert, but I've heard homeless shelters basically give them some soup and a bed for the night if they're lucky, and don't actually try to get them employed or give them counseling or anything. Shouldn't they do a little more?
Ideally yes but that would require that they receive funding from the city government.

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ExtremeLuchador
06/07/21 2:25:03 PM
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Last time I participated on Reddit I got told by someone he was going to set me on fire.

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Prestoff
06/07/21 2:29:24 PM
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Zikten posted...
It's hard for homeless to get employed. Most people don't want to hire them

Seriuosly this. I remember my friend making fun of me because I bought a homeless guy food from Taco Bell. He says, "Why do you reward lazy people who can't get a job?". I responded back,"So would you ever hire a person like him?"

Most people who are homeless are people with all kind of mental illnesses that either were never given the help they needed or refuse to get help for their circumstances. The least I can do as a human being is to make sure they don't die from starvation.

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Nasty_Nitro
06/07/21 3:04:20 PM
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Reddit is a nasty place where people sit on their high horses and try their damndest to finally just fit in I hate the culture of reddit

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_Rinku_
06/07/21 3:14:49 PM
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Zikten posted...
It's hard for homeless to get employed. Most people don't want to hire them
Yup. Don't have a permanent address or a "reliable form of transportation" (read: a car you own in 99% of the country)? Yeah, you're not gonna even get an interview. Is it fair? Nope. Does it happen? You bet your ass it does.
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thronedfire2
06/07/21 3:16:04 PM
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cardoor123 posted...
Agreed though 12 months is too much time, make it 3 months instead

not surprising from you

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Trumble
06/07/21 3:21:14 PM
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Nah.

First, let's not conflate "homeless" and "unemployed", as this person is doing (let's say they find employment, but not a home, within that 12 months - or had employment the whole time, even - what then?).

For the homeless side, fucking hell. Find a spare house and put them in it. Tell some boomer who owns 50 empty houses "hey, we're using one of yours to house the homeless, deal with it", and if they complain, just use eminent domain or some equivalent to take it from them altogether, not like they fucking need it. If they've got a history of trashing places or just refuse to accept one, that's a trickier situation, sure, and I don't know exactly what would be the right way to solve that, but just doing this would at least put a big dent in the homeless numbers already, because a significant number of them would accept it and at least have good intentions in terms of looking after it (they may need to be taught how to actually do so - yes, some of you are going to think "what the fuck, everyone knows how to clean", but just ask yourself if you knew how to clean before someone taught you - now stop assuming everyone was taught the same things you were).

The unemployment side - now to be clear, this is about "unemployed and dependent on government support". If someone's unemployed but their partner supports them, or between jobs and living off their savings, etc, it's no one's business but their own. Also to be clear, it's about "unemployed but able to work", so don't bother with the "what about the people who genuinely can't work" - they're not who I'm talking about here. For those who are in the aforementioned situation - support absolutely does need to be available. And by "support", I don't just mean money, although that is part of it - "support" also means helping them find a job, and/or engage in training that would help them find one. And in turn, training is not just things like learning a workplace skill, but also around the processes - again, much like with the cleaning example above, not everyone magically knows how to handle a job interview etc. That includes people who've lucked out with it in the past.

Now if the individual themself wants to die? That's a situation I'm not gonna touch with a 10 foot pole in this post. But yeah, let's not force anything - let's help them out of that situation, as in genuine help to get out (not just "help them get by day to day, leaving them stuck in the same position forever but at least it's not getting worse"), rather than killing people who I'm sure don't want to be in that situation anymore than we want them to be there.

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PoundGarden
06/07/21 3:21:36 PM
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Zikten posted...
It's hard for homeless to get employed. Most people legally can't hire them without an address

Fixed that for you.

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Broseph_Stalin
06/07/21 3:32:56 PM
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Americans have a billion "solutions" to homelessness and none of them are building more homes lol
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Pepys Monster
06/07/21 3:38:16 PM
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Broseph_Stalin posted...
Americans have a billion "solutions" to homelessness and none of them are building more homes lol
Americans want to build more homes. They just want to build luxury apartments and big houses in the suburbs, and not affordable housing.

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Questionmarktarius
06/07/21 3:40:42 PM
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Pepys Monster posted...
They just want to build luxury apartments and big houses in the suburbs, and not affordable housing.
Affordable housing isn't affordable to build, because of bureaucratic nonsense.
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mario2000
06/07/21 3:41:56 PM
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I hope they got reported to the authorities.

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WrkHrdPlayHrdr
06/07/21 3:45:16 PM
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Let's also keep in mind too that most of the responses blasted the poster in that topic. The ones that didn't have deleted their reddit accounts since then.

It isn't like Reddit overwhelmingly supported this guy.

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Balrog0
06/07/21 3:58:54 PM
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Broseph_Stalin posted...
Americans have a billion "solutions" to homelessness and none of them are building more homes lol

Eliminating zoning would be great but it's only a partial solution to homelessness.

I don't think we have a billion solutions to homelessness either we seem to have none

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ncsonic
06/07/21 4:02:16 PM
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He deleted his account my guess is the FBI flagged him and caught him being a crazy serial killer

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Questionmarktarius
06/07/21 4:35:45 PM
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Balrog0 posted...
I don't think we have a billion solutions to homelessness either we seem to have none
Well, this happened:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/may/11/oakland-homeless-cob-on-wood-village

Let's see how long that lasts, because of NIMBYs and the aforementioned bureaucratic nonsense.
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BilalPowell
06/07/21 4:36:35 PM
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Sounds like The Purge

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Inferno Dive Dragoon
06/07/21 4:52:21 PM
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I've been homeless for years now, so yeah, definitely a shit take from a shit redditor.
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Jagr_68
06/07/21 4:55:01 PM
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r/unpopularopinions should be renamed to what it really is

r/psychopathswithnofutureinsociety

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Notti
06/09/21 1:59:41 AM
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I've actually heard of some people that run around neighborhoods and catalog and publicly plot out homeless people on an app.

It seems they do it to get them harassed by others.
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FL81
06/09/21 2:42:07 AM
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/r/unpopularopinion is full of some of the most insane people on the internet

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