Easy loophole: befriend them.
Ask them for their name. Tell them yours. It’s not illegal to eat pizza with a friend, and in that instance their situation otherwise is not relevant at all.Fuck anyone who has an issue with it. Keep feeding people who have it rough, if you want.
Easy loophole: befriend them.
Food Not Bombs in Houston gets ticketed all the time by cops who simply do not give a shit about the law. Tens of thousands of dollars in fines get thrown out every year. It doesn’t matter, because the cops keep showing up and keep handing out tickets, forcing volunteers to keep showing up in court and fighting over it.
Fuck anyone who has an issue with it. Keep feeding people who have it rough, if you want.
Absolutely. People love to pretend that “Sticking it too the man!” means throwing on a balaklava and brandishing a gun. The harder truth is that its about keeping our neighbors alive when the city is trying to do them in through social murder.
But let’s not pretend there’s One Neat Trick to outwitting a thumb-headed trigger-happy gang of rent-a-fascists. You aren’t going to argue your way out of a ticket for feeding the homeless any more than a sovereign citizen could. Cops aren’t there to argue with you. They’re there to put the boot on your neck.
Sounds like someone needs to get in the city council, or become mayor or something, and change more of the rules about homelessness. Can’t anyone with compassion for the poor run for mayor these days?
Joke aside, giving homeless people isn’t actually illegal right? That’d be almost as insane as half the stuff the US has inacted lately.
Edit: oh wow, that is disgunstingly inhumane and I have no idea how someone can support policy that bans charity and still sleep at night.
it’s illegal where I am in the USA to give housed people a bottle of water standing for hours in the direct sunlight if they’re in line to vote.
The hope is that will disincentive people to vote.
Yes, electioneering is illegal.
and which party is the dehydration party again?
Wait, what the fuck are you even talking about? Do you know what electioneering is?
Providing material aid to voters in line can be construed as electioneering. Even an unlabeled water bottle. It sucks, but it keeps the harrasing threatening bully types away from voter queue lines.
no, it does not. this is a false narrative designed to obfuscate voter suppression.
If water bottles are such a hot button issue we need to be discussing the mental fitness of adults who are unable to think ahead or bring their own supplies.
Do you support or condemn interfering with election processes?
Edit: I noticed no one is answering the question above.
If you need to wait in line to vote maybe your country is already a failed democracy, at which point let the people get their fucking water
In other countries going to vote is a sub-15 min task, you can do it on your way to work/school. in the US it can be a multi-hour experience which is designed to be as difficult as possible.
More older people vote than young people, so perhaps the whataboutism question here should be, “why do you want to torture older people?”
we need to be discussing the mental fitness of adults who are unable to think ahead
Stupid voters should have known better. It’s their own fault.
Armed to deter cops? Wouldn’t that give them more reasons though?
Cops don’t like fair fights. And they really don’t like it when people are carrying guns that will send bullets straight through their lvl III plates.
“Oh shit those guys know their rights and are armed, I’m reconsidering my power tripping. :F”
It’s very ironic that basically that Black Panthers were the reason for gun control laws. That, like someone said today, the only way to make things happen in the US is when the rich white people become utterly scared.
On that note…
Unfortunately, it probably doesn’t take many Brian Thomspons before Republicans start saying, huh, y’know, maybe gun bans are okay after all…
I’m going to be honest, I used to feel that exact way, but then looking at the way the cops treated unarmed BLM protestors vs. the way they treated armed Proud Boys counter-protests made me feel… a little bit less clear about that feeling. I wouldn’t call it a clear feeling one way or the other, and I’m appalled at the idea of crossfire at what ought to be a non-violent protest, but it’s hard for me to take an absolutely pacifistic stance anymore.
Just like actively doing something against climate change. They are striving to make both things illegal and punishable.
Depends on the area but it certainly is illegal in some places.
Edited to add, to be clear it’s not really laws that say “you cannot feed homeless people”. But that is how they are enforced.
Ah, the old boomer strategy of making you smoke the whole pack.
Community service should be a far more common sentence than it is.
In all honesty it’s not really even a punishment. It’s paying the community back for causing it harm.
The community you’re serving is nowhere near the location of the offense btw
