well i guess this caught on fire again.
imagine if there were some kind of public restroom housed in a more fire-resistant structure not constructed from cheap petrochemicals that we could put in our parks. perhaps we could even connect it to the sewer system so that we don’t have to send a service truck out weekly to empty it
the lack of public toilets across the board in seattle is so astonishingly evil. we hate our unhoused population SO much, dude. i would go out so much more often if i could depend on there being public restrooms i don't have to pay for. like the fact that you can only access a toilet if you buy something from a local business is so understatedly fascist. it fucking sucks dude it's so undignified and disrespectful. the psychosphere of the ruling class and the brainpoisoned homeowners & small business tyrants who vote for them is just an endless field of hostile architecture spikes under a flashing neon sign that says "SOCIALISM IS FENTANYL FOR THE MIND."
The people of the US, and of Seattle in particular -- not the degenerates and gays like us of course, but the good people, the ones with mortgages and desk jobs and a voice in the political system and an SUV they won't drive at you on purpose unless you block their way during a protest, well, they believe more firmly than most that homelessness is necessary in order to force people to work, that it is a just and proper way to apply pressure to the population at large, and that it must be maintained as a miserable and cruel experience at all costs in order to serve that function. You can negotiate with them to modulate or shuffle around the cruelty through The Proper Channels, if you're inclined.
Even I, returning to Europe, had become accustomed enough to it that it was a surprise that it's not like this everywhere. But it's not like this everywhere. When we say "homeless" we don't mean people living on the streets, we mean people in shelters or on couches, maybe nowhere to go in the daytime. Someone living outdoors is a "rough sleeper" and while I don't doubt there's a number of them in my city I sure haven't seen someone sleeping outside in near enough three years now. In America, if the topic of homelessness comes up with someone who isn't a man in a six figure job there's a good 50% chance they'll bring up that they were homeless for a while. It's super hard to communicate that it's not like this in other places but it's seriously not like this in other places.
