this article is from 2020 and out of date nowadays we have a right leaning government that is fucking everything up including driving up homelessness for the first time in like 10 years lmao - ThreadSky | a Reddit-style client for Bluesky

gozufucker69.bsky.social • 2 days ago

this article is from 2020 and out of date nowadays we have a right leaning government that is fucking everything up including driving up homelessness for the first time in like 10 years lmao

Reposted from Brent Toderian

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”

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gozufucker69.bsky.social•2 days ago

its still like 1000x better than in america but our govt is lowkey in the fuckin terlet right now man im trying to not think about it

gozufucker69.bsky.social•2 days ago

as funny as the "finland is a land of little gnomes and forest spirits where the government sucks your dick daily and everythings good" memes are its been pretty rough for quite a few years now. finding jobs is hard. russia is right there.

jnoconnor.bsky.social•2 days ago

at this point anything is better than america

also i'm sorry to hear that and you guys get through this and that we all do 🫂

rustyshackleman.bsky.social•2 days ago

I feel kinda similar about all these people talking about how cool Canada is because of this tariff stuff, because brother it fucking SUCKS here and has for ages.
Though that said I'm hopeful that anti-America sentiment at least slows the backsliding on progressive policies for a bit

lesbiansforever.bsky.social•2 days ago

Oh my god

blumen.bsky.social•2 days ago

every goddamn article about the finnish paradise is 3-5 years out of date without fail there's a whole content mill behind dredging these things up i swear

gozufucker69.bsky.social•2 days ago

this can all be tracked to our big healthcare reform that was a huge bomb and it just kinda rotted everyones brains in politics

zfighteramuro.bsky.social•2 days ago

fucking WHAT

gozufucker69.bsky.social•2 days ago

its still nowhere near as dystopian as how yall have it but yeah the government has been rough for like the past 2 years. economy is not doing well and nobody in charge can do shit. lowest amount of trust our government has had in like decades

stellaunderscore.bsky.social•2 days ago

probably still a good example of the fact its possible but at the same time so many ppl go "oh well this much smaller and much more centralized european country does this better than the US!" when really doing the same exact strategy would only apply to like. rehab. so idk how much i can say

stellaunderscore.bsky.social•2 days ago

like especially in regards to trains and transport and all that, un-fucking ourselves from all the shit we've done would involve tearing down so much stuff that would not be safe to do because overpasses go over buildings and shit but we could definitley model it after what china does

firesfletcher.bsky.social•2 days ago

Unfortunately a lot of this falls more on the state governments than federal because they're much more localized with these issues. It sucks though because no matter how leftist a state is, they're still incredibly anti homeless/rehab

firesfletcher.bsky.social•2 days ago

For stuff like having more trains, outside of a state like Illinois or New York who have large train networks for historical reasons, there just will never be enough support for them even though there should be

stellaunderscore.bsky.social•2 days ago

buddy i live in new york, theres no public transit that actually goes anywhere other than nyc

stellaunderscore.bsky.social•2 days ago

anyways yeah. fixing the entire united states at this point would involve a complete reassembling of absolutely everything from government to infrastructure from the ground up, which is literally not possible and never will be. i gotta get out of here 🙃