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[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It'll work when government spends real money on it.

That means real institutions, not shoestring strip-mall locations with precarious funding. It also means safe-supply. It also means housing. And--this is the hard one for advocates--it means humane incarceration for people for whom support, housing and safe-supply aren't enough.

All of this comes with a price tag, but we'd rather build a spa parking lot or give Galen Weston money to upgrade his fridges or some such bullshit.

[โ€“] Nogami 3 points 2 weeks ago

I agree. I donโ€™t mind the government spending real money on it to prove it works, but 100% the advocates will never agree to forcibly incarcerating people who are unwilling or unable to participate in society at a civilized level.

So itโ€™s doomed to fail and everyone will want to thanos -snap the problem away.

All they are is dust in the wind dude.