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Let's be clear here: the decriminalization may have made things worse, but the problems were there well before. That particular McDonald's was ruined mostly be
by wk_end 3y ago
Let's be clear here: the decriminalization may have made things worse, but the problems were there well before.
That particular McDonald's was ruined mostly because a shelter and various other supports opened up down the block, and kind of turned the area into a mini-Skid Row. Victoria has the best year-round weather in the country: it tends to attract people who are living on the street, and there's big intersections there between that group and the mentally unwell, anti-social, and/or drug addicted.
As for why the mentally unwell, anti-social, and/or drug addicted have become a bigger problem in recent years, well, take your pick: laxer drug laws and/or enforcement, laxer enforcement of laws in general, safe injection sites, housing crisis, cost-of-living crisis, Fent and/or "super meth", cuts to mental health care programs, lack of God, you name it.
- waihtis 3y ago[flagged]
- joenot443 3y agoThe last application of the death penalty in Canada was in 1962, it's been outlawed even in cases of treason since 1999. I'm very confident that no Canadian politician with any level of influence is looking to change that.
- Wowfunhappy 3y agoHow is this validated?
- waihtis 3y agoSingapore, a nation with a populace of a bit north of 5 million and extremely strict drug laws, has a few thousand registered drug offenses per year. Finland, a nation with roughly similar population size but very lax penalties in comparison, has roughly 10x the amount.
- obsoletehippo 3y agoYour solution to people messing up a McDonald's is to have them murdered by the government? Did I get that right?
- rayiner 3y agoThe people in the McDonalds are the victims. The people that would be executed are the dealers getting people addicted for their own profit.
- zoklet-enjoyer 3y agoDealers don't get people addicted
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- rayiner 3y agoThey certainly do: https://www.vice.com/en/article/dy3jkw/dealer-accused-of-giving-out-free-cocaine-samples-attached-to-business-cards https://www.vice.com/en/article/dy3jkw/dealer-accused-of-giv...
- squigz 3y agoDo you honestly believe anything approaching a majority of drug addicts are addicted because dealers are handing out free drugs everywhere?
- zoklet-enjoyer 3y agoExactly. If this was a common occurrence it wouldn't be newsworthy
- N0b8ez 3y agoEl Salvador doesn't have the death penalty but their recent "tough on crime" measures have worked.
- waihtis 3y agoYeah, really the intent was not to advocate for death penalty - but rather highlight that there are tools to fight these things, and getting tangled in endless root cause analysis isn’t needed to utilize them.
- SomeoneFromCA 3y agoHow giving them life sentence would be less efficient than a inefficient, error-prone practice of death penalty?
- waihtis 3y agoDifferent deterrent
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- zoklet-enjoyer 3y agoThere's fucking insane
- waihtis 3y agoWhere?
- zoklet-enjoyer 3y agoTypo. That's fucking insane. Death penalty for drug trafficking is fucking insane
- waihtis 2y agoAll depends on your world view
- int_19h 3y agoHow many innocent people are you okay with being executed as collateral damage?
- NoobSaibot135 3y ago> ruined mostly because a shelter and various other supports opened up down the block, and kind of turned the area into a mini-Skid Row That’s why I’m against social housing. Inner city welfare/government housing aggregates all the homeless into one area where open air drug markets can flourish and other nefarious activities are normalized. Low income people should instead move to the outskirts of big cities where the rent is more affordable and they are more spread out.
- mthoms 2y agoExcept their jobs and the services they need are also more spread out. Plus their friends and family and further away. The result: now those people need cars and the benefit of any cost savings is lost. That's not to mention the other problems that come with increased automobile usage. I'm sorry, it's just not that simple.
- nobodyandproud 2y agoThat’s the wealthy’s issue: Fund reliable, efficient, and safe mass transport. I attribute most of todays problems to NIMBYism and highly-selective and classist—as in, target the ones without the funds to fight back—use of eminent domain.
- nobodyandproud 2y agoThat’s why it’s better to distribute and thin out social housing across every neighborhood, rather than concentrate them all in a handful of places. It’s easy to police one or two “problem” residents and maybe some positive habits will rub off; likewise, ground the wealthier residents to reality.
- ornornor 3y ago> lack of God There has never been one :)
- Fatnino 2y agoThereby confirming the lack of one.