fuck you and your hero shittypants. Shove this shit straight up your fucking ass. 5th post in a row bringing to the board hate groups and hate speech yet again. And no, shitass, I'm not triggered, just bringing truth to your lies. And calling out what you really are.
It might not be clear at first blush why a think tank based in Austin, Texas is invested in a camping ban being pushed in Topeka, Kansas. In fact, the Cicero Institute has spent the last few years pushing its own model anti-camping legislation in cities across the country in an attempt to criminalize homelessness and to divert funding away from permanent, supportive housing, which it has posited as too slow and costly to deal with public encampments. Cicero-authored bills have been passed statewide in Texas and in Missouri, and statewide bills are being considered in five other states including and Oklahoma and Arizona.
“It’s just really terrifying how successful they’ve been”
The Cicero Institute, a right-wing advocacy group, is one of the driving forces behind criminalizing homelessness.
Several bills that have been introduced are modeled after the Cicero Institute’s “Reducing Street Homelessness Act.” The act seeks to prohibit people from camping on state-owned lands and threatens to cut funding from local agencies that report a rise in unsheltered homelessness over a two-year period.
Founded by Joe Lonsdale, a venture capitalist who co-founded Palantir with billionaire Peter Thiel, the Cicero Institute is one of the main right-wing think tanks promoting state-level bans on “unauthorized street camping,” otherwise known as sleeping in public while unhoused. Lonsdale and one of Cicero’s senior advisors suggested on Lonsdale’s podcast that the public should return to calling homeless people as “vagrants,” “bums,” and “tramps.”
Koch Network Stand Together Trust, a well-known Koch Network group, gave the Cicero Institute $250,000 in 2022. The Charles Koch Foundation additionally gave the group $150,000 in 2021.
Trump did have an answer back in the 1970s with those homeless Vietnam Veterans, he wanted them arrested, and spent 10 years in the courts trying to remove them from the sidewalk around Trump Tower. He list every lawsuit, and was sued, and lost those lawsuits.