eyeroll to the "take them to Dugway" comment. Such a NIMBY thing to say

May 26, 2022
3:29:17pm

fattycoug All-American

And fiscally dumb, to boot.

Take their rights away. Ship them to the middle of nowhere. Kind of like the Japanese Americans during WW2. Wonderfully conservative ideologies.

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I haven’t been in down town salt lake in awhile. There’s so much homeless

the_byu_flash

5/26/22 12:38pm

Yea I use to be critical of the whole church building malls thing but

cougfanz

5/26/22 12:44pm

The church did SLC a huge service by keeping downtown vibrant, and got only

runnincoug

5/26/22 12:59pm

The Church has gone to great lengths to protect the temple.

HiLife

5/26/22 12:59pm

They have really upgraded the Mesa Temple are as well. A slightly different

civilcoug

5/26/22 2:42pm

They honestly should do more in downtown salt lake. Strive to make it the

Chefcurry

5/26/22 1:19pm

Not going to happen with liberal leadership.

RH84025

5/26/22 1:32pm

That’s why I’m saying the church should just buy up a ton of the real estate

Chefcurry

5/26/22 1:42pm

SLC offers a ton of services for the homeless. That's why they keep coming and

byubyu

5/26/22 12:46pm

In Denver over the weekend. It was shocking.

DomCasual

5/26/22 12:49pm

The legalization of MJ ruined downtown Denver.

byubyu

5/26/22 12:56pm

I really dread having to travel to Denver.

HiLife

5/26/22 1:03pm

Really? Why?

DomCasual

5/26/22 1:20pm

RE: Really? Why?

HiLife

5/26/22 2:43pm

I live in Golden. Never seen homeless downtown there. Denver was good 5 years ag

RUNBYU1

5/26/22 3:41pm

Pretty sure that's a CBer.

Vincent's Picks

5/26/22 12:53pm

I've lived/worked in several large cities over the last few yrs, including SLC

reddead

5/26/22 12:56pm

Unfortunately, we need to go back to committing many to mental hospitals.

runnincoug

5/26/22 1:00pm

Yep; I'd also be in support of some sort of farm and education system

reddead

5/26/22 1:06pm

i believe there's a program like that that has survived

fattycoug

5/26/22 1:27pm

the same people that say they want this also don't want to pay for it. They also

fattycoug

5/26/22 1:25pm

I agree. We don't like to pay for things. However, we "are" paying for the

runnincoug

5/26/22 1:29pm

the liberals would not oppose more mental health facilities. Probably wouldn't

fattycoug

5/26/22 1:33pm

We need to sell this as the "conservative" choice ... a better ROI for

runnincoug

5/26/22 1:40pm

i wouldn't sell it as conservative because then you'd get libs opposing it just

fattycoug

5/26/22 1:45pm

Not sure I agree with that line of reasoning, and finger-pointing is easy

reddead

5/26/22 2:08pm

Defunding the mental institutions was a conservative push

fattycoug

5/26/22 2:13pm

That's not what NPR suggests; looks like they were abolished for lefty reasons

reddead

5/26/22 2:32pm

Yes, but the push came because of how terrible the institutions were because

fattycoug

5/26/22 2:38pm

wrong it was groups like the ACLU that sued to have people released bc they clai

BYU Grounds

5/26/22 3:08pm

again, they did that because they were so poorly managed because of lack of

fattycoug

5/26/22 3:25pm

Yup. Every. Single. City. San Fran, Portland, LA, San Diego, Las Vegas are just

Big Daddy D

5/26/22 1:20pm

U of U is not considered downtown SLC.

panacablue

5/26/22 1:21pm

That guy probably wasn't in his 80s.

HandwovenBox

5/26/22 2:32pm

We were downtown last Saturday at Chile Tepin at 2pm. Some crazed dude on meth

BYU Grounds

5/26/22 3:01pm

How do you know he was on meth?

uteLPC

5/26/22 3:07pm

scabs and scars on his face and arms. He was a tweaker

BYU Grounds

5/26/22 3:09pm

Odd. I am pretty clueless about scabs being a common meth symptom

uteLPC

5/26/22 3:11pm

You've never heard of or seen meth sores?

byubyu

5/26/22 3:13pm

Meth addicts have hallucinations and think bugs are crawling on them so they dig

BYU Grounds

5/26/22 3:16pm

eyeroll to the "take them to Dugway" comment. Such a NIMBY thing to say

fattycoug

5/26/22 3:29pm

actually no bc out in Dugway, there is no where for them to go. They are stuck

BYU Grounds

5/26/22 3:35pm

i look forward to you voting to take away personal rights and

fattycoug

5/26/22 3:39pm

and I am looking forward to you voting away my 2A rights so you can feel safe

BYU Grounds

5/26/22 3:44pm

sorry to disappoint. Not an anti-2A guy

fattycoug

5/26/22 3:59pm

I'm a NIMBY. I think we all are. I live in a city with giant tent camps taking

Jay Rick

5/26/22 5:05pm

My answer is probably not popular

uteLPC

5/26/22 3:04pm

it's popular with many until the rubber hits the road. It would not be easy to

fattycoug

5/26/22 3:32pm

Was in Vegas about 3 weeks ago. Patrons at 7-11 there similar to ones at

mncstr

5/26/22 4:19pm

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