This isn’t as disastrous as it sounds, even if it still sucks. France has social services capable of handling this, but the problem is that it dumps these folks on smaller towns where they probably have lost whatever meager social networks and support they might have built in Paris, and will probably face little welcome where they end up.
They do this stuff in the US to punt the homeless out of wherever, send them wherever, and where they land has no social services for them when they get there. Then that municipality gets tired of it and evicts them to the next place.
They did it in Sydney in 2000. I was working in Katoomba 2 hrs West of Sydney where they’d moved all the homeless and crazies
I wonder where are they going to find a rug big enough to swipe them under.
That’s the way, really great. Some day we will be judged by our posterity of how we treated the weak and poor .
The ancient curse proclaiming that the Olympics must suck or the host country will descend into war continues.
French govt taking notes from the shoe mistress
Doesn’t this happen every Olympics?
oh yeah bud. A city near where I lived got really clean and homeless free when the Pope visited once.
Hm.
A miracle!
The Lord works in mysterious ways
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Happened in Vancouver as well
Ah yes, the glorious Olympics tradition continues of host countries proudly jerking themselves off while spending insane amounts of money.
“Look at us while we jerk our selves off. Ignore the fact that we are completely making life harder for marginalized communities to be able to build these one time use stadiums and lodgings that may or may not be used to house people.”
The Louie CK of sports organizations
Yes, Louis CK is the only man in world who jerks off?
The fuck?
dEI iS a CoRe VaLuE
I’m really at a loss for what good the Olympics bring to humanity. Really just seems to fuck over thousands of people every 4 years.
Way more than thousands, given the widespread economic effects on the
victimhosting country.Speaking as a Greek, 20 years later there are literally still multiple abandoned world-class sporting facilities, unused, in maximum disrepair. Some like the one outside my town never used even once (Olympics included), after millions of euro spent.
I hope the homeless can use it for shelter at least, though it’s in a pretty inconvenient spot anyway.
I felt like putting millions at first, but thought a bunch of people might try to argue with me, so I thought, no one can deny it fucks over thousands of people at least.
The Olympics are a great way to help build unity and promote friendly competition between otherwise adversarial nations. In theory. In practice it’s an economic dick-measuring contest and a way for authoritarian shitholes to get good PR.
Finally! They are so unsightly.
Thankfully this sort of thing never come to a boil in France.
Ah yes, the Olympics season, the time when we can trample human rights the most and hurt our most vulnerable.
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Hey California, you seeing this?
Yeah, put that thing away.
Gross, dude.
Ah yes, the ol’ “Just push them somewhere else” tactic
“Out of sight, out of mind” or something like that
They did this in Vancouver for the 2010 Olympics.
I was living in Vancouver at the time, it was kind of surreal. Now I’m living in one of the northern towns they shipped them to… it’s surreal in a different way.
I’m from Vancouver, and the way the homeless were treated pre Olympics was, if you’ll pardon the language, a goddamn fucking disgrace. Only a bit worse than the rest of the time, to be fair, but it really solidified my dislike of the systems in place there.
More manpower for the protests
