Not The Onion

16566 readers

1182 users here now

Welcome

We're not The Onion! Not affiliated with them in any way! Not operated by them in any way! All the news here is real!

The Rules

Posts must be:

Links to news stories from...
...credible sources, with...
...their original headlines, that...
...would make people who see the headline think, “That has got to be a story from The Onion, America’s Finest News Source.”

Please also avoid duplicates.

Comments and post content must abide by the server rules for Lemmy.world and generally abstain from trollish, bigoted, or otherwise disruptive behavior that makes this community less fun for everyone.

And that’s basically it!

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

kescusay@lemmy.world

334

'Baby shark, doo, doo.' Popular kids' song used to deter the homeless (www.youtube.com)

submitted 1 week ago by dullbananas@lemmy.ca to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

97 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] WanderingThoughts@europe.pub -3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

There are enough idiots complaining now in a variation of "I support Trump but I didn't think the tariffs/deportations would hurt my business"

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world -1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Yes. Because an infinitesimally small number of business owners say so, all business owners must.

There’s over 4.2 million small businesses in CA alone.

Most of which are owned and operated by totally normal, not-awful people.

I can’t know their politics and neither can you.

What I can tell you is that cities across the country are fucking up the crisis and leaving everyone else involved in a lurch. The homeless people themselves are the most obvious and most needy, don’t get me wrong.

But the current situation is also impacting businesses, causing them to either move away or close as people stop shopping.

City and state governments are fucking it up. Not the fucking barber who probably is a member of that community just trying to earn a living. Not the others who had already left or closed and were also part of the community, probably.

[–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Those blasting baby shark 24/7 as a "solution" to the homeless problem may or may not have voted for Trump, but in using legalistic cruelty to try to "solve" problems Trump and them are 100% in alignment.

[–] WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Small-business owners are a major force behind the U.S. swing vote. Nearly a quarter are registered Democrats and 38% are Republicans, according to the National Small Business Association’s 2024 Politics of Small Business Survey

Small-business owners’ support for Trump was based, in large part, on opposition to the current regulatory regime.

In addition to promising a lighter regulatory touch, Trump campaigned on lowering taxes, which small business applauds.

source

Doesn't sound like an infinitesimally small number of business owners.

[–] KAtieTot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Every small business I've been exposed to has been more than happy to exploit their employees. Small places with Less than 10 employees or large regional chains with a few thousand.

Doesn't matter if they're ostensibly 'liberal' (read:pro corporate). The owners still support Republican policies because they like the deregulation and salivate at the degradation of labor rights.

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

“I support Trump but I didn’t think the tariffs/deportations would hurt my business”

is what the infinitesimal portion is about. Only a very, very small sliver of absolute morons are saying that. Everyone else knew exactly what was going to happen and what impacts it would have.

thanks for a source showing business owners mostly reflect the rest of society, though.