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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 month ago

The trick is to spend taxpayer dollars on things that literally can’t be used, just to spite your population.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The welding sucks as well.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Lowest bidder

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I wonder if you took all the dollars spent in board rooms, design committees, manufacturing, installation, etc etc. How many homeless people could have been helped.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

None you communist!

/s

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Go even beyond that. Think of the world's wealth and how far we could advance as a species if that wealth was used to help and advance our species as a whole.

[–] loutr 2 points 1 month ago

I try not to, it makes me angry and depressed...

[–] MonkCanatella 4 points 1 month ago

The endgame is to kill them off

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

This is evidence of a profoundly ill society.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago

"The cause of homelessness is that homeless people are able to sleep. Therefore to end homelessness, we must do everything we can to prevent them from sleeping."

  • Every policy maker in the US
[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago

I'd rather keep standing all day before I build a bench that someone tired and in need can lay down on.

  • Richard Hedd
[–] MonkCanatella 13 points 1 month ago

this kinda shit needs to be dismantled

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Grab a crowbar and pry it apart. Maybe they'll replace it with something more functional.

[–] explodicle 5 points 1 month ago

Even empty space would be better.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Oh man, the dividers are not even enough for them

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Every member of this city's council should be fired. Notice they also made sure the arm rests extend over the top so people can't use it for skateboard grinding.