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Finland is a very different place than California. If you don't have your wits about you outdoors in Finland for at least 3 months of the year, you will die. The weather, in a way, forces solutions on people. Finland is more comparable to Minnesota in terms of weather, population, and size, and the issue of homelessness in Minnesota pales in comparison to California.

Finland also has universal healthcare, and it's hard to overstate how impactful easy access to competent mental health and substance use treatment is.

In California, you can wear shorts all year, and mental health and substance use treatment are difficult to access and largely administered by for-profit companies providing awful care.

This is really the crux of it, pairing enforcement with housing, emergency shelter, and treatment is the way to go.

There's a genuine question to ask...if you've offered someone all the support you can muster to move into their own apartment, fully paid for with support staff on site, and that person says no, they'd rather live in a tent in the park, what options are left?

I totally understand turning down emergency shelters. They can be crowded, difficult places. But when you're offering people their own rooms and they say no, what do you do next?

"America Deserved 9/11"

Let's phrase this a different way. "America reaped what it sowed," or "America made its bed and is now lying in it." This is a pretty solid "yup" from me. We armed, trained, and funded the leaders of the group that carried out the attack, among many other things

My local burger, taco, and sub shops are half the price of the international chains, plus the food is better and the staff are paid more. Shop locally every time you can

Biden had CMS (The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services) negotiate some drug prices with pharmaceutical companies on behalf of Medicare recipients. This is entirely legal, because the federal government is the payer for people with Medicare. Pharmaceutical companies want Medicare to keep covering their drugs, so they're willing to come to the table. Again, this is for Medicare only.

What's harebrained, blatantly not legal, and unimplementable is, "I hereby order all drug prices in the US to be the lowest in the world!"

Google is your friend

This is rich, coming from someone actively demonstrating they lack a basic understanding of what Biden did despite providing a link to it

It's like Hitchcock's The Birds but with trash pandas. Do you think all the raccoons in the entire area were gathered and staring at humans? Any second they're going to start running at you and begin the attack

And when did Biden and Obama try to unilaterally and unconstitutionally dictate pharmaceutical prices

It's totally valid to feel angry or upset, but it's also totally worthwhile to learn to not let other people's petty drama infect you. Keep in mind people who say mean things are 1) trying to upset you on purpose and 2) doing this to cover for their own insecurities. The ultimate response to someone like this is to stay so calm it makes them even more frustrated and then move on with your day.

"Presidents have done this for a long time?" Name one and what they did

I don't think we can say this will be a positive for the middle class because there's absolutely no actual plan for implementation here

"I will be instituting a MOST FAVORED NATION’S POLICY whereby the United States will pay the same price as the Nation that pays the lowest price anywhere in the World," Trump said. "Our Country will finally be treated fairly, and our citizens Healthcare Costs will be reduced by numbers never even thought of before. Additionally, on top of everything else, the United States will save TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS."

The president doesn't have the power to unilaterally dictate pharmaceutical prices. The federal government has some power to set the prices paid by Medicare/Medicaid recipients, but let's be very clear that reform in this regard has been blocked by Republicans for decades. When the Biden Admin did it for just a handful of medications, the screeching was deafening.

Anyway, my point is that as usual, this is bluster with no actual implementable policy behind it

They're "donating" this to Donald Trump to keep personally, not the Trump Administration. Just more flagrant corruption.