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This cartoon has four panels. All the panels show a gritty commercial doorway – the kind that’s recessed a few feet into the building – on a city sidewalk. There’s litter and graffiti here.

There are two characters in the comic strip. The first character is a homeless man sleeping in the doorway, wearing a zip-up sweatshirt over a t-shirt and a dull red knit cap, and with a full beard. The other character is a muscular-looking cop dressed in a police uniform and carrying a baton. In defiance of tradition, he is cleanshaven. I’ll call these two characters KNITCAP and COP.

PANEL 1

Knitcap, covered by a brown blanket and with his head pillowed on some rolled-up clothes, is lying in a doorway, apparently asleep. The cop is using his baton to poke knitcap in the side. The cop has a somewhat sadistic grin.

COP: Hey, you! Get up! We’ve outlawed sleeping in public! You’re not allowed anymore!

PANEL 2

Knitcap is sitting up, rubbing sleep out of his eyes with one hand. He speaks calmly. The cop watches, smirking, arms akimbo.

KNITCAP: In that case, I guess I’ll sleep in a hotel tonight.

PANEL 3

A close-up of Knitcap. He’s stroking his chin with a hand, as if thinking through his options.

KNITCAP: Or should I sleep in my townhouse instead? Or my Hamptons place? I’ll call my butler and ask what he thinks!

PANEL 4

Knitcap, grinning, is now holding a hand next to his face, thumb and pinky finger extended, pretending it’s a phone as he talks. The cop is glaring and slapping his baton against his palm.

KNITCAP: Smithers? Smithers old boy! My super fun street sleeping holiday is done. Which of my mansions shall I sleep in tonight.

COP (thought): Next step: Outlaw sarcasm.

Source.

  • cm0002@lemmy.world
    34·
    9 天前

    I’ve seen this comic a few times and ma just now noticing the mouse and cat scene playing out on the corner lol

  • palordrolap@fedia.io
    30·
    9 天前

    HG: “What’s that? You’re going to put me in a nice warm cell and be required to give me three hots and a cot?”

    PO: .oO(Next step. Outlaw human rights.)

  • lugal@sopuli.xyz
    17·
    9 天前

    In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets, and steal loaves of bread.

    Anatole France

  • werefreeatlast@lemmy.world
    7·
    9 天前

    If they outlaw sarcasm I’m going straight to the death penalty. It was nice reading up all these posts to entertain my brain 🧠 in between tasks!

  • Microw@lemm.ee
    5·
    9 天前

    I mean, whether this cartoon makes sense heavily depends on where you’re at. In parts of Europe people choose to sleep on the streets even though they would get free sleeping places in social projects. (And they have their own reasons for that, and it’s fine. But still: they have that option here, it’s not like they are forced to sleep on the street).

    • Flax@feddit.ukEnglish
      1·
      9 天前

      This is true. Although many shelters disallow drug taking or alcohol

  • Cryophilia@lemmy.world
    1·
    9 天前

    I’ve seen this comment before and I hate it. The second that NON WHITE homeless dude talked back to the white cop he’d have a face full of curb and probably be on his way to jail if not death. What kind of ridiculously naive person drew this?

  • Gennadios@lemmy.world
    212·
    9 天前

    My dear retard leftys,

    You were rampaging in my home city of San Francisco for roughly 30 years now. The state had a Democrat supermajority for 25 of those years. You had all the resources you needed at your disposal and no opposition. You did not ‘fix’ homelessness, in fact you turned San Francisco into a literal shithole.

    Please shut the f**** up amd let adults fix the problems you created.

    • Cryophilia@lemmy.world
      1·
      9 天前

      You had all the resources you needed at your disposal and no opposition

      Bullshit, you NIMBY fuckers have been opposing us for your entire lives. If we had no opposition there would be shelters and safe injection sites in fucking Noe Valley and the outer Richmond, and apartments all over the place.

      Yeah we have a Dem supermajority but the Board of Supervisors has a death grip on SF politics and they’re all virtue signaling fucks who are happy to shovel money into their corrupt non-profit CEO friends but never actually fix the problem. All they care about is property values going up at any cost.

      YOU PEOPLE are standing in the way of the problem. The ONE good idea you have is financial oversight, other than that you’d just make shit worse.

    • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world
      46·
      9 天前

      Literally everywhere but your house is outside your house.

      They already sleep outside our houses

      Give them their own houses.

      • Kalkaline @leminal.space
        14·
        9 天前

        I’ll pledge a % match of my networth to a billionaire’s % networth in tax dollars to solving the housing crisis, healthcare crisis (including mental, dental, and vision care) and providing a UBI to US inhabitants.

    • LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net
      24·
      9 天前

      I’d prefer if they didn’t have to but I guess if that’s the only option. If only there was some way to provide housing to people in need…