Thursday, September 18, 2025

Throwback Thursday

Check out how cities once dealt with the "residentially challenged."  Thankfully, things have changed since those days. 


Sept. 15, 1926, Clarion-Ledger

The newspaper egged on the campaign against vagrants in a not-so race neutral way. 

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17 comments:

Anonymous said...

We had an encampment of homeless that was growing to where the city said something had to be done. I went with the police and told them they have one week to leave the private land. After a week I went back and some were still there, believing they owned the property and had a right to be there. I even saw one person get dropped off and the police asked him 'do you live here?' and he was like 'no, I have a 2 story house' in another town. Clearly they were there for another reason. Once everyone was gone, cleaning up the area was too big a job for one person so I got my kids to help and they will never forget that even when offered help and a way out some chose this lifestyle and lived like animals.

Anonymous said...

PC, group think, and wokeness has changed all this. Vagrancy has become an industry with NGOs becoming filthy rich and politicians pandering this cause.

Anonymous said...

KF starting to sound like a liberal.

Anonymous said...

back then most vagrants were just hobos living off whatever they could scrounge.
today all the ''homeless'' are full blown drug addicts that will kill you for a shoelace in order to get money for drugs.

Anonymous said...

KF is a jew at heart which means he is outwardly an ideological windsock, while internally he is a Zionist who would literally traffic goyim children to satisfy the predatory desires of those demon worshiping vampires

Anonymous said...

And why are we supposedly thankful that people are no longer being forced to actually work for pay, rather than depend on charitable and taxpayer hand-outs?

Kingfish said...

10:49: You really think I care what a piece of white trash such as you thinks?

Anonymous said...

Thankfully ? Is that a type o ? Because I didn't see anything wrong with some of those solutions and it seemed they went out of their way to make it NOT about race. Just pure laziness wasn't tolerated. And a great solution was offered. Am I missing something ?

Anonymous said...

Urban legend.

Anonymous said...

Soooooo, not much has changed it appears. We will never solve the homeless crisis and some people in society don't have the drive to work and do better for themselves.

Anonymous said...

Of course you don't care about the future of the White race. I have no doubt about that. Conservatives don't care about conserving their race. They only care about conserving their money.

Anonymous said...

I see some folks haven't grown much in the last 100 years.

Forced labor in the fields and being jailed for perceived character deficiencies sounds a lot like Stalinism to me.

Anonymous said...

10:49 needs to be on a watchlist. Seriously.

Anonymous said...

10:59 Correcto

Anonymous said...

11:34 I was leaning towards the thought pattern of "Those that don't work, don't eat", but you raise a good point.

10:49 Seriously? I truly hope and pray that you are just muck racking with that statement because if you really believe that, God help us...

Anonymous said...

Vagrants, hobos, bums, residentially challenged, homeless, low lifes, unhoused individuals, individuals without stable housing, derelicts. Take your pick.

Anonymous said...

Thanks for clearing @10:49 KF. It is instructive for the community to know that there are raving lunatics in our midst.


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