Austin’s $125M library has become unusable by the taxpayers who paid for it.

Frick liberals.

This is a common issue for public libraries that are located in downtown areas. I see it anytime I have to go to downtown Houston, San Antonio or other places for work trips.

A lot of the NGOs, Church of Ralph type folks and others set up shop within a few blocks, so anybody from that city or surrounding area will go hang out there b/c hey, there's air conditioning in the library and we can go watch movies and youtube videos on public access computers. And they can't be told to leave unless they actually start loudly cussing somebody out, assault someone, etc., because the 4 cubs of the world and the mostly lib-leaning staff members respond: It's a public library!

Libraries should be safe, but I understand homeless people seeking a place to cool off or warm. If we were homeless, we would do what we had to survive.

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Hopefully they raise taxes to build a new library

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Yup...then a bunch of clones of the people who are in the first library can do the same thing to the second library.

Then Austin city government can get on TV and say: Third time's a charm!

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Libraries should be safe, but I understand homeless people seeking a place to cool off or warm. If we were homeless, we would do what we had to survive.

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Yep. Starting with getting off of drugs.

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Libraries should be safe, but

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The fact that you would start your post with the above illustrates how insane that you are.

There is no “but.”

You can go to hell for suggesting that there is one.

I swear, you goose-steppers have no redeeming qualities.

The left is vile, and violent.

Keep Austin weird!

Isn't that what all the bumper stickers say?

Mission accomplished.

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To be fair, the same thing is happening in every major city in the US. Maybe not in a $135M library, but the homeless issue has national scale.

What's tricky is that so many of these folks are either severely mentally ill, or have permanently cooked their brains with meth, fent, or whatever.

All the potential solutions are distasteful to me....but that doesn't mean that they aren't the only viable options.

Here's what I think it would take to make a dent:

1. National or at least regional scale with multiple connected states cooperating.

2. Some kind of involuntary assessment program. When they encounter LEOs for doing whatever wrong, they need to be professionally assessed and sorted into two categories: Fixable and unfixable.

3. Those who can be helped and want to be helped should be given options and some kind of on-ramp to society. Those who cannot be helped probably need to be institutionalized.

4. 3 strikes rule for the ones who appear fixable.

Two big challenges for me personally:

1. I don't want to pay for that and for a bunch of people's bad choices.

2. Involuntary assessments and institutionalization are creepy as hell to me and would probably be abused by shitbird bureaucrats.

But I honestly don't know what else would work. It will take some extreme measures, or we'll just have to surrender public urban spaces to them.

These people aren't capable of fixing themselves, clearly.

Liberals only want their policies for others. Not themselves

take cubbies for example

Same with the downtown BR library. Nothing but homeless.

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Your house is probably cool enough for them. How many are at your house right now?

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Me, my wife, and 2 kids if I don't pay my rent.