r/NoStupidQuestions • u/Garey_Coleman • 10d ago

Where are the homeless supposed to go?

Cities have been cracking down on homeless people so they can’t have encampments or stay on sidewalks. At the same time usually the shelters are full. So those who are unable to get into a shelter, where are they supposed to go?

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u/ExcitingMoose13 10d ago

But I thought to take away from rambo was supposed to be rara America, the way the sequels did 

Not a Dark look at how the American government uses and throws away veterans and rather pour resources into controlling the homeless instead of actually providing for them

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u/Overcast451 10d ago edited 10d ago

That's the whole dialog at the end of the first movie when Col Troutman confronts Rambo at the police station while the sheriff is shot up at his mercy; delves into the concept of him being used, tossed to the side, and left to flounder. No guidance or assistance for him in spite of his sacrifice.

"You can't just turn it off!"

Also, in the movie, the Sheriff has a Silver Star and Purple Heart on his desk, seemingly to indicate he was a veteran, too.

My takeaway from the first movie was two government machines going after each other. Adding in the colonel who just became a thoughtless part of the machine, until his eyes give away his sudden realization in the end.

One damaged by a war and the other emboldened by a war. Subtlety addressing the mental scars left with vastly different results.

The message in the first movie was moving and eye-opening. The others were just shoot fests.

I have seen the first one numerous times, it's much deeper than it appears on the surface. PTSD might have been a medical thing at the time, but most people didn't have a concept or name for it, that I knew of. I was young, though.

The others I have seen once or twice. They were basically action shooters with the "rara" feel.

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u/CurvyJohnsonMilk 10d ago

Theres one or two deaths in the first one. The second one Rambo kills about 200 faceless Asians. The third one he kills about 300 faceless russians, while defending the afghani freedom fights (i.e. the taliban)

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u/asst3rblasster 10d ago

one death and that's the idiot that fell out of a helicopter because he didn't strap himself in.