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/showyerbewbs 10d ago

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

From WWI and WWII, it was called "Shell shock" because a lot of the soldiers were intimately close to big guns on ships and tanks.

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u/Dhaeron 9d ago

For a good part of WW1 it was called cowardice and people were sentenced for it. The British army executed a couple hundred soldiers for it in WW1 and they didn't get (posthumously) pardoned until the mid-2000s.

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u/FrankWillardIT 9d ago

Also the Italian, French and Russian armies murdered a lot of their own with this victim-blaming accusation.., it was pretty common back then...