Leftist "compassion" is beyond parody. What they count as compassionate includes such things as allowing - nay, encouraging violent illegal aliens to remain in the United States, chemical and surgical castration of children in the name of "gender-affirming care," and allowing people with serious addiction and mental health issues to sleep on the streets and defecate on the sidewalks.
In the name of this "compassion," in the New York City of Mayor (and commie) Zohran Mamdani, during the current cold snap, 18 people have died of exposure on the streets because of Mamdani's "no forced removal" policy.
One person died outside in the brutally cold weather over the weekend — bringing the outdoor death toll to 18 during the historic freeze, City Hall officials said Monday.
The person was found on the street just after 9 a.m. Saturday at East Gun Hill Road and Seymour Avenue in the Bronx, the officials said.
No identifying info was released.
The death is the latest during the weekslong cold snap that saw temperatures plummet to below negative 15 degrees with wind chill this past weekend.
This is your city on socialism.
What is this compassion, in any case? What sort of compassion allows mentally ill people and addicts to remain on the streets, sleeping on sidewalks, shooting up in alleys, defecating on doorsteps? What sort of compassion allows mentally ill people and addicts to literally freeze to death on the streets, instead of scooping them up and putting them in some kind of shelter - even something like a barracks - and keeping them there until they are either dried out or properly medicated?
This is insane. Mayor Mamdani calls it "no forced removal." Sane people call it neglect resulting in death.
It's not just a New York problem. Even America's northernmost major city, Anchorage, Alaska, has a problem with homeless encampments, and the residents therein dying of exposure. In a city where winter overnight temps routinely drop into double-digits below zero, it's not surprising that this winter, so far, 45 people have died outdoors because of the city's "compassion."
Anchorage police recorded 45 outdoor deaths in Alaska's largest city in 2025, according to recent reporting by the Anchorage Daily News.
That's defined as people dying outside who had no fixed address.
And while 2025 saw slightly fewer than the 50 outdoor deaths that occurred in each of the two prior years -- creating a grim tie for what is thought to be the all-time high -- there were still many more than the past.
Anchorage, of course, has the added problem that these trash-strewn encampments are buffet tables for bears.
More of these major cities are catering to the homeless and the industry that has risen up around them, and the street people are dying because of neglect. There's no other way to describe it. Zohran Mamdani and his ideological ilk call it compassion. Sane people call it neglect at best, or cruelty at worst.
The answer? As I have been saying and writing for some years, these people are clearly not capable of making good decisions. They are not capable of gaining for themselves the basic necessities of life. They cannot be allowed to fester on the streets. They cannot be allowed to drag down the quality of life of everyone else in those cities with their behavior, their crime, their drug use, and their using the public sidewalks as toilets.
Real compassion would mean getting these people off the streets, whether they want it or not.
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