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by ThinkBeat 1754 days ago
This is nice marketing.

I doubt he has lined up 20.000 properties yet who want to do this. So that will be fun distribution:

1 to Alaska. 3 in Portland, 1 in Colorado Springs.

On a more serious note. this is not a promising idea,

Nobody has any real idea who these people are. What sorts of trauma they may have experienced? What their medical, psychological, or sociological needs are.

There is also the tragic issue that inevitably there will be a few among them who mean to do harm to a country that occupied them for 20 years.

Random AirBnB hosts who probably mean very well have no training or practice to do something like this. And once it gets real they will not want to either.

It is not a hippie utopian meeting of the minds and "all is chill" It is real people, Real trauma, Real culture shock, and quite different means of resolving conflict.

I hope Biden will not just dump the refugees into US cities. However, the camps that Obama, Trump, Biden are using now for refugees on the southern border does not fill me with a lot of confidence that the refugees from Afghanistan will get the help, care they will all need and the reeducation some will need.

The state should be forced to build and staff suitable accommodations that are warm, friendly and safe.

That are set up to help them through a process of adjusting to life outside of Afghanistan and towards a life in the US.

They also need to be screened to help identify those who may have ill intent.

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> The state should be forced to build and staff suitable accommodations that are warm, friendly and safe.

Ah yes, because US immigration detention centers are well-known for being more pleasant than the private homes of the middle classes.

You sound like a truly nasty "patriot" attempting to pull a thin veil over it.