Motherfucker, I’ve been homeless a lot in my life and I live/work downtown, surrounded by all types of homeless.
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TexMexBazooka@lemm.ee 5 months agoEver lived near a significant homeless population?
Splatterphace@lemm.ee 5 months ago
TexMexBazooka@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Motherfucker,
I’m sure you have us no responsibility for how you ended up homeless. The world just happens to you, and your actions have no influence over your life whatsoever.
Splatterphace@lemm.ee 5 months ago
I can’t even imagine someone being this tone-deaf, and yet, here we are.
henfredemars@infosec.pub 5 months ago
A good friend of mine had the audacity to develop a chronic health condition in America. He should’ve known better.
It was cancer.
stembolts@programming.dev 5 months ago
Want to know how I became homeless? I turned 18, and my parents said, “Alright have a nice life, you’re 18 now don’t be home when I get back.” After 18 years of teaching me zero life skills. Took me until my late 20s to find stability, meanwhile being constantly harassed by police for looking for a place to rest between time at school and work.
But you know, this is an anecdote and has no value in the vast scheme of things. Data driven results are all that matter, and yet, they still disagree with your assessmen that people are the source of their own situation. Believe it or not, the safety and support systems in the society you live in dictate homelessness, and I can tell you first hand, we have none.
But that’s all the energy I can send to you, its not useful trying to teach chess to a pigeon, at the end of the day you’re going to spread your shit around and knock over the board anyway (a summary of your comments in this thread).
Hope you open your mind some day.
WamGams@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
Mic drop.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 5 months ago
Not only do I live pretty close to a tent city of homeless people, I’ve spent a lot of time in San Francisco interviewing homeless people there back when I was in high school working for the school paper.
You have no fucking clue what you’re talking about.
GladiusB@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I too live near the San Francisco and know there is no linear answer. Odd how even in an anticdote we still corroborate that there are more factors to why homeless people cannot find housing. Odd. Does that mean we have confirmation bias? Or does that mean facts support our theories?
TangledHyphae@lemmy.world 5 months ago
*Anecdote.
Soulg@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
some homeless people got there by making bad choices.
But, you know what I’ll say it, making a few bad choices shouldn’t convict you to a life on the street and being treated as subhuman by people around you
TexMexBazooka@lemm.ee 5 months ago
I agree.
But you also can’t help someone unless they want to be helped. There are people out there who will take every advantage of any resources available while making absolutely no effort to change the pattern of behavior that led them there.