• Sentient Loom@sh.itjust.works
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    7 months ago

    Again, it’s not praiseworthy that they merely declined to abuse her. I’m not scorning them, but they get zero credit for declining to abuse her (beyond the abuse of kicking her out with no help).

    there’s a very real chance that the contractors looked the other way

    Without evidence, there’s no point in this speculation unless you’re hired by their PR to praise them (which seems unlikely).

    the way this world gets less shitty is when more people start making these little steps towards revolutionary kindness and then those little steps start getting bigger and bigger

    Sorry, but this is absolute nonsense. It’s meaningless. She is homeless.

    a woman with a home was made homeless

    This is the only story. Let’s not waste time praising the heroic saints who kicked her out.

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      7 months ago

      mate it’s ok and good to acknowledge a small measure of good that may exist in a very terrible situation.

      humans are not meant to focus on only the doom, gloom, and cynicism of it all 100% of the time.

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          7 months ago

          nature. our brains get fucked up when stuck in the doom and gloom for too long.

          pedantry is an ugly quality btw.

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        7 months ago

        a small measure of good

        There was no measure of good whatsoever. Her situation was made objectively worse, and we’re presuming to praise those responsible merely for not making it even more worse. I’m not the one who created any doom or gloom. I didn’t kick her out. And it’s not cynical to sympathize with the homeless woman instead of with the people who kicked her out. Mate.

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          7 months ago

          And she’s also a homeless woman. Women need private spaces when they are homeless, they can’t just be on the street as safely as men are. They space was probably VERY safe for her compared to a shelter.