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It’s a choice, just not a choice made by the homeless.
Your home, some billionaire’s choice.
Oh shit! Truth bomb!
Noooo! My house!
If it’s a legitimate fire, the house has ways of shutting that whole thing down
You saw how that house was decorated. It was asking for it.
Those hedges were quite flammable. It was bound to happen.
jesus… slow clap with deeply disgusted look on face i had all but mercifully forgotten about that
It is a choice. An intentional policy choice. Made by our government on behalf of an oligarchy of parasitic oxygen thieves who should all be killed.
But most of yall aren’t ready for that discussion.
The government isn’t a monolith.
Yes, there are oligarchs influencing policies that make a standard of living hell on earth.
There are also great people within the government who are actively trying to improve the state of things.
Ooh. Me, me, me… I am.
The government doesn’t work for you. You vote then in, sure, but they work for the lobbyists of large corporate interests.
Any policy you want will only pass if the corporations want it to, or they don’t believe it will make a substantive difference in their ability to exploit your labor for profit, and take from you every dime, nickel, and dollar they can. They’ll only keep you happy enough to not revolt, and beyond that, you’re entirely fucked from all angles.
Absolutely
But most of yall aren’t ready for that discussion.
Do you know where you are
BOOTSTRAPS, PEOPLE. BOOTSTRAPS!
Yes, My friend,
When I was homeless,
I had “chosen” to be disabled,
“chosen” to live in a country where applying for benefits takes years,
“chosen” to live in a country where healthcare costs weren’t covered after I lost my job,
“chosen” to live in a country where the landlord’s profit was more important than my survival.
It’s still a choice.
It’s just not a choice you made.
As some
wisefamous guy once said: Just sell your house and move!Sell to who Ben? A fucking dragon?
yeah, or a non-fucking dragon would be possible too
I don’t love the implication that those displaced by disaster are somehow different than “normal” houseless people, though I’m sure that wasn’t the intent behind the meme.
Well most of them were living in million dollar plus homes in this case, so they are very different then people who were left homeless in Appalachia due to Helene.
Which honestly might ACTUALLY force insurance reform because this time it’s not the poors who are suffering.
This is just completely untrue. Quit it with the fake narratives.
Take a spin around Zillow of the areas that have burned. Only once you get down towards Santa Monica do you see houses below 1mil. Pasadena has more homes under 1mil towards the south, but the majority of both areas are 1mil+ homes.
Cool, now look at the median income. Just because housing is unaffordable and people are burdened with lifelong debt just because they exist doesn’t mean they deserve to lose everything in a fire. You’re acting like everyone is a fucking Hollywood director or something and it’s really mean and insensitive.
I don’t think they were just talking about natural disasters
Speaking of Helene, who knew there were so many gays in Appalachia?
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I think it’s more about “these rich people will finally get some little taste of how hard it is to live without a home.”
Except some of them won’t. Those who are truly wealthy will already have other houses, or be able to buy or rent a temporary home while waiting to rebuild. If they already had empathy they’ll realize how comparably " inconvenient" rather than"desperate" their situation is. The others will whine, and use it as a reason to be even shittier to the homeless.
There’s a lot of people also who aren’t wealthy, they have just owned a house in the Palisades from way back when it wasn’t so expensive, or lived in the trailer park. They too already have attitudes re homeless people, which may or may not evolve.
I think anyone who’s unhoused, it’s the result of a disaster, whether a public or private one.
I am disgusted that poverty continues to be considered a failing of the individual when it should in reality be considered a failing of the group, and that group is America as a whole.
Seriously, do other countries struggle with homelessness anywhere near this badly?
Yes. Parts of Canada have serious homelessness problems and many cities like mine like to pretend we don’t. Our mayor routinely gets the police involved to relocate them and then is just like see problem solved!
In Germany we have had a significant rise in homelessness lately. Hompless people are present in every city. France feels very much the same when I visit. Britain has loads of them.
We as a group maybe is not just US-Americans after all, but the minority world (the “West”) as a whole.
It’s a systemic issue, that is for sure. It just not on my the US system that is fucked. Maybe a bit more fucked, as Homelessness is more widespread that in Europe. But defenetly not exclusive to the US.
will smith burned a town to the ground with a single hadouken and it’s still going
are these those mental health and drug addiction people that Musk said were the fake homeless ?
“Just get another house. Duh.”
There’s still time to donate to Trump’s inauguration fund in order to get federal disaster relief.
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Can’t read that
it- it understands dark humour and sarcasm? huh
Anybody who has ever said this is a spoiled moron.
