or am I just naive/uninformed

like hearing about shanty towns in other countries just makes me think of cops throwing homeless people's tents and wheelchairs into trash compactors from the sidewalk around here

  • LeninWalksTheWorld [any]
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    4 years ago

    I honestly don't hear a lot about squatting in the US so I think so. Housing is so expensive here I would not put it past anyone to evict people from even the most run down slums so they can rent them out instead. We treat homeless people basically like litter, just grind them into paste. They are quite literally supposed to die in the United States, it's taken as proof they couldn't "bootstrap" hard enough to hold a job or whatever.

    • SorosFootSoldier [he/him, they/them]
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      4 years ago

      What's worse is that we actually treat the homeless as criminals and give the cops carte blanche to deal with them as such. Instead of homelessness as being seen as a societal failure to protect the poor, the homeless are just criminals that the cops have to deal with.

      • Wojackhorseman2 [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        Americans don’t see anything as a societal failure that’s the point of all that individualist propaganda it trains people to just see it as a moral failing on the homeless persons part and they can just move on and give it no further thought

        • SorosFootSoldier [he/him, they/them]
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          4 years ago

          Yup. Society's fine, it's just your fault for not bootstrapping. Oh and btw you're a criminal now too so best of luck trying to get back on your feet!

        • D61 [any]
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          4 years ago

          LGBTQ+ folks

          :side-eye-1:

            • D61 [any]
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              4 years ago

              Sorry... snark-castic joke.

              I've heard lots of "its society's fault" for letting the Gays be gay and the Trans be trans, etc. The "make America great again" crowd, you know?