You could power the entire planet off the sheer force it takes for them to hold contradictory ideas in their heads.

  • blobjim [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    This isn't just conservatives. This stuff is the promoted by every media outlet. I've heard the "homeless people want to live on the street" repeated by 'liberal' media outlets too.

    • Nagarjuna [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      I've met homeless people who "chose" to live on the streets, but that was against the alternative of non profit housing where a property manager is breathing down your neck all the time and none of the appliances work.

      Others picked a pet or drugs over housing.

      Like, a tent offers some very real freedom that a lot of poor people can get nowhere else.

      • blobjim [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        Exactly. Most of the shelters have all sorts of requirements that you wouldn't put on other people. And shelters also suck because you often can't even stay there during the day or keep your stuff there or whatever. It's not really housing. I doubt most the same people would turn down an actual apartment flat.

        • Nagarjuna [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          I'm not even talking about the warehouses people call shelters, I'm talking about the strings attached public housing that is what's accessible to the luckiest homeless folks.