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I love how these people bring up substance abuse as if is is just the animal spirits moving someone to make "bad choices." Look I drank largely cus my life sucked and alcohol made me feel better. Life changed, I worked on my shit, and now I don't drink. Sometimes substance abuse is a RATIONAL choice when faced with this fucking awful world. Hell if I was homeless getting piss drunk would be a rational fucking priority. Maybe just giving people homes isn't enough to make people happy. Plenty of housed people are on the sauce too because they are miserable.
Sometimes substance abuse is a RATIONAL choice when faced with this fucking awful world.
Probably one of the least acknowledged truths in treatment programs lol, its something everyone knows but refuses to acknowledge because it concedes that material support is the solution for a great deal of social problems and that you cant just throw therapy at people to solve poverty.
I had a friend who's therapist basically "fired" them for "refusing to take mayerial steps to resolve your problems" when the therapist also admitted that all this persons problems seemed from poverty and the inability to resort to bourgeois solutions. Like sometimes being depressed and sad is like what you are supposed to be.
I think the new Matrix movie really drove home beautifully the contradictions of psychotherapy and how one of its biggest purposes is to process people who are so beaten down by their material reality back into the system so they can be good cogs.
Can't write a prescription for social revolution unfortunately.
Edit: Well I guess you can, but the pharmacy would have a hard time fulfilling it.
Given conditions in the pharmacy world, you might meet with more success than you think. Retail especially.
A ton of homeless people spend the little money they do get on alcohol in order to sleep. Sleeping when homeless is fucking hard.
Yes, but everything a homeless person does is always seen in the worst light. So libs get to see an act of basic self medication as a mortal sin. Thus justifying treating the person like shit.
Homelessness is a difficult problem to solve. It’s what urban planners and theorists (among others) refer to as a wicked problem - a single action won’t solve it.
You know, I'm no urban planner, but I have a sneaking suspicion that the single action of giving homeless people homes will, in fact, solve homelessness.
My favorite thing is when people say "some people just prefer to be homeless." Like yeah, I'm sure that's it, and not that the "home" you provided for them was a 12 sq ft cube and to live there they had to agree to be part of MKULTRA 2.
I mean I don't actually know. But I'm assuming that whatever resources there are to help the homeless are so inadequate that it's probably no wonder they'd choose to be homeless. Or maybe they're mentally or physically ill and can't hold down a job, or get sober, or whatever conditions exist for these so-called homes being provided to them.
I like how they think they're the pragmatic, rational ones making hard choices when they say things like that. These hard choices never affect them or theirs and they can't actually deal with material harm directed at them. Patronizing and baby brained at the same time.
"just throw ur hands up and say it's their own fault" is literally the least hard choice possible
Don't worry a real unpopular opinion like "homeless people deserve to be in concentration camps" will spring up soon to even it out.
Homelessness is a core example of how capitalism can never solve intrinsic contradictions, merely move them around geographically
Like those clowns talking about how Seattle is turning from a "nice city" into a "shithole" because of homeless camps. Dead giveaway these yuppies are too young to remember when Boeing shipped out in the 70s/80s, Seattle wasn't a "nice city" this is just the same problems coming out of and into visibility like the fucking tides.
Fucking second post on that thread is a guy who bought a homeless man some food, and when the homeless guy asked for a pack of cigarettes the poster refused because he thought cigarettes were unhealthy and someone yelled at the homeless person to stop bothering them.
Motherfucker is living OUTSIDE on the street, and you don't want to buy him a pack of smokes, probably the only thing he can legally do to have a moment of relaxation in a world of constant strain and anxiety.
So many comfortable suburban white people when asked about homelessness will give you some variation of:
"Yeah I had a bleeding heart once too, and I used to give homeless people my spare change. But there was this one time I gave a homeless guy money and he bought a beer with it later. Now I know it's a waste to support these people."
Often said without a hit of irony by a person who also drinks/smokes. Clearly the vices aren't the issue here. These pieces of shit just hate poor people and want them to lead miserable lives to atone.
Drug usage volumes correlate with income. The only reason homeless people are seen doing it is because they cant do it in their fucking locked room.
In the short time I was homeless living out of my car, camping, or staying in hotels. My manageable levels of anxiety deteriorated over a month. I was so stressed and it boiled over where I almost decided to abandon my girlfriend and drive the three days back home. I couldn’t cope with it. I can’t imagine how the people who have lived at the mercy of the streets for years could hope to function normally.
Edit: don’t sort by controversial
Edit: don’t sort by controversial
I wasn't going to do this until you told me not to do it. Second post:
But if it wasn't so impossibly difficult to fire or evict someone then landlords and bosses would be willing to take a chance on people more often.
:screm-a:
these people want slaves that they can dispose of at will and they won't ever be satisfied until then
JUST BECAUSE YOU CAN'T THINK OF AN ANSWER DOESN'T MEAN THERE ISN'T AN ANSWER
r/HostileArchitecture had these chucklefucks stomping all over it all the time, too. Most of their mods were dudes who collected mod status in multiple subs for clout and didn't actually defend the sub at all.
This has actually wrapped around to become absurdly funny. All these breathless libs being like "homelessness is such a complex issue that we aren't even sure why it arises, much less how to solve it. This will take teams of researchers from across the world years of study and means-testing before an equitable solution can be found."
Yeah man, homelessness is just one of those big mysteries of the universe. Who am I? Why am I here? What is reality? Why do the laws of physics exist? What is gravity? Does the sun love me? Why are homeless? It's just one of those things, we'll never really know why.
Love those comments painting most homeless people as conspiracist loonies who ackchully don't want to be housed, backing that claim up with absolutely fuck-all. Curious why the number of homeless has been rising, spiking with the pandemic? Must be because of the less-talked-about "madness" syndrome that COVID has been overshadowing. (They may as well believe that, seeing how poorly society in general understands mental illness)
It's not hard to fathom at all, It makes sense. Liberal ideology is perfectly flexible... so long as you work within the bounds of those "immutable laws of nature". None of those galaxy-brains who said something along the lines of "who's gonna pay for it!?" would ever consider that, maybe, those literal millions of vacant spaces wasting away should instead by collectively utilized by society to solve its problems. Doing so would would put a tear in the fabric of an ideology which idolizes "liberty" (of ownership) above all else. This is why they eschew material remedies for idealistic platitudes.
It's always fun to see the libs tie themselves into knots when r/unpopularopinion gets an actually unpopular opinion.
