https://twitter.com/ClownWorld_/status/1770908307605037175

  • Ho_Chi_Chungus [she/her]
    hexbear
    79
    3 months ago

    how are you gonna hate the homeless and hate it when they try and not be homeless?

    • buh [any]
      hexbear
      68
      edit-2
      3 months ago

      recognizing contradictions like this in liberal ideology was one of the first things that moved me leftwards

      another similar one is people who hate unemployed people for being lazy and not contributing to society, while at the same time looking down on people working in retail or fast food for... also being lazy? like at least the mcworkers have a job where they're providing a service to people and earning money to support themselves, is that not what you want people to do?

      • Spongebobsquarejuche [none/use name]
        hexbear
        55
        3 months ago

        The absolute lack of ideology is maddening. They just need to complain. I just deleted an essay of frustration. Sufficed to say I'm losing it.

    • edge [he/him]
      hexbear
      43
      3 months ago

      Because they care more about property than people, and that property doesn't belong to the homeless people.

    • keepcarrot [she/her]
      hexbear
      15
      3 months ago

      If people exit hierarchical status signifiers, you're doing worse

  • flan [they/them]
    hexbear
    59
    3 months ago

    I wonder if we'll actually start to see real slums pop up in the west.

    • @frippa@lemmy.ml
      hexbear
      34
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      3 months ago

      Milan, totally unrelated fact! The average rent in Milan has gone up ~15% the last year, and this is far from the first year this happens. I just checked and a 34sqm sardine box (360sqft for our burger comrades) runs €800 a month (and that's cheap, the average rent for a 80sqmt apartment is about 1100-1500€ in a city where the average salary is barely 2k (maany, especially young ppl, earn less)

      I've heard (and not personally confirmed, tho it's very probable) that the average rent in Helsinki is very close to the average rent in Milan, except in Finland the average salary is at least €1000 above.

      The rental market in Milan is a national stereotype and meme at this point, if you're young you either share a shoebox with 10 strangers or you live here:

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      All photos from different zones, also sometimes the cops like to use "very persuasive ways" to evict the people who live here.

      Milan is also considered a "good city" (read: good city if you're a 🐷 or you have a well-paying career)

      Edit: also I know the UᛋᛋA has some slums in the big cities, but Idk if they are as big as districts or something like that

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      Bonus photo from Rome

    • SerLava [he/him]
      hexbear
      32
      3 months ago

      fucking shantytowns would be an upgrade over the shit we're doing today!

    • D61 [any]
      hexbear
      27
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      3 months ago

      I wonder if we'll actually start to see real slums pop up in the west.

      Trailer parks exist in rural areas.

      Any area in a city where both housing and a power plant, chemical refinery, or trash dump exist next to each other.

    • Aryuproudomenowdaddy [comrade/them]
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      20
      edit-2
      3 months ago

      I'm not sure if it's still there but there was a group of people who built a shanty town in the old city dump and I think were left alone because no one had to see it. Some of them even had electricity from wiring car engines.

  • YearOfTheCommieDesktop [they/them]
    hexbear
    48
    3 months ago

    some people deserve nothing less than a shotgun to the roof of their mouth. Whoever runs that clown world account is currently near the top of my list

  • SkingradGuard [he/him, comrade/them]
    hexbear
    44
    3 months ago

    "Far left" is when Democrats, apparently.

    Politics is cooked everywhere in the world isn't it? People are so enamoured by social media/media understanding of politics, it's rotted people's brains.

    • Rom [he/him]
      hexbear
      42
      3 months ago

      Right, pretty sure denying people homes is a right-wing thing, not a left-wing one. Leftists want everyone to have a home regardless of how much money they have.

    • DragonBallZinn [he/him]
      hexbear
      10
      3 months ago

      According to normies, if mass exterminating anyone who isn't a white heterosexual dude isn't the TOP of your priorities, you're a far-left.

  • GunslingerSky [she/her]
    hexbear
    34
    3 months ago

    Whenever I see your PFP I keep thinking back to the chat in Hasan's stream loving your username

  • JustSo [she/her, any]
    hexbear
    31
    edit-2
    3 months ago

    FAR LEFT CONSTRUCTION CREW COMING THROUGH

    Lets build some fuckin homes. We should be as useful and loveable as they fear us to be. More so even.

    • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
      hexbear
      17
      3 months ago

      An org did that in our city. Not full on homes cause that's too big of a reach, but built some insulated sheds with room for a bed and some storage and had a system of getting keys to people sleeping in tents back when covid hit. As soon as it was declared 'over' the cops tore em down and just last month they cleared out the tents and fully fenced off and closed several parks so now no one can use them anyway

      • JustSo [she/her, any]
        hexbear
        3
        3 months ago

        The news in Australia is full of "tent city" headlines lately. This country has some pretty dastardly deeds in its past but I really fear what's to come if certain areas reach a critical mass and "solutions" need to be applied.

        It's so fucked. The last city I lived in bussed tons of people out of the city in preparation for an Olympic Games, to a much smaller locality far less equipped to deal with the population and its needs. If you didn't know the "how" of it, it just looks like they were disappeared, maximum sinister-style.

        Same city had another tent city pop up that was left alone for ages. The park was SAFER while they were there. It felt nice. The tents stuck to the perimeter and despite how backwards this country can be I don't remember any horror stories related to it.

        Now I'm watching puff pieces on international students forced to live in tents because rent and commute makes work impossible. Just presented in the news like "Huh, how about that hey! Be tough if you had a family!"

        Another tent "city" starting up a couple hundred km north of my current city and that's just the one big enough to get attention. Which no doubt means it will be destroyed.

        I haven't seen this level of overt precarious living since I visited London and a couple of cities in America in 2019.

      • JustSo [she/her, any]
        hexbear
        3
        3 months ago

        Oh, wrote all that and forgot to address the most interesting part of your post- the way people manage to find ways to help each other make it through. Building covert shelters and providing safe access to water and bathing etc. I imagine more people would find ways to make things more bearable if liberalism didn't make it seem like acts of charity didn't come with reams of incomprehensible liability.

        Tangentially related: I'm I unironically the occasional squatter victory story that makes it through to my corner of reality. But I can easily imagine if I had more to give in my life, the news cycles would have me clutching every last red cent jealousy out of pure fear. It's incredible how knotted and tangled all the interests of capital and competition and fear weave together into a fkn society-wide straight jacket.

  • ReadFanon [any, any]
    hexbear
    27
    3 months ago

    The homeless

    There's a shitlist of terms I have in my head for people who show red flags for holding latent reactionary beliefs and this one is way high up on it. It still sits below when someone uses the singular noun form, such as "a homeless."

    But yeah, if you're using a collective noun to refer to homeless people as "the homeless" by then I've got my eye on you.

    Most people wouldn't refer to "the blacks" or "the gays" but it's still pretty acceptable to refer to "the homeless". If you're doing that, you're part of the problem.

    (Obviously with a username like Clown World we're dealing with a situation where there's nothing latent about it, but still.)

  • DragonBallZinn [he/him]
    hexbear
    19
    3 months ago

    It's funny how CHUDs don't realize that the only reason there's no homelessness where they're from is because CHUDs are so unpleasant of people that their communities are worthless.

    There's only homelessness in blue areas because anyone worth a damn will take someone who isn't racist over a cracker.

  • SuperNovaCouchGuy2 [any]
    hexbear
    18
    3 months ago

    "No you see, you're supposed to work minimum wage to deliver treats right into my waiting maw until you die!"